ELECTRONIC MUSIC IN MANCHESTER
ELECTRONIC MUSIC IN MANCHESTER
Most Popular Electronic Music in Manchester
ANOHNI and the Johnsons
Saturday 29 June 2024
For the first time in a decade, transgender Chichester singer-songwriter ANOHNI presents a series of concerts with The Johnsons Achieving breakthrough success in 2005 as Antony and the Johnsons, with the Mercury Prize-winning I Am a Bird N...
Fatboy Slim
Friday 5 July 2024
As one of the world's most renowned pioneering dance music DJs and record producers, multi-million selling Brighton artist Fatboy Slim, a.k.a. Norman Cook, is a winner of numerous awards including ten MTV Music Awards, three BRITs, an Ivor ...
2hollis
Friday 5 July 2024
Los Angeles electronic/hip-hop artist 2hollis combines traditional Hip Hop components with jazz, blues, and soul influences. ...
Garage Nation
Saturday 6 July 2024
Garage Nation Returns to Manchester for an Unforgettable Daytime Open-Air Party with an electrifying lineup of iconic artists. Get ready to dance the day away as Garage Nation presents a stellar lineup of UKG Garage royalty, including Artfu...
Nils Frahm
Wednesday 10 July 2024
When it comes to defining the space between classical and electronic music, hardly any other name is mentioned as often as that of Berlin-based pianist, composer and producer Nils Frahm. His sonic alchemy of ambient textures and atmospher...
Jungle
Thursday 11 July 2024
BRIT Award-winning London electronic neo-soul and funk duo Jungle (Josh Lloyd-Watson and Tom McFarland) have scored four UK Top 10 albums and accumulated over a billion streams worldwide, which led to major arena shows as guests to Billie ...
Section 25
Friday 12 July 2024
Originally formed in 1977, Section 25 were a duo of brothers Larry and Vincent Cassidy. After several reincarnations, in 2024 the band are once again a duo consisting of Vincent Cassidy and long-time collaborator Steven Stringer. Section 25...
Hacienda Classical
Saturday 13 July 2024
Hacienda Classical makes its record-breaking eight Castlefield Bowl homecoming with Graeme Park, Manchester Camerata and special guests, including David Morales alongside Peter Hook on the DJ line-up. Performing orchestral renditions of muc...
Garbage
Friday 19 July 2024
Described by TIME Magazine as "gloomy and sexual yet lively and introspective", Wisconsin electro-rockers Garbage have sold over 17 million albums worldwide since 1995, scoring the UK Top 10 hits "Stupid Girl", "Why Do You Love Me", "Push...
Steve Mason (The Beta Band / King Biscuit Time)
Wednesday 24 July 2024
Steve Mason is a Scottish guitarist, singer, writer, and activist. He came to prominence in the late 90s as the lead singer and one of the founding members of The Beta Band. Mason created King Biscuit Time as a side project during his time ...
The Midnight
Friday 26 July 2024
For a band that started as a synth-heavy duo, the L.A. based synthwave band have come a long way - creating fully realised arena worthy songs - including new single "Heartbeat" with its Van Halen-inspired synth leads, echoing drums, layere...
Teletech Festival
Saturday 3 - Sunday 4 August 2024
Teletech techno festival returns to its home city of Manchester for a third time in 2024. Line-up to be announced. ...
Marc Rebillet
Thursday 15 August 2024
One-man improv master with an impressive vocal range and near-perfect pitch Musical comedy improviser Marc Rebillet began his career in 2016 by live-streaming to YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and Twitch while performing songs in his bedroom - ...
New Order
Saturday 24 August 2024
Out of the ashes of Joy Division came New Order. When the former came to a tragic and premature end with Ian Curtis's death in 1980, his remaining bandmates - Bernard Sumner, Peter Hook and Stephen Morris - regrouped to find a way to carry ...
The Magnetic Fields
Wednesday 28 - Thursday 29 August 2024
Performing all 69 songs, over two nights, from 1999's three-volume concept album, 69 Love Songs, album, the Boston, Massachusetts indie/electropop band are led by Stephin Merritt, who is known for his distinctive and untrained bass voice an...
Cheshire Craft Beer Fest
Saturday 31 August 2024
Introducing Cheshire Craft Beer Fest - the region's greatest celebration of brilliant beers, banging street food and specially-curated live music!Join us for the inaugural edition this Bank Holiday Friday 3rd June at The Lambing Shed, Knuts...
Kiioto (Lou Rhodes + Rohan Heath)
Thursday 12 September 2024
Kiioto is the brand new musical project from two of Manchester most celebrated musicians. Lou Rhodes, the Mercury-nominated electro folk singer/songwriter and founder member of the highly acclaimed top 30 duo Lamb, has joined forces with mu...
Tokky Horror
Thursday 12 - Friday 13 September 2024
Forming across a triangle of Leeds, Birkenhead & Bristol, the founding members of electronic punk trio Tokky Horror hadn't met each other before the band signed their first record deal. The collective formed during a pandemic, sending demo...
A Kind of Night Deadmau5 Would Do - Deadmau5 Tribute
Friday 13 September 2024
A tribute to the legendary electronic dance music producer and DJ deadmau5 Bespoke light shows will accompany a carefully curated setlist of top hits. Step into the electrifying world of a sensational nightlife event that pays homage to the...
Repercussion
Saturday 14 September 2024
Bicep | LTJ Bukem | Moderat | Jon Hopkins | Kerri Chandler | Jayda G | Joy Orbison | Children of Zeus | Tsha | Biig Piig | Salute | Dan Shake | DJ Boring | O'Flynn | Elkka | Anish Kumar | Greg Wilson | Krys...
Tubeway Days - The Gary Numan Live Experience 1979/80
Saturday 14 September 2024
The UK's best Gary Numan Tribute show delivers an evening of scintillating electronic music concentrating on the 1979/80 "Electronic" segment of Numan's career. A six piece band fronted by Chris Fielding, they will transport you back to th...
Moby
Wednesday 18 September 2024
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Six60
Friday 20 September 2024
SIX60 got their start in Dunedin, New Zealand in 2008. The quintet - made up of lead singer Matiu Walters, guitarists Ji Fraser and Chris Mac, drummer Eli Paewai and sampler Marlon Gerbes - met as students at the University of Otago and had...
Cosmo Sheldrake
Thursday 3 October 2024
Cosmo Sheldrake, the prodigiously talented and profoundly unique singer, songwriter, composer, producer and multi-instrumentalist from London, writes songs under the influence of a diverse group of musicians - ranging from The Beatles and T...
Aurora
Friday 4 October 2024
Self-taught Norwegian electro-pop artist known for her melancholic music Singer-songwriter AURORA, full name Aurora Aksnes, was compelled to craft music from a young age. Shortly after she was born in Stavenger, Norway, her parents moved to...
Rong Indoor Festival
Saturday 5 October 2024
Celebrating their 13th year, the huge trance festival returns in 2024. Line Up (A-Z): 4Strings + Alessandra Roncone + Aly & Fila B2B JOC + Amy Wiles + Andy Moor + Asteroid + Ben Gold + Ben Nicky + Billy Gillies + Bryan Kearney + Ciaran McCa...
Nik Kershaw
Wednesday 9 October 2024
One of the most popular pop stars and talented songwriters of the '80s, Ipswich-raised Nik Kershaw served his apprenticeship playing guitar in jazz fusion and functions bands before shooting to fame worldwide in 1984 with the UK Top 5 singl...
John Maus
Thursday 10 October 2024
Minnesota synth-pop musician, composer, singer, and songwriter John Maus is known for his baritone singing style and his use of vintage synthesizer sounds and Medieval church modes, a combination that often draws comparisons to 1980s goth-p...
Peter Hook & the Light
Thursday 17 October 2024
The legendary Joy Division and New Order bassist performs both Substance albums live. The Mancunian bass player, musician, singer, DJ, nightclub owner, record company boss and author was a co-founder of the seminal post-punk band Joy Divis...
Caravan Palace
Thursday 17 October 2024
The Platinum-selling group which would define a new sound called "Electro Swing", French gypsy jazz band Caravan Palace incorporate sounds including early swing jazz and big band to create a rip-roaring party, bursting with fun and good hum...
FitkinWall
Thursday 17 October 2024
In their new show, Harpland, internationally renowned harp and electronica duo FitkinWall follow threads of migration, loss and longing in their new show, inspired by the stories of the Highland Clearances. Ruth Wall's explorations into Gae...
Public Service Broadcasting
Friday 18 October 2024
Public Service Broadcasting have been "teaching the lessons of the past through the music of the future" for more than a decade now. 2013's debut album Inform - Educate - Entertain used archival samples from the British Film Institute as au...
Symphonica & Mr Switch - The History of Drum & Bass
Saturday 19 October 2024
Take a whole orchestra, combine them with a world champion DJ, and challenge them to tear through the history of drum & bass. Following sell out solo shows & headline sets at festivals such as Glastonbury, Shambala, London Remixed & Boomto...
Utah Saints
Saturday 19 October 2024
UK electronic dance music pioneers Utah Saints ...
Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells Live in Concert
Tuesday 22 October 2024
Continuing on from last year's 50th anniversary celebrations of Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells, the multi-million-selling and multi-award-winning progressive rock album will be performed live in concert across the UK in 2024. Tubular Be...
Molchat Doma
Tuesday 22 October 2024
In their short time as a band, Belarusian trio Молчат Дома ("Houses Are Silent"), have gone from whispered-about unknowns, to enigmatic underground icons, to legitimate viral sensations with hundreds of thousands of TikTok videos ...
WOMEX - Worldwide Music Expo
Wednesday 23 - Saturday 26 October 2024
WOMEX - Worldwide Music Expo - the most international and culturally diverse music convention in the world - comes to Manchester in 2024. Each year WOMEX travels to a different European city bringing together 2,600 music industry profession...
Hang Massive
Saturday 26 October 2024
The UK and Swedish duo Hang Massive are the world's most renowned Handpan players, pioneering a successful electronic act with a magnetic live show, blending dream-like acoustics and upbeat sounds. The magic for Danny Cudd and Markus Offbe...
Chelsea Wolfe
Monday 28 October 2024
From the intimacy of stripped-down folk music to the throbbing pulse of supplemental electronics, or an exquisite palette of groaning bass, pounding drums, and crunching distortion, Californian musician Chelsea Wolfe blends elements of got...
Peter Hook & the Light
Thursday 31 October 2024
The legendary Joy Division and New Order bassist performs both Substance albums live. The Mancunian bass player, musician, singer, DJ, nightclub owner, record company boss and author was a co-founder of the seminal post-punk band Joy Divis...
John Grant
Thursday 31 October 2024
John Grant is an American singer-songwriter from Colorado originally known as the lead singer of alternative rock band The Czars. Called "one of the most gifted singer-songwriters of his generation," by The New York Times, singer-songwriter...
Lindsey Stirling
Monday 4 November 2024
For over a decade, Lindsey Stirling has enchanted audiences across the globe by performing a certain spellbinding magic with her electronic violin, dreaming up an exquisitely composed yet boldly inventive sound entirely her own. The classic...
Crystal Fighters
Monday 4 November 2024
The purveyors of boundary shattering Electro, London/Spanish alt-folk outfit Crystal Fighters' music melds Animal Collective toned delicacy with Soulwax inspired rave through the use of both electric and acoustic guitars, synths, drums, an...
Beak>
Wednesday 6 November 2024
Forging their own path through their own genre of oddness, Bristol experimental electronic rock music band BEAK> consist of Portishead's Geoff Barrow, Robert Plant's Sensational Space Shifters' Billy Fuller and Moon Gangs' Will Young. ...
The Orb + Ozric Tentacles
Friday 8 November 2024
Two giants of underground psych-dance culture come together for an evening of audio-visual sensory overload. Get ready to here the ambient soundscapes and pulsing rhythms of The Orb and Ozric Tentacles' blend of instrumental psychedelic ro...
Space
Friday 8 November 2024
Liverpool indie band Space shot to fame in 1996 with with with hit single "Female of the Species", which was also the theme song to the TV series Cold Feet. They followed it up with UK Top 20 singles "The Ballad of Tom Jones" (with Cerys ...
Giolì & Assia
Wednesday 13 November 2024
Talented duo Gioli & Assia, from Palermo, Italy, blend techno, house, indie, folk and pop to create a sound which is uniquely their own. Gioli plays the piano, cello, drums, guitar, and handpan, and Assia handles lead vocal duties as well a...
Ben Böhmer
Thursday 14 November 2024
German Electronic music's brightest rising star, Berlin based deep and progressive house producer and live act Ben Bohmer has attained over 40 million streams with remixes from the likes of HAAi, Barry Can't Swim and The Blaze. His sonic te...
Ibibio Sound Machine
Friday 15 November 2024
Fronted by Nigerian singer Eno Williams, Ibibio Sound Machine is a clash of African and electronic elements inspired in equal measure by the golden era of West-African funk and disco and modern post-punk and electro. Ibibio Sound Machine we...
