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Upcoming shows: Basia Bulat... AVAWAVES... 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... Penguin Cafe... Junior Brother... Will Varley... Ríoghnach Connolly & Honeyfeet... Jesca Hoop... Jim Moray... The Dream Syndicate...

The Burning Hell

When: 7pm on Friday 5 September 2025 Where: YES Pink Room, 38 Charles Street, Manchester, M1 7DB We’re excited to be welcoming The Burning Hell back – to YES this time, with special guest Jon McKiel! The Burning Hell is the ongoing musical project of songwriter Mathias Kom and multi-instrumentalist Ariel Sharratt, often including additional comrades […]

 

Bremer/McCoy

When: 7pm on Saturday 13 September 2025 Where: Low Four Studio, Deansgate Mews, Great Northern, Manchester M3 4EN We’re delighted to present the Manchester debut by Danish duo Bremer/McCoy! With 400,000 monthly listeners, Bremer/McCoy have, against all odds, created their own subdued cosmos in a noisy era. Appropriately, Kosmos is the title of the duo’s sixth album. […]

 

Daddy Long Legs

When: 7.30pm on Tuesday 16 September 2025 Where: YES Pink Room, 38 Charles Street, Manchester, M1 7DB We’re delighted to welcome Daddy Long Legs back to Manchester! New York City’s most beloved blues bashers Daddy Long Legs have been huffing and puffing and blowing houses down on a nightly basis on their infinite world tour and […]

 

Blue Bendy

When: 7.30pm on Friday 19 September 2025 Where: Gullivers, 109 Oldham Street, Manchester, M4 1LW We’re excited to welcome Blue Bendy back – this time, to Gullivers! Blue Bendy have stretched out into vast new sonic terrain with their debut album So Medieval. Their two lead singles Mr Bubblegum – a joyously intricate piece of […]

 

James Yorkston & Nina Persson

When: 7.30pm on Friday 19 September 2025 Where: Hallé St Peter’s, 40 Blossom Street, Ancoats, Manchester, M4 6BF We’re delighted to welcome James Yorkston and Nina Persson back – this time, to Hallé St Peter’s! Acclaimed Scottish singer-songwriter James Yorkston has announced his brand new album Songs for Nina and Johanna to be released via Domino […]

 

The Beths

When: 7pm on Saturday 20 September 2025 Where: Albert Hall, 27 Peter Street, Manchester M2 5QR We’re delighted to welcome The Beths back to Manchester – this time, to Albert Hall! The Beths — the New Zealand-based quartet of vocalist Elizabeth Stokes, guitarist Jonathan Pearce, bassist Benjamin Sinclair, and drummer Tristan Deck — announce signing to […]

 

Natalie Bergman

When: 7pm on Wednesday 24 September 2025 Where: YES Pink Room, 38 Charles Street, Manchester, M1 7DB We’re excited to welcome Natalie Bergman back – this time, to YES. My Home is Not in This World is the much-anticipated follow-up to LA-based singer-songwriter Natalie Bergman’s critically acclaimed 2021 solo debut album Mercy. If you re-envisioned and […]

 

Rowena Wise

When: 7.30pm on Wednesday 24 September 2025 Where: Gullivers, 109 Oldham Street, Manchester, M4 1LW We’re delighted to welcome Rowena Wise back – this time, to Gullivers! Described by Clash as ‘carefully etched indie folk’, Rowena Wise delivers songs that have a newfound sense of honesty, holding space for all of life’s beauty and mess. Her […]

 

British Birds

When: 7.30pm on Thursday 25 September 2025 Where: Gullivers, 109 Oldham Street, Manchester, M4 1LW Following their appearance at Sounds From The Other City, we’re delighted to welcome British Birds back to Manchester! Hatched in 2023 via tape loops and cheap nylon stringed guitars, Chorley-based British Birds soar from the depths of psych-tinged melancholy to the […]

 

Jolie Holland

When: 7pm on Friday 12 September 2025 Where: YES Basement, 38 Charles Street, Manchester, M1 7DB We’re delighted to welcome Jolie Holland back to Manchester! Jolie Holland (born September 11, 1976 at Houston, Texas) is an American singer and performer who combines elements of folk, traditional country, jazz, and blues. Over the span of her career, […]