Most Popular Ska & Punk in Manchester
Sat 22 Feb - Sat 29 Mar 2025
Pyncher
Friday 22 November 2024
Echo Chamber present Pyncher: Manchester's answer to the tantalising charm of grubby 1970s New York. With only a handful of singles and their EP Chew - which catapulted them onto the radar of anyone with a taste for garage rock - to their n...
The Skids + Spear of Destiny
Sunday 24 November 2024
The Skids are Richard Jobson, Bill Simpson, Mike Baillie, Bruce Watson & Jamie Watson, who first formed in 1977 in their home town of Dunfermline, Scotland. After releasing an independent single, the band were played by John Peel, supported...
Electric Six
Wednesday 27 November 2024
Detroit's fun-loving alternative garage rock collective Electric Six celebrate 20 years of their UK Top 10 debut album "Fire" in 2003. The high-octane collection, mixing garage rock, disco, punk, new wave, and metal into cleverly dumb, in-y...
Skinny Lister
Thursday 28 November 2024
Regularly cited as one of the best live bands in the biz, London indie punk folk band, "The Skinnies" have been described by The Independent, in a 5 star review, as "a visceral, deafening experience." Following the release of their rave-re...
Hugh Cornwell (The Stranglers)
Friday 29 November 2024
When future historians of music draw up a list of the movers and shakers who changed the modern musical landscape, there will be no doubt that North London-born Hugh Cornwell, the former leader and main songwriter of all The Stranglers' mos...
The Battery Farm
Friday 29 November 2024
Manc punk band The Battery Farm are a must see live band with a chaotic, fierce high energy live show. ...
Fever 333
Saturday 30 November 2024
Los Angeles metal rapcore supergroup Fever 333 consist of former Letlive vocalist Jason Aalon Butler, former The Chariot guitarist Stephen Harrison and Night Verses drummer Aric Improta. ...
Manchester Music Tours - Joy Division Tour
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....
The Horrors
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...
The Damned
Friday 6 December 2024
The greatest surviving British punk band THE DAMNED formed in 1976, releasing the first ever UK punk single 'New Rose' over forty years ago. Considered one of the greatest songs from this period, THE DAMNED's 'New Rose' brought focus on the...
Idles (Dj Set)
Friday 6 - Saturday 7 December 2024
A DJ set from the UK chart-topping Bristol punk rockers. ...
Emofest
Saturday 7 December 2024
Put on your eyeliner, lace up your high-tops and get ready to rock to all your favourite nostalgic emo anthems as the Emo Festival is the greatest tribute night to the music that was never just a phase...  Teenage Nostalgia featuring all ...
Academy in the UK
Saturday 7 December 2024
'Academy In The UK' is the ultimate punk and alternative tribute night. Transport yourself back to the Seventies with The Pistols, Totally Blondie, A Band Called Malice (The Jam tribute) and The Ramonas the UK's best tribute to The Ramones....
The Chats
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...
Me First and the Gimme Gimmes
Tuesday 10 December 2024
MFGG are a punk rock supergroup covers band that formed in San Francisco in 1995. The band's lineup consists of Spike Slawson (Me First), CJ Ramone (The Ramones), Joey Cape (Lagwagon), Pinch (The Damned) and John Reis (Rocket from the Crypt...
The Style Councillors - Tribute to The Style Council
Friday 13 December 2024
The Style Councillors are the world's one and only tribute to The Style Council. Formed in 2013 by Darren Fletcher (Paul Weller) and Steve Hayes (Mick Talbot), The Style Councillors have quickly built a loyal fanbase for the group w...
The Prodigy
Saturday 14 - Sunday 15 December 2024
"This one's for Flinty!" Dedicating the shows to their former frontman Keith Flint, following his tragic death in 2019, the legendary Essex group return. With over 20 million albums sold worldwide, The Prodigy are the undisputed superstars...
Dub Pistols
Saturday 14 December 2024
Barry Ashworth's merry gang of outlaw reprobates are simply unstoppable.  The former Ibiza original, Madchester club promoter and his London collective have added a much-needed swagger to the UK dance scene in recent years and they remain...
Bad Manners
Thursday 19 December 2024
Buster Bloodvessel, one of the biggest characters in Ska, has stayed loyal to the music and has become as influential as he is entertaining with his band Bad Manners, who are best known for their biggest hits, "Lip Up Fatty" (UK No.15 in 19...
Bad Manners
Thursday 19 December 2024
Buster Bloodvessel, one of the biggest characters in Ska, has stayed loyal to the music and has become as influential as he is entertaining with his band Bad Manners, who are best known for their biggest hits, "Lip Up Fatty" (UK No.15 in 19...
The Blockheads
Saturday 11 January 2025
Performing a large selection of their classic songs spanning over 5 decades. Formed in 1977 to promote Ian Dury's album New Boots and Panties on the first Stiff Records tour of the UK. The Blockheads are now fronted by one of Ian's best fri...
Better Lovers
Sunday 19 January 2025
A Buffalo, New York, hardcore punk supergroup of tried-and-true musicians got together and found the sort of camaraderie and kinship you typically only find once in a lifetime. Formed in 2023, the group consists of Fit For An Autopsy vocal...
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. ...
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 ...
Bullet For My Valentine + Trivium
Thursday 30 January 2025
A co-headline tour from Welsh quartet Bullet For My Valentine, who straddle metal, punk and emo, with Florida quartet Trivium, whose inimitable masterful melody, hypnotic hook-craft, tight thrash, metal scope, and cinematic extremity has m...
London Calling - The Clash Tribute
Friday 31 January 2025
The look, sound, attitude, belief, aggression and sincerity is all there. Bringing you 'White man in Hammersmith Palais' - 'Rock The Casbah' - 'White Riot' - 'Lost In The Supermarket' - 'I Fought The Law' - 'Should I Stay Or Should I Go'......
Pretty Vacant - The Story of Punk & New Wave
Thursday 6 February 2025
From its birth in New York City to its adolescence in London and onto its maturity across the globe, Pretty Vacant celebrates the legacy of the punk and New Wave movements. For the first time, the music, the attitude and the fashion are bro...
Dropkick Murphys
Thursday 6 February 2025
Ken Casey's American Celtic punk band formed in Massachusetts in 1996 and continue to deliver music that punches you square in the face, scoring numerous Top 10 albums in the USA, as well as the Platinum-selling single "I'm Shipping Up...
Bowling for Soup
Saturday 8 February 2025
With their thirty year anniversary as a band on the horizon in 2024, Texas' favourite punk rock export Bowling For Soup continue to grow their global fanbase and expand their success year on year. Also dubbed the crown princes of pop punk, ...
Rise Against
Saturday 8 February 2025
The chart-topping, critically acclaimed Chicago band offer a gritty combination of hardcore punk and melodic hardcore which continues to defy the status quo of modern rock, scoring four UK Top 40 albums in the process. They are also known f...
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. ...
High Vis
Saturday 15 February 2025
London's High-Vis play aggressive, frosty post-punk that's as hard as any hardcore record. Like Black Flag, Sleaford Mods and of course Public Image Ltd before them, High-Vis' anger is artful, gripping, and energising. It'll trim the fat fr...
Four Year Strong
Wednesday 19 February 2025
Massachusetts rockers Four Year Strong blend pop-punk and hardcore punk. The band simply developed their sound off the idea of playing 'exactly what they want to hear' or music that they would listen to, but no one else was playing at the...
Set It Off
Thursday 20 February 2025
From the time they were formed, Set It Off have never been your standard emo band. Or pop group. Or pop-punk band. They are all of those things and more. Known for creating their own original brand of pop music, infusing bold electronic ele...
You Me At Six
Saturday 22 February - Saturday 29 March 2025
Rising out of the British alternative underground, Surrey rockers You Me At Six released their debut full-length album Take Off Your Colours in 2008 through Slam Dunk Records and Epitaph Records. Celebrating early chart success, it was 2010...
State Champs
Saturday 22 February 2025
Albany, NY punks State Champs were founded in 2010, taking their cues from emo punk royalty like All Time Low, Fall Out Boy and New Found Glory. The initial line-up of Derek Discanio (vocals), guitarists Tyler Szalkowski and Dave Fogarty, W...
Fat Dog
Saturday 1 March 2025
Described by the NME as "2023's wildest live band", South London indie act Fat Dog's music has been described as containing elements of dance, punk and klezmer. ...
The Wildhearts
Sunday 9 March 2025
For 3 decades The Wildhearts have remained at the forefront of the British rock scene. From their classic debut album 'Earth Vs' (voted number one album of the year in Kerrang! back in 1993, and number 20 in the best rock albums of all time...
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...
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...
Stiff Little Fingers
Friday 14 March 2025
During the first wave of U.K. punk rock, plenty of bands sang about a world full of violence and chaos, but Stiff Little Fingers didn't have to imagine a dystopian world - formed in Belfast in 1977 at the height of "The Troubles," police br...
Descendents + Circle Jerks
Friday 14 March 2025
A co-headline gig from Californian surf-punk rockers Descendents and Circle Jerks, who have been cited as an influence to the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Pearl Jam, Anti-Flag, Dropkick Murphys, the Offspring, NOFX, and Pennywise. ...
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. ...
Dr. John Cooper Clarke
Saturday 29 March 2025
Literary phenomenon John Cooper Clarke is a British cult hero. Known as the 'Godfather of Punk Poetry' and the original people's poet, John's cultural influence spans literature, music and fashion. From creating some of the most iconic poet...
Vinny Peculiar
Thursday 3 April 2025
Described as 'The Tony Hancock of pop' by UNCUT magazine, Salford-based singer-songwriter and poet Vinny Peculiar (aka Alan Wilkes) grew up in Worcestershire and trained as a nurse before signing to Manchester cult label Ugly Man records. V...
Gentleman's Dub Club + The Skints
Friday 11 April 2025
A co-headline gig from two of the most exciting acts in the UK. Leeds-formed Gentleman's Dub Club have built a reputation for one of the most energetic live shows to emerge from the UK bass music scene with their antics astound crowds at fe...
Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs
Friday 11 April 2025
Incisive in their pulverising riff-driven attack, infectiously catchy in their songcraft and more intrepid than ever in their experimental approach, the Newcastle-based quintet channel a furious drive which only appears to gather momentum a...
The Murder Capital
Friday 18 April 2025
The Irish post-punk band reached the UK Top 20 with their debut album, 'When I Have Fears' which featured the group's first two singles, 'Feeling Fades' and 'Green & Blue'. The album's title takes inspiration from the John Keats' poem, 'Whe...
