ALTERNATIVE & INDIE MUSIC IN MANCHESTER
ALTERNATIVE & INDIE MUSIC IN MANCHESTER
Most Popular Alternative & Indie Music in Manchester
Definitely Oasis - Tribute to Oasis
The Bread Shed
Fri 14 Mar - Sat 24 May 2025
Ultimate Coldplay - Tribute to Coldplay
Manchester Academy
Sat 7 Dec 2024 - Sat 29 Mar 2025
Delights
Manchester Academy, Manchester
Friday 4 April 2025
Dubbed as "kaleidoscopic guitar janglers", Manchester-based 4-piece guitar band Delights formed in 2017 while at sixth form together. The band draw their inspirations from an eclectic catalogue of music, influenced both by what their par...
Badly Drawn Boy
Aviva Studios, Manchester
Saturday 5 - Sunday 6 April 2025
Dunstable-born, Bolton-raised, Manchester-living Mercury-prize winning folk rocker Damon Gough has always been one to wear his heart on his sleeve, and his truly personal and heartfelt catalogue of glorious, colourful warming, honest pop so...Spangled
Band On The Wall, Manchester
Saturday 5 April 2025
The genre-spanning Manchester four-piece dance on the fringe between jangly guitars and yesterdays promises, offering an eclectic blend of witty, heartfelt lyrics, lively attitudes and punch the air riffs proving there is still decadence in...Dan Sealey (Ocean Colour Scene & Merrymouth)
Martin Harris Centre, Manchester
Saturday 5 April 2025
Dan started his career with folk rock band Ocean Colour Scene and toured the world, played headline slots at major festivals for over a decade and co-founded the band Merrymouth with Simon Fowler. Merrymouth featured award-winning musici...Rosie Rowe
Yes, Manchester
Tuesday 8 April 2025
Now Wave presents Rosie Rowe at YES Pink Room on 8th April 2025...Peach Pit
Manchester Academy, Manchester
Thursday 10 April 2025
If friendship had a sound, it would be Peach Pit. The wistful grooves, glassy guitars, and sun-kissed melodies feel like they could only be made by musicians who have spent close to a lifetime (or at least half of their lives) together. ...Heather Nova
Hallé at St Michael's, Manchester
Thursday 10 April 2025
Bermudian folk rock singer-songwriter and poet Heather Nova first hit the radio in 1994 when her breakthrough album "Oyster" charted worldwide and put her firmly on the indie pop map. Her cool, infectious songs, critically acclaimed albums...Proud Mary
Night & Day Cafe, Manchester
Thursday 10 April 2025
Celebrating 20 years of their classic album "The Same Old Blues", Manchester band Proud Mary are very pleased to announce a series of special anniversary gigs, including an unmissable homecoming set on 24th September. The five-piece will be...Lambrini Girls
Gorilla, Manchester
Thursday 10 April 2025
Now Wave presents Lambrini Girls at Gorilla Manchester on 10th April 2025...
Ocean Colour Scene
O2 Apollo, Manchester
Saturday 12 April 2025
In their 30 years together, multi-Platinum selling Birmingham indie legends OCS have enjoyed five Top 10 albums, six Top 10 singles and a mantelpiece full of awards. But behind all the swagger and the style there are great songs, with words...The Man From Delmonte
Manchester Academy, Manchester
Saturday 12 April 2025
After a 34 year hiatus, 1980s Manchester indie art pop favourites The Man from Delmonte return. Between 1988 and 1991 they shone brightly creating some of the most memorable pop songs of the "Madchester" era. Water in My Eyes, My Love is Li...
Father John Misty
O2 Apollo, Manchester
Sunday 13 April 2025
Internationally acclaimed, UK Top 10 charting indie folk star Father John Misty, aka Josh Tillman, sounds and acts a bit like solo-era John Lennon, Scott Walker, Randy Newman, Harry Nilsson, and Dory Previn, while taking more than a few cue...
Peter Hook & the Light
O2 Victoria Warehouse, Manchester
Saturday 19 April 2025
The legendary Joy Division and New Order bassist performs New Order's "Get Ready" live and in full, plus an additional set of Joy Division and New Order's greatest hits. The Mancunian bass player, musician, singer, DJ, nightclub owner,...JAWS
O2 Ritz, Manchester
Friday 25 April 2025
With their hook-laden, impressive and artful songs that have been featured in the unlikely cross section from Made In Chelsea, and Hollyoaks to Match Of The Day, and Rocksmith 2014 computer game, Birmingham dream pop prodigies JAWS displa...mxmtoon
New Century Hall, Manchester
Friday 25 April 2025
The Oakland-born, Brooklyn based social media sensation delivers bedroom pop which she calls "rhyming diary entries": an off-the-cuff account of her most private thoughts and feelings, straight from her brightly lit brain. With her disarmin...Skegss
Manchester Academy, Manchester
Saturday 26 April 2025
Australian duo of Ben Reed (vocals, guitar) and Jonny Lani (drums) have enjoyed #1 albums on their homeland Australia ARIA Albums Chart. They bring a newly heightened creative energy to every aspect of their explosive yet introspective form...IAMX
Manchester Academy, Manchester
Monday 28 April 2025
IAMX is the solo musical project of Middlesbrough-born Chris Corner after the hiatus of his former band Sneaker Pimps. With a focus on the experimentation of visual art, musically, IAMX spans across multiple genres ranging from electronic r...Ian Prowse & Amsterdam
Gorilla, Manchester
Friday 2 May 2025
Amsterdam are a pop/rock group from Liverpool. Formed in 1999, they had their first UK Top 40 single with "The Journey" in February 2005. The current band members are Ian Prowse (vocals/guitar), Johnny Barlow (lead guitar), Tony Kiley (per...Definitely Oasis - Tribute to Oasis
The Citadel Theatre, St Helens
Friday 2 May 2025
Definitely Oasis are regarded by many Oasis fans and promoters alike as the best Oasis tribute band there is. The band regularly sell out top class venues across the UK and were recently the first ever tribute band to sell out Glasgow's ico...The Flaming Lips
O2 Apollo, Manchester
Sunday 4 May 2025
Celebrating the 20th anniverary of their tenth studio album the Oklahoma psychedelic rockers perform their UK Platinum-selling Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots in full. Featuring the hit singles 'Do You Realize??', 'Yoshimi Battles the Pink...Hayden Thorpe & Propellor Ensemble
Hallé at St Michael's, Manchester
Friday 9 May 2025
A critically acclaimed artist steeped in solitude and fragility, Hayden Thorpe's singular voice and imaginative song craft is bore of the Lake District landscape in which he lives. Having first cultivated a devoted audience with his band Wi...
Hawkwind
The Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
Sunday 11 May 2025
Famed for their 1972 UK no.2 hit "Silver Machine", Hawkwind was formed in 1969 by Dave Brock, who still remains at the helm today. In 1970, the band played at the first-ever Glastonbury Festival, released their eponymously titled debut albu...Nap Eyes
The Waterboys
The Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
Tuesday 13 May 2025
Best known for songs including "How Long Will I Love You" and "The Whole of the Moon", The Waterboys have been led by Scottish singer and guitarist Mike Scott - their line-up otherwise ever-evolving - since the early 1980s, having won a ...Soccer Mommy
New Century Hall, Manchester
Wednesday 14 May 2025
Quietly catchy and surprisingly confrontational. Soccer Mommy is the indie pop project of Sophie Allison, a wise beyond her years young Nashville native and musical wunderkind. Her songs, which have confronted toxic relationships and infat...Supergrass
Albert Hall, Manchester
Friday 16 - Saturday 17 May 2025
Tearing by at a breakneck speed, it has been 30 years since 'I Should Coco', the spectacularly eclectic chart-topping debut by Oxford Britpop rockstars Supergrass, was released. At the time, the band were barely out of their teens. The albu...China Crisis
The Lowry, Salford
Friday 16 May 2025
Eddie Lundon and Gary Daly are the founder members of the band which started in Kirkby, Merseyside back in 1979. China Crisis found major success in the UK with five Top 40 singles, ten Top 50 singles and three Top 40 albums and hits across...Cassia
New Century Hall, Manchester
Saturday 17 May 2025
Combining a rich musicality with continent-spanning influences, Cassia have made their mark with their own brand of calypso-flavoured indie pop. The Macclesfield trio have built a cult following in the last few years, amassing millions of S...Thousand Yard Stare
Gullivers, Manchester
Saturday 17 May 2025
Thousand Yard Stare are back and heading to Gulliver's Manchester on Saturday 17th May...Steven Wilson (Porcupine Tree)
The Lowry, Salford
Sunday 18 May 2025
Steven Wilson is an self taught composer, musician, singer, songwriter and record producer from Hemel Hempstead. Currently a successful solo artist with three UK Top 5 albums to his name, he was the founder, guitarist, lead vocalist and...
Pixies
O2 Apollo, Manchester
Saturday 24 May 2025
With elements of indie rock and surf rock, 1980's Boston alternative rockers The Pixies have been cited by avowed fan Kurt Cobain as a heavy influence on Nirvana with "Smells Like Teen Spirit" a conscious attempt to co-opt the Pixies' sty...From The Jam
O2 Ritz, Manchester
Saturday 24 May 2025
Bruce Foxton is a part of the English Rock and Roll establishment. A musician who is most commonly recognised as the bass player and vocalist in legendary bands Stiff Little Fingers and, more famously, mod-revivalists The Jam, with Paul Wel...Definitely Oasis - Tribute to Oasis
The Bread Shed, Manchester
Saturday 24 May 2025
Definitely Oasis are regarded by many Oasis fans and promoters alike as the best Oasis tribute band there is. The band regularly sell out top class venues across the UK and were recently the first ever tribute band to sell out Glasgow's ico...The Lumineers
AO Arena, Manchester
Sunday 25 May 2025
Denver-based band The Lumineers were founded by New Jersey natives Wesley Schultz and Jeremiah Fraites. Schultz grew up taking drawing classes with Fraites' older brother Joshua, who died of a drug overdose in 2002. Playing music together w...The Sherlocks
Albert Hall, Manchester
Saturday 31 May 2025
Sheffield alt-rock stalwarts The Sherlocks became the first unsigned act since fellow Sheffield rockers Arctic Monkeys to sell out the city's iconic Leadmill venue. Undergoing a rebirth with brothers Kiaran and Brandon Crook introducing two...MJ Lenderman and the Wind
Gorilla, Manchester
Tuesday 3 June 2025
MJ Lenderman and the Wind at Gorilla, Manchester on 3rd June 2025....
The Coronas
The Deaf Institute, Manchester
Thursday 5 June 2025
The award-winning, arena-conquering Dublin indie rock band fuse their arms-aloft melodic pop with lush electronics, spine-tingling atmospherics and a sense of adventure. Dreamy vocoder vocals, electronic drums and space as much as sound mak...Hothouse Flowers
O2 Ritz, Manchester
Saturday 7 June 2025
Irish folk rock band Hothouse Flowers feel like they are turning new corners and writing new chapters every day. No two shows are ever the same having dispensed with any premeditated programme over two decades ago and set about putting the...Scam Fender + Kopycat Killers + Subarctic Monkeys + Oasis 96
New Century Hall, Manchester
Saturday 7 June 2025
With 3 hours of bangers, a quadruple tribute night to Sam Fender, The Killers, Arctic Monkeys and Oasis. Kopycat Killers are next level with vocalist Stu featuring on Killers Covers with over 10 MILLION streams. They given the Killers 'bles...
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