ALTERNATIVE & INDIE MUSIC GIGS IN MANCHESTER
ALTERNATIVE & INDIE MUSIC GIGS IN MANCHESTER
Most Popular Alternative & Indie Music Gigs in Manchester
Indiepalooza Tribute Festival
King George's Hall
Sat 13 Feb - Sat 29 May 2027
Ultimate Coldplay - Tribute to Coldplay
Manchester Academy
Fri 13 Nov 2026 - Fri 16 Jul 2027
Definitely Oasis - Manchester
FAC251, Manchester
Saturday 13 March 2027
Definitely Oasis the UK'S Closest sounding and looking Oasis tribute return to Manchester to perform Oasis classics & B sides.14+ (U18s with adult)...Thomas Dollbaum
The Abbey, Manchester
Saturday 13 March 2027
Now Wave presents Thomas Dollbaum at The Abbey on 13th March 2027...Twenty One Pilots - East Is Up (Manchester Tribute Gig)
Eagle Inn Manchester, Manchester
Saturday 13 March 2027
We are the official Scottish Twenty One Pilots tribute act 'Twenty More Pilots' and we are coming near you for our East Is Up tour in Manchester |-/...Movements
O2 Ritz, Manchester
Sunday 14 March 2027
Movements have constantly reinvented themselves since forming in 2015 and the California post-hardcore quartet take their sound to expansive and sometimes unexpected places. Fusing post-hardcore and punk influences with a healthy dose of p...SOFY
Manchester Academy, Manchester
Tuesday 16 March 2027
Leicester indie pop artist who first found fame when featured on the FIFA 23 soundtrack ...Turnover
New Century, Manchester
Wednesday 17 March 2027
West Virginian indie rockers Turnover demonstrate an eclectic mix of personalities from emo and pop punk to a lo-fi, jazzy sound, with driving drums and delay-drenched guitar. ...Martin Stephenson and The Daintees
The Blues Kitchen, Manchester
Wednesday 17 March 2027
County Durham singer-songwriter Martin Stephenson's early love of literature and music led to the formation of the first Daintees line-up in his early teens. Never pandering to a particular scene, Stephenson's lightness of touch on a varie...anaiis
The Deaf Institute, Manchester
Wednesday 17 March 2027
?Her powerful voice soothes with words of affirmation over a soft, skipping neo-soul bassline? - CRACK MAGAZINE?A live-sounding organism that sits on the edge of modern soul? - CLASH MAGAZINEBorn in Toulouse, France, anaiis moved around of...
Shygirl
Manchester Academy, Manchester
Friday 19 March 2027
Experimental South London pop artist Shygirl reveals her inner self-reflection in experimental vocal tones and deconstructed dance melodies, exhibiting a new level of intimacy and emotional depth in her songwriting. Simultaneously assertin...
cleopatrick
O2 Ritz, Manchester
Saturday 20 March 2027
Listening to the story of Canadian duo cleopatrick is a bit like hearing the plot of the best, most righteously validating coming-of-age film never made. Two friends meet aged four in Hicksville, Nowheretown (real name: Cobourg, Ontario, p...CHAOSBAY
The Deaf Institute, Manchester
Saturday 20 March 2027
Modern Misery and Outlier Noise in association?with Echelon Artists PresentsChaosbayThe Berlin-based progressive metal quartet CHAOSBAY are back. With new music in tow,they will be hitting venues across mainland Europe and the UK in 2027 w...John Bramwell (I Am Kloot)
Knutsford Little Theatre, Warrington
Sunday 21 March 2027
The songwriter and frontman of Manchester three-piece, I Am Kloot also possesses an enviable back catalogue as a solo artist - previously known around his hometown as Johnny Dangerously - and continues to work on new material under the gui...Westside Cowboy
O2 Victoria Warehouse, Manchester
Wednesday 24 March 2027
With echoes of fellow Manchester bands, The Travelling Band and Alfie, "Britainicana" indie band Westside Cowboy formed after meeting at The University of Manchester. With millions of streams on Spotify, they have supported Geese on the Eu...Hope Of The States
Yes, Manchester
Wednesday 24 March 2027
Named after Albert Deutsch's 1948 book on the state of mental healthcare in the United States, Chichester indie rockers Hope of the States have developed their post-Radiohead sound, scoring UK Top 40 hits with "The Red the White the Blac...James Marriott
O2 Apollo, Manchester
Thursday 25 - Friday 26 March 2027
With influences such as Foals, The Strokes, Two Door Cinema Club, and Sam Fender, Swiss-born, Buckinghamshire-raised multi-disciplinary indie rocker James Marriott originally gained popularity on YouTube, with over 2 million subscribers...Ian McNabb (The Icicle Works)
The Citadel Theatre, St Helens
Friday 26 March 2027
Part of the Liverpool renaissance movement of the eighties, alongside acts such as Echo And The Bunnymen, The Teardrop Explodes, WAH!, Heat, OMD, Black, Dead Or Alive, Frankie Goes To Hollywood, The Lotus Eaters, and China Crisis, in 1981 ...Palaye Royale
O2 Apollo, Manchester
Tuesday 30 March 2027
Adrenaline-fueled Canadian-American Rock n' roll siblings Palaye Royale are leading a generation in togetherness through honesty, danger and infectious art-punk that is, in turn, dark, lush, angry, vulnerable, caustic and warm. Palaye Roya...RY X
Albert Hall, Manchester
Friday 2 April 2027
Australian transcendental folk artist RY X, born Ry Cuming, showcases a boundless ability to create thought-provoking atmospheric pop music, engulfed with his distinctively ethereal vocal lines, cloudy orchestral arrangements and accomany...The Lilacs
O2 Victoria Warehouse, Manchester
Saturday 3 April 2027
Wigan band The Lilacs have hit the scene with a bang already performing on stages at Manchester Academy, o2 Ritz and London's O2 Academy Islington ...
The Smiths Utd - A Tribute to The Smiths
FAC251, Manchester
Saturday 3 April 2027
Lincoln-based tribute band The Smiths Utd play all the hits from The Smiths and Morrissey solo. ...
Dallahan
Band On The Wall, Manchester
Sunday 4 April 2027
Forged in Scotland and Ireland's traditional music scene, but drawing on the music of the Balkans and North America, Dallahan take their listeners on a journey. Traversing styles and countries of the world in a dazzling live show, they cre...
Ministry
O2 Victoria Warehouse, Manchester
Tuesday 6 April 2027
Chicago pioneers of industrial music Ministry were established in 1981 by Al Jourgensen. Despite frequent descriptions of the band's music as industrial, Jourgensen prefers to call his style as "aggro" or "industrious". ...Emma Ruth Rundle
Gorilla, Manchester
Tuesday 6 April 2027
Emma Ruth Rundle's forthcoming Engine of Hell is stark, intimate, and unflinching. For anyone that's endured trauma and grief, there's a beautiful solace in hearing Rundle articulate and humanise that particular type of pain not only wit...Buffalo Traffic Jam
Manchester Academy, Manchester
Thursday 8 April 2027
Having first connected at Montana State, folk duo Frankie Cassidy and Nathan Ross are anchored by vocals which deliver a kind of raw emotion that resonates deeply with audiences everywhere. Their 14-track debut album, 'Pictures of You', is...Buffalo Traffic Jam
O2 Victoria Warehouse, Manchester
Thursday 8 April 2027
Having first connected at Montana State, folk duo Frankie Cassidy and Nathan Ross are anchored by vocals which deliver a kind of raw emotion that resonates deeply with audiences everywhere. Their 14-track debut album, 'Pictures of You', is...The Sidiki Dembélé Ensemble ft. Yahael Onono
The Wombats
O2 Victoria Warehouse, Manchester
Saturday 10 - Sunday 11 April 2027
Helped by the viral success of Oliver Nelson's remix of their 2015 hit 'Greek Tragedy' on TikTok, The Liverpool-formed indie rockers marked lockdown by topping the UK charts with their fifth studio album 'Fix Yourself, Not The World' - som...Brass Against
Manchester Academy, Manchester
Saturday 10 April 2027
Brass Against is collective of artists, led and curated by Brad Hammonds, who share in the goal of creating brass protest music that calls fans to action. Brass Against was formed in 2017 due to the political climate and feeling there was ...Spiritualized
The Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
Sunday 11 April 2027
Warwickshire space rock band Spiritualized - formed in 1990 by Spacemen 3's Jason Pierce (a.k.a. J. Spaceman) - return with their beautiful waves of blissful noise, spectral waltzes, gorgeous lullabies, mesmerizing cinematic songs, and ...
The Ninth Wave
The Abbey, Manchester
Thursday 15 April 2027
Gloom pop from Glasgow. "Dreamy-yet-industrial... steering boldly back into their glassy, opulent dancefloor fillers" - DIY Magazine. "The most undeniably alive thing we've heard" - The Guardian. "Sharp percussion, melancholic keys, hau...The Slow Readers Club
The Grand, Clitheroe
Friday 16 April 2027
Manchester's The Slow Readers Club deliver an energetic blend of driving drums and infectious guitar lines with evocative verses and anthemic choruses, imbued with their idiosyncratic brand of insightful and confronting lyricism, all set ...The Gerry Cinna-Man Experience - Tribute to Gerry Cinnamon
Warrington Irish Club, Warrington
Friday 16 April 2027
Gary Digan Aka is the UKs Premier & Definitve Tribute to Gerry Cinnamon. With his Strong Scottish Accent, his infamous live shows are a mixture of up-beat acoustic guitars, soulful harmonica and heartfelt vocals. The anthemic sing along tr...Archie
The Deaf Institute, Manchester
Friday 16 April 2027
Archie is the 22-year-old multi-instrumentalist and producer tearing up the rulebook of modern pop. After weaponising social media to build a fiercely loyal community of over half a million followers, he translated the internet hype into a...Kavus Torabi Live + Justin Robertson's Five Green Moons
