NEW WAVE MUSIC IN MANCHESTER
Most Popular New Wave Music in Manchester
Sat 20 Apr 2024 - Thu 20 Mar 2025
Sat 3 Aug - Sat 12 Oct 2024
Fri 12 Apr - Fri 3 May 2024
Fri 24 May - Thu 6 Jun 2024
The Liquid Engineers - Gary Numan Tribute
Saturday 23 March 2024
Gary Numan has been cited as a major influence on acts such as Nine Inch Nails to Prince,his music has been covered by acts from Beck,Blur, Basement Jaxx, Africa Bambatta Marilyn Manson, Little Boots and many more. Standing within th...
EXTC
Friday 29 March 2024
It's been a long time coming (over 40 years, in fact) but Terry Chambers, the drummer for XTC, is back on the road with his new band, EXTC (named and approved by Andy Partridge), bringing the XTC songbook to audiences worldwide - including ...
Martin McAloon (Prefab Sprout)
Friday 29 March 2024
Martin McAloon will be performing a large selection of hit songs from Prefab Sprout's extensive archive celebrating over 40 years of his brother, Paddy McAloon's writing. This will be a rare opportunity to hear these incredible songs perfor...
EMPATHY TEST
Thursday 4 April 2024
Formed in London by childhood friends Isaac Howlett and Adam Relf, the band's "big dramatic sound swoons ecstatically between the nostalgic and immediate" (KCRW), earning them comparisons with classic acts such as Depeche Mode and A Flock o...
China Crisis
Friday 12 April 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...
China Crisis
Friday 19 April - Friday 3 May 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...
Calling Planet Earth
Saturday 20 April 2024
Symphonically new on stage, the music of Duran Duran, Spandau Ballet, Human League, Ultravox, Tears For Fears, Depeche Mode, OMD, Japan, ABC, Soft Cell and more... "The Show that Defines a Decade" ...
The Beat featuring Ranking Jnr
Saturday 20 April 2024
With 1980's Top 10 hits like "Can't Get Used To Losing You", "Mirror In The Bathroom", "Tears Of A Clown", "Ranking Full Stop", "Too Nice To Talk To", "Hands Off, She's Mine", and "Twist & Crawl", the Birmingham ska legends fused Latin, s...
Calling Planet Earth
Friday 3 May 2024
Symphonically new on stage, the music of Duran Duran, Spandau Ballet, Human League, Ultravox, Tears For Fears, Depeche Mode, OMD, Japan, ABC, Soft Cell and more... "The Show that Defines a Decade" ...
Thompson Twins' Tom Bailey
Monday 13 May 2024
Thompson Twins' Tom Bailey celebrates the 40th Anniversary of the release of The double Platinum, UK chart-topping, 1984 album "Into The Gap", which spawned the hits "Hold Me Now", "You Take Me Up", and "Doctor! Doctor!" ...
The Liquid Engineers - Gary Numan Tribute
Saturday 18 May 2024
Gary Numan has been cited as a major influence on acts such as Nine Inch Nails to Prince,his music has been covered by acts from Beck,Blur, Basement Jaxx, Africa Bambatta Marilyn Manson, Little Boots and many more. Standing within th...
Gary Numan
Friday 24 May - Thursday 6 June 2024
London-born Gary Anthony James Webb helped turn the UK's budding new wave scene on its head in the late '70s. He launched his music career by starting the band Tubeway Army, who released their eponymous debut in 1978. At the time, he adopte...
Blancmange
Saturday 25 May 2024
The London electronic duo Neil Arthur (vocals, guitar) and Stephen Luscombe (keyboards) interlaced the arty, exotic dance rhythms of Talking Heads with the quirky melodrama of early-'80s British synth pop, enjoying success with four UK t...
Calling Planet Earth
Friday 19 July 2024
Symphonically new on stage, the music of Duran Duran, Spandau Ballet, Human League, Ultravox, Tears For Fears, Depeche Mode, OMD, Japan, ABC, Soft Cell and more... "The Show that Defines a Decade" ...
Squeeze
Saturday 3 August 2024
As one of the most traditional pop bands of the new wave, London's Squeeze provided one of the links between classic British guitar pop and post-punk providing the vehicle for the wry, subtle lyric writing of Chris Difford and traditiona...
Elvis Costello & Steve Nieve
Sunday 8 September 2024
Elvis Costello and Steve Nieve have announced a 15 date tour of the UK & Ireland for September 2024, playing selections from a songbook that is fifty years long and twice as deep. The collaboration of Elvis Costello and Steve Nieve has span...
Tubeway Days - The Gary Numan Live Experience 1979/80
Saturday 14 September 2024
The UK's best Gary Numan Tribute show delivers an evening of scintillating electronic music concentrating on the 1979/80 "Electronic" segment of Numan's career. A six piece band fronted by Chris Fielding, they will transport you back to th...
The The
Monday 30 September 2024
Matt Johnson's new wave / post-punk outfit The The spent 30 weeks on the UK chart with their 1986 album, Infected, following it up with the top-ten studio albums Mind Bomb (1989) and Dusk (1993). Lauded with critical acclaim, their ever-cha...
Nik Kershaw
Wednesday 9 October 2024
One of the most popular pop stars and talented songwriters of the '80s, Ipswich-raised Nik Kershaw served his apprenticeship playing guitar in jazz fusion and functions bands before shooting to fame worldwide in 1984 with the UK Top 5 singl...
Squeeze
Saturday 12 October 2024
As one of the most traditional pop bands of the new wave, London's Squeeze provided one of the links between classic British guitar pop and post-punk providing the vehicle for the wry, subtle lyric writing of Chris Difford and traditiona...
Pretenders
Monday 28 October 2024
The British Alt-Rock/New Wave outfit led by American Chrissie Hynde have scored thirteen UK Top 40 singles since 1979, including the chart-topping "Brass in Pocket" and Top 10 hits "I Go To Sleep", "Talk of the Town", "Hymn to Her", "Don't ...
Adam Ant
Sunday 3 November 2024
Pop icon Adam Ant returns with his UK Antics tour, with a set list that promises to get everyone on their feet. Performing his classic chart-topping singles and personal favourites, audiences will be thrilled with the return of live musi...
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...
Hugh Cornwell (The Stranglers)
Friday 29 November 2024
When future historians of music draw up a list of the movers and shakers who changed the modern musical landscape, there will be no doubt that North London-born Hugh Cornwell, the former leader and main songwriter of all The Stranglers' mos...
Calling Planet Earth
Thursday 20 March 2025
Symphonically new on stage, the music of Duran Duran, Spandau Ballet, Human League, Ultravox, Tears For Fears, Depeche Mode, OMD, Japan, ABC, Soft Cell and more... "The Show that Defines a Decade" ...