Having provided vocals and frontman duties over the years for bands such Poison Hearts, Circus World and currently, Slow Decay, Mark Sayle, recording under his pseudonym Mark E Moon, announced a self-titled side project back in the summer, one that furthers his musical exploration of all things towards the darker side.

Hinting at his Sisters Of Mercy and The Damned influences, Mark joined up with multi-instrumentalist and Small Bear Records head honcho Phil Reynolds for the project.

Fast forward a little and the band signed a deal for their debut album with German label, Cold Transmission.

Entitled ’Refer’, Mark releases the self-recorded and produced tomorrow (Friday).

The band is also currently in preparation for their debut gig at the W-Festival launch party on December 8 in Waregem Belgium.

The band has also been booked to play at the W-Festival, again in Waregem next May, and the CT Fest in Cologne in August respectively.

For further information, go to Facebook.com/MarkEMoon1/ or coldtransmission.com/label-cold-transmission

Back in the island, we head to Ramsey and to The Mitre Hotel, where Radiohead tribute band, OK Computer, appear tomorrow night (Friday).

The band features a line-up that sees a mixture of members of Pigs On The Wing, In The Blood, Final Cut, 3 Million and Ed Force One.

The band delves deep into the Radiohead back catalogue and you can expect to hear the likes of Paranoid Android, Karma Police, No Surprises and of course Creep among many others, as the band ploughs through a good two and a half hours of material.

It all kicks off from 9.30pm and is free entry.

You can keep up to date with everything via Facebook.com/okcomputeriom

If you head south to Port Erin this Saturday and to The Falcon’s Nest, you can catch a charity event taking place in aid of The Parkinson’s Disease Society IOM.

Jactor, an event set up by Ray Lakeman in memory of his sons Jacques and Torin, features a top line-up including some of the best local bands, such as rock *’roll punks Mad Daddy, Broken, Rooster, El Catraz, Bird and The Beards Biskee Bright, Slow Decay, Cat Balloo and Manx hop-hop stompers Han-FX and Jor-DMC (featuring The Innuendo Orchestra).

The night gets off to an early start from 6.30pm, and tickets are available from £5 from the Port St Mary Examiner shop, the venue or directly from Ray himself on 404147.