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
Sat 1 Nov 2025 - Fri 27 Feb 2026
Just Radiohead - A Tribute to Radiohead
Manchester Academy
Fri 31 Oct 2025 - Fri 30 Oct 2026
Antarctic Monkeys - The Official Arctic Monkeys Tribute Band
O2 Ritz
Fri 31 Oct 2025 - Sat 4 Jul 2026
The Gerry Cinna-Man Experience - Tribute to Gerry Cinnamon
St Mary's Chambers
Sun 28 Dec 2025 - Fri 2 Oct 2026
The Vamps
Gorilla, Manchester
Saturday 18 October 2025
The Vamps had never really had the chance to be bored before 2020 struck. Since their platinum-selling debut album, 'Meet The Vamps', crashed into the UK charts at number 2 in 2014, the band have been holding onto a dream-like rush of album...Men I Trust
Manchester Academy, Manchester
Saturday 18 - Sunday 19 October 2025
 The Quebecois electo-pop band's rise to indie fame is a bit more abnormal than most. The group initially started without their lead singer, as a duo with programmed robotic electronic drums alongside boisterous synthesizers heavily insp...Idlewild
New Century Hall, Manchester
Saturday 18 October 2025
 Raucous cult Scottish Highlands curiosity turned chart bothering national treasures, Roddy Woomble, Rod Jones, and Colin Newton, plus Allan Stewart, Luciano Rossi and Andrew Mitchell return. Their form of alternative rock woven together...NewDad
Manchester Academy, Manchester
Saturday 18 October 2025
 Growing up in Galway, Ireland, the four members of NewDad thank a random band name generator for their unusual moniker.  Dark and stormy with undeniably beautiful moments amid the mammoth guitars, there's a heaviness to the music, whic...The Velvetines
Manchester Academy, Manchester
Saturday 18 October 2025
The Velvetines are a Hard Rock indie/alt band from Bolton, Lancashire. With Cameron Tonge fronting the band with lead vocals and rhythm guitar. To George Parmenter's infectious riffs and solos on lead guitar! And Zakori Waring's heavy bass ...Factory 251 Fridays
FAC251, Manchester
Saturday 18 - Saturday 25 October 2025
3 floors of music, all your favs with 899 other party goers. DJs spinning dance & RnB, Indie & Cheese, and Tech, Bass & DnB. ...Transient Shift
Un.titled Studio, Salford
Saturday 18 October 2025
TEST // 01 Transient Shift. Music from EXCLUSIVELY transgender and GNC artists. First EU show from STOMACH BOOK, SAOIRSE DREAM, ZOMBAE, CAN OF BLISS...
Mleko
The Castle Hotel, Manchester
Saturday 18 October 2025
Now Wave presents Mleko at The Castle Hotel on 16th October 2025...Dark fidelity HiFI and guests at amplify trafford
Stretford Public Hall, Manchester
Saturday 18 October 2025
manchester electronica producer plays stretford public hall as part of amplify trafford all day event ....Gold Cup EP Launch at Dulcimer
Dulcimer, Manchester
Saturday 18 October 2025
Gold Cup launch their latest EP live at Dulcimer in ChorltonSupport comes from Sun Burns and The Whalleys....Tamino
New Century Hall, Manchester
Sunday 19 October 2025
The spellbinding arrival of the classically trained Belgian-Egyptian indie rocker with a divine falsetto is enough to make even an agnostic ponder predestination. The grandson of one of Egypt's most famed singers, the great Muharram Fouad, ...
New Model Army
O2 Ritz, Manchester
Sunday 19 October 2025
Formed in Bradford in 1980, New Model Army's beginnings were inspired by Northern Soul, Punk Rock and the incendiary atmosphere of the times. Since then, they have had a long, creative and eventful journey. They have been massively influent...Miles Hunt (The Wonder Stuff)
Warrington Irish Club, Warrington
Sunday 19 October 2025
 Miles Hunt is the singer of highly successful late 80s / early 90s indie band The Wonder Stuff, and also briefly of Vent 414. His solo career began in 1999 and he will perform tracks from his new album together with classic Top 20 hits s...Tom Hingley (Inspiral Carpets)
The Green Room, Altrincham
Sunday 19 October 2025
Tom Hingley, ex Inspiral Carpets frontman will be performing songs from his solo career and the brilliant Inspirals back catalogue. ...Factory 251 Saturdays
FAC251, Manchester
Sunday 19 - Sunday 26 October 2025
3 floors of music, all your favs with 899 other party goers. DJs spinning dance & RnB, Indie & Cheese, and Tech, Bass & DnB. ...ΣTella
Yes, Manchester
Sunday 19 October 2025
Now Wave presents Σtella at YES Pink Room 19th October 2025...Lucy Gooch
Yes, Manchester
Sunday 19 October 2025
Now Wave presents Lucy Gooch at YES Basement on 19th October 2025...Beach Bunny
Albert Hall, Manchester
Monday 20 October 2025
 Chicago bedroom pop star Lili Trifilio's songwriting project are getting back to basics: urgent, guitar-based indie rock with pop melodies, echoing dynamic '90s indie rock courtesy of fuzzed-out guitars and crashing drums, while slashing...The Cat Empire
Albert Hall, Manchester
Tuesday 21 October 2025
Formed in Melbourne, Australia and adored the world over, jazz/funk band The Cat Empire is a musical success story that continues to be written, crafting infectious, genre-embracing anthems and releasing chart-topping, multi-platinum albums...Somebody's Child
New Century Hall, Manchester
Tuesday 21 October 2025
Somebody's Child is a rising young Irish male singer-songwriter who has been making serious waves in the Irish music scene, having supported acts like The War on Drugs and headlined the 3Olympia Theatre. His music has drawn comparisons to ...Wendy James (Transvision Vamp)
The Deaf Institute, Manchester
Tuesday 21 October 2025
Most recognised as front-woman of iconic 80's alternative rock band TRANSVISION VAMP, Wendy enjoyed massive chart success with a string of hits including Baby I Don't Care, I Want Your Love and Revolution Baby. Her sexually charged and rebe...Joe Armon-Jones + Support
Band On The Wall, Manchester
Tuesday 21 October 2025
influential songwriter spanning jazz, dub, electronic, pop, and hip-hop...Another Country + cob + Ranger @ The Peer Hat
The Peer Hat, Manchester
Tuesday 21 October 2025
Electronic legends Another Country $$$$ headline The Peer Hat alongside usual suspects cob as well as Ranger coming up from London...Mild Orange
Yes, Manchester
Tuesday 21 October 2025
Since forming in Dunedin in 2017, New Zealand's Mild Orange have become a band belonging to the world that has built an international following on the back of songs that have unfolded like secrets shared between friends and lovers. Or as Bi...
Amyl and the Sniffers
O2 Victoria Warehouse, Manchester
Wednesday 22 October 2025
Punk animals Amyl and The Sniffers have risen up from the sticky carpets of Melbourne's underground music scene to storm the world stage. Renowned for their chaotic, ball-tearing live show, Dec Martens (guitar), Bryce Wilson (drums) and Gus...Those Damn Crows
Albert Hall, Manchester
Wednesday 22 October 2025
 Modern Rock's unstoppable force, Welsh powerhouse Those Damn Crows have gone from strength to strength since achieving an official UK Top 15 with their sophomore album 'Point Of No Return' in 2020 and reaching no.3 with their 2023 follo...John Bramwell (I Am Kloot)
The Strines Nightingale, Stockport
Wednesday 22 October 2025
The songwriter and frontman of Manchester three-piece, I Am Kloot also possesses an enviable back catalogue as a solo artist - previously known around his hometown as Johnny Dangerously - and continues to work on new material under the guis...Gregory Alan Isakov
Albert Hall, Manchester
Thursday 23 October 2025
Recently nominated for a Grammy award for Best Folk Album, the Colorado based South African horticulturist-turned-musician Gregory Alan Isakov has cast an impressive presence on the indie-rock and folk worlds with his five full-length studi...The Royston Club
Manchester Academy, Manchester
Thursday 23 October 2025
The Royston Club are the Wrexham band tipped by Gigwise as 'the new band from Wales most likely to do a Catfish'. Despite only being active for two years, the young four-piece have already completed two UK headline tours totalling 30 dates,...SPANISH LOVE SONGS
New Century Hall, Manchester
Thursday 23 October 2025
Los Angeles based punk band Spanish Love Songs are self-described as "grouchrockers" making "music for fans of boxed wine, divorce, and crushing self-doubt", tapping into the emotions we all seem to feel but harbour. ...Echoes of the Bunnymen - An Aural Tribute to Echo & The Bunnymen
Night & Day Cafe, Manchester
Thursday 23 October 2025
Echoes of the Bunnymen are an aural tribute to the alternative Fab Four. "A bloody good tribute, go check them out" - Will Sergeant (Echo & The Bunnymen). After Will Sergeant bought tickets and surprised Echoes of the Bunnymen by showing up...Sunflower Bean
Yes, Manchester
Thursday 23 October - Thursday 11 December 2025
New York glam rockers described by Billboard as "even though no one in Sunflower Bean is of legal drinking age, the Brooklyn indie trio's Human Ceremony is one of the most fully realized, sonically eclectic debut albums (everything from ps...The Velvet Hands
Gullivers, Manchester
Thursday 23 October 2025
London-via-Cornwall indie rockers The Velvet Hands blend hedonistic hooks reminiscent of The Strokes with a slacker kind of storytelling plucked straight from Pavement's playbook, delivered with an easy-going, lackadaisical charm. ...Jessica Winter
Yes, Manchester
Thursday 23 October 2025
Now Wave presents Jessica Winter at YES Basement on 23rd October 2025...
The Divine Comedy
The Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
Friday 24 October 2025
Having now completed his third full decade as a recording artist, The Divine Comedy (aka Neil Hannon) is back. With monumental tracks 'National Express', 'Something For The Weekend', 'Songs of Love', 'Our Mutual Friend', 'A Lady of A Certa...Counting Crows
O2 Apollo, Manchester
Friday 24 October 2025
Introspective Californian roots rockers with a string of high-profile hits including Mr Jones and Accidentally In Love. It's easy to see Counting Crows as a band out of time. While their neighbours to the north spent the early 90s backing t...Spacey Jane
