ALTERNATIVE & INDIE MUSIC IN MANCHESTER
Most Popular Alternative & Indie Music in Manchester
Sat 6 Apr 2024 - Fri 21 Mar 2025
Fri 4 Oct - Fri 15 Nov 2024
Fri 6 Sep - Fri 15 Nov 2024
The Lathums
Tuesday 19 March 2024
UK album chart-topping Wigan trio The Lathums cite the melodic worlds and street hymns of The Smiths, The Beatles, Stone Roses and The Ramones amongst their influences. Singer-songwriter Alex Moore simply believes in 'making positive change...
The Smile
Tuesday 19 March 2024
Comprising Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood from Radiohead, with Tom Skinner from Sons of Kemet, art rock supergroup The Smile made their surprise debut in a performance streamed by Glastonbury Festival in May 2021, with an album of their per...
Febueder
Tuesday 19 March 2024
Febueder are an avant-indie duo from Ascot. formed in 2010 by lead vocalist/multi-instrumentalist Kieran Godfrey and percussionist Samuel Keysell. Their name (pronounced Fe-byou-der) is more than a made-up appellation, it's the palette fro...
Dead Poet Society
Tuesday 19 - Wednesday 20 March 2024
After a decade defining, redefining, and perfecting their art, Boston, Massachusetts, heavy indie rockers Dead Poet Society are poised to be rock's next breakout act. ...
Liam Gallagher & John Squire
Wednesday 20 - Thursday 21 March 2024
Manchester music royalty Liam Gallagher and John Squire have joined forces to record a new album. Long-term friends with a mutual admiration for each other's work, the idea of a collaboration started when The Stone Roses guitarits joined th...
Feeder
Wednesday 20 March 2024
Despite dropping out of mainstream radio attention, the celebrated, multi-platinum-selling, Welsh rockers have scored ten UK Top 10 albums; their latest "Torpedo", reaching no.5 in March 2022. Ever since arriving on the Britpop scene in 199...
Bdrmm
Wednesday 20 March 2024
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 ...
Inspired By Music
Wednesday 20 March 2024
An electrifying new panel event by Skiddle and GigPig, where renowned industry experts converge onto one stage to share their wealth of experience, ignite inspiration and support the next generation of talent. Discover firsthand the journey...
Tapir
Wednesday 20 March 2024
Now Wave presents Tapir at YES Basement on 20th March 2024...
Dan Croll
Thursday 21 March 2024
Dan Croll is an award-winning indie-pop/folktronica artist. A graduate of the Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts, his 2012 debut single 'From Nowhere' achieved great success. Since then, he's worked with major figures in the industry to...
The Stairs
Thursday 21 March 2024
The Stairs are a cult English rock band, formed in Liverpool in 1990 by vocalist and bassist Edgar "Summertyme" Jones, guitarist Ged Lynn and drummer Paul Maguire. ...
Sea Fever
Thursday 21 March 2024
Sea Fever - a five piece collective from Manchester. Fronted by Iwan Gronow (Haven, Johnny Marr) on vocals and guitars, alongside singer Bethany Cassidy (Section 25), New Order's Tom Chapman and Phil Cunningham - with Tom on bass, guitars, ...
Mr Ben & The Bens
Thursday 21 March 2024
Cult DIY outfit and BBC 6 Music favourites Mr Ben & the Bens return in 2024 with a brand new 10-track LP Small Wide World via Bingo Records. After years of steadily touring the back and even-further-back of beyond in the UK, as well as some...
The Jesus And Mary Chain
Friday 22 - Saturday 23 March 2024
One of the UK's most influential groups embrace a maelstrom of sweet melody, searing feedback and controlled chaos, informed deeper by their love for Suicide and Kraftwerk, as well as a passion for the spontaneous side of the jazz spectrum....
Starsailor
Friday 22 March 2024
Selling out some of Manchester's biggest venues long before they had even released a record, Starsailor burst onto the scene in 2001 when their single "Fever" earning them the title of "Britain's best new band". Formed at Wigan & Leigh Musi...
Bleachers
Friday 22 March 2024
Scoring a UK Top 5 album in March 2024, New Jersey indie pop rockers Bleachers are sonically sad yet joyful, producing music for driving on the highway to, for crying to and for dancing to at weddings. There's something reassuringly touchab...
Badly Drawn Boy - Live & In Conversation
Friday 22 March 2024
Experience an extraordinary and intimate evening with the iconic Manchester musician, Damon Gough, aka Badly Drawn Boy. Renowned for his soulful and introspective songwriting, Badly Drawn Boy has captured the hearts of music lovers around t...
mary in the junkyard
Friday 22 March 2024
Now Wave presents Mary in the Junkyard at YES Basement on Friday 22nd March 2024...
Chalk
Friday 22 March 2024
Now Wave presents Chalk at Soup, Manchester on Friday 22nd March 2024...
Ian Prowse (Amsterdam / Pele)
Saturday 23 March 2024
A solo show from the Liverpool singer-songwriter and frontman of Amsterdam, and previously of indie cult band Pele. Ian Prowse is a musician, singer, songwriter who wears his heart on his sleeve and his song "Does This Train Stop on Mersey...
Yonaka
Saturday 23 March 2024
Brighton's Yonaka deliver alt-rock bangers, quickly building their name with raucous live sets and a seamless merging of pop, rock and hip-hop inspired beats. Hailed as the next great rock outfit by the likes of NME, they joined big names ...
Shade
Saturday 23 March 2024
'SHADE' are a brand new, exciting alt-rock band hailing from the UK's most vibrant music hub: Manchester ...
MC Tunes + Aziz Ibrahim + Inder Goldfinger
Saturday 23 March 2024
The Shed Project return to the world famous Pheonix Club..... The home of Peter Kay's Pheonix Nights..... Joining us will Manchester's finest MC Tunes and very Special Guests Aziz Ibrahim and Inder Goldfinger ...
Manchester Music Tours - Oasis Tour
Saturday 23 March - Saturday 31 August 2024
You have the opportunity to see first-hand where Manchester's most famous brothers grew up. Acclaimed by Noel and Liam themselves, the tour includes visits to the iconic Boardwalk where the band rehearsed and performed their first gig. Cana...
Overpass
Saturday 23 March 2024
Where can I buy tickets for Overpass ?Tickets for Overpass can be purchased safely and securely from Eventim UKWhen Overpass playing?Overpass are playing at O2 Institute Birmingham on 6th April 2024Where are Overpass playing?Overpass are pl...
Gaz Coombes (Supergrass)
Sunday 24 March 2024
A solo tour from one of the UK's most gifted and cherished singer-songwriters, the Mercury and Ivor Novello nominated mega-watt melodic genius responsible for Supergrass's ten Top 20 hits and six Top 20 albums - I Should Coco was Parlophon...
The Coral - The Making of The Debut Album
Sunday 24 March 2024
An Intimate Evening of music and conversation with singer James Skelly and keyboardist Nick Power. The Coral are celebrating the 21th anniversary of their eponymous debut album. The record was described by NME as being the funniest and most...
University
Sunday 24 March 2024
Now Wave presents... University at AATMA on Sunday 24th March 2024....