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Upcoming shows: Index for Working Musik... Heather Nova... Bay Bryan... Mark Eitzel... Ryan Davis & The Roadhouse Band... Jeffrey Martin... Austin Stambaugh... Sounds From The Other City 2025... Federico Albanese... Amelia Coburn... Hayden Thorpe & Propellor Ensemble... Jerron Paxton... Lauren Housley & The Northern Cowboys... Toria Wooff... Sam Amidon... Throwing Muses... Shotgun Jimmie... Jenny Don’t and the Spurs... Lael Neale... Adam Hopper & The Wimps... Niamh Regan... Basia Bulat... AVAWAVES... Nick Shoulders... Will Stratton... Joshua Burnside... Lily Seabird... The Burning Hell... Blue Bendy... Ye Vagabonds... Grant-Lee Phillips... Allo Darlin’... Robert Forster... Lilly Hiatt... Albertine Sarges... Jamie Duffy... Joep Beving... Willy Mason... BC Camplight... Jim Moray...

Mull Historical Society

When: 8pm on Wednesday 22 June 2016 Where: Night & Day Cafe, 26 Oldham St, Manchester, M1 1JN We’re delighted to be working with Mull Historical Society for the first time! Following the release of Mull Historical Society’s seventh album Dear Satellite on 8 April (Colin MacIntyre’s birthday) comes the new single Sleepy Hollow, out 27 May. The spring morning brightness […]

 

Howe Gelb

When: 7.30pm on Friday 24 June 2016 Where: St Michael’s, George Leigh Street, Ancoats, Manchester, M4 5DG We’re delighted to be bringing Giant Sand’s Howe Gelb to St Michael’s! As singer-songwriter, acclaimed producer, musician and mastermind of Giant Sand, Howe Gelb has been making music since 1980, responsible for indefinable and influential recordings ranging from punk and […]

 

Honeyfeet

When: 7pm on Friday 24 June 2016 Where: The Deaf Institute, 135 Grosvenor Street, Manchester M1 7HE We’re delighted to be promoting Honeyfeet’s first hometown headline show in over a year! Songs about eating people! Dancing on graves! Infidelity! Manchester’s finest folk-hop & barrelhouse-pop exponents have the skill, charm and tunes to pull it all together into […]

 

Withered Hand

When: 7pm on Saturday 25 June 2016 Where: Soup Kitchen, 31-33 Spear Street, Manchester M1 1DF We’re delighted to be bringing Withered Hand back to Manchester – his first headline show here for almost two years! Withered Hand is the nom de plume of Edinburgh-based singer-songwriter Dan Willson, who started writing songs almost ten years ago during a period of reflection […]

 

Cristobal and the Sea

When: 7.30pm on Tuesday 28 June 2016 Where: The Castle Hotel, 66 Oldham Street, Manchester M4 1LE We’re delighted to working with Cristobal and The Sea for the first time! The ongoing dispute over explorer Cristobal Columbus’ nationality shows some country disputes will stay unresolved, but others are born to harmonise, in the case of Cristobal and The Sea. […]

 

Little Scream

When: 7.30pm on Friday 1 July 2016 Where: Gullivers, 109 Oldham Street, Manchester, M4 1LW We’re delighted to be working with Little Scream for the first time! Little Scream‘s Cult Following arrives in the UK this summer via Merge Records. Cult Following sees Mary Margaret O’Hara, Sufjan Stevens, Sharon Van Etten, Aaron and Bryce Dessner from the National, Owen […]

 

Michele Stodart

When: 7.30pm on Friday 8 July 2016 Where: The Eagle Inn, 19 Collier Street, Salford, M3 7DW We’re delighted to be helping The Magic Numbers’ Michele Stodart launch her new album! Michele Stodart‘s new album Pieces will be released on 8 July via One Little Indian. To celebrate she is playing a special launch show at the Eagle Inn. Over a […]

 

Irma Vep

When: 7.30pm on Monday 1 August 2016 Where: The Castle Hotel, 66 Oldham Street, Manchester M4 1LE We’re delighted to presenting a rare headline show with Irma Vep – plus guests dbh and Secret Admirer! Irma Vep is a loner, a joker, a roamer, a ribald construct riddled with both earnest anxiety and mercurial songwriting talent birthed by […]

 

Miracle Legion

When: 7.30pm on Thursday 18 August 2016 Where: The Deaf Institute, 135 Grosvenor Street, Manchester M1 7HE We’re delighted to be working with Mark Mulcahy’s Miracle Legion! While singer-songwriter Mark Mulcahy would go on to make a name all of his own, his career actually started with Miracle Legion; one of the original ‘college rock’ bands who formed […]

 

Kevin Morby

When: 7.30pm on Monday 22 August 2016 Where: The Deaf Institute, 135 Grosvenor Street, Manchester M1 7HE We’re delighted to be working with Kevin Morby once again! Singing Saw is a record written simply and realised orchestrally. In it, Kevin Morby faces the reality that true beauty – deep and earned – demands a whole-world balance that includes our darker […]