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Upcoming shows: Joshua Burnside... Lightheaded + Jeanines... Anna McLuckie... Lily Seabird... The Burning Hell... Bremer/McCoy... Daddy Long Legs... Blue Bendy... James Yorkston & Nina Persson... The Beths... Natalie Bergman... Rowena Wise... British Birds... Jolie Holland... Erin Rae... Ye Vagabonds... Frankie Archer... Chloe Foy... Grant-Lee Phillips... Allo Darlin’... Robert Forster... Jeffrey Lewis & The Voltage... Martha Tilston... Vega Trails... Gwenifer Raymond... Kathryn Williams... Lilly Hiatt... Constant Follower... The Lovely Eggs... Albertine Sarges... Jamie Duffy... Joep Beving... Admiral Fallow... Willy Mason... The Unthanks... BC Camplight... Holysseus Fly... Penguin Cafe... Junior Brother... Will Varley... Ríoghnach Connolly & Honeyfeet... Jesca Hoop... Jim Moray... The Dream Syndicate... The Besnard Lakes...

Joshua Burnside

When: 7pm on Friday 24 March 2023 Where: The Lodge at The Deaf Institute, 135 Grosvenor Street, Manchester M1 7HE We’re delighted to be working with Joshua Burnside for the first time! Joshua Burnside is an experimental folk songwriter, singer and producer. He takes influence from alternative electronica and Irish traditional song heritages, chopping and blending […]

 

His Lordship

When: 7.30pm on Friday 31 March 2023 Where: Gullivers, 109 Oldham Street, Manchester, M4 1LW PLEASE NOTE: This show is sold out! Watch this space for future His Lordship shows in Manchester. We’re delighted to be welcoming His Lordship to Manchester! His Lordship, the new project from guitarist James Walbourne (The Pretenders, The Pogues, The Rails) […]

 

The Courettes

When: 7pm on Wednesday 5 April 2023 Where: The Deaf Institute, 135 Grosvenor Street, Manchester M1 7HE We’re delighted to welcome The Courettes back – this time, to the Deaf Institute! The Courettes are an explosive rock duo from Denmark and Brazil who found the perfect blend between garage rock, 60s Girl Group, Wall of Sound, […]

 

Unthank : Smith

When: 7pm on Friday 7 April 2023 Where: Band on the Wall, 26 Swan Street, Manchester M4 5JZ We’re excited to welcome this collaboration between Rachel Unthank and Paul Smith to Band on the Wall. Two former Mercury Music Prize nominees Rachel Unthank (The Unthanks) and Paul Smith (Maxïmo Park) announce Nowhere And Everywhere, their debut […]

 

Nina Nastasia

When: 7.30pm on Monday 10 April 2023 Where: The Deaf Institute, 135 Grosvenor Street, Manchester M1 7HE We’re delighted to be working with Nina Nastasia! TW: SUICIDE ‘Riderless Horse is my first solo record, and it’s the first record my former partner, Kennan Gudjonsson, didn’t produce. ‘I haven’t made an album since 2010. I decided […]

 

William Crighton

When: 7.30pm on Thursday 13 April 2023 Where: Gullivers, 109 Oldham Street, Manchester, M4 1LW PLEASE NOTE: Sadly this show has been cancelled due to injury, with refunds available from the point of purchase. Here’s a message from William: ‘I am deeply saddened and very frustrated to announce that I have no choice but to cancel […]

 

Ailbhe Reddy

When: 7.30pm on Friday 14 April 2023 Where: Gullivers, 109 Oldham Street, Manchester, M4 1LW We’re delighted to be working with Ailbhe Reddy for the first time! Ailbhe Reddy has announced details of her new album Endless Affair – the follow-up to her critically acclaimed Choice Music Prize-nominated (Best Album) debut album Personal History – and […]

 

Shannon Lay

When: 7.30pm on Tuesday 18 April 2023 Where: Gullivers, 109 Oldham Street, Manchester, M4 1LW We’re delighted to be working with Shannon Lay for the first time! Geist feels like a window – or a mirror – into possibilities of the self and beyond. Shannon Lay’s latest album is tender intensity, placeless and ethereal. It exists […]

 

Withered Hand

When: 7.30pm on Thursday 20 April 2023 Where: Gullivers, 109 Oldham Street, Manchester, M4 1LW We’re delighted to welcome H!M favourite Withered Hand back to Manchester! Edinburgh-based cult indie songwriter Withered Hand (Dan Willson) is back with his first new album in nine years. How To Love was recorded with (Mogwai producer) Tony Doogan in Glasgow, […]

 

Neil Cowley

When: 7.30pm on Saturday 22 April 2023 Where: Hallé at St Michael’s, 36-38 George Leigh Street, Ancoats, Manchester M4 5DG We’re delighted to be working with Neil Cowley for the first time. Since disbanding his eponymous trio and becoming a solo artist in 2018, pianist Neil Cowley has introduced elements of ambient, electronic and neoclassical […]