ELECTRONIC MUSIC IN MANCHESTER
Most Popular Electronic Music in Manchester
Fri 24 May 2024 - Fri 6 Jun 2025
The Stickmen Project
Saturday 27 April 2024
Behind the masks of drumming duo The Stickmen Project you will find Greg Zwarich and Paul Mintsoulis. Performing in black outfits with LED lights depicting the stickman character, their DJ sets are enhanced with electronic drum solos and pe...
Halina Rice
Saturday 27 April 2024
Uniting elements of ambient, electronic, percussive and bass music, Halina Rice is a London-based electronic musician and AV artist renowned for her vivid and eclectic style, using multiple effects and sampling to create original and expe...
Okvsho +Experience
Sunday 28 April 2024
Okvsho is one of the most interesting and promising projects in the European modern jazz scene. The two brothers (Christoph & Georg Kiss) from Zurich, Switzerland who form Okvsho let their original musical background in beat-making and elec...
Clubland
Friday 3 May 2024
The return of the legendary dance brand Clubland... back in UK arenas with a stella line-up. Re-live the classic tunes, the party atmosphere and the Clubland experience with Clubland Live returning to UK arenas, featuring some of Clubland's...
China Crisis
Friday 3 May 2024
Eddie Lundon and Gary Daly are the founder members of the band which started in Kirkby, Merseyside back in 1979. China Crisis found major success in the UK with five Top 40 singles, ten Top 50 singles and three Top 40 albums and hits across...
Orbital
Saturday 4 May 2024
Orbital, the Kent duo of brothers Phil and Paul Hartnoll, have crafted a vast catalogue of ambitious yet accessible electronic music, informed by a wide range of genres such as ambient, electro, punk, and film scores. They became one of the...
Mount Kimbie
Saturday 4 May 2024
London-based electronic music duo Dominic Maker from Brighton and Cornwall's Kai Campos demonstrate the two sides of Mount Kimbie's aesthetic coin - Dom's colourful and melody-led tunes and Kai's tactile and unpredictable aesthetics. The t...
PVRIS
Sunday 12 May 2024
Boston-based PVRIS (pronounced Paris) frontwoman, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, and producer Lynn Gunn owns her role as the group's leader and sole architect with pop conjurations of glitchy beat-craft, airy guitars, and spell-binding...
Thompson Twins' Tom Bailey
Monday 13 May 2024
Thompson Twins' Tom Bailey celebrates the 40th Anniversary of the release of The double Platinum, UK chart-topping, 1984 album "Into The Gap", which spawned the hits "Hold Me Now", "You Take Me Up", and "Doctor! Doctor!" ...
The Liquid Engineers - Gary Numan Tribute
Saturday 18 May 2024
Gary Numan has been cited as a major influence on acts such as Nine Inch Nails to Prince,his music has been covered by acts from Beck,Blur, Basement Jaxx, Africa Bambatta Marilyn Manson, Little Boots and many more. Standing within th...
Gary Numan
Friday 24 May 2024 - Friday 6 June 2025
London-born Gary Anthony James Webb helped turn the UK's budding new wave scene on its head in the late '70s. He launched his music career by starting the band Tubeway Army, who released their eponymous debut in 1978. At the time, he adopte...
Tourist
Friday 24 - Saturday 25 May 2024
UK Grammy Award-Winning electronic artist, Tourist (aka William Phillips). ...
Tourist
Friday 24 May 2024
UK Grammy Award-Winning electronic artist, Tourist (aka William Phillips). ...
Ex-Easter Island Head
Friday 24 May 2024
Described by The Guardian as "free flowing genius", Liverpool quartet Ex-Easter Island Head compose and perform music for solid-body electric guitar, percussion and other instruments using mechanical preparations and extended techniques ...
DNB Allstars
Saturday 25 May 2024
Drum n Bass night. Line-up to be revealed. ...
DNB Allstars
Saturday 25 May 2024
Drum n Bass night. Line-up to be revealed. ...
Blancmange
Saturday 25 May 2024
The London electronic duo Neil Arthur (vocals, guitar) and Stephen Luscombe (keyboards) interlaced the arty, exotic dance rhythms of Talking Heads with the quirky melodrama of early-'80s British synth pop, enjoying success with four UK t...
DnB Allstars
Sunday 26 May 2024
Drum n Bass night. Line-up to be revealed. ...
Barry Adamson
Wednesday 29 May 2024
Musician, composer, writer, photographer, director. The list of creative jobs that Mancunian Barry Adamson has occupied in his career is long. Whether as a member of Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds, Magazine, Buzzcocks, and Visage, as a guest m...
Claire Rousay
Thursday 30 May 2024
A singular artist, known for challenging conventions in non-melodic and ambient music forms, San Antonio experimental musician Claire Rousay masterfully incorporates textural found sounds, sumptuous drones and candid field recordings into m...
Parklife Festival
Saturday 8 - Monday 10 June 2024
Parklife 2024 sees the Manchester festival return to the city's Heaton Park in summer 2024 for a weekend alongside some of dance and alternative music's foremost names. Line-up for 2024: Highlights include: Saturday 8th June: Disclosure + ...
True Order - A Tribute to New Order
Saturday 8 June 2024
TRUE ORDER are Europe's only tribute to the iconic Manchester band New Order and are considered by many to be the next best thing to watching the real thing. Playing the songs from the early years after the demise of Joy Division, including...
Pet Shop Boys
Sunday 9 June 2024
The Pet Shop Boys are an English electronic/pop music duo, consisting of Neil Tennant (vocals, keyboards and guitar) and Chris Lowe (keyboards and occasionally vocals). The longevity of Pet Shop Boys' career is generally attributed to their...
Marconi Union
Saturday 22 June 2024
Marconi Union (LIVE AV) return to The Yard to perform tracks from recent new album Signals as well as selections from their highly acclaimed discography. Despite having released twelve albums in the last eighteen years the Manchester musici...
CSS
Sunday 23 June 2024
Brazilian electro rockers CSS (Cansei de Ser Sexy) reunited in 2019 following a six year hiatus after founding member Adriano Cintra left the band. Known for the frenetic energy of their live shows, their music is tough and street ready, a...
Crosses
Wednesday 26 June 2024
††† is the electronic gothic dark wave side project of Deftones singer Chino Moreno and Far guitarist Shaun Lopez. The duo skillfully craft immersive soundscapes that evoke a profound sense of emotion and empathy, a testament to their...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
