ELECTRONIC MUSIC IN MANCHESTER
ELECTRONIC MUSIC IN MANCHESTER
Most Popular Electronic Music in Manchester
Thu 17 Oct 2024 - Sat 19 Apr 2025
Kirk Field - Acid House Cabaret: Rave New World
Wednesday 16 October 2024
Take a strobe down memory lane with the UK's premier rave raconteur. Tales of revolution, acid-house storytelling and musical mischief to mark the 35th anniversary of the 1989 headline-making acid house explosion. Discover the true identi...
Peter Hook & the Light
Thursday 17 October 2024
The legendary Joy Division and New Order bassist performs New Order's "Get Ready" live and in full, plus an additional set of Joy Division and New Order's greatest hits. The Mancunian bass player, musician, singer, DJ, nightclub owner,...
Caravan Palace
Thursday 17 October 2024
The Platinum-selling group which would define a new sound called "Electro Swing", French gypsy jazz band Caravan Palace incorporate sounds including early swing jazz and big band to create a rip-roaring party, bursting with fun and good hum...
FitkinWall
Thursday 17 October 2024
In their new show, Harpland, internationally renowned harp and electronica duo FitkinWall follow threads of migration, loss and longing in their new show, inspired by the stories of the Highland Clearances. Ruth Wall's explorations into Gae...
Public Service Broadcasting
Friday 18 October 2024
Public Service Broadcasting have been "teaching the lessons of the past through the music of the future" for more than a decade now. 2013's debut album Inform - Educate - Entertain used archival samples from the British Film Institute as au...
UNKLE
Friday 18 October 2024
James Lavelle's UNKLE returns. Over the years, the London trip hop group has boasted a line-up of guest vocalists who accompany their sampled breaks and dark soundscapes, including a who's who of Manchester music - Ian Brown, Richard Ashcro...
Symphonica & Mr Switch - The History of Drum & Bass
Saturday 19 October 2024
Take a whole orchestra, combine them with a world champion DJ, and challenge them to tear through the history of drum & bass. Following sell out solo shows & headline sets at festivals such as Glastonbury, Shambala, London Remixed & Boomto...
Utah Saints
Saturday 19 October 2024
UK electronic dance music pioneers Utah Saints ...
Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells Live in Concert
Tuesday 22 October 2024
Continuing on from last year's 50th anniversary celebrations of Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells, the multi-million-selling and multi-award-winning progressive rock album will be performed live in concert across the UK in 2024. Tubular Be...
Molchat Doma
Tuesday 22 October 2024
In their short time as a band, Belarusian trio Молчат Дома ("Houses Are Silent"), have gone from whispered-about unknowns, to enigmatic underground icons, to legitimate viral sensations with hundreds of thousands of TikTok videos ...
WOMEX - Worldwide Music Expo
Wednesday 23 - Saturday 26 October 2024
WOMEX - Worldwide Music Expo - the most international and culturally diverse music convention in the world - comes to Manchester in 2024. Each year WOMEX travels to a different European city bringing together 2,600 music industry profession...
Disclosure - Friends & Family
Friday 25 October 2024
Disclosure - Surrey siblings Guy and Howard Lawrence whose pop-oriented synthesis of numerous styles, including house, garage, dubstep, and bass, has made them one of the most successful production teams of the 2010s - present a day of ...
Sidewinder Oldskool Halloween Festival
Saturday 26 October 2024
THE UK'S BIGGEST & BADDEST OLDSKOOL UK GARAGE, BASSLINE, R&B, DANCEHALL & HOUSE FESTIVAL... This year they are not holding back... OVER 50 HEADLINING ARTISTS4 HUGE HAUNTED OUTDOOR & INDOOR ARENA'SALL DAY OUTDOOR & ALL NIGHT INDOOR RAVEFR...
Hang Massive
Saturday 26 October 2024
The UK and Swedish duo Hang Massive are the world's most renowned Handpan players, pioneering a successful electronic act with a magnetic live show, blending dream-like acoustics and upbeat sounds. The magic for Danny Cudd and Markus Offbe...
Chelsea Wolfe
Monday 28 October 2024
From the intimacy of stripped-down folk music to the throbbing pulse of supplemental electronics, or an exquisite palette of groaning bass, pounding drums, and crunching distortion, Californian musician Chelsea Wolfe blends elements of got...
Fink
Monday 28 October 2024
Described as "a beautiful sound palette of dub, folk, blues, soul, and beat science" by Metro, "John Martyn with added stunning digital traces," by Uncut and "a brooding power reminiscent of a stripped down Nick Cave. A leftfield delight."...
The Not So Silent Spooktacular Movie Night
Wednesday 30 October 2024
Experience a new batch of silent films with a horrific twist in the latest Not So Silent Movie Night. As always, the film selection is enhanced by a live soundtrack from electronic outfit Dots and piano aficionado Taylor Giacoma. ...
Peter Hook & the Light
Thursday 31 October 2024
The legendary Joy Division and New Order bassist performs New Order's "Get Ready" live and in full, plus an additional set of Joy Division and New Order's greatest hits. The Mancunian bass player, musician, singer, DJ, nightclub owner,...
John Grant
Thursday 31 October 2024
John Grant is an American singer-songwriter from Colorado originally known as the lead singer of alternative rock band The Czars. Called "one of the most gifted singer-songwriters of his generation," by The New York Times, singer-songwriter...
Nia Archives - Up Ya Archives
Friday 1 November 2024
London based, Nia Archives is one of the most exciting and compelling new artists in the UK making cutting edge lo-fi jungle music. Following an unforgettable and era defining "Summer of Jungle" that saw her sell out a Secret Summer Rave an...
Everything Everything
Friday 1 November 2024
Twice Mercury Prize nominated, 5 time Ivor Novello nominated and critically acclaimed off-kilter indie rockers Everything Everything set about revolutionising modern pop music, pushing the ribbon on melody & rhythm with a heavy helping of e...
China Crisis
Saturday 2 November 2024
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...
Lindsey Stirling
Monday 4 November 2024
For over a decade, Lindsey Stirling has enchanted audiences across the globe by performing a certain spellbinding magic with her electronic violin, dreaming up an exquisitely composed yet boldly inventive sound entirely her own. The classic...
Crystal Fighters
Monday 4 November 2024
The purveyors of boundary shattering Electro, London/Spanish alt-folk outfit Crystal Fighters' music melds Animal Collective toned delicacy with Soulwax inspired rave through the use of both electric and acoustic guitars, synths, drums, an...
Beak>
Wednesday 6 November 2024
Forging their own path through their own genre of oddness, Bristol experimental electronic rock music band BEAK> consist of Portishead's Geoff Barrow, Robert Plant's Sensational Space Shifters' Billy Fuller and Moon Gangs' Will Young. ...
Warmduscher
Thursday 7 November - Saturday 7 December 2024
The salaciously groovy and expertly grimey Warmduscher have never taken to the term "supergroup", but it's safe to say that their unique, potent blend of raw musicianship, down 'n' dirty rock riffs and devil-may-care party attitude was birt...
Gorgon City + Dom Dolla
Friday 8 November 2024
Gorgon City & Dom Dolla takeover all three rooms of Depot Mayfield for a special showcase. ...
The Orb + Ozric Tentacles
Friday 8 November 2024
Two giants of underground psych-dance culture come together for an evening of audio-visual sensory overload. Get ready to here the ambient soundscapes and pulsing rhythms of The Orb and Ozric Tentacles' blend of instrumental psychedelic ro...
Space
Friday 8 November 2024
Liverpool indie band Space shot to fame in 1996 with with with hit single "Female of the Species", which was also the theme song to the TV series Cold Feet. They followed it up with UK Top 20 singles "The Ballad of Tom Jones" (with Cerys ...
Kelly Lee Owens
Monday 11 November 2024
Welsh electronic music producer Kelly Lee Owens emerged onto the Manchester music scene while working as a 19 year old auxiliary nurse in the city, swapping the cancer ward to pursue her music career. There's an incredible feeling of freed...
London Grammar
Tuesday 12 November 2024
The chart-topping Nottingham trip hop, indie pop trio return. Drawing comparisons to Florence Welch and Judie Tzuke for her throaty, brooding vocals, singer Hanna Reid is a commanding presence, delivering her emotionally affecting lyrics...
Giolì & Assia
Wednesday 13 November 2024
Talented duo Gioli & Assia, from Palermo, Italy, blend techno, house, indie, folk and pop to create a sound which is uniquely their own. Gioli plays the piano, cello, drums, guitar, and handpan, and Assia handles lead vocal duties as well a...
Ben Böhmer
Thursday 14 November 2024
German Electronic music's brightest rising star, Berlin based deep and progressive house producer and live act Ben Bohmer has attained over 40 million streams with remixes from the likes of HAAi, Barry Can't Swim and The Blaze. His sonic te...
Faithless
Friday 15 November 2024
UK chart-topping dance pioneers Faithless return for their first run of shows in eight years and first since the passing of Maxi Jazz in 2022. With Sister Bliss at the helm alongside a live seven-piece band, Faithless are a force to be reck...
Ibibio Sound Machine
Friday 15 November 2024
Fronted by Nigerian singer Eno Williams, Ibibio Sound Machine is a clash of African and electronic elements inspired in equal measure by the golden era of West-African funk and disco and modern post-punk and electro. Ibibio Sound Machine we...
Kasabian
Saturday 16 November 2024
After lead singer Tom Meighan was fired in 2020 following his domestic assault conviction, the flamboyant Leicester rockers have continued where they left off, scoring their fifth UK chart-topping album in 2022, with founder and guitar wiz...
W. H. Lung
Saturday 16 November 2024
Named after a Chinese cash & carry in their native Manchester, the electronic pop group serve up a vivacious concoction of krautrock, synth pop and infectious grooves, which has topped end of year lists with the likes of Piccadilly Records ...
ZHU
Tuesday 19 November 2024
Multi-talented, Californian EDM and dance-pop artist Steven Zhu provides a genre-melding, dance-edged sound with sleek synth melodies, billowing basslines and undeniable hooks. His distinctive vocals and hypnotic production, which also for...
Erland Cooper
Thursday 21 November 2024
Groundbreaking Scottish composer, producer and multi-instrumentalist Erland Cooper is known for merging modern classical-electronic music with evocative storytelling and conceptual art. Erland shares his urgent observation on climate change...
Fatboy Slim
Friday 22 November 2024
As one of the world's most renowned pioneering dance music DJs and record producers, multi-million selling Brighton artist Fatboy Slim, a.k.a. Norman Cook, is a winner of numerous awards including ten MTV Music Awards, three BRITs, an Ivor ...
Stereo MC's
Friday 22 November 2024
Formed in 1985, Stereo MCs hit the public's attention with 1990 album Supernatural and single Elevate My Mind. It was 1992 follow up Connected, with hit singles of the same name and Step It Up that confirmed their status at the front of a b...
Worried About Henry
Saturday 23 November 2024
Multi-genre bass music night Worried About Henry takes over Depot Mayfield for a huge three room 10 year celebration, featuring Andy C, Hybrid Minds, Bru C and more. ...
Electric Six
Wednesday 27 November 2024
Detroit's fun-loving alternative garage rock collective Electric Six celebrate 20 years of their UK Top 10 debut album "Fire" in 2003. The high-octane collection, mixing garage rock, disco, punk, new wave, and metal into cleverly dumb, in-y...
WHP x Eat Your Own Ears - Curated by Barry Can't Swim
Friday 29 November 2024
London-based promoters and record label Eat Your Own Ears return to Manchester's Warehouse Project. The Eat Your Own Ears event, curated by Barry Can't Swim for house, breaks, and techno. ...
Elderbrook
Saturday 30 November 2024
A live phenomenon, multi-instrumentalist, producer, and singer-songwriter, London electronic artist Alexander Kotz (a.k.a. Elderbrook) has an innate flair for creating emotive music that explores the sensitive and introspective themes of id...
Svaneborg Kardyb
Thursday 5 December 2024
Hail from Aalborg, in Jutland, in the north of Denmark, Svaneborg Kardyb are Nikolaj Svaneborg - Wurlitzer, Juno, piano and Jonas Kardyb - drums, percussion a multi-award winning duo from Denmark, where they won two "Grammys" at the Danish ...
The Human League
Friday 6 December 2024
Pioneers in the UK's new wave movement, The Human League were formed in 1977 by synth duo Martyn Ware and Ian Marsh. Following a short stint as The Future, and joined by Philip Oakley and Adrian Wright, The Human League released their debut...
Bicep
Friday 6 December 2024
London based childhood friends Andy Ferguson and Matt McBriar duo as Bicep. Best known for their dreamy and trippy tracks 'Glue' and 'Apricots', the dynamic Belfast born pair rose to fame in the UK Dance Music scene following their music...
808 State
Friday 6 December 2024
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...
The Devout - Depeche Mode Tribute
Friday 6 December 2024
Fast becoming The World's number one Depeche Mode Tribute Act, The Devout have brought the Depeche Mode experience to another level visually, aurally and musically. The band members are made up of well known artists in their own right:Reza...
FAC51 - The Hacienda Must Be Built
Saturday 7 December 2024
FAC51 The Hacienda returns to Manchester for a huge all day homecoming show with The Warehouse Project at Depot Mayfield. The largest Hacienda hometown event sees some of the biggest names in the club's history performing over five rooms...
