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Upcoming shows: Mark Eitzel... Bay Bryan... 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... Beans on Toast... Nick Shoulders... Will Stratton... Joshua Burnside... Lightheaded + Jeanines... Lily Seabird... The Burning Hell... Bremer/McCoy... Blue Bendy... James Yorkston & Nina Persson... Ye Vagabonds... Grant-Lee Phillips... Allo Darlin’... Robert Forster... Lilly Hiatt... Albertine Sarges... Jamie Duffy... Joep Beving... Willy Mason... BC Camplight... Penguin Cafe... Jim Moray...

Will Varley

When: 7.30pm on Wednesday 9 November 2016 Where: Gorilla, 54-56 Whitworth Street West, Manchester M1 5WW We’re delighted to be promoting Will Varley’s biggest Manchester show to date! Rambling folk singer Will Varley has travelled further than ever since a 500-mile walking tour along England’s south coast. Third album Postcards From Ursa Minor has whisked him from Kent […]

 

Avec Sans

When: 7.30pm on Thursday 10 November 2016 Where: The Eagle Inn, 19 Collier Street, Salford, M3 7DW We’re delighted to be working with Avec Sans for the first time! Following the release of their iTunes-charting debut album, Heartbreak Hi, in July 2016, London-based duo Avec Sans release their Hype-Machine-topping rework of Bon Iver track Perth. The band’s album is […]

 

Robocobra Quartet

When: 7.30pm on Thursday 10 November 2016 Where: The Castle Hotel, 66 Oldham Street, Manchester M4 1LE We’re delighted to working with Robocobra Quartet for the first time! Mining influence from jazz, hardcore punk and contemporary classical music, Robocobra Quartet sound like little else. With an expanding, contracting and ever-changing line-up, the group began performing live in 2014 after studying […]

 

Robert Chaney

When: 7.30pm on Friday 11 November 2016 Where: Gullivers Lounge, 109 Oldham Street, Manchester, M4 1LW We’re excited to be working with Florida’s Robert Chaney for the first time. Tall and thin, as pale as a sheet of A4, guitarist/singer/songwriter Robert Chaney is not the kind of person you imagine hailing from sunny South Florida. But Florida is a […]

 

Kristin Hersh

When: 7.30pm on Sunday 13 November 2016 Where: Gorilla, 54-56 Whitworth Street West, Manchester M1 5WW We’re delighted to be promoting an intimate evening with Throwing Muses’ Kristin Hersh! The immensely talented Kristin Hersh returns again to the UK for a rare solo tour in support of her critically acclaimed new double CD and book, Wyatt At The […]

 

Ryley Walker

When: 7.30pm on Monday 14 November 2016 Where: The Ruby Lounge, 28-34 High Street, Manchester M4 1QB We’re delighted to be working with Dead Oceans’ Ryley Walker once more! In November 2015, at the end of a ten month period which saw him play over 200 shows, Ryley Walker decided that he should probably head home. However you […]

 

BC Camplight

When: 7.30pm on Thursday 17 November 2016 Where: The Ruby Lounge, 28-34 High Street, Manchester M4 1QB We’re delighted to be working with BC Camplight once more! Lost treasure needn’t be found in the distant past; the 21st Century hides many artists who disappeared into the great wide yonder. BC Camplight is one such example. The alter-ego of American songwriter Brian […]

 

Robert Ellis

When: 7.30pm on Friday 18 November 2016 Where: The Castle Hotel, 66 Oldham Street, Manchester M4 1LE We’re delighted to be working with Robert Ellis for the first time! With its contemplative storytelling and meandering, Paul Simon-meets-George Jones melodies, Robert Ellis’ breakthrough 2014 record, The Lights From The Chemical Plant, positioned the Houston-bred singer at the very forefront […]

 

Steve Gunn

When: 7.30pm on Sunday 20 November 2016 Where: Gullivers, 109 Oldham Street, Manchester, M4 1LW We’re delighted to be working with Steve Gunn once again! People have written about roads for as long as they’ve been around. And before there were roads, they still wrote about travel and about landscape. Landscape is the stage upon which our greatest […]

 

Rachael Yamagata

When: 7.30pm on Monday 21 November 2016 Where: The Kings Arms, 11 Bloom Street, Salford M3 6AN We’re delighted to be presenting an intimate, rare Manchester show with Rachael Yamagata Rachael Yamagata is not your ordinary singer/songwriter. Yes, she has released numerous albums; had record label deals; toured the world multiple times with sell-out concerts; built a loyal and […]