ALTERNATIVE & INDIE MUSIC GIGS IN MANCHESTER
ALTERNATIVE & INDIE MUSIC GIGS IN MANCHESTER
Most Popular Alternative & Indie Music Gigs in Manchester
Ultimate Coldplay - Tribute to Coldplay
Manchester Academy
Fri 26 Sep 2025 - Fri 27 Feb 2026
Just Radiohead - A Tribute to Radiohead
Manchester Academy
Wed 1 Oct 2025 - Fri 30 Oct 2026
A Tribute To Manchester
Manchester Academy, Manchester
Friday 5 December 2025
A Tribute to Manchester: 10th Anniversary Special featuring The Clone Roses, Oasish, The Smiths Ltd, Mani (Stone Roses) DJ Set, DJ Dave Sweetmore. ...Inspiral Carpets
Pyramid and Parr Hall, Warrington
Friday 5 December 2025
Regarded as one of the main components of the Madchester movement in the early 90s, indie chart-topping Oldham legends Inspiral Carpets return after taking a hiatus following the tragic loss of drummer, Craig Gill. Although 90s frontman ...China Crisis
Gorilla, Manchester
Friday 5 December 2025
Eddie Lundon and Gary Daly are the founder members of the synth pop 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 an...Ohasis - Tribute to Oasis
Warrington Irish Club, Warrington
Friday 5 December 2025
Ohsais play the songs in the most current live arrangements, with amazing accuracy. Nailing the Oasis look was very important, as image is everything; and was everything to Oasis. The band take the stage show very seriously, meticulously re...Rianne Downey
Band On The Wall, Manchester
Friday 5 December 2025
Country-indie lullabies with bite, sent to listeners from the equally beautiful and brutally honest heart of Scotland. Music to help us all get by when life isn't easy. Growing up on the outskirts of Glasgow, the music-obsessed youngster i...NIGHT TAPES
Yes, Manchester
Friday 5 December 2025
Now Wave presents Night Tapes at YES Pink Room on Friday 5th December 2025...Novelty Island plus Special Guests
The Castle Hotel, Manchester
Friday 5 December 2025
Novelty Island return to The Castle as part of their Autumn tour following the release of the bands highly anticipated third album, 'Jigsaw Causeway'....Don Broco
Aviva Studios, Manchester
Saturday 6 - Sunday 7 December 2025
Filtering their charismatic '80s pop-inflected rock seamlessly, almost restlessly, through metal, funk and electronics, the UK chart-topping Bedford four piece have become one of rock's most diverse and charismatic bands, playing huge shows...Year's End Festival - The Twang & more
O2 Ritz, Manchester
Saturday 6 December 2025
Year's End Festival is back Saturday 6th of December 2025! Thousands of fans, Lots of great live music across multiple venues around Manchester city centre! ...Thea Gilmore
Hallé St Peter's, Manchester
Saturday 6 December 2025
Nantwich-based, Oxford-born indie folk star Thea Gilmore is a formidable performer on stage and among the finest singer songwriters of her generation - a frank and fearless pursuer of home truths who has constantly adapted to remain relevan...Arctic Numpties - Tribute to Arctic Monkeys
Manchester Academy, Manchester
Saturday 6 December 2025
Barnsley and Sheffield's premium tribute to Arctic Monkeys, playing hits from all their albums. ...Ogrepalooza with The Ogretones: The UK's 1 Shrek Tribute Band
FAC251, Manchester
Saturday 6 December 2025
Leave your pitchforks at the door and get in our swamp... Ogrepalooza, is heading to Factory 251 on Saturday 6th December...King Princess
New Century Hall, Manchester
Sunday 7 December 2025
Genderqueer Brooklyn pop singer-songwriter King Princess, aka Mikaela Straus has seen the likes of Mark Ronson, Foushee, and the late Taylor Hawkins appear on her records and has opened tours for Harry Styles, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Cas...
Max Fry
Yes, Manchester
Tuesday 9 December 2025
Now Wave presents Max Fry at YES Basement on 9th December 2025...The Band CAMINO
New Century Hall, Manchester
Wednesday 10 December 2025
Blending indie rock and electropop, the Memphis-formed, Nashville-based trio, self-described as "your mom's favorite band", come to Europe. ...Divorce
Manchester Academy, Manchester
Wednesday 10 December 2025
For Nottingham quartet Divorce, home is a feeling. Initially meeting as teenagers through the city's close-knit DIY scene, the band came together as Divorce in mid-2021, releasing a slew of genre-defiant singles that quickly caught the atte...The Charlatans
Manchester Academy, Manchester
Thursday 11 December 2025
The West Midlands-formed, Northwich-relocated Madchester legends have notched up seventeen Top 40 studio albums - three of them number ones - alongside 22 Top 40 singles, including nineties Top 10 hits "One to Another", "The Only One I Know...Stereolab
O2 Ritz, Manchester
Thursday 11 December 2025
South London's Anglo-French premiere exponents of experimental lounge electronica air a breezy melodious approach with Laetitia Sadier's lilting Gallic vocals meandering merrily throughout with an irresistibly melodious bass-driven joy and ...My Life Story
Gullivers, Manchester
Thursday 11 December 2025
My Life Story are heading to Manchester, performing Joined Up Talking in full plus a set of tracks from their sparkling back catalogue...Stereophonics
Co-op Live, Manchester
Friday 12 December 2025
As Stereophonics celebrate over 25 years as one of the UK's most loved bands, Kelly Jones continues to cement his place amongst the great British songwriters. The Welsh rockers have developed an enduring success and deep-seated bond with th...Ultimate Coldplay - Tribute to Coldplay
Manchester Academy, Manchester
Friday 12 December 2025
A live tribute to Coldplay and performing all the Coldplay hits and more in a brilliant sound and look-a-like show. The vocals, mannerisms and atmosphere these guys deliver are second to none. Giving the audience that same high energy perfo...Martin McAloon (Prefab Sprout)
The Yard, Manchester
Friday 12 December 2025
Martin McAloon will be performing a large selection of hit songs from Prefab Sprout's extensive archive celebrating over 40 years of his brother, Paddy McAloon's writing. This will be a rare opportunity to hear these incredible songs perfor...Georgian
Yes, Manchester
Friday 12 December 2025
Now Wave presents Georgian at YES Basement on 12th December 2025...The Slow Readers Club
Manchester Academy, Manchester
Saturday 13 December 2025
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 a...Inspiral Carpets
Albert Hall, Manchester
Saturday 13 December 2025
Regarded as one of the main components of the Madchester movement in the early 90s, indie chart-topping Oldham legends Inspiral Carpets return after taking a hiatus following the tragic loss of drummer, Craig Gill. Although 90s frontman ...
808 State
New Century Hall, Manchester
Saturday 13 December 2025
Graham Massey's Manchester dance legends and Acid House pioneers have been described as "masters of their art" (Q), "pioneers" (Future Music), "for sonic trailblazing and inestimable influence, among our most important groups" (Record Colle...Alright - Manchester
The Deaf Institute, Manchester
Saturday 13 December 2025
'If you're going to see the emergence of a new great band you'll see them at This Feeling first.' Carl Barat...The Fairway Live
Eagle Inn, Salford
Saturday 13 December 2025
Indie boys The Fairway are back playing a hometown headline show at Eagle Inn in Salford...Neck Deep
Manchester Academy, Manchester
Wednesday 17 December 2025
The "biggest band you've never heard of" has stepped onto the world stage, but it won't be long before that adage is a distant memory. The Wrexham underground heroes turned breakout stars with three UK Top 10 albums continue carving out the...Spector
Manchester Academy, Manchester
Wednesday 17 December 2025
London quartet whose debut album Enjoy It While It Lasts mixed mingling 80s new wave with 90s indie rock, reaching number 12 in the UK Albums Chart and topping the Official Record Store Chart on the week of its release. ...The Wonder Stuff
O2 Ritz, Manchester
Wednesday 17 December 2025
Stourbridge indie rockers The Wonder Stuff boast an extensive catalogue which includes UK Top 20 hits "The Size of a Cow", "Unbearable", "Caught in My Shadow", "Don't Let Me Down, Gently", "Circlesquare" and the chart-topping cover "D...The Clause
Manchester Academy, Manchester
Thursday 18 December 2025
The Clause are an indie four-piece from Birmingham who bring together the swagger of the 60s, the rolling groove of the 80s and the riotous verve and attitude of the 90s. Pearce Macca (front man), Niall Fennell (drummer) Jonny Fyffe (bass...Arkayla
Manchester Academy, Manchester
Friday 19 December 2025
Bursting onto the scene with a string of captivating singles, Arkayla are tipped to be the next band added to a long list of brilliant musical exports hailing from Manchester. Drawing on the grit of The Strokes, the lyricism of The Smiths, ...Black Grape
Manchester Academy, Manchester
Saturday 20 December 2025
Featuring Happy Mondays legend Shaun William Ryder and Ruthless Rap Assassins frontman Paul "Kermit" Leveridge, Black Grape could only have been made in Manchester. The swagger, fun and cryptic humour seem hewn from a city historian AJP Tay...
The Man From Delmonte
O2 Ritz, Manchester
Sunday 21 December 2025
After a 34 year hiatus, 1980s Manchester indie art pop favourites The Man from Delmonte return. Between 1988 and 1991 they shone brightly creating some of the most memorable pop songs of the "Madchester" era. Water in My Eyes, My Love is Li...The Gerry Cinna-Man Experience - Tribute to Gerry Cinnamon
Fatbird, Wigan
Sunday 28 December 2025
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 tra...
GRENDEL 25th Anniversary 2026 UK Tour
Rebellion, Manchester
Friday 16 January 2026
After a 6 year hiatus from touring in the UK, Grendel are back...Biffy Clyro
Co-op Live, Manchester
Saturday 17 January 2026
Festival-headlining Ayrshire favourites Biffy Clyro, with four UK #1 albums, make their highly anticipated return. One of Britain's most beloved bands, they are best known for the Platinum-selling hits "Mountains", "Many of Horror", and ...Superheaven
O2 Ritz, Manchester
Saturday 17 January 2026
Grunge-y alt rock Pennsylvania heavyweights Superheaven return in 2025 with their first new album in nearly a decade. In 2015 Superheaven (guitarists/co-vocalists Jake Clarke and Taylor Madison, bassist Joe Kane, and drummer Zack Robbins) r...All Time Low
Co-op Live, Manchester
Friday 23 January 2026
Formed in the suburbs of Baltimore, Maryland in 2003, All Time Low made the transition from high school cover band to international music stars with their happy hybrid between energy and melody which saw them rise to the forefront of the...Ultimate Coldplay - Tribute to Coldplay
The Grand, Clitheroe
Saturday 24 January 2026
A live tribute to Coldplay and performing all the Coldplay hits and more in a brilliant sound and look-a-like show. The vocals, mannerisms and atmosphere these guys deliver are second to none. Giving the audience that same high energy perfo...Mon Rovia
