ALTERNATIVE & INDIE MUSIC IN MANCHESTER
ALTERNATIVE & INDIE MUSIC IN MANCHESTER
Most Popular Alternative & Indie Music in Manchester
Fri 21 Mar - Sat 24 May 2025
Sat 22 Feb - Sat 29 Mar 2025
Fri 14 Mar - Sat 24 May 2025
Fri 28 Mar - Fri 16 May 2025
The Man From Delmonte
Wednesday 26 February 2025
After a 34 year hiatus, 1980s Manchester indie art pop favourites The Man from Delmonte return. One of best kept secrets of the "Madchester" era, they even boasted Inspiral Carpets and 808 State as support acts. Classically trained, they to...
Being Dead
Wednesday 26 February 2025
Now Wave presents Being Dead at YES Basement on 26th February 2025...
Sturgill Simpson
Thursday 27 February 2025
Grammy-award winning Kentucky Outlaw country star Sturgill Simpson delivers "sleazy, steamy rock n roll" With nods to psychedelic drug chronicler Rick Strassman and a cover of Mancunian synth-pop also-rans When in Rome's "The Promise" his ...
Scouting For Girls
Friday 28 February 2025
Friends since they were five, London indie pop three-piece Scouting For Girls have never changed to chase success. Success came to them; their 2007 self-titled debut went on to become triple platinum and birthed the generation-bridging anth...
Chalk
Friday 28 February - Wednesday 28 May 2025
Belfast electronic/noise rock trio Chalk at Band on the Wall February 2025...
Adwaith
Friday 28 February 2025
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Fat Dog
Saturday 1 March 2025
Described by the NME as "2023's wildest live band", South London indie act Fat Dog's music has been described as containing elements of dance, punk and klezmer. ...
Echoes of the Bunnymen - An Aural Tribute to Echo & The Bunnymen
Saturday 1 March 2025
Echoes of the Bunnymen are an aural tribute to the alternative Fab Four. "A bloody good tribute, go check them out" - Will Sergeant (Echo & The Bunnymen). After Will Sergeant bought tickets and surprised Echoes of the Bunnymen by showing up...
Chloe Slater
Saturday 1 March 2025
Now Wave presents Chloe Slater at YES Pink Room on 1st March 2025...
Alabaster dePlume
Monday 3 March - Saturday 3 May 2025
Mancunian jazz poet-performer Alabaster DePlume (a.k.a. Gus Fairbairn), who plays the saxophone out of the side of his mouth, is now known across the globe as the saxophonist who creates wonderful, wordless music, however back home he's mos...
Toro y Moi
Tuesday 4 March 2025
An unmistakably Toro y Moi experience, South Carolina chillwave musical mastermind Chaz Bear spans genre and sound, taking listeners on an auditory expedition, as if they're riding in the back of Bear's Filipino jeepney. Undoubtedly one of ...
The Ocelots
Wednesday 5 March 2025
Twins from Wexford, Ireland, Brandon and Ashley have crafted their songwriting and musical experience together to produce a forceful blend of rich harmonies and bare, raw acoustic folk. The Ocelots started originally through busking around ...
Delivery (AUS) Live at YES Basement
Wednesday 5 March 2025
Fresh off of signing to Heavenly Recordings for their 2nd LP, Aussie group Delivery comes back to Manchester for their 3rd outing in the city...
Peer Hat 5th March
Wednesday 5 March 2025
Bad Saint are back at The Peer Hat hosting their next showcase....
Doves
Thursday 6 - Friday 7 March 2025
Doves had something of an usual genesis in '90s Madchester. Founding members Jimi Goodwin, Jez Williams and Andy Williams were all members of Sub Sub, best remembered for their 1993 hit single Ain't No Love (Ain't No Use). After a fire at ...
White Denim
Thursday 6 March 2025
Texan Southern rockers White Denim are one of the very best rock bands to emerge this millennium with a rootsy swing and uplifting way with melody. It's always been hard to keep pace with James Petralli's group, ever since they first expl...
Chris Helme (The Seahorses)
Thursday 6 March 2025
Rising to fame in the 1990s as frontman of indie band The Seahorses York singer-songwriter Chris Helme is now producing acclaimed folk-infused tracks as a solo artist. His enviable back catalogue includes Britpop classics such as 'Love is t...
The Pale White
Thursday 6 March 2025
In a musical landscape that continues to proudly proclaim the death of modern rock music, The Pale White have consistently proved that this couldn't be further from the truth. Hailing from Newcastle in the UK, the three piece containing bro...
The Bracknall
Friday 7 March 2025
With a sound that wrestles Brit Pop nostalgia into gritty modern-day Indie Rock, the Bracknall are a grass roots guitar band from the unlikely London suburb of Collier Row: steadily emerging in the last three years as one of British Rock & ...
Happy Mondaze
Friday 7 March 2025
Authentically from Manchester, Happy Mondaze were the first musicians to bravely emulate the Madchester legends. Currently touring the UK with a set of hits and fan favourites from the likes of Pills n thrills and Bummed. ...
Fakermaker - The Definitive Tribute to Oasis
Friday 7 March 2025
Fakermaker are five West Yorkshire lads with a mutual love of all things Oasis, recreating the songs that propelled the Gallagher brothers and their band to mega stardom in the mid-90s. A proper five-piece like Oasis themselves, Fakermaker ...
The Rubens
Friday 7 March 2025
The Rubens are a five-piece alternative rock band from Menangle, New South Wales, Australia. The Rubens are the three Margin brothers, Zaac, Sam and Elliott, and long term friends Scott Baldwin and William Zeglis. With tremendous backing fr...
The Reytons
Saturday 8 March 2025
Like the Arctic Monkeys, who they are often compared, the South Yorkshire four-piece are born under a Sheffield sky with a penchant for pubs, pints and pandemonium, and are bursting with working class grit and tales from the local boozer to...
Vukovi
Saturday 8 March 2025
Scottish rock outfit Vukovi demand your attention with songs taking in themes of individuality, drug abuse, depression and suicide. ...
Nieve Ella
Saturday 8 March 2025
Albrighton indie pop singer Nieve Ella Pickering has supported Dylan, Inhaler, and the Courteeners. ...
The Smiths Ltd + Clint Boon (DJ Set)
Saturday 8 March 2025
Formed in 2009, the ONLY Smiths tribute band from and based in Manchester have a unique selling point and an authenticity that is hard to beat. Committed to getting the same energy that Morrissey, Johnny Marr, Andy Rourke and Mike Joyce h...
Fionn Regan
Saturday 8 March 2025
Irish folk musician Fionn Regan has fine-tuned a sensibility of his own since the acoustic poetry of his debut album, 2006's Mercury Prize-shortlisted The End of History. Since then, he has travelled between band-based detours and the glea...
The Smiths Ltd - The Smiths Tribute Band
Saturday 8 March 2025
The Smiths Ltd was formed in Manchester, UK the hometown of The Smiths. After an extensive search to find the perfect Morrissey, the band played their first gig in Manchester to an audience of avid Smiths fans. The response was spectacular...
SLUDGEFEST: Manchester
Saturday 8 March 2025
Gao the Arsonist brings the sludge to Manchester for the first time in 3 years....
La Femme
Sunday 9 March 2025
La Femme are a French psych-punk rock band established by guitarist Sacha Got and keyboard player Marlon Magnee in 2010 in Biarritz. The band's music has been described as synthetic and hypnotic. It mixes elements of cold wave, punk, and ye...
Pom Poko
Sunday 9 March 2025
"If you have a vacancy for Favourite New Band, Pom Poko would like to apply for the role," tweeted Tim Burgess in April, as Norway's finest punk-pop anti-conformists revisited their joyous debut album, Birthday, for one of Tim's mood-liftin...
Bdrmm
Tuesday 11 March 2025
Leeds based Hull proto-shoegaze and krautrock five-piece bdrmm, musically, give nods to The Cure's Disintegration, Deerhunter and DIIV, while the band reference RIDE and Radiohead. There are also echoes of krautrock and post-punk, from The ...
Dhruv
Tuesday 11 March 2025
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