ALTERNATIVE & INDIE MUSIC IN MANCHESTER
ALTERNATIVE & INDIE MUSIC IN MANCHESTER
Most Popular Alternative & Indie Music in Manchester
Fri 21 Mar - Sat 24 May 2025
Sat 22 Feb - Sat 29 Mar 2025
Sat 7 Dec 2024 - Sat 29 Mar 2025
The Snuts
Saturday 30 November 2024
The Snuts are all about big noises and raw honest performances. Close friends who grew up together in West Lothian, the four-piece love making music with their best mates. Comprised of frontman and guitarist Jack Cochrane, guitarist Joe McG...
The Smyths - Tribute to The Smiths
Saturday 30 November 2024
The Smyths are a joyous celebration of arguably the greatest band of all time, Manchester legends The Smiths. Thrillingly accurate, the group have amassed a huge following and regularly sell out huge venues both here and abroad. 2023 marks...
Rosellas
Saturday 30 November 2024
Fresh from supporting Starsailor, the young Mancunians serve up stadium-ready guitars, punchy drums and pure adrenaline, with a sound that gives a nod to the bands of 90's Britpop, drawing sonic comparisons to The Verve, The Stone Roses and...
The Gerry Cinna-Man Experience - Tribute to Gerry Cinnamon
Saturday 30 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...
Scruff of The Neck Spotlight
Saturday 30 November 2024
Shining a light on the best new music. 30th Nov 2024 Featuring:NorthwayScapegraceThe Sick Fix& more ...
Manchester Music Tours - Joy Division Tour
Saturday 30 November 2024
A four hour musical journey covering all things Joy Division and Factory Records! The chance to visit many of the important venues and locations around Manchester and surrounding areas that helped shape and influence the Joy Division sound....
Laurel Canyon // L.I.M.
Saturday 30 November 2024
Laurel Canyon and L.I.M. stop by Big Hands Bar on Saturday 30th November...
Living Legends
Saturday 30 November 2024
Live Music, DJ's, Art Exhibit, Workshops, Drumming, Breakdance Showcase, Food, Stalls, AND MORE TBA......
Vampire Weekend
Sunday 1 - Monday 2 December 2024
New York indie rockers Vampire Weekend formed in 2006 and have enjoyed international success with the singles "A-Punk", "Oxford Comma", "This Life" /"Unbearably White" and "Cousins". Led by vocalist and guitarist Ezra Koenig, they were i...
Gruff Rhys (Super Furry Animals) + Bill Ryder-Jones (The Coral)
Sunday 1 December 2024
A special co-headline show from Gruff Rhys, the frontman of Super Furry Animals and the Mercury Prize-nominated electro-pop outfit Neon Neon, together with Bill Ryder-Jones, a seasoned musician who joined The Coral in 1996, playing with the...
Chinese American Bear
Monday 2 December 2024
Now Wave presents Chinese American Bear at YES Basement on 2nd December 2024...
Royel Otis
Tuesday 3 December 2024
Australian duo - childhood friends Otis Pavlovic and Royel Maddell - swing between melodic, pop-inspired indie and woozy psych, but it never feels tied to one lane. As soon as one style or mood has outstayed its welcome, they handbrake turn...
Crawlers
Tuesday 3 December 2024
Merseyside band, CRAWLERS, are here to rock your world, they girlbossed a little close to the sun to get you here. ...
Demob Happy
Tuesday 3 December 2024
Demob Happy formed in Newcastle in 2008 when vocalist Matthew Marcantonio, drummer Thomas Armstrong and guitarists Adam Godfrey and Mathew Renforth met as teenagers in their native hometown. The band didn't have an easy start - battling in ...
Famous
Tuesday 3 December 2024
Now Wave presents Famous at YES Basement on 3rd December 2024...
The Horrors
Tuesday 3 December 2024
Moved from November 2021, original tickets will be valid for the rescheduled date and the promoters will be contacting all ticket holders with further information. Thanks for your understanding. As we do plan our upcoming shows, we felt th...
Demob Happy
Tuesday 3 December 2024
Demob Happy formed in Newcastle in 2008 when vocalist Matthew Marcantonio, drummer Thomas Armstrong and guitarists Adam Godfrey and Mathew Renforth met as teenagers in their native hometown. The band didn't have an easy start - battling in ...
Sundara Karma
Wednesday 4 December 2024
Sundara Karma are an alt pop band formed in 2011 in Reading. The band consists of lead vocalist, guitarist and songwriter Oscar Pollock, lead guitarist Ally Baty, bassist Dom Cordell and drummer Haydn Evans. The band's name is derived from ...
Dummy
Wednesday 4 December 2024
Now Wave presents Dummy at YES Basement on 4th December 2024...
The Slow Readers Club
Thursday 5 December 2024
Manchester's The Slow Readers Club deliver an energetic blend of driving drums and infectious guitar lines with evocative verses and anthemic choruses, imbued with their idiosyncratic brand of insightful and confronting lyricism, all set a...
Lightning Seeds
Thursday 5 December 2024
Ian Broudie's Liverpool indie power pop act are famed for their UK Top 20 singles "You Showed Me", "Sugar Coated Iceberg", "Change", "What If...", "Lucky You", "Pure", "Perfect", "Ready or Not", plus their chart-topping England anthem "...
Pure Reason Revolution
Thursday 5 December 2024
Melding prog and pop through dreamy moods, epic riffs and angelic harmonies, the University of Westminster-formed rockers Pure Reason Revolution drawing on influences like Porcupine Tree, Nirvana, Justice, Kraftwerk, Fleetwood Mac, Talk Tal...
Nilufer Yanya
Thursday 5 December 2024
It does not take long listening to West London-based singer-songwriter Nilufer Yanya's music to realise that playing by the rules has never been her forte. First discovered at 20 years old after uploading her sparse, acoustic demos to Sound...
The Skinner Brothers
Thursday 5 December 2024
An indie band with an arena sound, The Skinner Brothers tell stories of football, drugs, booze, sex and love, while their unforgettable, blistering live shows continue to shake things up on London's scene. The riotous, rebellion-tinged band...
Sam Fender
Friday 6 - Saturday 7 December 2024
Having celebrated his debut album, Hypersonic Missiles, rocketing to the number one spot and a sold out headline winter tour, Sam Fender continues his path to dominance with further live dates, the biggest of his career. ...
Shed Seven
Friday 6 December 2024
Perpetual underdogs, Shed Seven seldom received critical acceptance, yet the York-formed indie legends were one of the leading lights of Britpop with two gold albums, 15 Top 40 singles and a legion of loyal fans. Their thunderous indie-rock...
IDLES
Friday 6 - Sunday 8 December 2024
Formed in Bristol in 2009, IDLES are known for their intense sound and abrasive lyrics. The post-punk rocker's confrontational and infectiously volatile debut was Brutalism in 2017. Joy As An Act Of Resistance came out in 2018, acting as so...
Travis
Friday 6 December 2024
Glasgow's multiple BRIT and Ivor Novello-winning songwriting giants Travis head out on tour, 25 years since their huge breakthrough No.1 album, 'The Man Who'. ...
Candlelight - A Tribute to Oasis
Friday 6 December 2024 - Friday 10 January 2025
Discover the music of Manchester legends Oasis performed by violin under the gentle glow of candlelight in this awe-inspiring location. ...
808 State
Friday 6 December 2024
Graham Massey's Manchester dance legends and Acid House pioneers have been described as "masters of their art" (Q), "pioneers" (Future Music), "for sonic trailblazing and inestimable influence, among our most important groups" (Record Colle...
Dirty Laces
Friday 6 December 2024
Fear, loathing, and pages of notebooks filled in between; North Manchester's Dirty Laces' relentless work ethic has seen them become signed, collaborate with Ride drummer Laurence Colbert, and continue to release a stream of new music recor...
Idles (Dj Set)
Friday 6 - Saturday 7 December 2024
A DJ set from the UK chart-topping Bristol punk rockers. ...
Tom Blackwell
Friday 6 December 2024
"Anyone who has seen Tom Blackwell perform in one of the small,forgotten venues across the North of England he has haunted for over a decade will have witnessed a truly sublime singer-songwriterdistilling his blues, folk, soul and gospel in...
