When: 7.30pm on Thursday 25 February 2016 Where: Night & Day Cafe, 26 Oldham St, Manchester, M1 1JN We’re delighted to be welcoming the Wave Pictures back to Night & Day Cafe! The Wave Pictures return with a brand new, vinyl-only album called A Season in Hull, due out on 12 February on their own label Wymeswold Records. The album […]

When: 8pm on Thursday 25 February 2016 Where: Fallow Cafe, 2A Landcross Rd, Manchester M14 6NA We’re delighted to be welcoming back Flowers – this time to Fallow Cafe. There’s something great about a three-piece — think Cocteau Twins, The Clean, Galaxie 500 — and the way that irreducible nucleus takes its strength from its limitations, making a virtue […]

When: 7.30pm on Saturday 27 February 2016 Where: International Anthony Burgess Foundation, Chorlton Mill, 3 Cambridge Street, Manchester M1 5BY We’re delighted to be working with Grandbrothers for the first time! Following the release of their acclaimed debut album Dilation earlier this year, Grandbrothers are set to hit the road in February 2016, for their first major headlining tour. Grandbrothers are Erol […]

When: 7.30pm on Friday 4 March 2016 Where: The Castle Hotel, 66 Oldham Street, Manchester M4 1LE We’re delighted to be working with Rocky Votolato for the first time! Seattle’s Rocky Votolato has been relentlessly on tour over the last two decades, as a compelling singer-songwriter or with his former cult-punk band Waxwing. Ten years after Makers and its evergreen White Daisy Passing, Rocky […]

When: 7.30pm on Tuesday 8 March 2016 Where: The Castle Hotel, 66 Oldham Street, Manchester M4 1LE We’re delighted to be working with Joan Shelley for the first time! Louisville songwriter Joan Shelley will tour the UK and Europe this spring in support of her third LP, Over and Even. Shelley recorded the album over a weekend last winter […]

When: 7.30pm on Friday 11 March 2016 Where: Gullivers, 109 Oldham Street, Manchester, M4 1LW We’re delighted to be working with Memphis’ James and the Ultrasounds for the first time! On a given night in midtown Memphis one can find any number of bands. Amid the dim lights, heat and discordant blend of conversation emerging from venues like the Hi Tone, the […]

When: 7.30pm on Thursday 17 March 2016 Where: The Eagle Inn, 19 Collier Street, Salford, M3 7DW We’re excited to be working with Steven James Adams once again! Old Magick is the new album by Steven James Adams, former songwriter/singer/guitarist from the critically acclaimed Broken Family Band. Old Magick is proof that Adams’ gift for marrying exceptional lyrics with inescapable earworms is very much intact. […]

When: 7.30pm on Wednesday 23 March 2016 Where: Soup Kitchen, 31-33 Spear Street, Manchester M1 1DF PLEASE NOTE: We regret to announce that Joe Gideon is postponing the majority of shows on his March 2016 UK tour due to the reoccurrence of a chronic wrist injury. Tickets will be refunded at point of purchase and new dates in […]

When: 7.30pm on Thursday 24 March 2016 Where: Soup Kitchen, 31-33 Spear Street, Manchester M1 1DF We’re welcoming new Moshi Moshi artist Anna Meredith to Soup Kitchen! After hearing the enormous brassy surge of Nautilus, the exhilarating opening track of Anna Meredith’s debut album Varmints, it comes as a surprise how the South London-based composer describes her […]

When: 7.30pm on Sunday 27 March 2016 Where: Gullivers, 109 Oldham Street, Manchester, M4 1LW We’re delighted to be promoting Momus’ second ever Manchester show – and first visit in four years! Nicholas Currie (born 11 February 1960), more popularly known under the artist name Momus (after the Greek god of mockery), is a songwriter, blogger and former […]