ALTERNATIVE & INDIE MUSIC GIGS IN MANCHESTER
ALTERNATIVE & INDIE MUSIC GIGS IN MANCHESTER
Most Popular Alternative & Indie Music Gigs in Manchester
Fri 21 Mar - Sat 24 May 2025
Sat 22 Feb - Sat 29 Mar 2025
Fri 14 Mar - Sat 24 May 2025
Fri 28 Mar - Fri 16 May 2025
Shaun Ryder
Sunday 16 March 2025
He's the wild man of rock who became a national treasure. Happy Mondays and Black Grape frontman Shaun Ryder is hitting the road for a new, spoken word tour. The star of more-TV-shows-than-anyone-has-a-right-to-feature-on - including Celeb...
The Waeve
Tuesday 18 March 2025
The WAEVE is a coming together of two musicians, Graham Coxon (Blur) and Rose Elinor Dougall (The Pipettes), who have formed a new, singular, sonic identity, a powerful elixir of cinematic British folk-rock, post-punk, organic song-writing ...
Ben Ottewell & Ian Ball (Gomez)
Tuesday 18 March 2025
Ben Ottewell and Ian Ball are best known as members of Gomez, the Southport rock act whose debut album, Bring It On, won the Mercury Music Prize in 1998. As Gomez never had a designated frontman, Ottewell, Ball, and Tom Gray all sang, and t...
Clairo
Wednesday 19 - Thursday 20 March 2025
Claire Elizabeth Cottrill, known professionally as Clairo, is an American lo-fi folk pop singer-songwriter. Born in Atlanta, Georgia, and raised in Carlisle, Massachusetts, she began posting music on the internet at age 13, rising to pro...
The Dare
Wednesday 19 March 2025
Los Angeles dance punk star Harrison Patrick Smith (aka The Dare) is best known for his single "Girls", and for producing the song "Guess" by Charli XCX. ...
The Picturebooks
Wednesday 19 March 2025
German energetic rock duo Fynn Claus Grabke and Philipp Mirtschink deliver Uptempo songs alongside their trademark midtempo burners. Their genuine sound includes instruments such as piano and tubular bells. They even handcraft some of their...
Hockey Dad
Thursday 20 March 2025
Heavily influenced by 1960s garage, Australian indie duo Hockey Dad have scored Top 5 albums in their homeland. ...
The Tubs
Thursday 20 March 2025
Now Wave presents The Tubs at Gullivers, Manchester on 20th March 2025...
Antony Szmierek
Friday 21 March 2025
Manchester spoken word and indie hip-hop artist Antony Szmierek has a distinctive way of mixing introspective and poetic lyrics with cool nostalgic beats which have seen him compared to Mike Skinner and The Streets. "He is being lauded as o...
From The Jam
Friday 21 March 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...
Miracle of Sound
Friday 21 March 2025
Cork indie musician Gavin Dunne, better known by the name of his music project "Miracle of Sound", performs music inspired by video games, films, and TV shows. While not widely known in his home country of Ireland, his music is very popular...
Josienne Clarke
Friday 21 March 2025
Indie-folk singer, songwriter, guitarist and producer Josienne Clarke is often said to draw on traditional British folk inspirations, but is a thoroughly modern, multifaceted artist who follows her own compass. Blessed with a voice of cryst...
Bernard Butler (Suede)
Friday 21 March 2025
Bernard Butler is a Brit and Grammy Award winning musician who first found fame in 1992 as the guitarist with Suede, forging a songwriting partnership with Brett Anderson. He co-wrote and played guitars or piano on every recording unt...
Pete Wylie & the Mighty Wah
Friday 21 March 2025
Described as "like the Lightning Seeds crossed with Phil Spector and the Manic Street Preachers, with lavishes of grand guitars and swathes of strings", part time rock star, full time Liverpool legend, singer, musician, composer Pete Wy...
Faux Real
Friday 21 March 2025
Faux Real at YES Basement, Manchester....
The Wombats
Saturday 22 March 2025
Helped by the viral success of Oliver Nelson's remix of their 2015 hit 'Greek Tragedy' on TikTok, The Liverpool-formed indie rockers marked lockdown by topping the UK charts with their fifth studio album 'Fix Yourself, Not The World' - some...
cleopatrick
Saturday 22 March 2025
Listening to the story of Canadian duo cleopatrick is a bit like hearing the plot of the best, most righteously validating coming-of-age film never made. Two friends meet aged four in Hicksville, Nowheretown (real name: Cobourg, Ontario, po...
Poppy Ajudha
Saturday 22 March 2025
Now Wave presents Poppy Ajudha at YES Pink Room on Saturday 22nd March 2025...
Ry X
Sunday 23 March - Friday 23 May 2025
Australian transcendental folk artist RY X, born Ry Cuming, showcases a boundless ability to create thought-provoking atmospheric pop music, engulfed with his distinctively ethereal vocal lines, cloudy orchestral arrangements and accomanyi...
Kyle Falconer (The View)
Sunday 23 March 2025
Fans of The View can look forward to an extraordinary evening of soul-stirring songs as lead singer Kyle Falconer takes to the stage. A Scottish musician who has captivated audiences for years with his soulful voice and undeniable talent...
Spiritualized
Monday 24 March 2025
Fresh from their thirteenth album release, "Everything Was Beautiful" - their third to reach the UK Top 5, in April 2022 - Jason Pierce (a.k.a. J. Spaceman) and his Warwickshire space rock band Spiritualized return with their beautiful wave...
Lauren Mayberry (Chvrches)
Monday 24 March 2025
A solo tour from Glasgow singer, musician, songwriter multiple philanthropist and leading feminist Lauren Mayberry, the vocalist and percussionist of Scottish pop band Chvrches. ...
David Gray
Tuesday 25 March 2025
Multi-platinum British singer-songwriter David Gray is hitting the road in 2020 to celebrate the 20-year anniversary of White Ladder, his fourth studio album which sold seven million copies. Not only did it propel him into the mainstream, b...
Dayglow
Wednesday 26 March 2025
Texan indie pop singer Sloan Struble, aka Dayglow, embraces an elevated sonic maturity. Inspired by the danceable feel and melancholy of 80's pop duets, he draws heavily on some unlikely influences such as Whitney Houston, Patti Labelle, Mi...
The Hoosiers
Wednesday 26 March 2025
The Hoosiers are an English pop rock band formed in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States. The band consists of members Irwin Sparkes (lead vocals, lead guitar) and Alan Sharland (drums, percussion, vocals). Their first single "Worried...
Panchiko
Friday 28 March 2025
The Nottingham indie band formed in 1998 but, unsigned, soon disbanded. It was only after a 4chan user found one of just 30 self-produced copies of their emo/industrial/dream pop single D>E>A>T>H>M>E>T>A>L in an Oxfam charity store in...
Apollo Junction
Friday 28 March 2025
Apollo Junction are a Yorkishire indie band on the rise with a passionate, growing fanbase that call themselves the 'AJFamily' - there's been engagements on stage, lifetime friendships formed, coaches to gigs hired and an online community t...
China Crisis
Friday 28 March 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...
PAVÃ - Manchester
Friday 28 March 2025
'If you're going to see the emergence of a new great band you'll see them at This Feeling first.' Carl Barat...
Helena Deland
Friday 28 March - Friday 4 April 2025
Helena Deland is interested in how songs can hold what eludes everyday language. Her music draws inspiration from reading and walking around. Her debut album Someone New was released on Luminelle Recording in 2020, introducing a new and res...
Oasiz - A Tribute to Oasis
Saturday 29 March 2025
When a short clip of Oasiz front man Steve, performing as Liam, went viral on social media with over half a million views, many fans were convinced the clip was actually of Liam Gallagher himself which led to the story being covered in the ...
Geordie Greep (Black Midi)
Saturday 29 March 2025
Frontman and lead guitarist of London math rock band Black Midi, Geordie Greep has long been considered part of the emerging wave of British rock music known as the Windmill scene. Influenced by Frank Zappa and classical music, his debut so...
