When: 7.30pm on Friday 12 June 2026
Where: Hallé St Peter’s, 40 Blossom Street, Ancoats, Manchester, M4 6BF

We’re excited to be working with Jesse Malin again!

Hailed by Rolling Stone as ‘a gritty troubadour of the streets,’ Jesse Malin released his solo debut, The Fine Art Of Self Destruction, to universal acclaim in 2003, with Uncut dubbing the album ‘an instant classic’ and The Times declaring that ‘there is simply nothing more you can demand from a great rock record’.

Over the next two decades, Malin would go on to release eight more similarly lauded solo albums while building a loyal community of diehard fans across the UK and Europe, spreading the gospel of New York rock and roll and PMA (Positive Mental Attitude) through sold-out headline tours and festival performances everywhere from Glastonbury to Hyde Park.

A true songwriter’s songwriter, Malin has recorded with and covered by Bruce Springsteen and Lucinda Williams, shared stages with The Replacements, The Gaslight Anthem, Green Day and Bob Weir, and seen his songs covered by the likes of Elvis Costello, Bleachers, Counting Crows, Green Day, The Wallflowers, Ian Hunter, Frank Turner, Dinosaur Jr., and more.

In 2023, Malin suffered a rare spinal stroke, which left him paralysed from the waist down. Rather than retreat from the spotlight, he defied the odds and learned to stand again, returning to the stage the following year in America with two triumphant sold-out nights at NYC’s legendary Beacon Theatre before crossing the pond for a pair of sold-out shows at London’s Islington Assembly Hall.

In 2026, Jesse is making his off-Broadway debut in the acclaimed stage show Silver Manhattan, written by Malin and Lauren Ludwig, and produced by ArKtype and David Bason. His first book Almost Grown: A New York Memoir will be published 7 April on Akashic.

Malin will return to the UK in June for a limited three-night engagement in Glasgow, Manchester and London.

Support comes from Bason. His life was saved by rock ‘n’ roll. With one foot in the practical and the other firmly on the creative tip, Canadian-born David Bason epitomises the sometimes paradoxical term, ‘music business’. Equally at home playing guitar on a demo for the New York Dolls or serving as President of an indie label, Bason is one of the few people whose artistic passion can co-exist with an understanding of the bottom line. He talks the language of artists and executives alike.

The son of an English Cambridge grad and a mother who sings in the Ottawa Choral Society, the entrepreneurial teenager got his start as a road manager for a popular Canadian band before working as an A&R coordinator for RCA where he signed The Strokes. Upon the success of that signing, Bason was suddenly very much in demand, and took a job running the music-publishing arm of Roadrunner Records. After running the publishing company for four years, he was asked to start and alternative division of the label. His first signing was The Dresden Dolls, as well as The Cult and his beloved New York Dolls, even playing on the demos. During this time he founded the Universal Music-distributed Stay Gold Records where he signed punk rock records and produced several dub reggae remixes.

Bason spent the next several years overseeing the day-to-day management responsibilities for multi-platinum sellers Thirty Seconds to Mars, and building a successful management stable of Grammy-winning, platinum producer/engineers and now heads the 7S Management West Coast division. A man of many hats, David Bason is a man who can hang with high profile artists as well as industry’s leading executives. Bason knows artists because he is one, writing and recording four solo albums featuring Airborne Toxic Event’s Anna Bulbrook, Sub Pop’s Chad Van Gaalen, Jesse Malin, James Iha, among others. A hybrid performer/executive, David Bason is living the dream while at the same time successfully turning art into commerce, or, as another of his heroes once put it… making cash from chaos.

This is a 14+ show. Under 16s must be accompanied by an adult.

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