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
Echoes of the Bunnymen - An Aural Tribute to Echo & The Bunnymen
Saturday 1 March 2025
Echoes of the Bunnymen are an aural tribute to the alternative Fab Four. "A bloody good tribute, go check them out" - Will Sergeant (Echo & The Bunnymen). After Will Sergeant bought tickets and surprised Echoes of the Bunnymen by showing up...
Alabaster dePlume
Monday 3 March - Saturday 3 May 2025
Mancunian jazz poet-performer Alabaster DePlume (a.k.a. Gus Fairbairn), who plays the saxophone out of the side of his mouth, is now known across the globe as the saxophonist who creates wonderful, wordless music, however back home he's mos...
Toro y Moi
Tuesday 4 March 2025
An unmistakably Toro y Moi experience, South Carolina chillwave musical mastermind Chaz Bear spans genre and sound, taking listeners on an auditory expedition, as if they're riding in the back of Bear's Filipino jeepney. Undoubtedly one of ...
The Ocelots
Wednesday 5 March 2025
Twins from Wexford, Ireland, Brandon and Ashley have crafted their songwriting and musical experience together to produce a forceful blend of rich harmonies and bare, raw acoustic folk. The Ocelots started originally through busking around ...
Doves
Thursday 6 - Friday 7 March 2025
Doves had something of an usual genesis in '90s Madchester. Founding members Jimi Goodwin, Jez Williams and Andy Williams were all members of Sub Sub, best remembered for their 1993 hit single Ain't No Love (Ain't No Use). After a fire at ...
White Denim
Thursday 6 March 2025
Texan Southern rockers White Denim are one of the very best rock bands to emerge this millennium with a rootsy swing and uplifting way with melody. It's always been hard to keep pace with James Petralli's group, ever since they first expl...
Chris Helme (The Seahorses)
Thursday 6 March 2025
Rising to fame in the 1990s as frontman of indie band The Seahorses York singer-songwriter Chris Helme is now producing acclaimed folk-infused tracks as a solo artist. His enviable back catalogue includes Britpop classics such as 'Love is t...
The Pale White
Thursday 6 March 2025
In a musical landscape that continues to proudly proclaim the death of modern rock music, The Pale White have consistently proved that this couldn't be further from the truth. Hailing from Newcastle in the UK, the three piece containing bro...
The Bracknall
Friday 7 March 2025
With a sound that wrestles Brit Pop nostalgia into gritty modern-day Indie Rock, the Bracknall are a grass roots guitar band from the unlikely London suburb of Collier Row: steadily emerging in the last three years as one of British Rock & ...
Happy Mondaze
Friday 7 March 2025
Authentically from Manchester, Happy Mondaze were the first musicians to bravely emulate the Madchester legends. Currently touring the UK with a set of hits and fan favourites from the likes of Pills n thrills and Bummed. ...
Fakermaker - The Definitive Tribute to Oasis
Friday 7 March 2025
Fakermaker are five West Yorkshire lads with a mutual love of all things Oasis, recreating the songs that propelled the Gallagher brothers and their band to mega stardom in the mid-90s. A proper five-piece like Oasis themselves, Fakermaker ...
The Reytons
Saturday 8 March 2025
Like the Arctic Monkeys, who they are often compared, the South Yorkshire four-piece are born under a Sheffield sky with a penchant for pubs, pints and pandemonium, and are bursting with working class grit and tales from the local boozer to...
Vukovi
Saturday 8 March 2025
Scottish rock outfit Vukovi demand your attention with songs taking in themes of individuality, drug abuse, depression and suicide. ...
Nieve Ella
Saturday 8 March 2025
Albrighton indie pop singer Nieve Ella Pickering has supported Dylan, Inhaler, and the Courteeners. ...
The Smiths Ltd + Clint Boon (DJ Set)
Saturday 8 March 2025
Formed in 2009, the ONLY Smiths tribute band from and based in Manchester have a unique selling point and an authenticity that is hard to beat. Committed to getting the same energy that Morrissey, Johnny Marr, Andy Rourke and Mike Joyce h...
Fionn Regan
Saturday 8 March 2025
Irish folk musician Fionn Regan has fine-tuned a sensibility of his own since the acoustic poetry of his debut album, 2006's Mercury Prize-shortlisted The End of History. Since then, he has travelled between band-based detours and the glea...
The Smiths Ltd - The Smiths Tribute Band
Saturday 8 March 2025
The Smiths Ltd was formed in Manchester, UK the hometown of The Smiths. After an extensive search to find the perfect Morrissey, the band played their first gig in Manchester to an audience of avid Smiths fans. The response was spectacular...
SLUDGEFEST: Manchester
Saturday 8 March 2025
Gao the Arsonist brings the sludge to Manchester for the first time in 3 years....
La Femme
Sunday 9 March 2025
La Femme are a French psych-punk rock band established by guitarist Sacha Got and keyboard player Marlon Magnee in 2010 in Biarritz. The band's music has been described as synthetic and hypnotic. It mixes elements of cold wave, punk, and ye...
Pom Poko
Sunday 9 March 2025
"If you have a vacancy for Favourite New Band, Pom Poko would like to apply for the role," tweeted Tim Burgess in April, as Norway's finest punk-pop anti-conformists revisited their joyous debut album, Birthday, for one of Tim's mood-liftin...
Bdrmm
Tuesday 11 March 2025
Leeds based Hull proto-shoegaze and krautrock five-piece bdrmm, musically, give nods to The Cure's Disintegration, Deerhunter and DIIV, while the band reference RIDE and Radiohead. There are also echoes of krautrock and post-punk, from The ...
Dhruv
Tuesday 11 March 2025
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Florentenes
Wednesday 12 March 2025
Manchester indie band Florentenes was born from two bedroom musicians with a passion for creating music and showing off to others. Vocalist Will Smith and lead guitarist Luke Holding spent a long time trying to hone their craft of songwriti...
Michael Kiwanuka
Thursday 13 March 2025
Michael Kiwanuka is a British singer-songwriter (indie rock/folk rock/soul) and record producer who is signed with Polydor Records. His 2012 debut album, Home Again, went gold in the United Kingdom and his second album, Love & Hate, debuted...
South Arcade
Thursday 13 March 2025
South Arcade are making waves as one of the UK's most promising alternative bands, channeling the energy of early 2000s pop rock. ...
The Mary Wallopers
Friday 14 March 2025
Described by The Guardian as "invoking the raucous ghosts of The Dubliners and The Pogues to startling effect", The Mary Wallopers are a folk group from Dundalk, Ireland, breathing new life into both well known & rare ballads. Travelling th...
Animals As Leaders
Friday 14 March 2025
When unknown virtuoso guitarist Tosin Abasi released his debut solo album under the moniker ANIMALS AS LEADERS in 2009, few would have predicted the now ground-breaking, critically-acclaimed, genre defying instrumental Washington D.C. trio'...
Definitely Oasis - Tribute to Oasis
Friday 14 March 2025
Definitely Oasis are regarded by many Oasis fans and promoters alike as the best Oasis tribute band there is. The band regularly sell out top class venues across the UK and were recently the first ever tribute band to sell out Glasgow's ico...
Definitely Oasis - Tribute to Oasis
Friday 14 March 2025
Definitely Oasis are regarded by many Oasis fans and promoters alike as the best Oasis tribute band there is. The band regularly sell out top class venues across the UK and were recently the first ever tribute band to sell out Glasgow's ico...
Definitely Oasis - Tribute to Oasis
Friday 14 March 2025
Definitely Oasis are regarded by many Oasis fans and promoters alike as the best Oasis tribute band there is. The band regularly sell out top class venues across the UK and were recently the first ever tribute band to sell out Glasgow's ico...
Definitely Oasis - Wigan
Friday 14 March 2025
The world's busiest and most successful Oasis tribute 'Definitely Oasis are coming to Wigan to perform a full set of Oasis classics...
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...
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...
