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
Definitely Oasis - Tribute to Oasis
The Bread Shed
Fri 2 - Sat 24 May 2025
Just Radiohead - A Tribute to Radiohead
Manchester Academy
Wed 1 - Fri 31 Oct 2025
Djo (Joe Keery)
O2 Victoria Warehouse, Manchester
Tuesday 3 June 2025
Djo - the neo-psychedelia musical project of actor Joe Keery, known for his work in blockbuster projects as Stranger Things and Fargo - is back on tour. With lush guitars and instrumentation reminiscent of late 60's and 70's pop, Keery's ...Djo (Joe Keery)
Manchester Academy, Manchester
Tuesday 3 June 2025
Djo - the neo-psychedelia musical project of actor Joe Keery, known for his work in blockbuster projects as Stranger Things and Fargo - is back on tour. With lush guitars and instrumentation reminiscent of late 60's and 70's pop, Keery's ...MJ Lenderman & The Wind
O2 Ritz, Manchester
Tuesday 3 June 2025
MJ Lenderman is an alt-Country songwriter born and raised in Asheville, North Carolina. The anatomy of an MJ record might go something like this: warped pedal steels and skuzzed out guitar; crackin' a cold one with some buds; a voice remini...MJ Lenderman & The Wind
Gorilla, Manchester
Tuesday 3 June 2025
MJ Lenderman is an alt-Country songwriter born and raised in Asheville, North Carolina. The anatomy of an MJ record might go something like this: warped pedal steels and skuzzed out guitar; crackin' a cold one with some buds; a voice remini...Andrew Cushin
Manchester Academy, Manchester
Tuesday 3 June 2025
Newcastle's Andrew Cushin possesses a nuanced, multifaceted talent for songwriting which has seen him signed by Libertines legend Pete Doherty's record label. The words that he conjures are both immensely personal and reflective of modern s...Mike Peters (The Alarm)
Waterside, Manchester
Tuesday 3 June 2025
It's been a remarkable career. Mike Peters, frontman of The Alarm, created one of Britain's best-loved rock bands at the turn of the 1980s. He filled arenas, enjoyed hits with Sixty Eight Guns Spirit Of '76, and Absolute Reality, and opened...
Jacob Alon
Band On The Wall, Manchester
Wednesday 4 June 2025
As seen on Later... with Jools Holland, Jacob Alon is a Dunfermline indie folk singer-songwriter with a profound gift for storytelling. Both intimate and devastatingly introspective, their music is touched by a rare timelessness. Drawing ...Massive Attack
Co-op Live, Manchester
Thursday 5 June 2025
UK chart topping Bristol Trip Hop legends Massive Attack (Del Naja and Marshall) are one of the most exhilarating live acts operating today. With their iconic sound, they are best known for their Platinum-selling 90s hits "Teardrop" and "U...Jerry Harrison (Talking Heads) & Adrian Belew (King Crimson)
O2 Ritz, Manchester
Thursday 5 June 2025
Jerry Harrison is the keyboardist and guitar player for legendary band Talking Heads. He is a member of the Rock N Roll Hall of Fame, and the recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Grammy in 2021. He has multiple critically acclaimed solo albu...THE CORONAS
The Deaf Institute, Manchester
Thursday 5 June - Saturday 5 July 2025
The award-winning, arena-conquering Dublin indie rock band fuse their arms-aloft melodic pop with lush electronics, spine-tingling atmospherics and a sense of adventure. Dreamy vocoder vocals, electronic drums and space as much as sound mak...The Twang
Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester
Friday 6 June 2025
Band on the Wall presents the Exchange Series - renowned artists in the round at the Royal Exchange Theatre. The Twang is a Birmingham-based indie rock band formed in 2004. Known for their energetic live performances and catchy Britpop-infu...OASIS96 - Oasis Tribute
Scam Fender + Kopycat Killers + Subarctic Monkeys + Oasis 96
New Century Hall, Manchester
Friday 6 June 2025
With 3 hours of bangers, a quadruple tribute night to Sam Fender, The Killers, Arctic Monkeys and Oasis. Kopycat Killers are next level with vocalist Stu featuring on Killers Covers with over 10 MILLION streams. They given the Killers 'bles...Scam Fender - Sam Fender Tribute Band
New Century Hall, Manchester
Friday 6 June 2025
A band of lads from Newcastle that play Sam Fender songs. ...Snake Eyes
Lion's Den, Manchester
Friday 6 June 2025
The Brighton "grit pop" trio combine "wonderfully anthemic grunge energy with sticky melodies to create a cracking piece of modern british rock" - Rock Sound, "blurring the edges between noise rock and more straight-forwardly melodic indie...Oceanless @ YES Basement
Its not a phase
Hooley's, Wigan
Friday 6 June 2025
Its not a phase events presents a battle between the genres including emo, punk and metal with various different live bands and entertainments...Morrissey
Co-op Live, Manchester
Saturday 7 June 2025
The outspoken former lead singer of Manchester legends The Smiths - arguably the most important indie band in Britain during the '80s - Stephen Patrick Morrissey has enjoyed a successful solo career, since 1988, with his theatrical crooning...Hothouse Flowers
O2 Ritz, Manchester
Saturday 7 June 2025
Irish folk rock band Hothouse Flowers feel like they are turning new corners and writing new chapters every day. No two shows are ever the same having dispensed with any premeditated programme over two decades ago and set about putting the...Manchester Music Tours - The Smiths Tour
Vinyl Revival, Manchester
Saturday 7 June - Saturday 27 September 2025
The Smiths fans from across the globe will have the opportunity to experience once again how this iconic band made their mark in Manchester and the world. Iconic places that will be visited on the tour include; Strangeways prison, which bec...Coldplace - Tribute to Coldplay
Stockport Plaza, Stockport
Sunday 8 June 2025
The World's Leading Tribute to Coldplay is a stunning live concert performance, celebrating the music of one of the most successful bands of all time. The only tribute to have worked for Coldplay, this outstanding band leads you through all...Mike Peters (The Alarm)
St Helens Theatre Royal, St Helens
Sunday 8 June 2025
It's been a remarkable career. Mike Peters, frontman of The Alarm, created one of Britain's best-loved rock bands at the turn of the 1980s. He filled arenas, enjoyed hits with Sixty Eight Guns Spirit Of '76, and Absolute Reality, and opened...The Skapones
James Walsh (Starsailor) at The Green Room Altrincham
The Green Room, Altrincham
Sunday 8 June 2025
James Walsh, the iconic frontman of Starsailor, will take to the stage at The Green Room for a very special show....Waxahatchee
Albert Hall, Manchester
Monday 9 June 2025
A solo tour from American indie folk singer-songwriter Katie Crutchfield. While her previous records featured a backing band with the kind of big guitars, well-honed noise, and battering sounds that characterised her Philadelphia scene, an...
Nick Mulvey
Band On The Wall, Manchester
Tuesday 10 June 2025
The reliably brilliant acclaimed Cambridge folk artist, songwriter and a founding member of future-jazz stars Portico Quartet has come a long way - both experientially, musically and philosophically. Musician, composer and producer, Nick's...Bôa
New Century Hall, Manchester
Tuesday 10 June 2025
With their songn "Duvet" enjoying a massive resurgence in popularity thanks to TikTok in August 2021, 1990's London rockers Boa return with their first new music in 19 years. Progressing from being a funk band to an alt-rock group, their fi...
Spellling
Yes, Manchester
Tuesday 10 June 2025
Now Wave presents Spellling at YES Pink Room on 10th June 2025...Lifeguard
The Castle Hotel, Manchester
Wednesday 11 June 2025
Now Wave presents Lifeguard at The Castle Hotel on 11th June 2025...King Creosote
The Met, Bury
Thursday 12 June 2025
Since the mid-late 1990s, Mercury Prize-nominated Scottish singer-songwriter Kenny Anderson, DIY pop voyager, ancestral seaside home restorer, squeezebox lothario, Fife for lifer, diamond miner, hijacker of hearts, and the man also known...FRUIT - Rat & Pigeon MCR
The Rat And Pigeon, Manchester
Thursday 12 June 2025
FRUIT bring a blend of dissonance, noise, and poetic lyricism to Manchester's Northern Quarter, alongside two brilliant emerging Manchester bands....Catfish and the Bottlemen
Heaton Park, Manchester
Friday 13 June 2025
Originating on the North Wales Coast, alt rockers Catfish and the Bottlemen are practically of no fixed abode due to the constant touring since 2014. The band's first album The Balcony achieved platinum status in the UK followed in 2016 wit...Catfish and the Bottlemen
Heaton Park, Manchester
Friday 13 June 2025
Originating on the North Wales Coast, alt rockers Catfish and the Bottlemen are practically of no fixed abode due to the constant touring since 2014. The band's first album The Balcony achieved platinum status in the UK followed in 2016 wit...Snow Patrol
Delamere Forest, Northwich
Friday 13 June 2025
Dundee-formed Northern Irish trio Snow Patrol have carved out a unique place for themselves by constantly delivering melancholic ballads and music of depth that's painted from a broad palette. They shot to fame with their third album, Final...That Night In Manchester
The Edge, Wigan
Friday 13 June 2025
That Night in Manchester is a brand new musical regaling the audience with a nostalgic and emotional journey through the heady days of the 80s and 90s Manchester indie scene. The audience will be taken back to the vibrant and exhilarating ...Fright Years
Yes, Manchester
Friday 13 June 2025
Fright Years are an Edinburgh-based band crafting music that's as emotionally charged as it is cinematic. Their songs are born out of the pure joy of making music together, with each track designed to tell its own story, full of mood and de...bit on the side @ Eagle Inn - Salford
Eagle Inn, Salford
Friday 13 June 2025
BOTS LIVE PRESENTS - bit on the side -PLUSSpecial Guests, DJ & Afterparty...
JoeJas' Left Handed Bandit Tour: Manchester
Withington Public Hall And Institute, Manchester
Friday 13 June 2025
Rapper/producer JoeJas becomes the Left Handed Bandit, masked up and traveling throughout UK venues...Butler, Blake & Grant
Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Sunday 15 June 2025
Bernard Butler, Norman Blake and James Grant are three of the most renowned and respected musicians in Britain. Norman- the centrifugal force in Teenage Fanclub; Bernard-renowned for his song writing with Suede and several artists, and most...Yeah Yeah Yeahs
O2 Apollo, Manchester
Monday 16 June 2025
After supporting the Strokes and the White Stripes, New York's art punk trio the Yeah Yeah Yeahs earned a significant buzz for their arty yet sexy take on garage punk. Their clean sound and eclectic songwriting won critical acclaim and ...Dion Lunadon (NZ) Live at Big Hands
