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Upcoming shows: Federico Albanese... Amelia Coburn... Hayden Thorpe & Propellor Ensemble... Jerron Paxton... Lauren Housley & The Northern Cowboys... Toria Wooff... Sam Amidon... Throwing Muses... Shotgun Jimmie... Jenny Don’t and the Spurs... Lael Neale... Adam Hopper & The Wimps... Niamh Regan... Basia Bulat... AVAWAVES... Beans on Toast... Nick Shoulders... Will Stratton... Joshua Burnside... Lightheaded + Jeanines... Lily Seabird... The Burning Hell... Bremer/McCoy... Blue Bendy... James Yorkston & Nina Persson... The Beths... Natalie Bergman... British Birds... Jolie Holland... Ye Vagabonds... Grant-Lee Phillips... Allo Darlin’... Robert Forster... Martha Tilston... Kathryn Williams... Lilly Hiatt... The Lovely Eggs... Albertine Sarges... Jamie Duffy... Joep Beving... Willy Mason... The Unthanks... BC Camplight... Penguin Cafe... Junior Brother... Will Varley... Jim Moray...

Lily Seabird

When: 7.30pm on Monday 1 September 2025 Where: Gullivers, 109 Oldham Street, Manchester, M4 1LW We’re delighted to be working with Lily Seabird for the first time! Since 2023, Lily Seabird’s life has been in perpetual motion, spending nearly half of that time on the road performing her own music and as a touring bassist. While […]

 

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. […]

 

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 song-writer and author James Yorkston joins forces with Nina Persson (The Cardigans) once more and return with a brand new […]

 

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 […]

 

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 Lilly Hiatt 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, […]

 

Ye Vagabonds

When: 7.30pm on Thursday 2 October 2025 Where: YES Pink Room, 38 Charles Street, Manchester, M1 7DB We’re excited to welcome Ye Vagabonds back – this time, to YES! Brothers Brían and Diarmuid Mac Gloinn – aka Ye Vagabonds – grew up playing music together around their hometown of Carlow, a small town in the southeast […]