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
Hauspoints Fordton Leisure and Machine 3
Friday 6 December 2024
Alternative-pop, post punk inspired Chorleyites Hauspoints are joined by Warrington's Fordton Leisure and Machine 3 at Trader Jacks' in Chorley...
FAC51 - The Hacienda Must Be Built
Saturday 7 December 2024
FAC51 The Hacienda returns to Manchester for a huge all day homecoming show with The Warehouse Project at Depot Mayfield. The largest Hacienda hometown event sees some of the biggest names in the club's history performing over five rooms...
The Amazons
Saturday 7 December 2024
Following three huge Top 10 records and sold out shows across the globe, one of the UK's most exciting guitar bands, Reading 4-piece The Amazons, take their stratospheric anthems, loose blues grooves, religious references and falsetto backi...
Ultimate Coldplay - Tribute to Coldplay
Saturday 7 December 2024
A live tribute to Coldplay and performing all the Coldplay hits and more in a brilliant sound and look-a-like show. The vocals, mannerisms and atmosphere these guys deliver are second to none. Giving the audience that same high energy perfo...
Toploader
Saturday 7 December 2024
Since forming in 1997 Eastbourne's Toploader have over two million album sales to their name and a string of top 20 hits both home and abroad. Their debut album 'Onka's Big Moka,' sold over one million copies and remained in the Top 5 of th...
Yasmin Coe
Saturday 7 December 2024
The Manchester-based Hull singer/songwriter takes inspiration from artists like Current Joys, Mazzy Star and the Pixies, with performances and music which bring together storytelling lyrics amongst jangly indie guitar sounds. Self-described...
Manchester Music Tours - The Smiths Tour
Saturday 7 December 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...
Julia Holter
Saturday 7 December 2024
Now Wave presents Julia Holter at Band on the Wall on Saturday 7th December 2024...
Glass Half Spilt
Saturday 7 December 2024
We're back with plenty of new tunes headlining The Eagle Inn, Salford Come along on the 7th December for a smashing night of rock bangers....
Jacob Collier
Sunday 8 December 2024
The history-making multi-Grammy winning London singer and multi-instrumentalist Jacob Collier announces his biggest world tour to date, exploring the limitlessness of orchestral and choral music, taking the audience on a journey through ev...
The Chats
Sunday 8 December 2024
Notorious for their loud and chaotic live shows and their zero fucks attitude, The Chats are a pub-punk shed-rock band from Queensland, Australia. They've toured with Australian punk legends Cosmic Psychos, US rock heavyweights Queens of th...
Lola Young
Sunday 8 December 2024
Croydon singer-songwriter Lola Young was nominated for the Brit Award for Rising Star in 2021. She was chosen to cover the 1980s hit "Together in Electric Dreams" for the John Lewis Christmas advert. The following year, she placed fourth i...
wrest - Manchester @ Canvas
Sunday 8 December 2024
After sold-out shows across Europe, Edinburgh's wrest return to Manchester to headline Canvas this December....
In Conversation with Peter Doherty
Monday 9 December 2024
A very special evening in conversation with poet, musician, singer-songwriter, artist and label boss, Peter Doherty; the last of the great rock n roll stories. To his devoted fans, he is a cult hero, a modern-day Rimbaud. Musically, he has...
DIIV
Monday 9 December 2024
Indebted to classic kraut, dreamy Creation-records psychedelia, and the primitive-crunch of late-80s Seattle, Zachary Cole Smith's Brooklyn-based indie rockers yield a multiplicity of textures, lyrical themes, and moods. Dark and honest to ...
Yannis & The Yaw (Foals)
Monday 9 December 2024
In 2016, Foals frontman Yannis Philippakis was offered the opportunity of a lifetime: a two-day session working with the great drummer Tony Allen, who he admired intensely for his influential, multi-genre work with the likes of Fela Kuti, S...
Ben Ottewell (Gomez)
Monday 9 December 2024
As a singer and lead guitarist in rock band Gomez, Ben Ottewell is well known for his unmistakable voice and talent for blistering and inspired guitar solos. Rolling Stone declared, "Gomez's not-so-secret weapon is Ben Ottewell." And as GQ ...
Mattiel
Monday 9 December 2024
Now Wave presents Mattiel at YES Pink Room on 9th December 2024...
Lightning Seeds
Tuesday 10 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 "...
Me First and the Gimme Gimmes
Tuesday 10 December 2024
MFGG are a punk rock supergroup covers band that formed in San Francisco in 1995. The band's lineup consists of Spike Slawson (Me First), CJ Ramone (The Ramones), Joey Cape (Lagwagon), Pinch (The Damned) and John Reis (Rocket from the Crypt...
Kishi Bashi
Tuesday 10 December 2024
In a sonic departure from the symphonic folk of his critically lauded 2019 LP Omoiyari -a career-defining body of work born from his intensive meditation on the mass incarceration of Japanese-Americans during World War II - the Seattle-born...
The Home Team
Tuesday 10 December 2024
The Home Team UK Tour + Support...
Courteeners
Wednesday 11 December 2024
Led by talismanic singer/songwriter Liam Fray, the Mancunian stadium rockers and former Manchester United ball-boys have evolved from raw anthemic indie rockers to groove-laden indie kings. Each of their seven albums has gone Top 10, with t...
Del Amitri
Wednesday 11 December 2024
Formed in 1982, Glaswegian semi-acoustic jangly rockers Del Amitri boast a back catalogue of pure pop gems that cover a gamut of rock styles and observations on life's ironies. With six million record sales worldwide, the Dels are best...
The Wonder Stuff
Thursday 12 December 2024
Stourbridge indie rockers The Wonder Stuff boast an extensive catalogue which includes UK Top 20 hits "The Size of a Cow", "Unbearable", "Caught in My Shadow", "Don't Let Me Down, Gently", "Circlesquare" and the chart-topping cover "D...
Aquilo
Thursday 12 December 2024
Aquilo is an English duet consisting of Tom Higham and Ben Fletcher and based in Silverdale, near Lancaster. Tom and Ben were originally the frontmen in rival bands in their hometown. Higham was jumping around on stage making heavy metal wh...
A Tribute To Manchester
Friday 13 December 2024
A TRIBUTE TO MANCHESTER:THE CLONE ROSES + OASISH + THE SMITHS LTD + HAPPY MONDAZE + DJ CLINT BOON. What better way to celebrate all things Mancunian than with the annual return of 'A Tribute to Manchester'. Returning to the Academy stage...
Dylan John Thomas
Friday 13 December 2024
The Glaswegian indie folk rocker has an incredible story, going from foster care and busking to, appearing on The Voice UK and supporting Gerry Cinnamon and Liam Gallagher. Named after Bob Dylan, his influences include Johnny Cash, Bob Dy...
