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
An Audience with Mark & Lard
Thursday 23 January 2025
The 24th March 2004 saw the world heritage radio site of the 'Mark and Lard Show' come to an end with a resounding: 'STOP...!' Now fully twenty-one years later we can finally complete that catchphrase with an equally resounding: '... CARRY ...
Say Anything
Friday 24 January 2025
Max Bemis's Los Angeles emo pop-punk band Say Anything return. Famed for their sardonic, literary sense of humour balanced out with a sense of intense catharsis, they scored five Top 40 albums in the USA between 2007 and 2016. ...
The Rainband
Friday 24 January 2025
Manchester's The Rainband are back! Founded in 2010 by lead singer Martin Finnigan and guitarist Phil Rainey - who made his name with Peter Hook's cult combo Monaco - their single "Rise Again", a tribute to legendary MotoGP rider Marco Simo...
Smote
Friday 24 January 2025
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Neck Deep
Saturday 25 January 2025
The "biggest band you've never heard of" has stepped onto the world stage, but it won't be long before that adage is a distant memory. The Wrexham underground heroes turned breakout stars with three UK Top 10 albums continue carving out the...
Destroy Boys
Saturday 25 January 2025
Californian punk rockers Destroy Boys embrace everything from garage punk to 90's college indie rock. Â Â ...
Purple Hearts
Saturday 25 January 2025
Mod Legends Purple Hearts celebrate the 45th anniversary of their seminal debut LP 'Beat That!'. Purple Hearts were formed in 1978 after the demise of The Sockets, their previous band. The band's debut single 'Millions Like Us' hit the ...
Du Blonde
Sunday 26 January 2025
Now Wave presents Du Blonde at Yes Basement on 26th January 2025...
John Craigie
Sunday 26 January 2025
John Craigie has mastered the art of creating live shows that feel more like intimate conversations than performances. Infusing humour, wit, and poignant storytelling, his shows are a space where audience members feel like old friends. Whet...
Valley
Sunday 26 January 2025
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Soul Asylum
Tuesday 28 January 2025
 One of the most successful American Alternative Rock bands of the 1990s, Minneapolis's Soul Asylum's folk-influenced grunge beared the roots of the Country-Rock revival with their triple-Platinum certified Grave Dancers Union album, whi...
Lake Street Dive
Tuesday 28 January 2025
Since forming in 2004, Lake Street Dive have matched their sophisticated musicianship with a fearless refusal to limit their sound, creating joyously soulful rock & roll with equal parts ingenuity, intelligence, and irresistible abandon. F...
The DSM IV
Wednesday 29 January 2025
Formed by Guy McKnight of cult favourites The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster, The DSM IV are one of the most electrifying live bands of the moment, having supported both Sleaford Mods and The Libertines across Europe, which offered them ...
Danko
Wednesday 29 January 2025
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Joshua Radin
Thursday 30 January 2025
Joshua Radin emerged in 2004 as an empathetic, engaging, and often enthralling troubadour. Over the years, he's tallied north of 1 billion streams, moved 1 million-plus albums worldwide, and scored a gold certification for the single "I'd R...
Coast Noir
Friday 31 January 2025
Dark psychedelic rock from Manchester. ...
The Rifles
Friday 31 January 2025
 London indie outfit the Rifles rose to popularity in the mid-2000s with a jaunty garage rock & roll sound that's equal parts Jam-like swagger and a playfulness not unlike contemporaries the Kooks. First grabbing public attention with the...
Ten Fe
Friday 31 January 2025
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Casey Lowery (Casey Lowry)
Saturday 1 February 2025
 One of the most talked-about names in bedroom guitar pop and all-conquering king of indie TikTok, the future hero from Chesterfield takes to the road. ...
Field Music
Thursday 6 February 2025
Field Music on Band on The Wall on 6th February 2025....
Sam Greenfield
Friday 7 February 2025
Now Wave presents Sam Greenfield at YES Pink Room on 7th February 2024...
Inhaler
Saturday 8 - Friday 21 February 2025
The UK album chart-topping Dublin band serve up music teeming with expansive indie-rock grooves, soaring anthems, and swooping, epic singalongs. ...
Kawala
Saturday 8 February 2025
Starting their musical journey while studying in Leeds, North London duo Jim (vocals) and Dan (acoustic guitar, vocals) quickly developed a distinctive sound as an acoustic indie-folk act, finding inspiration from a range of musical styles....
The Hara
Saturday 8 February 2025
Grit, energy and a perceptive exploration of the chaos that surrounds them has fuelled the recent anthemic releases from Manchester rockers THE HARA. The genre-defying trio have topped the iTunes Album charts with the EP's 'Play Dead' (#1 ...
Manilla Times
Saturday 8 February 2025
 Emerging indie rockers Manilla Times, hailed as one of XS Manchester's "Ones to Watch 24", deliver infectious anthems brimming with energy and nostalgia. Originating from small towns in Ireland and North Wales, the band-comprising Jack M...
Billy Lockett
Sunday 9 February 2025
Northampton piano man has been playlisted on Radio 1, supported Lewis Capaldi, Electric Light Orchestra, Birdy, Lana del Rey and KT Tunstall, and performed on Made In Chelsea, James Corden's Late Late Show. He has written, recorded, perform...
Hamish Hawk
Tuesday 11 February 2025
Rich of voice and even richer of imagination, Edinburgh born indie singer-songwriter Hamish Hawk creates musical pen-portraits as vivid in lyric as they are in melody. He has established himself as a writer of heartfelt, headstrong, unasham...
Bilk
Thursday 13 February 2025
Bilk are three musicians creating a unique angsty blend of indie, rap, rock n roll and punk from the suburbs of Essex, UK. Their honest social commentary is as real as it gets, reflecting on the highs and lows of British culture today. ...
Anna B Savage
Thursday 13 February 2025
A sense of rootedness is at the heart of Anna B Savage?s third record You and i are Earth, a record that is as much about healing as it is an unbowed sense of curiosity, and, more simply, ?a love letter to a man and to Ireland?. Following o...
