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
St Mary's Chambers
Fri 27 - Sat 28 Nov 2026
Just Radiohead - A Tribute to Radiohead
Manchester Academy
Sat 20 Jun - Fri 30 Oct 2026
ROLLA - Manchester
Band On The Wall, Manchester
Friday 24 April 2026
'If you're going to see the emergence of a new great band you'll see them at This Feeling first.' Carl Barat...
Danny Mellin - Manchester
The Deaf Institute, Manchester
Friday 24 April 2026
'If you're going to see the emergence of a new great band you'll see them at This Feeling first.' Carl Barat...Casino Club - Manchester
Gullivers, Manchester
Friday 24 April 2026
'If you're going to see the emergence of a new great band you'll see them at This Feeling first.' Carl Barat...FEMUR Live at Big Hands
Big Hands, Manchester
Friday 24 April 2026
Femur make a triumphant return to Big Hands on April 24th...YUNGBLUD
AO Arena, Manchester
Saturday 25 April 2026
Doncaster-based Dominic Harrison anthemic alt-pop performer and songwriter whose releases include the 2017 radio-favourite King Charles and his 2018 debut album, "21st Century Liability". He finished 3rd in the BBC Sound of 2020 poll. ...Dry Cleaning
New Century Hall, Manchester
Saturday 25 April 2026
Thrillingly taut South London based four-peice, Dry Cleaning, channel ambitious post-punk and complex new wave pop with a side order of low slung Americana, with Florence Shaw's spoken vocals tightly intertwined with the band's restless in...Rosellas
Band On The Wall, Manchester
Saturday 25 April 2026
Fresh from supporting Starsailor, the young Mancunians serve up stadium-ready guitars, punchy drums and pure adrenaline, with a sound that gives a nod to the bands of 90's Britpop, drawing sonic comparisons to The Verve, The Stone Roses and...Josienne Clarke sings Sandy Denny
The Met, Bury
Saturday 25 April 2026
Indie-folk singer, songwriter, guitarist and producer Josienne Clarke is often said to draw on traditional British folk inspirations, but is a thoroughly modern, multifaceted artist who follows her own compass. Blessed with a voice of cryst...The Scratch
Manchester Academy, Manchester
Saturday 25 April 2026
Dublin's The Scratch were born from a shared love of metal and traditional Irish music and have moulded triumphant melodies with the groove and intensity of metal. Their debut album released in 2020 reached #9 in the Irish Album Charts, #2 ...M60
O2 Ritz, Manchester
Saturday 25 April 2026
Indie rock band M60 formed from various towns across Manchester. The four-piece are in the game of creating guitar-led noise with an undeniable Manc twang which takes shape in the form of energetic and anthemic tunes. M60 came onto the scen...Oasis Supernova - The Maine Event 30th Anniversary
Manchester Academy, Manchester
Saturday 25 April 2026
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Chapterhouse
Yes, Manchester
Saturday 25 April 2026
Now Wave presents Chapterhouse at YES Pink Room on 25th April 2026...MOOD SWINGS: Girl Group Hemi Hemingway + Ellie O'Neill
Yes, Manchester
Saturday 25 April 2026
?NOW WAVE PRESENTS MOOD SWINGS??Girl GroupHemi Hemingway?Ellie O?Neill...BLACKGOLD - N.U D.I.V.E - Hd
Holy Diver, Stockport
Saturday 25 April 2026
BLACKGOLD Headline the 2026 N.U D.I.V.E Festival along with Dacara. More acts to be announced shortly....Super Sonic Sound of Oasis
Empire Warrington, Warrington
Saturday 25 April 2026
Experience the iconic sound of Oasis live with Supersonic, the ultimate tribute to one of Britain's most legendary bands....The Information Highway EP Launch Night 33 Oldham Street M
33 Oldham Street, Manchester
Saturday 25 April 2026
Manchester, this one's ours. The Information Highway launch their new EP All I Said Was with a proper hometown blowout at 33 Oldham Street, in part...Britallica (Britney Spears Metal Tribute)- Lions Den Manchester
Lion's Den, Manchester
Sunday 26 April 2026
Britallica is the world's first metal tribute to Britney Spears, a high energy mashup of pop princess anthems and headbanging metal attitude....Big Thief
Aviva Studios, Manchester
Monday 27 April - Thursday 28 May 2026
Brooklyn indie rockers with folk roots whose songs search for a deep level of self-acceptance, grounded on dried-out, cracked desert dirt. Big Thief's music, rooted in the songs of Adrianne Lenker, paints in vivid tones characters and visc...Vaudevilles
Eagle Inn, Salford
Tuesday 28 April 2026
Come and see this incredible alt-rock three-piece play at the Eagle Inn alongside Marzana Collective and Mad Brando on 28th April...Modern Nature
The Strines Nightingale, Stockport
Wednesday 29 April 2026
A meandering blend of bucolic folk, experimental jazz, and psych-tinged indie rock, Modern Nature is a project led by Blackpool-born musician Jack Cooper, formerly of the acclaimed indie rock outfit Ultimate Painting and the Manchester ba...
Lizzie Reid
The Castle Hotel, Manchester
Wednesday 29 April 2026
Now Wave presentsLizzie ReidCastle Hotel ManchesterApril 29th 2026...
Hamish Hawk
O2 Ritz, Manchester
Thursday 30 April 2026
Rich of voice and even richer of imagination, Edinburgh born indie singer-songwriter Hamish Hawk creates musical pen-portraits as vivid in lyric as they are in melody. He has established himself as a writer of heartfelt, headstrong, unasham...Demob Happy
Night & Day Cafe, Manchester
Thursday 30 April 2026
Demob Happy formed in Newcastle in 2008 when vocalist Matthew Marcantonio, drummer Thomas Armstrong and guitarists Adam Godfrey and Mathew Renforth met as teenagers in their native hometown. The band didn't have an easy start - battling in ...The Cases - Atherton
The Snug Coffee House, Manchester
Thursday 30 April 2026
'If you're going to see the emergence of a new great band you'll see them at This Feeling first.' Carl Barat...IST IST
Albert Hall, Manchester
Friday 1 May 2026
Regularly condemned as too 'out there' to be successful; through sheer determination, hard work and a bulging catalogue of songs, Ist Ist continue to silence the doubters and move from strength to strength. Displaying an arrogance akin to t...Hypocrisy
Manchester Academy, Manchester
Friday 1 May 2026
The Swedish melodic death metal band deliver precise, ferocious musicianship. Commonly inspired by the fusion of the modern and the ancient, Hypocrisy find a way to combine innovative ideas with classic sound in order to deliver something m...Pictish Trail
Yes, Manchester
Friday 1 May 2026
Eschewing the blueprint of the predictable singer-songwriter in favour of something untidily intriguing, bold, weird, wild, wired, sonically luxurious yet never losing touch with his DIY-'til-I-die roots, Isle-of-Eigg dwelling electro-acous...EXTC 'This is Pop'
Band On The Wall, Manchester
Friday 1 May 2026
AGMP PresentsXTC's legendary drummer, Terry Chambers, is back on the road with his band EXTC (named and approved by XTC frontman, Andy Partridge). Emerging out of the post-punk and new-wave explosion of the late 70s, XTC experienced global ...The Cases - Manchester
Gorilla, Manchester
Friday 1 May 2026
'If you're going to see the emergence of a new great band you'll see them at This Feeling first.' Carl Barat...
Puressence
Manchester Academy, Manchester
Saturday 2 May 2026
Legendary Mancunian rock group Puressence are back, after performing their first live date in over 11 years with a huge hometown show at the Albert Hall in June 2024. James Mudriczki, Kevin Matthews, Lowell Killen, and Anthony Szuminski...Natalie Jane
Manchester Academy, Manchester
Saturday 2 May 2026
New Jersey alt-pop star and former American Idol contestant Natalie Janowski has clocked millions of streams and reached no.68 on the UK singles chart in the process with the single "AVA". ...Blur 2 & Pulp'd
