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
Rose City Band
Tuesday 13 May 2025
Now Wave presents Rose City Band at YES Pink Room on 13th May 2025...
Soccer Mommy
Wednesday 14 May 2025
Quietly catchy and surprisingly confrontational. Soccer Mommy is the indie pop project of Sophie Allison, a wise beyond her years young Nashville native and musical wunderkind. Her songs, which have confronted toxic relationships and infat...
Supergrass
Friday 16 - Saturday 17 May 2025
Tearing by at a breakneck speed, it has been 30 years since 'I Should Coco', the spectacularly eclectic chart-topping debut by Oxford Britpop rockstars Supergrass, was released. At the time, the band were barely out of their teens. The albu...
China Crisis
Friday 16 May 2025
Eddie Lundon and Gary Daly are the founder members of the 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 and hits across...
Panic Shack
Friday 16 May 2025
Now Wave presents Panic Shack at Band on the Wall on 16th May 2025...
Cassia
Saturday 17 May 2025
Combining a rich musicality with continent-spanning influences, Cassia have made their mark with their own brand of calypso-flavoured indie pop. The Macclesfield trio have built a cult following in the last few years, amassing millions of S...
Jah Wobble & The Invaders Of The Heart
Saturday 17 May 2025
Combining global music, reggae, fusion and punk influences, Jah Wobble has entranced the world with his hypnotic bass riffs for over four decades and has become one of Britain's most influential and distinct bass players. Accompanied by h...
Thousand Yard Stare
Saturday 17 May 2025
Thousand Yard Stare are back and heading to Gulliver's Manchester on Saturday 17th May...
Steven Wilson (Porcupine Tree)
Sunday 18 May 2025
 Steven Wilson is an self taught composer, musician, singer, songwriter and record producer from Hemel Hempstead. Currently a successful solo artist with three UK Top 5 albums to his name, he was the founder, guitarist, lead vocalist and...
Audioweb
Thursday 22 May 2025
Audioweb crossed the acid-fueled, psychedelic sound of Madchester house with deep dub, dancehall and reggae influences, earning a sizable following in the UK during the late '90s. Unlike many of their peers, they weren't given strong suppor...
Tate McRae
Saturday 24 May 2025
Tate McRae started out as a child dancer, but has since turned her sights towards pop stardom. Born in Calgary, her family moved to Oman during the first six years of her life. Her mother taught dance lessons, and when they returned to Cana...
Pixies
Saturday 24 May 2025
With elements of indie rock and surf rock, 1980's Boston alternative rockers The Pixies have been cited by avowed fan Kurt Cobain as a heavy influence on Nirvana with "Smells Like Teen Spirit" a conscious attempt to co-opt the Pixies' sty...
Don't Stop Queen Now - Tribute to Queen
Saturday 24 May 2025
Don't Stop Queen Now's energetic and true-to-life performance, fronted by the incredible Michael Spence who has featured on ITV1 as Freddie Mercury, brings Queen's 50 year reign to life in a show that's guaranteed to blow your mind! The si...
From The Jam
Saturday 24 May 2025
Bruce Foxton is a part of the English Rock and Roll establishment. A musician who is most commonly recognised as the bass player and vocalist in legendary bands Stiff Little Fingers and, more famously, mod-revivalists The Jam, with Paul Wel...
Throwing Muses
Saturday 24 May 2025
A very rare opportunity to witness one of the great cult American rock bands, Kristin Hersh brings the Throwing Muses live show to Europe in Spring 2025. Their first tour since 2011, the Muses will embark on a 2025 European tour as a three-...
Definitely Oasis - Tribute to Oasis
Saturday 24 May 2025
Definitely Oasis are regarded by many Oasis fans and promoters alike as the best Oasis tribute band there is. The band regularly sell out top class venues across the UK and were recently the first ever tribute band to sell out Glasgow's ico...
The Lumineers
Sunday 25 May 2025
Denver-based band The Lumineers were founded by New Jersey natives Wesley Schultz and Jeremiah Fraites. Schultz grew up taking drawing classes with Fraites' older brother Joshua, who died of a drug overdose in 2002. Playing music together w...
Prima Queen
Sunday 25 May 2025
Now Wave presents Prima Queen at YES Pink Room on 25th May 2025...
Asian Dub Foundation
Monday 26 May 2025
Asian Dub Foundation are a genre unto themselves. Their unique combination of tough jungle rhythms, dub bass lines and wild guitar overlaid by references to their South Asian roots and militant high-speed rap has established them as one of ...
half alive
Tuesday 27 May 2025
Californian indie pop act half-alive are best known for their single "Still Feel" and its perfectly choreographed music video. ...
Soft Loft
Tuesday 27 May 2025
Now Wave presents Soft Loft at YES Basement, Manchester on 27th May 2025...
Wunderhorse
Wednesday 28 May 2025
Arthouse indie-rock, but without the connotations, Wunderhorse is the alias of British musician Jacob Slater, who fronted The Dead Pretties, a London band who arrived in a haze of hedonism and hype, bowing out before the dust had time to se...
Elephant Sessions
Thursday 29 May 2025
Celebrating their 10th year as band in 2022, multi-award winning indie folk quintet Elephant Sessions have gone from humble beginnings in the Highlands of Scotland, to playing around the world and scooping prestigious awards for their true...
Oasiz - A Tribute to Oasis
Friday 30 May 2025
When a short clip of Oasiz front man Steve, performing as Liam, went viral on social media with over half a million views, many fans were convinced the clip was actually of Liam Gallagher himself which led to the story being covered in the ...
Nessa Barrett
Saturday 31 May 2025
New Jersey pop rocker Janesa "Nessa" Barrett rose to fame on TikTok and began uploading covers, which led her to sign a recording contract with Warner Records and scored an international hit with "I Hope Ur Miserable Until Ur Dead" in 2021....
The Sherlocks
Saturday 31 May 2025
Sheffield alt-rock stalwarts The Sherlocks became the first unsigned act since fellow Sheffield rockers Arctic Monkeys to sell out the city's iconic Leadmill venue. Undergoing a rebirth with brothers Kiaran and Brandon Crook introducing two...
MJ Lenderman & The Wind
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
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
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...
Jerry Harrison (Talking Heads) & Adrian Belew (King Crimson)
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
Thursday 5 June 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...
Scam Fender + Kopycat Killers + Subarctic Monkeys + Oasis 96
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...
Hothouse Flowers
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...
Waxahatchee
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...
Bôa
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...
Catfish and the Bottlemen
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
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
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...
Snow Patrol
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...
