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Live Music in Manchester

74 gigs · 14 venues · 6 tonight · 1 this weekend

Live music in Manchester at a glance

FolkAir is listing 74 live music gigs in Manchester over the next three months, across 12 venues including Rebellion Manchester, The Deaf Institute and Gorilla. Next up is Tunnel Presents Hardcore Babes, Scritts + More at Rebellion Manchester on Sat 3 Oct at 10:00pm. 6 gigs are on tonight. 1 more falls this weekend. Every date, venue and price comes straight from venue and promoter listings and is refreshed daily, so this is what is genuinely on sale right now rather than a fixed editorial round-up. Below the gig list are the 14 venues those gigs are at, busiest first, with a link to the venue's own page wherever it has one. Every row links through to that gig's own page for the full details and, where the promoter published one, a ticket link.

Gigs in Manchester

Tonight

Spitalfield — Sun 4 Oct at 5:00pm at Rebellion Manchester · £20
South Summit — Sun 4 Oct at 6:00pm at The Deaf Institute
club brat — Sun 4 Oct at 6:00pm at The Deaf Institute
Skinner Brothers — Sun 4 Oct at 6:00pm at Gorilla
KARTEL + Support — Sun 4 Oct at 7:00pm at Aatma
My Generation — Sun 4 Oct at 8:00pm at Matt and Phred's

This weekend

Tunnel Presents Hardcore Babes, Scritts + More — Sat 3 Oct at 10:00pm at Rebellion Manchester

Next 7 days

Telenova — Mon 5 Oct at 6:00pm at The Deaf Institute
Nails — Mon 5 Oct at 6:00pm at Rebellion Manchester · £30
Mary Middlefield — Mon 5 Oct at 6:00pm at The Deaf Institute
EILIS FRAWLEY & GUESTS — Mon 5 Oct at 7:30pm at The Peer Hat, Faraday Street · £10
Blues Jam — Mon 5 Oct at 8:00pm at Matt and Phred's
Sebastian Schub — Tue 6 Oct at 6:00pm at The Deaf Institute
The Hybrid Sessions — Tue 6 Oct at 8:00pm at Matt and Phred's
SHINDIE MANCHESTER – SHIT INDIE DISCO WEEK – SAM FENDER SPECIAL ON TOP FLOOR 🚨 and HARRY STYLES SPECIAL on Floor 1!! 🪩 2 Rooms of Music – Indie / Pop, Chart, Throwbacks 🚨 THIS WILL SELL OUT 🚨 — Tue 6 Oct at 9:30pm at The Deaf Institute · £5
Ruby Tuesday — Tue 6 Oct at 10:00pm (2 dates) at 42's · £1
DeVotchKa — Wed 7 Oct at 6:00pm at Gorilla
Dice — Wed 7 Oct at 6:00pm at The Deaf Institute
Jon Allen — Wed 7 Oct at 6:00pm at The Deaf Institute
IDA THE YOUNG WITH DOGVIOLET & KAZIMI — Wed 7 Oct at 7:00pm at The Peer Hat, Faraday Street · £10
Claymen, Salfordbrad, Alaska — Wed 7 Oct at 7:30pm at Aatma · £5
Camille Rose Trio — Wed 7 Oct at 8:00pm at Matt and Phred's
Riot! — Wed 7 Oct at 10:00pm (2 dates) at 42's · £1
Light Asylum — Thu 8 Oct at 6:00pm at Rebellion Manchester · £20.50
Tommy Lyon — Thu 8 Oct at 6:00pm at The Deaf Institute
Erebus — Thu 8 Oct at 7:00pm at Aatma
Fractal — Thu 8 Oct at 8:00pm at Matt and Phred's
Skint? — Thu 8 Oct at 10:00pm at 42's · £1
Whip-Round🤠 THURSDAYS AT DEAF | INDIE CLASSICS, POST-PUNK, NEW WAVE + MORE — Thu 8 Oct at 10:00pm (2 dates) at The Deaf Institute
The Haunted — Fri 9 Oct at 5:00pm at Rebellion Manchester · £25.50
Jon Gomm — Fri 9 Oct at 6:00pm at The Deaf Institute
The Skints — Fri 9 Oct at 6:00pm at Gorilla
Halftime Presents: Pain.Program + Support — Fri 9 Oct at 7:00pm at Aatma
Station Selects: Guest DJ TBA — Fri 9 Oct at 7:00pm at Station South
Louis Louis Louis — Fri 9 Oct at 9:30pm at Matt and Phred's
Dirty Dancefloors — Fri 9 Oct at 9:30pm at 42's · £3
EMO NIGHT BROOKLYN — Fri 9 Oct at 10:00pm at Rebellion Manchester · £9
Golden Years Season 2 Episode 1 — Fri 9 Oct at 10:00pm at The Deaf Institute
Tech-noir — Fri 9 Oct at 10:00pm at The Deaf Institute
Golden Daze — Sat 10 Oct at 11:00am at Rebellion Manchester
Dan Burnett — Sat 10 Oct at 5:00pm at Matt and Phred's
Tchotchke — Sat 10 Oct at 5:00pm at The Peer Hat, Faraday Street
JJerome87 | Manchester, New Century Locker — Sat 10 Oct at 6:00pm at New Century · £30
The Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band — Sat 10 Oct at 6:00pm at The Deaf Institute
Des Rocs — Sat 10 Oct at 6:00pm at Gorilla
Ten Hands High | Manchester, The Rat & Pigeon — Sat 10 Oct at 6:30pm at The Rat & Pigeon · £11
Columbia Mills | Manchester, Grafton Arms — Sat 10 Oct at 6:30pm at Grafton Arms · £12
Impossible Conversations — Sat 10 Oct at 7:00pm at Matt and Phred's
Urban Legends — Sat 10 Oct at 9:30pm at 42's · £3
Brass Monkees — Sat 10 Oct at 10:00pm at Matt and Phred's
Dub Jam Presents: Sound System Culture — Sat 10 Oct at 10:00pm at Rebellion Manchester · £10
Arrdee — Sun 11 Oct at 6:00pm at Gorilla
Jared Benjamin — Sun 11 Oct at 6:00pm at The Deaf Institute
The Hanging Stars | Manchester, Night & Day Café — Sun 11 Oct at 6:30pm at Night & Day Cafe · £16

Coming up

СОЮЗ (soyuz) — Mon 12 Oct at 6:00pm at The Deaf Institute
Indecision & Pinkpool with supports from Vienna + Hazel — Mon 12 Oct at 7:00pm at Aatma
Jazz Jam — Mon 12 Oct at 8:00pm at Matt and Phred's
Suboptimal — Tue 13 Oct at 8:00pm at Matt and Phred's
Boris — Wed 14 Oct at 6:00pm at Gorilla
Black Water County — Wed 14 Oct at 6:00pm at The Deaf Institute

Everything on in Manchester this week

Live music venues in Manchester

The Deaf Institute — 20 upcoming gigs; next: South Summit (Sun 4 Oct at 6:00pm) — 135 Grosvenor St, Manchester M1 7HE, UK, Manchester
Matt and Phred's — 13 upcoming gigs; next: My Generation (Sun 4 Oct at 8:00pm) — 64 Tib Street Manchester, England, M4 1LX United Kingdom
Rebellion Manchester — 10 upcoming gigs; next: Tunnel Presents Hardcore Babes, Scritts + More (Sat 3 Oct at 10:00pm) — 2B Whitworth St W, Manchester M1 5WZ, UK, Manchester
Gorilla — 8 upcoming gigs; next: Skinner Brothers (Sun 4 Oct at 6:00pm) — 54-56 Whitworth St, Manchester M1 5WW, UK, Manchester
Aatma — 6 upcoming gigs; next: KARTEL + Support (Sun 4 Oct at 7:00pm) — 1st Floor, 14-16 Faraday Street, Manchester, M1 1BE
42's — 6 upcoming gigs; next: Ruby Tuesday (Tue 6 Oct at 10:00pm) — 2 Bootle St, Manchester M2 5GU, UK, Manchester
The Peer Hat, Faraday Street — 4 upcoming gigs; next: EILIS FRAWLEY & GUESTS (Mon 5 Oct at 7:30pm)
Station South — 1 upcoming gig; next: Station Selects: Guest DJ TBA (Fri 9 Oct at 7:00pm) — 975-977 Stockport Rd, Manchester, M19 3NP
New Century — 1 upcoming gig; next: JJerome87 | Manchester, New Century Locker (Sat 10 Oct at 6:00pm) — 34 Hanover St, Manchester M4 4AH, UK, Manchester
The Rat & Pigeon — 1 upcoming gig; next: Ten Hands High | Manchester, The Rat & Pigeon (Sat 10 Oct at 6:30pm) — The Rat & Pigeon, 33 Back Piccadilly, Manchester M1 1HP, UK, Manchester
Grafton Arms — 1 upcoming gig; next: Columbia Mills | Manchester, Grafton Arms (Sat 10 Oct at 6:30pm) — 27 Grafton St, Manchester M13 9WU, UK, Manchester
Night & Day Cafe — 1 upcoming gig; next: The Hanging Stars | Manchester, Night & Day Café (Sun 11 Oct at 6:30pm) — 26 Oldham St, Manchester M1 1JN, UK, Manchester
Lions Den Manchester — 1 upcoming gig; next: LowDown Brass Band | Manchester, Lions Den (Thu 15 Oct at 6:30pm) — 253 Deansgate, Manchester M3 4EN, UK, Manchester
Band on the Wall — 1 upcoming gig; next: Megan Dixon Hood x Ålesund | Manchester, Band on the Wall (Copper Bar) (Fri 16 Oct at 6:00pm) — 25 Swan St, Manchester M4 5JZ, UK, Manchester

Live music in Manchester: the essentials

Where is live music in Manchester tonight?

6 gigs are on in Manchester tonight: Spitalfield at Rebellion Manchester (Sun 4 Oct at 5:00pm), South Summit at The Deaf Institute (Sun 4 Oct at 6:00pm) and club brat at The Deaf Institute (Sun 4 Oct at 6:00pm).

What live music is on in Manchester this weekend?

1 gig falls this weekend, including Tunnel Presents Hardcore Babes, Scritts + More at Rebellion Manchester (Sat 3 Oct at 10:00pm).

Which Manchester venues have the most live music?

The Deaf Institute (20 upcoming gigs), Matt and Phred's (13 upcoming gigs) and Rebellion Manchester (10 upcoming gigs) — 14 venues have live music listed in Manchester over the next three months.

Is there free live music in Manchester?

None of the 74 listed gigs states free entry; an unpriced listing is unpriced, not free.