ALTERNATIVE & INDIE MUSIC IN MANCHESTER
ALTERNATIVE & INDIE MUSIC IN MANCHESTER
Most Popular Alternative & Indie Music in Manchester
Definitely Oasis - Tribute to Oasis
The Bread Shed
Fri 14 Mar - Sat 24 May 2025
Ultimate Coldplay - Tribute to Coldplay
Manchester Academy
Sat 7 Dec 2024 - Sat 29 Mar 2025
Manchester Music Tours - Joy Division Tour
Vinyl Revival, Manchester
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....
MOOD SWINGS: The Pill Kymara Hex Girlfriend Big Warm Bed
Yes, Manchester
Saturday 30 November 2024
NOW WAVE PRESENTS MOOD SWINGS: The Pill, Kymara, Hex Girlfriend, Big Warm Bed on 30th November 2024...
Laurel Canyon // L.I.M.
Big Hands, Manchester
Saturday 30 November 2024
Laurel Canyon and L.I.M. stop by Big Hands Bar on Saturday 30th November...Vampire Weekend
O2 Apollo, Manchester
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)
Albert Hall, Manchester
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...
Royel Otis
Manchester Academy, Manchester
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
Gorilla, Manchester
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
Night & Day Cafe, Manchester
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
Yes, Manchester
Tuesday 3 December 2024
Now Wave presents Famous at YES Basement on 3rd December 2024...The Horrors
Yes, Manchester
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
The Night And Day Caf?, Manchester
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
O2 Ritz, Manchester
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
Yes, Manchester
Wednesday 4 December 2024
Now Wave presents Dummy at YES Basement on 4th December 2024...The Slow Readers Club
O2 Ritz, Manchester
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
Albert Hall, Manchester
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
Manchester Academy, Manchester
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
Manchester Academy, Manchester
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
The Deaf Institute, Manchester
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...
GUEVARA - SUGARTUNG - Brickhouse - INHEATHER LIVE
Sam Fender
Co-op Live, Manchester
Friday 6 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
O2 Victoria Warehouse, Manchester
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
O2 Apollo, Manchester
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
Albert Hall, Manchester
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'. ...
808 State
New Century Hall, Manchester
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
Rebellion, Manchester
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...Tom Blackwell
Sacred Trinity, Salford
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...
Straight Arrows (AUS) + guest LIVE at Big Hands
Big Hands, Manchester
Friday 6 December 2024
Sydney-based darts of garage-punk Straight Arrows play Big Hands on December 6th. Come dance and mosh in the best rock and roll pit of the North West....FAC51 - The Hacienda Must Be Built
Depot Mayfield, Manchester
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...Ultimate Coldplay - Tribute to Coldplay
Manchester Academy, Manchester
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...IDLES (DJ SET)
Yes, Manchester
Saturday 7 December 2024
A DJ set from the UK chart-topping Bristol punk rockers. ...Toploader
The Grand, Clitheroe
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
Yes, Manchester
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...Julia Holter
Band On The Wall, Manchester
Saturday 7 December 2024
Now Wave presents Julia Holter at Band on the Wall on Saturday 7th December 2024...
Glass Half Spilt
The Eagle Inn Salford, Manchester
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....Zero Club - 8th Birthday Party
Retro, Manchester
Saturday 7 December 2024
Zero Club celebrates 8 years of 90s timewarp clubnights...Jacob Collier
AO Arena, Manchester
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
O2 Victoria Warehouse, Manchester
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
New Century Hall, Manchester
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
