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.
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FEBRUARY 2014
1 – The Wave Pictures – Deaf Institute
1 – Swim Deep – The Ritz
1 – Whales In Cubicles / Bad Grammar / Kindest of Thieves – Night & Day Cafe
2 – Independent Venue Week with Kult Country / Naked (On Drugs) / Francis Lung – Soup Kitchen
3 – Bill Callahan / Alasdair Roberts – The Ritz
4 – Anamanaguchi – Night & Day Cafe
4 – Young Fathers / LAW – Deaf Institute
5 – Twisted Wheel – Kraak
6 – Sex Hands / Those Rotten Thieves / Fruit Tones / Mistoa Poltsa – Night & Day Cafe
6 – Twisted Wheel – Kraak
6 – Kevin Devine – Soup Kitchen
6 – Anna Calvi – Albert Halls
7 – Moderat – Albert Halls
7 – Findlay – Band On The Wall
7 – Slaves / Pup – Soup Kitchen
7 – Twisted Wheel – Kraak
7 – Autobahn – Fallow Cafe
7 – Psyence – Fuel Cafe
8 – Twisted Wheel – Kraak
8 – Cleft (album Launch) / Alpha Male Tea Party / Halfling’s Leaf / Bear Makes Ninja – Zombie Shack (above Thirsty Scholar)
8 – Polica – The Ritz
8 – The Naughtys – Gorilla
8 – Forest Swords – Deaf Institute
8 – Not A Summer Festival (16 acts for a fiver) – The Castle Hotel / Gullivers
9 – Twisted Wheel – Kraak
9 – Fanfarlo – Deaf Institute
10 – Shy Nature – The Castle Hotel
11 – Kaiser Chiefs – Gorilla
11 – Ezra Furman / Kiran Leonard – Soup Kitchen
11 – Phoenix – Academy
12 – Cloud Control / Younghusband – Gorilla
12 – Lily and Madeleine – The Castle Hotel
13 – Warm Widow / Groves / Salford Media City – Kraak
14 – Basia Bulat – Gullivers
14 – Bad Grammar / Ten Mouth Electron – Star & Garter
15 – Cate Le Bon – Deaf Institute
15 – Carefully Planned All-Dayer – Gullivers
15 – Parquet Courts / Eagulls – Academy 2
15 – Hatcham Social – Soup Kitchen
16 – Ry X – St. Philip’s
16 – Speedy Ortiz / Joanna Gruesome – Deaf Institute
17 – Thumpers / Pawws – Soup Kitchen
17 – Mowbird – Fuel Cafe
18 – Nordic Giants – The Ruby Lounge
18 – Jenny Wilson – Soup Kitchen
18 – Fat White Family – Gullivers
18 – Grouplove – Gorilla Rescheduled to May 28th
19 – Girls Names – Gullivers
19 – Of Montreal – Gorilla
20 – Dumb – Fallow Cafe
20 – Midlake – The Ritz
21 – Three Dimensional Tanx – Gullivers
21 – Damien Dubrovnik – Islington Mill
21 – St Vincent – Manchester Cathedral
21 – Boy & Bear – Deaf Institute
21 – Circa Waves – Soup Kitchen
21 – Casual Sex – Fallow Cafe
23 – Literature Thieves – The Eagle Inn
23 – Jake Bugg – The Ritz
24 – TOY – Gorilla
26 – Gerard & The Watchmen – Kraak
26 – Trash Kit / Sex Hands / iLL – Gullivers
26 – J. Roddy Walston & The Business – Night & Day Cafe
26 – Goblin – Gorilla
27 – Father Murphy – The Eagle Inn
27 – Colorama – Gullivers
27 – Crystal Antlers – Roadhouse
27 – The Orwells – Night & Day Cafe
28 – The Minx – The Eagle Inn
28 – Traams – Fallow Cafe
28 – PINS (free gig) – The Ruby Lounge
28 – I Like Trains – St. Philip’s
28 – BBC 6 Music Festival – Victoria Warehouse
