Most Popular Gigs in Manchester
Thu 20 Mar - Sun 1 Jun 2025
Tue 28 Jan - Sat 1 Feb 2025
The Muppet Christmas Carol In Concert
Sunday 8 December 2024
Back by popular demand, Disney's much loved 1992 musical comedy The Muppet Christmas Carol returns to The Bridgewater Hall, the beloved festive movie brought to life by a talented orchestra performing its musical score live in time with the...
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...
Candlelight - Christmas Classics
Sunday 8 December 2024
Discover the music of Christmas classics, festive films, and carols in this awe-inspiring location performed by a string quartet under the gentle glow of candlelight. ...
Candlelight - Rings & Dragons
Sunday 8 December 2024
Discover the beautiful soundtracks of fantasy films performed by a string quartet under the gentle glow of candlelight at this multi-sensory musical experience in an awe-inspiring location. Expect to hear music from Rings of Power, The Lo...
Lola Young
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...
Restless Road
Sunday 8 December 2024
Nashville Country music trio Restless Road - Zach Beeken, Garrett Nichols and Colton Pack - make up three different but complementary voices, each originally auditioning solo for the third season of The American X Factor before performing a...
My Generation featuring Babalola Jnr
Sunday 8 December 2024
My Generation, Manchester's Coolest Over-50's Club Night, is back at Matt & Phred's for an evening of Soul, Northern Soul, and Motown - fronted by the fantastic Babalola Jnr! 'My Generation' is all about creating a club night experience for...
Giacomo Turra & The Funky Minutes
Sunday 8 December 2024
Giacomo Turra is an Italian musician born in 1997. Intrigued by the vinyls of his father, Giacomo started playing guitar at the age of 13, learning by...
wrest - Manchester @ Canvas
Sunday 8 December 2024
After sold-out shows across Europe, Edinburgh's wrest return to Manchester to headline Canvas this December....
Change
Sunday 8 December 2024
Returning in huge demand after a sell-out show at The Blues Kitchen last year with their full live band....
Winterfolk
Sunday 8 December 2024
Bask in the harmonic glow of Yorkshire?s much loved folk duo Belinda O?Hooley and Heidi Tidow as they celebrate Winter in all its forms. From the icy piano splendour of ?The Coventry Carol? to the heartbreaking ?The Last Polar Bear?, Belind...
Midge Ure
Monday 9 December 2024
At the start of 1981, Ultravox were laying their claim to be one of the defining acts of the 80's, following the global success of hit "Vienna". Heading back into the studio the same year invigorated, they recorded their second album wit...
In Conversation with Peter Doherty
Monday 9 December 2024
A very special evening in conversation with poet, musician, singer-songwriter, artist and label boss, Peter Doherty; the last of the great rock n roll stories. To his devoted fans, he is a cult hero, a modern-day Rimbaud. Musically, he has...
DIIV
Monday 9 December 2024
Indebted to classic kraut, dreamy Creation-records psychedelia, and the primitive-crunch of late-80s Seattle, Zachary Cole Smith's Brooklyn-based indie rockers yield a multiplicity of textures, lyrical themes, and moods. Dark and honest to ...
Yannis & The Yaw (Foals)
Monday 9 December 2024
In 2016, Foals frontman Yannis Philippakis was offered the opportunity of a lifetime: a two-day session working with the great drummer Tony Allen, who he admired intensely for his influential, multi-genre work with the likes of Fela Kuti, S...
Obituary
Monday 9 December 2024
The Florida death metal legends show no signs of slowing down as they continue to reign as kings of their genre. Their classic no-holds barred death metal assault has influenced countless bands since their debut release in 1989. ...
Hope Mill Community Choir & Orchestra
Monday 9 December 2024
Join Hope Mill Community Choir and Orchestra for their seasonal sharing. Each term the Community groups work on new performance pieces as well as building on the old favourites in their repertoire. ...
Ben Ottewell (Gomez)
Monday 9 December 2024
As a singer and lead guitarist in rock band Gomez, Ben Ottewell is well known for his unmistakable voice and talent for blistering and inspired guitar solos. Rolling Stone declared, "Gomez's not-so-secret weapon is Ben Ottewell." And as GQ ...
Mattiel
Monday 9 December 2024
Now Wave presents Mattiel at YES Pink Room on 9th December 2024...
The Bootleg Beatles
Tuesday 10 December 2024
The world's Premier Beatles band continues to draw critical acclaim with their flawless recreation of the greatest songbook in history. Tracing the Fab Four's journey through the swinging 60s, every tiny detail is forensically observed fro...
Fat Freddy's Drop
Tuesday 10 December 2024
Fat Freddy's Drop is a New Zealand seven-piece band from Wellington, whose musical style has been characterised as any combination of dub, reggae, soul, jazz, rhythm and blues, and techno. Originally a jam band formed in the late 1990s by m...
Dayseeker
Tuesday 10 December 2024
Dayseeker embody what a rock band can be in the 21st century. Untethered from rules and agnostic of genre confines, the Southern California quartet exist without boundaries. As such, they seamlessly absorb culture at lightspeed, layering hy...
Lightning Seeds
Tuesday 10 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 "...
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...
Kishi Bashi
Tuesday 10 December 2024
In a sonic departure from the symphonic folk of his critically lauded 2019 LP Omoiyari -a career-defining body of work born from his intensive meditation on the mass incarceration of Japanese-Americans during World War II - the Seattle-born...
The Home Team
Tuesday 10 December 2024
The Home Team UK Tour + Support...
Open Mic @ Old Abbey Taphouse
Tuesday 10 December 2024 - Tuesday 11 February 2025
Third Summer Music host our Open Mic night at Old Abbey Taphouse, all genres and abilities welcome...
Courteeners
Wednesday 11 December 2024
Led by talismanic singer/songwriter Liam Fray, the Mancunian stadium rockers and former Manchester United ball-boys have evolved from raw anthemic indie rockers to groove-laden indie kings. Each of their seven albums has gone Top 10, with t...
Culture Club + Tony Hadley (Spandau Ballet) + Heaven 17
Wednesday 11 December 2024
Music icons Boy George and Culture Club are thrilled to bring their tour to celebrate their first two monumental albums, 'Kissing to Be Clever' and 'Colour by Numbers'. The prolific band will perform these landmark albums in their entirety....
The Definitive Rat Pack - The Rat Pack at Christmas
Wednesday 11 December 2024
Featuring Dean Martin's sensational Golddiggers and the internationally-renowned Manhattan Swing Orchestra, with Stephen Triffitt as Frank Sinatra, Mark Adams as Dean Martin, and George Daniel Long as Sammy Davis Jr, The Definitive R...
Del Amitri
Wednesday 11 December 2024
Formed in 1982, Glaswegian semi-acoustic jangly rockers Del Amitri boast a back catalogue of pure pop gems that cover a gamut of rock styles and observations on life's ironies. With six million record sales worldwide, the Dels are best...
Reflection of Silence
Wednesday 11 December 2024
Reflection of Silence is a collaboration between musicians from different backgrounds, from rock to Iranian folk music. Tara Jaff, Mehdi Rostami, Faarjam Saidi, Adib Rostami and Burak Ersoz share a passion in the art of creative improvisati...