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Find the best music events and make the most of your time this month in Manchester. From music to science and more, we have the biggest event range and best discovery experience, there's something for everyone.
Rising country singer-songwriter Katie Rigby and her full band head to The Deaf Institute on the 1st of May for their biggest hometown show yet! 2025 has been a huge year for Katie, who debuted at C2C Festival, The Long Road Fest, sold out her first headline tour, and achieved so many more milestones...
DHP Presents: Mother Soki
DHP Presents : Eliza McLamb
Now Wave Presents Ribbon Skirt
Reggae Brunch MCR - Sat 23rd May 2pm-7pm Freight Island Expect nothing but the real Reggae, Dancehall & Soca — from timeless throwbacks to the biggest 2025 riddims. Our Manchester sessions have been complete sell-outs, with viral moments reaching over 2 million views online — and this one’s going to top them all!
XTC's legendary drummer, Terry Chambers, is back on the road with his band EXTC (named and approved by XTC frontman, Andy Partridge). Performing classic XTC material such as Making Plans For Nigel, Senses Working Overtime, Mayor of Simpleton, Generals and Majors, Sgt. Rock (Is Going To Help Me), Love on a Farmboy's Wages and many more.
Now Wave presents Pictish Trail at YES The Pink Room in Manchester. This is an 18+ event.
MEMORIALS draw inspiration from folk, dub, post punk, experimental tape music, 60s soul, garage rock and 70s spiritual jazz, twisting these influences into their own unmistakable sound. The duo of Verity Susman and Matthew Simms (ex-Electrelane/WIRE) recently toured the USA opening for Stereolab.
Cat Clyde is a singer/songwriter based out of rural Ontario, Canada. A combination of driven, soulful blues and sweet, folk-tinged, dulcet tones that carry a particular sense of familiarity provide the structure on which she creates her unique sound.
Roller Derby is not only the name of a feminist roller sport, but also the name of the dream pop duo from Hamburg, formed in 2020. Blending 60s melodies and nostalgic 80s textures with modern indie pop, Roller Derby craft a sound that’s both dreamy and direct. The band has sold out shows across Europe and America including renowned festivals such as Reeperbahn Festival, The Great Escape, and SXSW (US). "Dream-pop duo Roller Derby shine on their debut album. These transportive tracks boast ethereal vocals, wistful lyricism, and a captivating blend of ‘80s synth pop and contemporary dreamgaze, making When The Night Comes an impressive first full-length." – KEXP
MEMORIALS draw inspiration from folk, dub, post punk, experimental tape music, 60s soul, garage rock and 70s spiritual jazz, twisting these influences into their own unmistakable sound. The duo of Verity Susman and Matthew Simms (ex-Electrelane/WIRE) recently toured the USA opening for Stereolab and have been called ‘Stereolab’s evil twin’. Their new limited edition 7” single Cut Glass Hammer is out on Fire Records on 3 December, with a new digital single, In The Weeds, released on the same day. 'Kaleidoscopic art-pop and adventurous psych-rock with an immersive, experimental aura' – KEXP 'From baroque ’60s acid pop to Can-esque pounding krautrock to heavy psych… also very The Doors at times' – Brooklyn Vegan Special guest is Thorn Wych. Thorn Wych makes instruments from tree branches in her backyard workshop which she feeds through a chain of lofi effects machines, and she sings in tongues, creating atavistic hymns and hypnotic dances. For this tour she will be bringing her new Yew tree instrument series. The Yew tree symbolises renewal, rebirth and everlasting life; and with these she will usher in the new year and sing praise to Asherah the Eternal Mother of All. Thorn Wych’s debut album Aesthesis was released on the label Hoodfaire in November 2024.
Milkweed describe their sound as slacker-trad, which is both true and somehow insufficient. For three years Milkweed have refined a formula – taking existing source material (a folklore journal, a book on Welsh myths, another on bronze age human remains and most recently Thomas Kinsella’s masterfully stark translation of the Táin Bó Cúailnge), cutting up the words and feeding them through a woodchipper of lo-fi production and experimental folk music. On the face of it their musical concerns are transatlantic – they follow the rich creative line that runs between British traditional music and the songs and tunes of the eastern United States. In reality their scope is global, and rooted in deep time, with influences from prehistory bleeding into a troubled and troubling modern era. As a result their music doesn’t sit easily anywhere, but ricochets between bewitching folk music and disconcerting hauntological experimentation.