ALTERNATIVE & INDIE MUSIC IN MANCHESTER
Most Popular Alternative & Indie Music in Manchester
Fri 4 Oct - Fri 15 Nov 2024
Fri 6 Sep - Fri 15 Nov 2024
Sat 6 Jul - Sat 2 Nov 2024
Mitski
Thursday 2 May 2024
With electronic drum pads pulsating underneath fervent guitar lines, critically beloved Japanese-American indie folk singer-songwriter Mitski has cemented her reputation as an artist capable of using her talent to perform the alchemy that t...
Rachel Chinouriri
Thursday 2 May 2024
Alternative indie pop artist Rachel Chinouriri explores life through the prism of musical stylings honed through years of experimentation and creation. Ever-eclectic and brutally honest, the Zimbabwean-South Londoner's music traverses life'...
Dean McPhee / The Universal Veil / ADRA
Thursday 2 May 2024
Cosmic guitarist Dean McPhee, handmade ritual instruments duo The Universal Veil and hypnotic sounds from the psychiatric ward courtesy of ADRA...
White Flowers
Thursday 2 May 2024
White Flowers present an evening of new material at YES Basement on Thursday 2nd May 2024....
Kula Shaker
Friday 3 May 2024
By reviving the swirling, guitar-heavy sounds of late-'60s psychedelia and infusing it with George Harrison's Indian mysticism and spirituality, Kula Shaker became one of the most popular British bands of the immediate post-Brit-pop era. T...
Jim Bob (Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine)
Friday 3 May 2024
More topical than an episode of Newsnight, with songs about Putin, the Taliban and whoever "Billionaire in Space" is about, the album-chart smashing Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine's fiery frontman returns. It's not all doom and gloom ...
Tors
Friday 3 May 2024
Devon harmonic indie trio Tors have supported Tom Walker and Billy Locket. Brothers Matt and Theo Weedon are the grandsons of UK chart-topping guitar legend Bert "Guitar Wizard" Weedon, whom, alongside a successful solo career penned the mu...
Noasis - The Definitive Oasis Tribute Band
Friday 3 May 2024
Noasis is the definitive tribute band to Manchester's five piece Oasis. Since their formation in 2006 and with over 800 performances to date Noasis has justly earned its reputation as the best tribute on the circuit packing out venues up an...
From The Jam
Saturday 4 May 2024
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...
An Evening of Radiohead - Tribute to Radiohead
Saturday 4 May 2024
Lose yourself in this sonically spectacular celebration of Radiohead's vast and ever-expanding universe of music - including hits and hidden gems from their 30 years in the spotlight from albums such as OK Computer, In Rainbows and The Bend...
Pastel
Saturday 4 May 2024
Pastel are a 5-piece tripped out shoegaze guitar band signed to independent Manchester label; Spirit of Spike Island. ...
Manchester Music Tours - Oasis Tour
Saturday 4 May - Saturday 31 August 2024
You have the opportunity to see first-hand where Manchester's most famous brothers grew up. Acclaimed by Noel and Liam themselves, the tour includes visits to the iconic Boardwalk where the band rehearsed and performed their first gig. Cana...
This Feeling - Manchester
Saturday 4 May - Saturday 1 June 2024
"The best club in the UK for future rock & roll stars" Noel Gallagher...
Keane
Sunday 5 May 2024
East Sussex alternative rockers Keane remain one of the UK's most popular acts, 20 years after topping the charts with their 6 million-selling debut album Hopes & Fears in 2024, which spawned the Platinum-selling hits "Somewhere Only We ...
Newton Faulkner
Sunday 5 May 2024
The famous dreadlocks are probably the easiest signifier for Newton Faulkner. That might have been the point, as pretty much everything else about the Surrey-born singer songwriter is more difficult to define. Faulkner possesses a pop sensi...
Indie Disco - Clint Boon + Oasish + Steriotonics + Kazabian
Sunday 5 May 2024
After the success of 2023 by popular demand we are back with a huge night of tunes featuring 3 of the UKs biggest and best tribute acts and of course the legend himself....... CLINT BOON. A true renaissance man, Clint delivers a DJ set gua...
These Smiths - The Smiths Tribute Band
Sunday 5 May 2024
A tribute to The Smiths and Morrissey from their home city of Manchester. Formed shortly after the lead singer appeared on the UK television show Stars In Their Eyes, they are renowned a the closest sounding tribute to the real thing. ...
Knives
Sunday 5 May 2024
Crosstown Concerts presents: Knives with support from Supera Morza. Catch these incredible up and coming bands The Castle Hotel, Manchester...
Camera Obscura
Monday 6 May 2024
Glaswegian "twee pop" indie stars Camera Obscura are the group that Belle & Sebastian's Stuart Murdoch discovered and which he became obsessed with, to the point of producing their third single ("Eighties Fan"), directing the corresponding ...
Still Corners
Monday 6 May 2024
English/American dream pop duo ...
Home Counties
Tuesday 7 May 2024
Since forming in January 2020, Home Counties have distinguished themselves as a key act to watch, with radio support from Jack Saunders, Huw Stephens (BBC Radio 1), Steve Lamacq, Amy Lame, Tom Robinson (BBC 6Music) and Matt Wilkinson (Beats...
Francis of Delirium
Tuesday 7 May 2024
Francis of Delirium has announced her highly anticipated debut album Lighthouse, released on 22 March 2024 via Dalliance Recordings. Francis of Delirium is the moniker of 22-year old, Luxembourg-based Jana Bahrich. The young artist?s incred...
Vacations
Thursday 9 May 2024
Australian indie pop quartet Vacations are a well-honed, keen-edged pop outfit, stamped with their now trademark ebullient bounce, bell-like guitar jangle and punctuation courtesy of the warm blanketing vocals of founder and songwriter Camp...