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
Mye Taai - 'Rave Club For Two'
Stage And Radio, Manchester
Thursday 31 October 2024
Welcoming Mye Taai, delivering raw, unfiltered beats, poetry, and embittered commentary on politics, society, capitalism, and todays working life....RAMONA LIVE - Town Of Cats
Ramona, Manchester
Thursday 31 October 2024
Town of Cats are an ever-mutating municipality of musical misfits, grown in Brightons grubby and fertile Petri dish....Splint & Mewn
Soup Kitchen, Manchester
Thursday 31 October 2024
Halloween Special: Splint and Mean join forces to create a spooky night....Everything Everything
The Bowdon Rooms, Altrincham
Friday 1 November 2024
Twice Mercury Prize nominated, 5 time Ivor Novello nominated and critically acclaimed off-kilter indie rockers Everything Everything set about revolutionising modern pop music, pushing the ribbon on melody & rhythm with a heavy helping of e...The Lilacs
O2 Ritz, Manchester
Friday 1 November 2024
Wigan band The Lilacs have hit the scene with a bang already performing on stages at Manchester Academy, o2 Ritz and London's O2 Academy Islington ...Alfie Templeman
Manchester Academy, Manchester
Friday 1 November 2024
Inspired by modern influences like Steve Lacy, Khruangbin and Leon Bridges, as well as Alfie's constant cosmic guide Todd Rundgren, Bedfordshire indie pop musician Alfie Templeman taps into youthful sincerity while displaying a talent and ...Delights
New Century Hall, Manchester
Friday 1 November 2024
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...The Gerry Cinna-Man Experience - Tribute to Gerry Cinnamon
Fatbird, Wigan
Friday 1 November 2024
Gary Digan Aka is the UKs Premier & Definitve Tribute to Gerry Cinnamon. With his Strong Scottish Accent, his infamous live shows are a mixture of up-beat acoustic guitars, soulful harmonica and heartfelt vocals. The anthemic sing along tra...AnalogueTrash presents an All Hallows Eve Spectacular
Golden Lion, Todmorden
Friday 1 November 2024
We bring two innovative and entertaining outfits to The Golden Lion, with added ghost stories, DJ sets and more....
Big Condo Records presents Prioritise
Fc2, Warrington
Friday 1 November 2024
Big Condo Records Prioritise live at FC2, Warrington with Belmont And The Stocks, Muddy wells, Copperworm, Acrylic, Blanket Attack, Broken Wires......Glass Animals
Co-op Live, Manchester
Saturday 2 November 2024
The BRIT, Grammy and Mercury Prize-nominated UK act are best known for their multi-Platinum international chart topping 2020 hit "Heat Waves", which went viral on TikTok and helped push the British indie rockers to no.2 on the UK album cha...Interpol
O2 Apollo, Manchester
Saturday 2 November 2024
Manhattan, New York, rockers Interpol formed in 1997, and quickly became one of the main bands associated with the New York indie music scene, and one of several groups that emerged from the post-punk revival of the 2000s. The band's sound ...Bob Vylan
Manchester Academy, Manchester
Saturday 2 November 2024
Bob Vylan are a two-piece band that mix punk, rock, grime, and rap amongst other genres, to create a unique style of poetical political music that speaks openly on a wide range of topics. After releasing their critically acclaimed album 'We...A Tribute to Jilly's Rockworld
O2 Ritz, Manchester
Saturday 2 November 2024
A celebration of a Manchester institution, the legendary Oxford Road rock club opened in the 1970s - originally known as Fagan's before being renamed Jilly's in 1983 - attracting punks, rockers, goths, metalheads, skaters, moshers and ind...Antarctic Monkeys - The Official Arctic Monkeys Tribute Band
Pyramid and Parr Hall, Warrington
Saturday 2 November 2024
The Official International Arctic Monkeys Tribute Band formed from a jamming session, and became a phenomenon in their own right, travelling the UK and Europe with numerous tours. The demand is now more than ever. Firmly established on the ...China Crisis
The Met, Bury
Saturday 2 November 2024
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...Manchester Music Tours - The Smiths Tour
Vinyl Revival, Manchester
Saturday 2 November 2024 - Saturday 8 March 2025
The Smiths fans from across the globe will have the opportunity to experience once again how this iconic band made their mark in Manchester and the world. Iconic places that will be visited on the tour include; Strangeways prison, which bec...Sea Fever
Gorilla, Manchester
Saturday 2 November 2024
Sea Fever - a five piece collective from Manchester. Fronted by Iwan Gronow (Haven, Johnny Marr) on vocals and guitars, alongside singer Bethany Cassidy (Section 25), New Order's Tom Chapman and Phil Cunningham - with Tom on bass, guitars, ...
THIS FEELING - Manchester
Off The Square, Manchester
Saturday 2 - Saturday 16 November 2024
'If you're going to see the emergence of a new great band you'll see them at This Feeling first.' Carl Barat...Birdfeeder // scum
Big Hands, Manchester
Saturday 2 November 2024
Don't miss the return of Bristol's dark psych band Birdfeeder live at Big Hands on November 2nd, with support from Leeds' own post-punk band 'scum'....
NicknXmes plus special guests
The Snug, Manchester
Saturday 2 November 2024
Another gig, another line up of pure quality at The Snug...Blossoms
Stockport Plaza, Stockport
Sunday 3 November 2024
Stockport quintet Blossoms burst onto the Manchester scene in the 2010s, quickly rising from local clubs to festival stages and the top of the UK Album charts within a few short years. Their catchy, synth-forward blend of Brit-pop and indi...Brown Horse
Yes, Manchester
Sunday 3 November 2024
Now Wave presents Brown Horse at YES Basement on 3rd November 2024...Crystal Fighters
New Century Hall, Manchester
Monday 4 November 2024
The purveyors of boundary shattering Electro, London/Spanish alt-folk outfit Crystal Fighters' music melds Animal Collective toned delicacy with Soulwax inspired rave through the use of both electric and acoustic guitars, synths, drums, an...Cults
Manchester Academy, Manchester
Monday 4 November 2024
New York indie pop act Cults burst onto the scene in 2011 with their deliciously offbeat, slanted and enchanted songs. The off-kilter loveliness of tracks like "Go Outside" and "You Know What I Mean" landed them minor chart success, with th...
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
AO Arena, Manchester
Tuesday 5 November 2024
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds are an Australian rock band formed in Melbourne in 1983 by vocalist Nick Cave, multi-instrumentalist Mick Harvey and guitarist-vocalist Blixa Bargeld. They were formed after the break-up of the Birthday Party and...Resavoir
Band On The Wall, Manchester
Tuesday 5 November 2024
Resavoir - the collaborative project led by Chicago producer/composer Will Miller - presents their second self-titled album....
NIKI
O2 Apollo, Manchester
Wednesday 6 November 2024
Nashville-based Indonesian alt pop singer-songwriter Nicole Zefanya, better known as NIKI, has garnered global recognition for her songwriting and musicianship and is among the most popular female artists from Indonesia. ...NIKI
O2 Ritz, Manchester
Wednesday 6 November 2024
Nashville-based Indonesian alt pop singer-songwriter Nicole Zefanya, better known as NIKI, has garnered global recognition for her songwriting and musicianship and is among the most popular female artists from Indonesia. ...Beak>
New Century Hall, Manchester
Wednesday 6 November 2024
Forging their own path through their own genre of oddness, Bristol experimental electronic rock music band BEAK> consist of Portishead's Geoff Barrow, Robert Plant's Sensational Space Shifters' Billy Fuller and Moon Gangs' Will Young. ...Switchfoot
Manchester Academy, Manchester
Wednesday 6 November 2024
2023 marks the 20th anniversary of San Diego Christian alt-rock act Switchfoot's seminal album, The Beautiful Letdown. The triple-platinum record included the UK Top 30 hit "Meant to Live", and changed the lives of the band members and a ge...Wishy + Babehoven Co-Headline
