Hey! Manchester promotes gigs by folk, Americana and experimental bands from around the world in Manchester, England. Read more here, see below for our latest shows, check out our previous shows, contact us, or join our mailing list, above.

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...

Honeyfeet

When: 7pm on Friday 27 April 2018 Where: Gorilla, 54-56 Whitworth Street West, Manchester M1 5WW PLEASE NOTE: This show is now sold out! Join our mailing list, at the top of this page, for information about future Honeyfeet shows. We’re delighted to be helping Honeyfeet launch their new album at Gorilla! Join Honeyfeet as they celebrate the launch […]

 

KAZE

When: 7.30pm on Friday 27 April 2018 Where: The Castle Hotel, 66 Oldham Street, Manchester M4 1LE We’re delighted to be helping KAZE launch their new single, Fierce! KAZE are delighted to announce their first dates of 2018. With the promise of new material arriving very soon, the duo comprising Graham McCusker and Amy Webber will be hitting […]

 

Slug

When: 7pm on Monday 30 April 2018 Where: Soup Kitchen, 31-33 Spear Street, Manchester M1 1DF We’re delighted to be welcoming SLUG back – with The Cornshed Sisters! SLUG, the nom de plume of North East merrymaker Ian Black, returns with new album HiggledyPiggledy on 13 April 2018 via Memphis Industries. Whereas previous album RIPE was made in collaboration with Peter and […]

 

Steven Adams & The French Drops

When: 7.30pm on Wednesday 2 May 2018 Where: The Castle Hotel, 66 Oldham Street, Manchester M4 1LE We’re delighted to be working with Steven Adams again – this time, with his new band, The French Drops! Steven Adams is back with a new band, The French Drops – featuring members of The Drink and Absentee – and a new […]

 

Pinkshinyultrablast

When: 7pm on Friday 4 May 2018 Where: Band on the Wall, 26 Swan Street, Manchester M4 5JZ We’re delighted to welcoming Pinkshinyultrablast back – for their first Manchester show in three years! Pinkshinyultrablast, Russia’s finest export, have shared their new single In The Hanging Gardens, soon to available on limited edition 10-inch. The band have also […]

 

The Happy Soul

When: 7.30pm on Friday 4 May 2018 Where: Gullivers, 109 Oldham Street, Manchester, M4 1LW We’re delighted to be helping The Happy Soul launch their new album! With influences as diverse and weird as Frank Zappa, Jake Thackray, Mahalia Jackson, Scott Walker, Nilsson and The Beach Boys, The Happy Soul are a hard band to pigeonhole. Part […]

 

Sounds From The Other City 2018

When: 3pm until late on Sunday 6 May 2018 Where: St Philip’s Church, Encombe Place, Salford, Lancashire, M3 6FJ Hey! Manchester is delighted to be curating a stage at this year’s Sounds From The Other City – our tenth year in a row! SFTOC is a one-day music festival that celebrates the diversity of Greater Manchester’s ‘other city’. The 12-hour […]

 

Wreckless Eric

When: 7.30pm on Wednesday 9 May 2018 Where: Gullivers, 109 Oldham Street, Manchester, M4 1LW We’re delighted to be working with the legendary Wreckless Eric for the first time – with special guest Vinny Peculiar! You can’t talk about Wreckless Eric without mentioning his enduring hit Whole Wide World – covered in stadiums and sheds from Aberdeen […]

 

Simone Felice

When: 7pm on Thursday 10 May 2018 Where: The Deaf Institute, 135 Grosvenor Street, Manchester M1 7HE We’re delighted to be working with Simone Felice once again – this time, back at the Deaf Institute! Simone Felice, the singer-songwriter/record-producer from deep in the Catskills, will release his new album The Projector on 13 April via New York Pro. The first single […]

 

Barrence Whitfield and The Savages

When: 7pm on Saturday 12 May 2018 Where: Soup Kitchen, 31-33 Spear Street, Manchester M1 1DF We’re delighted to be working with Barrence Whitfield and The Savages for the first time! From a far out moon beyond the rings of Saturn to a dingy studio in Cincinnati, Barrence Whitfield and the Savages’ new platter embraces a cosmic and groovy […]