We have trawled through the forthcoming gigs in and around Manchester so you don’t have to. We believe that if we are going to recommend a gig to you, then it should be exactly that, a recommendation.

There are many other sites out here on the internet that have a gig guide, but how many of them can say they have actually listened to every single band/act they have listed? Well to be honest we don’t know the answer to that, but we’d guess not many, if any at all. Anyway, this is exactly what we do and hopefully the result is the best Manchester gig guide available. We shall let you be the judge.

This page is updated on a regular basis, so please check back often.

If we’ve missed anything please feel free to plug any gigs in the comments box at the bottom of this page.

Want to hear what these chosen artists/acts sound like? Of course you do! Just click on the artist/act name and you’ll be magically taken to a place you can hear them.

You can now also hear lots of these acts played on our weekly radio show. More info HERE

*************

AUGUST 2014

1 – Perfect Pussy / Joanna Gruesome – The Deaf Institute

1 – Horsebeach – Soup Kitchen

1 – Antics Weekender (Then Thickens/Shinies/Flesh/Loftt) – The Night & Day Cafe

2 – Antics Weekender (Bromheads/Coroner For The Police/Championlover/LVLS) – The Night & Day Cafe

2 – The Soft Walls – Soup Kitchen

2 – The Underground Youth – The Roadhouse

2 – Grandmaster Flash – Gorilla

3 – Eleanor Friedberger – The Castle Hotel

3 – Petrol Girls/Denim & Leather/The Booglies/War Party/The Exhausts – Wahlbar

5 – Owl John – Soup Kitchen

7 – Easy Star All-Stars – Band On The Wall

7 – Skinny Girl Diet/Esper Scout – The Castle Hotel

7 – Joan As Policewoman – Gorilla

8 – Dopplereffekt – Islington Mill moved to Antwerp Mansion

8 – Great Cop/Spoilers/Plough Lines/Baby Brave (Free Show) –  Fuel Cafe

9 – Gabriel Minnikin – Gullivers

12 – The Garden – The Castle Hotel

13 – Teleman (Disaronno Terrace) – Oast House

14 – Beirut – Albert Hall

14 – Ultimate Painting/Waiters/Aldous RH – The Castle Hotel

14 – Pissed Jeans/Hookworms – Gorilla

15 – Charlie Boyer & The Voyeurs – Night & Day Cafe

16 – Undressed (The Travelling Band/Liz Green/Bird to Beast/Seventh House/Olympian/Jake Mattison/Elle Mary/Elizabeth Preston – Hallé St Peter’s / St Michael’s

16 – Deafheaven/Chelsea Wolfe – Gorilla

16 – Maths/Child Actors (Matinee) –  The Crescent

17 – Undressed (Jesca Hoop/Josephine/Jo Rose/Race to the Sea/Cavan Moran/Matthew Whitaker/Hawker Reunion/Stefan Melbourne – Hallé St Peter’s / St Michael’s

17 – Tribal Fighters – The Kings Arms

18 – Protomartyr – The Ruby Lounge Moved To Fallow Cafe

19 – Karma To Burn – The Deaf Institute

19 – Healing Powers / Cady – Wahlbar

20 – Flamingods – Kraak

20 – Summer Camp/PINS – The Oast House

21 – Tiny Ruins – The Castle Hotel

21 – The Middle Ones / Hallie and The Annies / Hot Shorts – Fallow Cafe

21 – Holy Esque – The Night & Day Cafe

22 – Vancouver Sleep Clinic – Soup Kitchen

23 – Jeffrey Lewis & The Jrams – Deaf Institute

23 – The Minx – The Ruby Lounge

26 – Acid Mother’s Temple – The Ruby Lounge

27 – Alpha Male Tea Party / Bad Grammar / Cleft / Body Hound (FREE SHOW) – The Kings Arms

28 – Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly – The Night & Day Cafe

28 – Black Lips – Sound Control

28 – BATS/Them Wolves/Pedro Don Key – The Castle Hotel

28 – Black Market Serotonin/Santiago Kings – The Bayhorse

29 – Front Bottoms – Sound Control

30 – Pink Mountaintops / Purple Heart Parade – The Roadhouse