Winter's Love Mini Festival, SPK Polish Club, Falkirk, 14 Dec

What wise man came up with this? A charitable music festival, in the middle of Winter, featuring some of the finest acts about? This delicious seasonal feast of music, on the 2nd Day Of Christmas no less, sports a line-up that should be unmissable for fans of the contemporary Scottish music scene. The event curators have not shied away from giving local Falkirk acts a chance to shine, with Y'all Is Fantasy Island, author Alan Bissett, Sixpeopleaway, Pavlo Peacock and Coriolis all featuring on the bill. Endor, Ross Clark and Zoey van Goey fly the flag for Glaswegian folk rock, while Auld Reekie is also well represented with the immense Action Group, Broken Records and the perennial St Jude's Infirmary all making the trek in aid of Falkirk Women's Refuge. At a time of year when bargains are harder to come by than a carry out at midnight, the inaugural Winter's Love Mini-Festival could be your last chance to spend a few quid wisely in 2007. (Finbarr Bermingham)