PUNK ROCK CONCERTS IN MANCHESTER
PUNK ROCK CONCERTS IN MANCHESTER
Most Popular Punk Rock Concerts in Manchester
Mon 7 Apr - Sat 13 Sep 2025
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 Vapors
Friday 14 March 2025
The Vapors are a UK New Wave band formed in the late 70s in Surrey. Discovered by The Jam Bass player Bruce Foxton playing in a local pub The Vapors were invited to tour with The Jam on the Setting Sons tour in 1979. Foxton along with Paul ...
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. ...
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...
BBC Radio 6 Music Festival - Ezra Collective + Fat Dog
Thursday 27 March 2025
BBC Radio 6 Music Festival will take place again in Greater Manchester. The station's flagship event - which will see global premieres of brand new live shows, new music debuts, unique collaborations and surprise guests - returns to the reg...
You Me At Six
Friday 28 - 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...
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...
Say Anything
Sunday 30 March 2025
Marvel comic book writer 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 200...
Peat & Diesel
Sunday 30 March 2025
The story began when three Stornoway Cove's (Innes, Uilly and Boydie) met up in the house to have the craic on a Saturday nights playing music with just the dog and the cat watching. After a few tunes getting thrown across the room Boydie s...
Rick Buckler (The Jam) - A Night of Memories & Music
Sunday 30 March 2025
This is your chance to witness history in the making. It's a must for all fans of The Jam! Feel the rhythm of A Town Called Malice, and get lost in the soulful sounds that define a generation, as the band's legendary drummer recalls all his...
Ditz
Tuesday 1 April 2025
Abrasive but accessible, Brighton experimental rockers Ditz made one of the most important British guitar debuts when they first appeard on the scene in 2016. The band has been compared to IDLES, Yak, Daughters, Gilla Band and even Foals -...
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...
Frank Turner & The Sleeping Souls
Saturday 5 April 2025
The Hampshire punk and folk artist was initially a vocalist in the punk rock band Million Dead, before turning his focus towards a folkier, acoustic-based solo career. Since that time, he has reached international acclaim as a chart-topping...
The Favours
Saturday 5 April 2025
The Favours are a three-piece, Manchester-based, post-punk group, taking inspiration from pioneers of all genres from The Doors and Joy Division, to Fontaines D.C. and Radiohead. They formed in 2023 and have been perfecting their live prese...
Black Country, New Road
Monday 7 April 2025
Melding klezmer, post-rock, indie, jazz, art-pop, and an often intense spoken word delivery, the Mercury Prize nominated Cambridge six-piece's unique concoction creates a singular sonic middle ground that traverses classical minimalism, in...
Mark Hoyle In Conversation with Tony Walsh
Wednesday 9 April 2025
Two Crows proudly present an evening with musician Mark Hoyle spotlighting his critically acclaimed book Swerve. Featuring a Q&A, signing and readings from the book - including his account of the infamous Joy Division gig in The Met's Derby...
Lambrini Girls
Thursday 10 April 2025
Brighton based noise-punk duo Lambrini Girls bottle everything wrong with the modern world and shake it up. If peppering political songs with humour is like sticking a sparkler in some bread, then their music is like a fireworks display in ...
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...
Heavy Lungs
Friday 11 April 2025
Bristol noise rock band Heavy Lungs have since been on a relentless warpath of shred since 2017. Their offerings to the indifferent gods of rock were crafted in dark and dingy church rehearsals and overpriced house shares. Shrouded in ciga...
YAANG + Formal Sppeedwear + Autocamper
Saturday 12 April 2025
Hot Take is a brand new monthly night from promoters Now Wave, bringing you the freshest new sounds from Manchester. Manchester punk trio YAANG + FORMAL SPPEEDWEAR + AUTOCAMPER....
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...
Peter Hook & the Light
Saturday 19 April 2025
The legendary Joy Division and New Order bassist performs New Order's "Get Ready" live and in full, plus an additional set of Joy Division and New Order's greatest hits. The Mancunian bass player, musician, singer, DJ, nightclub owner,...
Manchester Music Tours - Joy Division Tour
Saturday 19 April - Saturday 28 June 2025
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....
Social Distortion
Friday 25 April 2025
The "Godfathers of Punk", California stalwarts Social Distortion have a reputation of performing with a fierce energy onstage. ...
The Dollyrots + Don't Panic
Saturday 26 April 2025
For over 20 years, Florida pop punk rockers The Dollyrots have been a shining example of how to mix raw punk energy with catchy, bubblegum melodies, all while living life entirely on their terms. Fronted by bassist and vocalist Kelly Ogden ...
Viagra Boys
Thursday 1 May 2025
Perhaps the worst named band in the world for SPAM filters, Stockholm post-punk quartet Viagra Boys have made a name for themselves burning up stages around the world. There's a little Iggy Pop spit and seethe, a David Yow drunken stumble, ...
Rival Schools
Friday 2 May 2025
New York Hardcore and Emo supergroup Rival Schools was formed by Walter Schreifels, frontman of Quicksand, with members of '80s and '90s hardcore bands including Gorilla Biscuits (Schreifels), CIV (Sam Siegler), Youth of Today (Schreifels a...
The Pogues
Wednesday 7 May 2025
Following the death of Kent frontman Shane MacGowan in 2023, Celtic punk legends The Pogues return in 2025 for their first UK Tour since 2012 to celebrate 40 years of 'Rum Sodomy & the Lash'. Featuring original members, Mancunian accordian ...
PUP
Saturday 10 May 2025
Noisy, biting, and recklessly fun Toronto punk band PUP have earned love and accolades from The New York Times, Pitchfork, and SPIN, which helped to cement them as one the most energetic and exciting up and coming bands in the punk communit...
Special Kinda Madness - Tribute to The Specials & Madness
Saturday 10 May 2025
2 Bands... 2-Tone... 1 Fantastic Night! A Specials Tribute Band and a Madness Tribute Band, all on one stage. That's Special Kinda Madness. Special Kinda Madness perform a truly authentic set from each band, combining the phenomenally energ...
The Beat featuring Ranking Jnr
Saturday 17 May 2025
With 1980's Top 10 hits like "Can't Get Used To Losing You", "Mirror In The Bathroom", "Tears Of A Clown", "Ranking Full Stop", "Too Nice To Talk To", "Hands Off, She's Mine", and "Twist & Crawl", the Birmingham ska legends fused Latin, s...
Mannequin Pussy
Tuesday 20 May 2025
Mannequin Pussy's music feels like a resilient and galvanizing shout that demands to be heard. The Philadelphia rock band make cathartic tunes about despairing times. Abruptly turning from searing punk to inviting alternative pop, their m...
Mclusky
Friday 23 May 2025
If you're tired of punk rock bands scraping clean the stupid barrel to land the lowest common denominator belly-laugh, Cardiff's McLusky might be just the band you're looking for. An incendiary British rock trio that invites comparisons wit...
Pixies
Saturday 24 May 2025
With elements of indie rock and surf rock, 1980's Boston alternative rockers The Pixies have been cited by avowed fan Kurt Cobain as a heavy influence on Nirvana with "Smells Like Teen Spirit" a conscious attempt to co-opt the Pixies' sty...
From The Jam
Saturday 24 May 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...
The Nightingales
Saturday 24 May 2025
Described by John Robb as "The misfits' misfits" and comprising an ever-fluctuating line up, based around lyricist/singer Robert Lloyd, Birmingham Post punk pioneers The Nightingales enjoyed cult status in the early 1980s as darlings of the...
Pyncher
Thursday 29 May 2025
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...
Mechanical Animals - Industrial Goth Freakfest
Friday 30 May 2025
Killing Time Events presents Mechanial Animals, Industrial Goth Freakfast, featuring: Spouky Kids (Marilyn Manson Tribute) + Nin UK (Nine Inch Nails Tribute) + Korn Again (Korn Tribute) + Deaftones (Deftones Tribute). ...
Iggy Pop
Saturday 31 May 2025
Iggy Pop is an avant-garde icon and a punk pioneer behind Stooges classics like 'I Wanna Be Your Dog' and 'T.V. Eye', 'The Passenger' and, of course, 'Lust for Life'. ...
Transmission - The Sound of Joy Division
Saturday 31 May 2025
Devoted to recreating the atmosphere of a live Joy Division gig, Transmission emulate the sound of one of the most inventive, evocative and influential groups of their era. Joy Division were formed in Manchester during the late 1970s and d...
Mike Peters (The Alarm)
Tuesday 3 June 2025
It's been a remarkable career. Mike Peters, frontman of The Alarm, created one of Britain's best-loved rock bands at the turn of the 1980s. He filled arenas, enjoyed hits with Sixty Eight Guns Spirit Of '76, and Absolute Reality, and opened...
Mike Peters (The Alarm)
Sunday 8 June 2025
It's been a remarkable career. Mike Peters, frontman of The Alarm, created one of Britain's best-loved rock bands at the turn of the 1980s. He filled arenas, enjoyed hits with Sixty Eight Guns Spirit Of '76, and Absolute Reality, and opened...
Outbreak Fest
Saturday 14 - Sunday 15 June 2025
Finding its roots in hardcore and punk, Manchester's three day Outbreak Fest has built a major platform to the UK's consistently thriving counterculture, while also providing a rite of passage for major touring acts across the world such as...
North West Calling
Saturday 21 June 2025
All-day punk festival, North West Calling, is back and features another riotous line-up: Cockney Rejects + Special guests TBA + UK SUBS + Anti-Nowhere League + Steve Ignorant + The Bar Stool Preachers + Random Hand + Riskee and the Ridic...
Pil (Public Image LTD)
Tuesday 1 July 2025
After fronting the Sex Pistols, John Lydon formed Public Image Ltd in 1978 and, with a shifting line-up and unique sound, PiL have gone on to become widely regarded as one of the most innovative and influential bands of all time. Their musi...
Bloc Party
Thursday 10 July 2025
Bloc Party are a British Indie rock band, composed of Kele Okereke (lead vocals, rhythm guitar), Russell Lissack (lead guitar), Gordon Moakes (bass guitar, synths, backing vocals, glockenspiel), and Matt Tong (drums, backing vocals). Their ...
Gustaf
Thursday 10 July 2025
Brooklyn's Gustaf have built a kind of buzz that feels like it comes from a different era. The art punk 5 piece rapidly established a reputation as one of New York's "hardest working... and most reliably fun bands" (BrooklynVegan), and exci...
That Night In Manchester
Friday 11 July 2025
That Night in Manchester is a brand new musical regaling the audience with a nostalgic and emotional journey through the heady days of the 80s and 90s Manchester indie scene. The audience will be taken back to the vibrant and exhilarating ...
