Monday 24 August – Deerhoof – Gorilla From their humble beginnings as an obscure San Francisco noise act, they’ve become one of indie music’s most influential bands with their ecstatic and unruly take on pop. Veering between pop, noise, rock and roll and avant garde they are difficult to label, save for being described as…
Having already visited Madrid, Berlin and Paris on on his huge world tour, which will also see him take in Miami and New York, Azerbaijani singer-songwriter Emin is set to perform in Manchester for the first time in support of his new album More Amor. The tour comes after a stunning 18 months for the…
Murder By Death – Deaf Institute – Monday 18 May: Murder By Death come to Deaf Institute to celebrate the success of new album Big Dark Love – their seventh studio record. For a band who’ve built a formidable 15-year career around a meticulous consideration for the effects of pressure, bombast and ecstasy, it’s something to say that…
Striking Matches – Deaf Institute – Sunday 10 May: Country music duo Sarah Zimmermann and Justin Davis have become country music sensations, owing in part to their music being featured on the hit TV show Nashville. But that tells only part of the tale as they released their excellent T Bone Burnett-produced debut album Nothing But…
Will Butler – The Deaf Institute – Tuesday 21 April: Arcade Fire member Will Butler comes to Manchester to perform an intimate gig at The Deaf Institute. The multi-instrumentalist performs just weeks after the release of his debut album Policy. Recording without Arcade Fire was clearly a different experience and Butler said of the…
Second Album Release In Four Months Supported By Tour Justin Townes Earle is set to perform at Band on the Wall on 19th January in support of his latest album, Absent Fathers, which marks his second album in only four months. Absent Fathers is the second part of a double album, featuring 10 new tracks originally intended…
Things got a little bit country as Ward Thomas and The Shires brought their joint headline Homegrown Tour to Manchester at a sold out Band on the Wall. Country is certainly in the upswing at the moment and with both of these UK country bands having performed in Manchester a few months ago to great…
Internationally acclaimed blue-rock hero Simon McBridge is set to round off his year with a short UK Tour which is seeing him stop off in Manchester at Band On The Wall on 28th October. It marks the end of what has been quite a year for the former Young Guitarist of the Year who has…
Off the back of excellent recent Manchester shows, UK grown country groups The Shires and Ward Thomas have announced that they are both returning to the city as part of their co-headlining ‘Home-Grown Tour’. The bands are at the forefront of the homegrown country music scene and there is certainly a buzz about them. Ward…
Chetham’s Big Bands and Jazz Ensembles will make their return to Band on the Wall on Tuesday 24 June. The Big Bands and ensembles are the result of Chetham’s School of Music’s highly successful Jazz programme which this year has seen two of Chetham’s students reach the final of the BBC Young Musician 2014 Jazz…
