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Upcoming shows: Francis of Delirium... Robyn Hitchcock... Jim Ghedi... Juni Habel... Kristin Hersh... Dateline... Elanor Moss... Jake Xerxes Fussell + Naima Bock... Paahto & The Bull... Lemoncello... Ben P Williams... John Craigie... Will Samson... Deradoorian... Penelope Isles... Toria Wooff... Gustaffson... Matthew and the Atlas... Flora Hibberd... Spafford Campbell... Zoh Amba... The Sheepdogs... Tropical Fuck Storm... Jesca Hoop... Adam Hopper & the Wimps... Swansea Sound... Jack Wyllie... Amelia Coburn... Brown Wimpenny... Luke Hart... Mathias Kom + Nev Clay... James Yorkston... The Unthanks In Winter... Bella Hardy... Cat Clyde... Josh Rouse... Hayden Thorpe... True Mountain Laurel... Lael Neale... Pokey LaFarge... The Reds, Pinks and Purples... Lisa LeBlanc... Joshua Burnside... Lindisfarne...

When: 7.30pm on Thursday 24 September 2026
Where: YES Basement, 38 Charles Street, Manchester, M1 7DB

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We’re delighted to welcome Francis of Delirium back – this time, to YES Basement!

Francis of Delirium, AKA Luxembourg’s breakout indie star Jana Bahrich, makes a triumphant return with new single “Little Black Dress”, out now via Dalliance Recordings. The new track is Francis of Delirium’s first new music since critically acclaimed debut album Lighthouse. The release of “Little Black Dress” coincides with the final night of a seven date EU tour with Blondshell.

“Little Black Dress” is a soaring slice of power pop that’s as catchy as it is cathartic. In singular Francis of Delirium style, guitars and drums crescendo with sugar-rush vocal melodies. A sting of Gen-Z melancholy reminds why Jana’s heart-on-sleeve, emotionally intelligent songwriting forms such a strong connection with her fans.

Speaking on “Little Black Dress” Jana says: “’Coming home fresh off a tour opening for bôa, playing to all these kids excited about guitar music, and heading into the Blondshell dates, I wanted to put out a song that captures the energy and messiness of playing live and being on stage. It’s a song about the anticipation of going out, the hope, the desperation, and the ultimate disappointment.”

It’s been a whirlwind 18 months for Francis of Delirium since their debut album Lighthouse was released in March 2024. Named as one the Guardian’s Readers Favourite Albums of 2024, proclaimed “Luxembourg’s first Indie Queen” by Uncut, whilst NME lauded the band for “putting Luxembourg on the map”.

Without stopping to catch a breath, Francis of Delirium undertook an extensive EU and UK tour, followed by 11 headline dates in the US and Canada, during which time she stopped in for an electric KEXP live session of single “Give It Back To Me” as well as winning over the team at NPR.

After a summer of festivals including a huge set at Primavera Sound, Francis of Delirium was back in the UK this June supporting bôa, the band having reformed following an incredible TikTok renaissance for their track “Duvet”. Soon after was a bucket-list support slot with no other than Alanis Morissette on home turf in Luxembourg, Francis of Delirium now play the final night a seven day run with US alt-rock icon Blondshell, having played to fans in Paris, Amsterdam, Berlin and finishing tonight in Cologne.

In July 2025 the opening track from Lighthouse – “Ballet Dancers (Never Love Again)” – was featured in Lena Dunham’s hit Netflix series Too Much.

‘Capturing a similar melancholy sparkle to indie favourites such as Japanese Breakfast and Snail Mail, its 11 tracks encapsulate both bittersweet, desperate yearning and a breathless new romance’ – NME

‘Jana Bahrich showcases a remarkably contemporary approach to songwriter-rock on her debut, reflecting a sensibility akin to the music of Boygenius, Wolf Alice, or Soccer Mommy’ – Rolling Stone Germany

Special guest is May Payne. May Payne makes music for the heavy feelers. She finds unity in what might otherwise be disparate influences: the warmth and organicism of Big Thief; the heady emotional intensity of My Chemical Romance; the classic songcraft of Bob Dylan. Honesty, authenticity and unfiltered self-expression are at the heart of her emo-folk style. Her latest singles, Pennsylvania and The News, are cathartic and intimate, offering a glimpse of what’s to come with more music due later this year.

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When: 7.30pm on Saturday 26 September 2026
Where: Hallé at St Michael’s, 36-38 George Leigh Street, Ancoats, Manchester M4 5DG

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We’re delighted to welcome Robyn Hitchcock back to Manchester!

With a career now spanning six decades, Robyn Hitchcock remains a truly one-of-a-kind artist – surrealist rock ‘n’ roller, iconic troubadour, guitarist, poet, painter, and performer. An unparalleled, deeply individualistic songwriter and stylist, Hitchcock has traversed many genres with humor, intelligence and originality over 30 albums and seemingly infinite live performances.

From The Soft Boys’ proto-psych-punk and The Egyptians’ Dadaist pop to solo masterpieces like 1984’s milestone I Often Dream of Trains and 1990’s Eye, Hitchcock has crafted a strikingly original oeuvre rife with sagacious observation, astringent wit, recurring marine life, mechanised rail services, cheese, Clint Eastwood, and innumerable finely drawn characters, real and imagined.

Tour support comes from Emma Swift. Emma Swift is an Australian-born songwriter, currently residing in Nashville, TN. A gifted singer inspired by Sandy Denny, Joni Mitchell, Marianne Faithfull and a plethora of dead poets, her sound is a blend of classic folk, Americana and indie rock.

In August 2020, she released the critically acclaimed Blonde on the Tracks, a Laurel Canyon-inspired reimagining of some of her favourite Bob Dylan tunes on Tiny Ghost Records. The album received Best of 2020 accolades from Rolling Stone, Nashville Scene, No Depression, The Guardian and more. Her new album The Resurrection Game was released on Tiny Ghost Records in September 2025.

This concert takes place in Hallé at St Michael’s – a former Roman Catholic church, which was founded in 1859 and became the heart of the Little Italy Community in Ancoats.

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When: 7.30pm on Wednesday 30 September 2026
Where: Gullivers, 109 Oldham Street, Manchester, M4 1LW

We’re delighted to welcome Jim Ghedi and his band back to Gullivers!

Jim Ghedi hails from Sheffield, South Yorkshire and although clearly well versed in the history of folk music, he stands out as a torch bearer for a new generation of respectful yet experimental performers.

His album Wasteland, released in March 2025, saw wide acclaim and was recognised as a profoundly bold sonic statement that is some of the most rich, far-reaching and ambitious work in the Folk genre – pushing the boundaries of what folk music can be. His third album released on the Basin Rock record label, this new sound emulates a more brooding, darker and electronic world which is mirrored in his piercing lyrics and singing. He draws from social observations, contemporary songwriting, historical and traditional material.

This year, Ghedi will also release his first film soundtrack for A24’s thriller The Death of Robin Hood, after being approached by director Michael Sarnoski. A dark adaptation of the 17th Century folk-tale Robin Hood’s Death, the film is out in the UK in September 2026, and stars Hugh Jackman, Jodie Comer, Bill Skarsgård and more.

Over the years, Ghedi has performed headline tours and festivals across the UK, Ireland and Europe, as well as supporting and touring with bands such as Lankum, Stick in the Wheel, Richard Dawson, Martin Carthy and Shirley Collins.

‘The Sheffield folk musician gets brilliantly apocalyptic on this rallying, medieval-tinged battle cry’ – the Guardian

‘Wasteland is exactly where British folk music should be today. A masterwork’ – 5/5, Morning Star

‘Wasteland is a folk renaissance masterpiece’ – 9/10, The Line Of Best Fit

Local support comes from Lawyr. Aisling Davis is a sound artist, composer, and researcher from the North of England who merges field recordings, soundscapes and experimental sound. Her work uses sound, sculpture, and installation to navigate history, marine ecology, architecture, underwater archaeology, food security, and utilitarian design. Drawing on recordings from the Arctic and the ocean, she creates immersive works that explore the relationships between environment, memory, and material culture. She also makes work under the name Inland Taipan, and paints under the name Thalia Styx.

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When: 7.30pm on Wednesday 30 September 2026
Where: The Abbey, Manchester Science Park, Guildhall Close, Manchester M15 6SY

We’re delighted to welcome Juni Habel back – for our first show at The Abbey!

Juni Habel‘s fragile finger-picked lullabies warm themselves by the open fire with her rich intimate voice atop twinkling arrangements and strange percussive instrumentation. Like glowing embers in the dark, these songs are odes to life and death, the beauty of belonging and human kinship with nature.

The Norwegian’s first album in three years, Evergreen In Your Mind, was released this spring on Basin Rock, and follows her breakthrough Carvings LP. The songs remain delicate, Habel’s voice playing an elegant lead role – but there are fluctuations too. The small shifts in Habel’s sound mark a notable stride forward, with more focus on the groove. Playfulness was embraced and, perhaps most importantly, patience played a fundamental role in shaping every element of this incredible set of torch folk songs. Brushed with the gentle touch of pastoral psychedelia, these are songs that sit in half-light, in the gaps between where we are and where we might be.

‘One of the finest folk albums in recent memory’ -Bandcamp, Album of the Day

‘Life affirming songs that establish Habel as a distinctive, modern folk voice’ – Uncut

‘Sharing the same dusky light as Jessica Pratt’s records’ – the Guardian

‘Habel’s voice is bright and clean like a blade of fresh glass — somewhere between Nick Drake and Julia Jacklin‘ – Stereogum

Special guest is Luke Morris from Brown Wimpenny. Banjoist Luke Morris pairs old hymns and Appalacian songs with industrial and natural soundscapes, in search of immersive and transportive folk music.

This show takes place at The Abbey – formerly The Old Abbey Taphouse, located in Manchester Science Park, a short walk from the University of Manchester Students Union.

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When: 7.30pm on Thursday 1 & Friday 2 October 2026
Where: Hallé at St Michael’s, 36-38 George Leigh Street, Ancoats, Manchester M4 5DG

We’re delighted to welcome Kristin Hersh back, for two intimate shows at St Michael’s!

Over the last three decades, Kristin Hersh’s prolific career has seen her heralded queen of the alternative release. Latest solo record, Clear Pond Road, released in September 2023, is a cinematic road trip; a series of personal vignettes from a fiercely independent auteur, plush with layers of atonal, edgy-dreamy strings and mellotron.

It’s a watershed moment in a career overflowing with creative firsts and inspirational thinking, an elegant piece of personal reportage. It’s a sensuous, life-affirming statement, a very personal memoir; it’s the a blossoming of a true icon of independence.

In 2018 Hersh announced a new partnership with Fire Records that made possible the release of her acclaimed tenth studio album, Possible Dust Clouds. Since then there’s been new releases from Throwing Muses (Sun Racket, 2020) and 50 Foot Wave (Black Pearl, 2022) along with new book Seeing Sideways (2022).

‘One of indie rock’s most fascinating figures’ according to the Guardian, Hersh has released over 20 solo records, with Throwing Muses and 50 Foot Wave to date. She is the author of an acclaimed memoir — based on her teenage diary — about a particularly eventful year, titled Rat Girl (or Paradoxical Undressing in the UK), which was named #8 on Rolling Stone’s 25 Greatest Rock Memoirs of all time. She later released her albums Crooked (2010), Wyatt at the Coyote Palace (2016) and Throwing Muses’ Purgatory/Paradise (2013) as groundbreaking books of music, artwork, essays and lyrics. NPR Books said of Hersh’s latest work, Don’t Suck, Don’t Die, about her friendship with the late Vic Chesnutt: ‘Not only one of the best books of the year, it’s one of the most beautiful rock memoirs ever written.’

Previously, the juxtaposition of light and dark has been essential to the drama of Throwing Muses and 50 Foot Wave, but this new record is something of a departure: more inward looking. Produced and performed by Hersh, Clear Pond Road is quieter yet more outspoken, its inventive musical logic underpinned by the ambience of field recordings.

‘Passion sounds less angry here, more grateful, I think,’ Kristin says, ‘sweeter, sadder, and somehow no less alive. Honestly? It’s a love story and its erratic heart rate reflects this. As textured and raunchy as real life songs like these can get, the sonic vocabulary is delicate, so I had to respect that and keep it grounded with car engines and rain in New England, then whistling ducks and wind chimes in New Orleans. Which sounds wistful, like a blurry photograph.’

Last year, Hersh has returned with a new Throwing Muses album, Moonlight Concessions.

In 2026, Hersh releases new single Sundial – a dark, quietly haunting new single offering the first glimpse of new music with a full album to follow later this year.

These concerts takes place in Hallé at St Michael’s – a former Roman Catholic church, which was founded in 1859 and became the heart of the Little Italy Community in Ancoats.

These are 14+ shows. Under 16s must be accompanied by an adult. 

These shows are co-promoted with Please Please You and the Brudenell.

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When: 7.30pm on Friday 2 October 2026
Where: Gullivers, 109 Oldham Street, Manchester, M4 1LW

Previously in town supporting The Beths, we’re delighted to welcome Dateline back!

Dateline is the musical project of Katie Everingham. Since forming in 2017, the band has taken on many forms, but its trajectory has only continued upward following Everingham’s move to Te Whanganui-a-Tara/Wellington, NZ, and the release of the band’s second critically acclaimed album It’s All Downhill from Here. The album, written and performed alongside some of Wellington’s most exciting musical talent, cemented Dateline as one of the city’s standout acts.

Since then, Dateline has been a finalist for the Silver Scroll Award, sold out shows across Aotearoa, and toured the UK and Europe in support of Kiwi favourites The Beths. Everingham continues to write and create with fervour, showcasing her vulnerable yet astute storytelling, paired with irresistible hooks and a raw, dynamic energy.

Dateline’s live shows are an unforgettable blend of humour, emotion and undeniable charisma. Simply put, they’re not to be missed.

Main support comes from Zara Smile. Zara Smile, an emerging queer alternative rock artist, makes music that refuses to sit still. Manchester-based, Smile weaves raw, unfiltered storytelling through explosive guitars, restless rhythms and moments of unexpected tenderness, creating a sound that is as intimate as it is unapologetic. Pulling from the chaos of Riot Grrrl, the sharpness of indie rock and the expansive weirdness of the alternative scene, Smile intertwines vulnerability, storytelling and frustration to explore love, identity, growing up and everything that refuses to stay neatly resolved. Their songs feel like a whispered confession one second and a full-volume release the next. Zara Smile is carving out a world of their own: messy, honest, loud and impossible to box in.

Opening the show is Bonniesongs. Bonniesongs is the moniker of Irish-born, Australian-based multi-instrumentalist, songwriter and producer Bonnie Stewart. Blending ethereal vocals, detuned guitars and atmospheric textures, she creates a distinctive form of ‘ethereal grunge’ that draws from art-folk, dream pop, psychedelia, grunge and experimental rock. Since her 2019 debut Energetic Mind, Bonniesongs has released two albums, most recently Strangest Feeling in 2025 via Impressed Recordings, and toured alongside artists including Fink, Nick Mulvey, The Beths, Joan As Police Woman, Gordi and Sorcha Richardson. Alongside her solo work, Bonnie is active across Sydney’s independent and experimental music scene, performing with several projects and collaborating internationally. With new music due towards the end of 2026 and further material planned for 2027, Bonniesongs continues to evolve a sound that is intimate, visceral, hypnotic and entirely her own.

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When: 7pm on Saturday 3 October 2026
Where: Low Four Studio, Deansgate Mews, Great Northern, Manchester M3 4EN

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We’re delighted to welcome Elanor Moss to Low Four Studio!

Off the back of tours with the likes of Foxwarren (Andy Shauf), Flyte and Christian Lee Hutson, Elanor Moss releases debut album The Knife, The Needle via Merge Records on 21 August 2026.

Recorded live to tape over the course of two days, the album evokes the starkness of artists such as Sibylle Baier, and the poetic sensibilities of psych-folk greats before her. A strange and shadowy record of quiet epiphanies.

“Oh and the way that it feels
To know you
Oh and the way it reveals
I don’t know you”

So begins The Way That It Feels, the concluding track of Moss’ debut full-length album. In two couplets, sung over birdsong and Moss’ classical guitar, she manages to capture an entire universe created in the bond between two people. The couplets mirror each other and hang, like a veil, over the rest of the song.

Regardless of time, intimacy, love, tenderness, and the way those things can change a person and a relationship, there is, she asserts, an immutable fact to these things: that whatever she learns from them, there will always be something unknowable just beyond.

‘With shades of Joanna Newsom‘s dynamic originality, Elanor Moss has a stark subtlety that bowls you over in its intensity’ – CLASH

‘The biggest secret weapon in British folk right now’ – Far Out Magazine

Special guest is Matthew Herd. Matthew Herd is a Scottish songwriter and saxophonist living in east London. He writes for and performs with Seafarers, an acclaimed group of six long-term musical collaborators, who have been described as spanning the worlds of indie rock, chamber pop, and jazz.

This show takes place at Low Four – a recording studio situated on Deansgate Mews in the Great Northern warehouse. This intimate venue features a fully stocked Cloudwater bar.

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When: 7.30pm on Saturday 3 October 2026
Where: Hallé St Peter’s, 40 Blossom Street, Ancoats, Manchester, M4 6BF

We’re excited to be working with Jake Xerxes Fussell again – plus special guest Naima Bock!

Singer, guitarist, and folk music interpreter Jake Xerxes Fussell announces his new album, The Old Beloved Path, out 18 September via Fat Possum Records and releases the lead single, Rock Island Line. Over six unique and very personal studio albums, Fussell has found his musical future by reimagining, reorchestrating, and reunifying the past. By combining different traditional music sources in a completely original way, he routinely creates fresh works of art that are at once rooted in history and ingeniously modern.

It’s Fussell’s inspired intuition that remakes a classic American folk song, like today’s Rock Island Line, into something that still rings with inherent wisdom but is completely his own. In the past, Fussell says he might have avoided a song like Rock Island Line because it seemed too commonplace to him – many folk singers had already done it. But after listening to a recording of the song by Lonnie Donegan, something about the incantation of the chorus struck a chord. In typical Fussell fashion, his remarkable ear and intellect took over.

‘The song struck me as very beautiful, but just singing the verses wasn’t working for me. I couldn’t relate,’ Fussell comments. ‘So, I wound up putting it together with an old English nursery rhyme that I had been kicking around. “Wire, briar, limberlock /How many geese is in our flock?” and “If you want to ride you got to ride it like you’re flyin, get your ticket at the station on the Rock Island Line.” Marrying those two things, I felt like something worked, it felt like a song to me.’

The son of two artists and documentarians in their own right, Fussell grew up in Georgia around a community of people who were documenting traditional culture and craftways like storytelling, log cabin building, and basketmaking. Imbued with this deep respect for the past as well as an unquenchable intellectual curiosity, he grew up appreciating the beauty in those supposed lost arts and remains privy to them in a unique way.

‘For people in the folk music world, songs are their religion,’ states Fussell. ‘But traditional music is not a bee stuck in amber. I tend to think of everyone who plays traditional music as being on a spectrum from conservative to wildly creative. I am somebody who tends to sit on the edge of those two worlds. I don’t always present these songs in a historical context. I have to relate to them personally. I approach these songs through my own worldview.’

Recorded in North Carolina, The Old Beloved Path was mixed by producer Ben Whiteley (The Weather Station), who has also played bass on tour with Fussell. Friends Dominic Billett, Isa Burke, Wayne Horvitz and Ken Whiteley add their instrumental voices to Fussell’s singular musical amalgams. As producer, Whiteley fulfilled Fussell’s desire to make an album that was more a document of musicians playing live together in a room, dwelling less in atmospherics and musical elaboration. Working together, they intentionally limited their palette – focusing less on all the things a song could be, and honing in on the essential.

The songs Fussell chose for The Old Beloved Path are songs he has heard for years, but many of them felt newly illuminated – hitting different.

‘Traditional music gets more intense the older I get. The way that I see the world is through these songs. The world of traditional music has been such a gift to me. If nothing else, a lifelong companion.’

‘[Fussell] is a folksinger in the truest sense, collecting ideas and melodies and lyrics from distant and disparate traditions, looking for the things that unite us in our humanity’ — The New Yorker

‘[Fussell] is one of the great magpies of American song, collecting forgotten, tarnished gems with a folklorist’s zeal’ – the Guardian

‘Maybe the leading interpreter of American folk music right now’ – Ann Powers, NPR

Special guest is Naima Bock. Most of the writing of Naima Bock’s second album, Below A Massive Dark Land (Sub Pop), was a solitary affair. It may not sound it – it’s made up of strong, purposeful arrangements with a huge host of musicians; filled with cradling space and warm light. This will also come as a surprise to anyone who has seen Naima perform in the time since the release of her 2022 debut Giant Palm, undoubtedly a communal experience.

With a band of ten, three, or even just solo, when Naima plays there’s a rare bond between the musicians on stage and the audience. In their interview with her, The Quietus declared “after every song the applause and cheering is immense, so immense in fact that it seems to be coming from a different place than the usual formalities of a live show, a link between performer and artist forged somewhere deeper and more personal.”

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When: 7.30pm on Monday 5 October 2026
Where: Gullivers, 109 Oldham Street, Manchester, M4 1LW

We’re delighted to welcome Paahto & The Bull to Gullivers!

Paahto & The Bull is the guitar-duo project of Patrick “Paahto” Cummins and John Francis Flynn. Having met and played together since 2011 and having cut their teeth at The Maple Hotel on Dublin’s Gardiner Street, Paahto and John helped form the Irish traditional group Skipper’s Alley in 2013 and would remain long-term sparring partners and an integral cog in Dublin’s traditional and folk music communities. Once There Was A King was another of their musical endeavours which reached into a progressive musical space in its short-lived timespan. However, as with any collaboration between these two players, Paahto & The Bull is beyond a meeting of two musical minds and encompasses a very personal element.

During the covid-19 pandemic, the pair experimented with music on two guitars inspired by Paahto’s interest in bluegrass flat-picking and John’s very original approach to accompaniment. Beginning with just an Instagram page to post some amateur material, Paahto & The Bull decided to take the project more seriously and gradually worked towards recording an album with the help of Brendan Jenkinson and Ben Rawlins. The ethos for the duo has always been to focus on simplicity and only features the musicians playing their guitars despite them both being multi- instrumentalists and singers.

The music of Paahto & The Bull is a very honest reflection of the unique kind of sound that Cummins and Flynn have consistently created with each other over the past fifteen years and, although one might have expected their initial release to be a banjo/guitar product, the lateral thinking that went into choosing a guitar duet is also very in line with the particular flavour of progressive that these lads strive for. The statement is firm: ‘This is what we play. This is how we play. And this is what we are going to play.’

Having signed with Claddagh Records in late 2025, Paahto & The Bull release their debut album The 123 in August 2026.

Special guest is Ben McElroy. Ben is an ambient/folk/experimental musician originally from The Wirral but now residing in Nottingham. He combines acoustic instruments with computer processing to create folk inspired soundscapes. Ben has been writing music since his teens, with just a basic grasp of guitar and even more basic recording equipment. Over the years he’s picked up more instruments and slightly better recording gear, and has been venturing out to perform live since 2022.

His album How I Learnt To Disengage From The Pack received folk album of the month in the Guardian in January 2022. In 2025 he released the PRS-funded Elkwort on Laaps. Here he was accompanied by artists Debbie Armour (Burd Ellen), Nick Jonah Davis and Elinor Rowlands. For 2026, Ben is releasing a new EP every month responding sonically to St Anns Allotments in Nottingham. Featuring field recordings, conversations and new composition, Allotment Tapes follows the arc of the seasons through the oldest and largest allotment site in Europe.

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When: 7.30pm on Wednesday 7 October 2026
Where: Gullivers, 109 Oldham Street, Manchester, M4 1LW

We’re delighted to welcome Lemoncello to Gullivers!

It’s hard not to feel seen by Lemoncello, a band whose live performances and recordings shimmer with the tones of modern Ireland. Their upcoming release, Perfect Place, evolves from the band’s folk-soaked roots and confidently explores intricate new shapes. Marking a bold new chapter for singer-songwriter Laura Quirke and cellist-arranger Claire Kinsella, Perfect Place is imbued with assuredness, encompassing full band recordings that weave synths and electronic percussion into the band’s staple organic sound.

Through an intimate and devastatingly personal style of storytelling, the new album reflects upon the the modern tension between togetherness and alienation & the chaos of human nature with radical acceptance and compassion. Perfect Place follows on from the band’s debut self-titled record, which received critical acclaim from BBC 6 Music, Clash, The Line Of Best Fit.

Described as ‘direct and refreshing’, ‘cathartic’ by critics at Mojo and RNR, the duo speak to listeners in the way that an ex or an old friend might – cultivating a sense of consolation that leaves audiences forgetting there’s a world outside of the venue. Lemoncello’s body of work is equally familiar and confronting, driven by the palpable chemistry of a long-term friendship.

Local support comes from Quincey May Brown. Quincey’s second album Careful, Pockets is out now on Other Shoe Records. Marked by her distinctively tender vocals, acerbically playful lyrics and harp-propelled textural arrangements, DIY musician Quincey May Brown is a singular force. Raised in Northamptonshire and now based in Manchester, her songwriting has been praised for its depth and subtle humour.

Following the release of her debut album, Basic Surgeon, the new album expands on Quincey May Brown’s intoxicating exploration of both organic and non-organic sounds in unexpected ways. Quincey leans away from folk conventions, instead creating a world of strings, drones and woodwind, dancing to the beat of its own off-kilter drum. Careful, Pockets is a collection of stories on loss, human nature and childhood scrapes.

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