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Upcoming shows: Beans on Toast... Later Youth... Nick Shoulders... Will Stratton... 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... Chloe Foy... Grant-Lee Phillips... Allo Darlin’... Robert Forster... Jeffrey Lewis & The Voltage... Martha Tilston... Vega Trails... 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...

Mano McLaughlin

When: 7.30pm on Friday 5 April 2019 Where: The Castle Hotel, 66 Oldham Street, Manchester M4 1LE We’re delighted to be helping Mano McLaughlin launch his new album! Mano McLaughlin is one of the most authentic and unique songwriters in the country. Revered and cherished by his peers but without sharing their acclaim, he is the UK’s […]

 

CC Smugglers

When: 7pm on Friday 5 April 2019 Where: Soup Kitchen, 31-33 Spear Street, Manchester M1 1DF We’re delighted to be bringing CC Smugglers back to Manchester – this time, with their debut album! CC Smugglers‘ long awaited debut album is finally announced. How High, released on 29 March 2019, is available to pre-order through the band’s pledge store, […]

 

Dan Mangan

When: 7pm on Saturday 6 April 2019 Where: YES (Basement), 38 Charles Street, Manchester M1 7DB We’re delighted to be working with Dan Mangan for the first time – plus special guest Steven Adams! Over the course of 10 years, Dan Mangan has gone from a bearded 20-something troubadour playing coffee shop open mics to earning top […]

 

Skinny Lister

When: 7.30pm on Saturday 6 April 2019 Where: Club Academy, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PR We’re delighted to be welcoming Skinny Lister back to Manchester! As music fans we’re only ever given fragments of lives well lived, and we scrabble vicariously through them. Skinny Lister, though, have really given us as much as they can since […]

 

Steve Gunn

When: 7.30pm on Monday 8 April 2019 Where: The Deaf Institute, 135 Grosvenor Street, Manchester M1 7HE We’re delighted to be welcoming Steve Gunn back to Manchester – this time, to the Deaf Institute! For over a decade, guitarist/vocalist Steve Gunn has been one the American music’s most pivotal figures – conjuring immersive and psychedelic sonic landscapes both live and […]

 

John Fairhurst

When: 7pm on Wednesday 10 April 2019 Where: Gullivers, 109 Oldham Street, Manchester, M4 1LW We’re delighted to be working with John Fairhurst for the first time! London-based John Fairhurst makes heavy blues for heavy times. In equal parts revealing, vulgar, cathartic and thrilling, the virtuoso guitarist is channelling the discontent felt in the world to pay […]

 

Liela Moss

When: 7.30pm on Thursday 11 April 2019 Where: Gullivers, 109 Oldham Street, Manchester, M4 1LW PLEASE NOTE: Due to unforeseen circumstances, this show is cancelled. Refunds are available from the point of purchase – and watch this space for details of a future date. We’re delighted to be working with the Duke Spirit’s Liela Moss! Released through […]

 

Holy Moly & The Crackers

When: 7pm on Saturday 13 April 2019 Where: Band on the Wall, 26 Swan Street, Manchester M4 5JZ We’re delighted to be working with Holy Moly & The Crackers again – this time, at Band on the Wall! Newcastle’s Holy Moly & The Crackers are one of the country’s hardest working bands. You might call that a […]

 

Irma Vep

When: 8pm on Saturday 13 April 2019 Where: Partisan Collective, 19 Cheetham Hill Road, Manchester, M4 4FY We’re delighted to be working with Irma Vep again – this time, at Partisan Collective, with a quadruple bill! Irma Vep is a loner, a joker, a roamer, a ribald construct riddled with both earnest anxiety and mercurial […]

 

William the Conqueror

When: 7pm on Thursday 18 April 2019 Where: The Deaf Institute, 135 Grosvenor Street, Manchester M1 7HE We’re delighted to be promoting William the Conqueror’s return to Manchester – this time, at the Deaf Institute! A character, a mythology, the flicker of a younger self, William the Conqueror is many things, but in simplest terms it is the name of […]