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Contents Hello and welcome to our final edition of 2017 - scary! With Christmas just around the corner, we’ve hand-picked the very best live shows taking place over the festive season and the best NYE shindigs to bring in 2018 with an almighty bang. We sat down with our cover stars PINS to discuss their 2017 and making a record with the Godfather of Punk, Iggy Pop. We’ve also introduced a new ‘Emerging Sounds’ section, to help you keep your fingers on the pulse when it comes to new music. Have a blooming good Christmas and see you in 2018! Emma Baker, Editor-In-Chief 5
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Local News
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Picks Of The Month
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PINS Interview
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New Year’s Eve Guide
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Ticketline’s Top Tickets
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Emerging Sounds
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Gig Listings
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One To Watch
Contributors / Say Hello Words: Emma Baker Simon Robinson Zoe Johnson Hannah Ryan Louise Dodgson
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Lany
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The Menzingers Thu 8th Feb • £18* adv
Alien Ant Farm + SOiL
Sat 10th Feb • £16.50* adv
While She Sleeps
Mon 12th Feb • £22.50* adv
The Used
Tue 13th Feb • £19.50* adv
Arch Enemy
Fri 16th Feb • £20* adv
$uicideBoy$
Fri 16th Mar • £27* adv
Blue October
Sat 24th Mar • £20* adv
Alabama 3
O2 RITZ MANCHESTER
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DJANGO DJANGO
MARBLE SKIES 2018 21 MAR ‘18 O2 RITZ MANCHESTER
HOODIE ALLEN THE HYPE
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Local News
Dot To Dot bags ‘UK’s Best Festival for Emerging Talent’ award at the UK Festival Awards 2017. Over 12 consecutive years, Dot To Dot has consistently supported new music and provided a springboard for many artists - including Ed Sheeran, Jake Bugg, Foals, and Rag ‘N’ Bone Man - who have later gone on to great success. Dot to Dot will return to Manchester on the 25 May 2018.
Howling Rhythm club night has found a new home at Night People. The 60’s, Funk, Soul, Motown, and R&B night, which was previously held at The Ruby Lounge, will be going weekly from January at its new abode. Get on down to their moving in party on the 18th.
Neighbourhood Weekender 26-27.05.18 | Victoria Park, Warrington | FRM£95 Courteeners will top the bill on Saturday night with Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds rounding off the weekend in style on the Sunday.
Liam Gallagher | 18.08.18 Lancashire County Cricket Club | FRM£52.50 | 4:30pm Local legend Liam Gallagher has announced a special hometown show. His attitudefueled performance will include tracks from his acclaimed No.1 debut solo album ‘As You Were’, alongside sing-a-long Oasis faves. ‘Don’t Look Back In Anger’ - bag a ticket now.
Got some hot gossip, tip offs or tantalising teasers about your local music scene in Manchester? In that case, we’d blooming love to hear it! Send it to news@theliveguidehq.com and it might get featured in the ‘Local News’ next month!
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Our pick of the best shows this month
streets of nineties New Jersey with hardcore NYC punk and you end up with the “mutant crossbreed” of glitched-out, punk-rebellion, hardcore hip-hop that Ho99o9 embodies. To say that these guys are high energy would be an understatement. Known to spend as much time diving off the stage as they do destroying it with their anti-establishment spews - concerning police brutality, racism, and naturally, Donald Trump - and entirely unpredictable showmanship, this is one pit you’re best getting fired up for.
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Ho99o9 Deaf Institute | £13ADV | 7pm
Night & Day Café | £10ADV | 8pm
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consciousness seven years ago with the with the perfectly apt anti-austerity anthem ‘Farewell To Welfare’, self-proclaimed socialist, feminist, lesbian, left-wing protest singer Grace Petrie has been winning over crowds both here and across the Atlantic. Her songwriting combines astute and witty social commentary with a warmth and likability that has quite rightly earned her the affection of comedy crowds and folk aficionados alike.
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LANY O2 Ritz | £15ADV | 7pm You’d be forgiven for wondering whether this new-wave indieelectronica trio is the east-coast American alter ego of melancholic Manc pop-rockers The 1975. With 4 EPs already under their belt, LANY’s debut self-titled album reveals poignant and polished songwriting laced with alt-pop lyrics that are oh so relatable to the heartbreak and woes of an anxious Tumblr generation. Allow their catchy, slightly transcendental 80s-pop-cum-90s-R&B hooks to cover the Manchester greys and blues in Californian sun - for one night at least. 14.12.17
King Krule Manchester Academy 2 £13.50ADV | 7:30pm Four years on from his coming-ofage debut release, Archy Marshall (AKA King Krule)’s new material takes a characteristically moody format, meandering through pangs of melancholy and punctuated with jaded saxophonic melodrama. Despite reportedly brushing shoulders with the likes of Frank Ocean and Kanye West, Marshall 11
seems intent on proving he is not an apple to be polished; shunning any influx of glitz to the gritty intensity thematic to the back-catalogue that earned his loyal following. 15.12.17
John Bramwell (I Am Kloot) RNCM | FRM£20 | 7pm Some have cited John Bramwell’s first recorded solo venture as going back to basics. ‘Basics’ in this instance translates to touring with a 6-piece band, including a piano and cello, which only promises to accentuate the former I Am Kloot frontman’s distinctive vocal style. The show is expected to feature a few of the ‘best of’ from the Manchester band’s extensive 20year back catalogue in addition to Bramwell’s debut, ‘Leave Alone The Empty Spaces’.
J Mascis can still grind an axe to produce the sludgy, fuzzy poprock riffs the band have made their trademark. This is the third and final date of an intimate three-night residency. 22.12.17 / 23.12.17
Shed Seven Manchester Academy £24ADV | 7pm
17.12.17
Dinosaur Jr.
Alongside their first album release in 16 years, Britpop blast from the past Shed Seven announced they were adding an extra Manchester show to their 15-date tour due to ‘phenomenal demand’. Despite plugging new material, these shows promise plenty of nineties nostalgia and a trip down memory lane from the veteran underdogs of the old-school indie scene.
Gorilla | £23.50ADV | 7:30pm Almost 30 years to the day since the release of the band’s second album ‘You’re Living All Over Me’, which went a to become a cult phenomenon, Dinosaur Jr. prove that they are far from extinction. There’s no sign of them slowing down either, with the alt-rock icons’ latest offering proving main man 12
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Say the word ‘Girl Band’ and immediately you shudder and think of cheesy lyrics, corny dance routines, coordinated outfits, kiddy fans, X Factor and nonsensical ‘girl power’.
so many friends in bands that can’t get a group together at one time, they’re always busy, have a job or something more important to do. The thing about being in PINS is that we all put everything into it.”
There seems to be a real stigma associated with the term, a stigma that all female five-some PINS are all too aware and keen to steer clear of. However, in recent years there has been a healthy flock of female groups – HAIM, Deap Vally, Honeyblood, Girlpool, Childbirth, Chastity Belt, and Upset – exonerating the term.
It is this fierce dedication that has since propelled PINS to release a second album ‘Wild Nights’ in 2015, alongside a series of EPs, including latest 2017 offering ‘Bad Things’. The determined quintet had only one man in mind to take the male vocal lead on single ‘Aggrophobe’ the one and only punk rock stalwart Iggy Pop - and to even their own surprise the tenacious Manchesterbased group managed to make this happen.
In 2011, perhaps subconsciously, PINS joined this new movement. Not wanting to be the token female in an all male group, lead singer and guitarist Faith Vern went on the hunt for a group of all girl bandmates. In true DIY style, the band set up their own record label - Haus of Pins and released their debut album ‘Girls Like Us’ in 2013.
Faith reveals; “We were recording the EP in Scotland and one of the songs was ‘Aggrophobe’, which I wrote the music for and whilst I was living in Berlin my husband wrote the lyrics for it and we never did anything with them or had any plans for it until we got to Scotland and we decided to record it for the first time. It sounded really good and we wanted it to have a male vocal on it.”
Sitting down with front-woman Faith, she talks about the dedication of her loyal group, made up of Anna Donigan, Lois Macdonald, Sophie Galpin, and Kyoko Swan. “I think the level of commitment from all of the band members makes the whole process so much easier. I’ve got
“Then we were just sat around having a few drinks and all agreed that Iggy Pop would be the best 15
voice on it and we decided to send an email somehow via a booking agent or some other way of getting an email address. So we just sent it and asked and he said yes and in a week or so he had the track and was recording the vocals and he sent it back to us and it was done.”
days and we recorded three songs so the flip side to ‘Serve The Rich’ is ‘LUVU4LYF’, which was actually on our first debut EP and we reworked it and made it a little more in tune with ‘Serve The Rich’ and then there’s another song that no one has heard yet. I don’t know if there are any plans to release that at this point or not.”
“It’s kind of funny when I think about it now, that’s really just what happened, we asked him and he said yes.”
“That’s really just what happened, we asked him [Iggy Pop] and he said yes”
“It’s good to get in a room with him and he did a lot of p re - p ro d u c t i o n Garnering muchand sort of added deserved radio that Kills touch, support, the which we were ‘Bad Things’ EP, all really excited available on a about because hand-numbered at first, he didn’t limited edition even show us Faith Vern run of 500 on what he had done, pink vinyl, also he just left us to includes a cover of Joy Division’s that track. Then he played the ‘Dead Souls’, alongside ‘All Hail’, piece that he had been working ‘In Nightmares’ and latest single on and we were like “oh my god ‘Serve The Rich’. “On the last that sound is exactly why we’ve single ‘Serve The Rich’ we had got you here” and then we went Jamie from The Kills in producing, on with his ways, he’s a very good he was our number one choice producer.” for that, so that was cool.” The band may cite themselves “We went to London with Jamie as simply ‘rock’ but there is a and we had the studio for three definite punk element to their 16
offering. From their DIY label beginnings, to collaborations with Stooges frontman Iggy, touring with Riot Grrrl offshoot Sleater-Kinney, to shooting the video for ‘Save The Rich’ at an anti-conservative march. “We’ve had a few comments since saying that were trying to latch onto what’s popular as everyone is into politics right now and they
are saying we are trying to do that right now and I really don’t care. That was the perfect video for that song, at that time, and we didn’t plan for it in that much advance.” “We were going to do a music video of like dancers, glitter and lights in a studio but then we realised we were already going
to the march and thought lets just take a camera and we got a guy that we know and he came down filmed us walking around and filmed some of the march and then we thought - that is the perfect video, that reflects what we are doing and where we are and what we stand for and our city as well, Manchester.” Alongside recording and releasing, PINS have been active on the live scene throughout 2017, from slots at Reading & Leeds Festival and Festival No. 6, to support shows with Maximo Park, The Breeders and The Buzzcocks, alongside their own
spring and autumn headline tours. Discussing highlights of their most recent November headline tour, which included a date at the O2 Ritz, Faith said, “The end of it was really good as we played with The Moonlandingz and The Black Lips and I love both of them and then we went bowling with them afterwards at Dog Bowl across the way. So that was a really fun end to the tour, but aside from that, it felt really good to play new songs. We did a totally new set, about 90% of it was new material so it was really fun to play that and try the songs out and watch people react to them.”
Upon asking how performing in venues compares to festival appearances Faith adds, “It was so good to play Reading & Leeds. We stayed for the whole day at Leeds and then the whole day at Reading so we got to see Liam Gallagher twice, which was fun.“
“It was nice to play on such a big stage but it’s always bittersweet with things like that because of course it’s a really great stage to play and there were loads of people but you have no sound check, barely a line check, thrown on the stage, thrown off the stage, so it’s a bit rough compared to
other shows but we all had a good time and would love to play again next year and do a lot more festivals.” Fast forward to 2018, and the band already have plans, “Yes, I really want to release a new album in 2018 but there’s things in the way. We’re going to start recording in January so if we can get it all done fast enough then I really hope it will be out, if not there will be some kind of music from us.” When it comes to touring Faith adds, “We’re going to start off small, do some little shows and introduce the new material and see how it’s all going down and see how it works then later in the year do a headline tour.” As a fierce, feminist, all vegetarian, DIY group with punk political undertones, PINS are bucking the trend of the traditional ‘Girl Band’. Unknowingly, alongside their fellow all-girl peers, they are expelling the phrase of its bad connotations. PINS may not want to be associated with the term ‘Girl Band’ but one thing is for sure, they are making the prospect of being in an all-girl group pretty damn appealing.
Tuesday 12 December Sound Control
Friday 9 February The Deaf Institute
JACOB BANKS ADAM FRENCH + Joy Crookes
Monday 18 December The Comedy Store
Saturday 10 February O2 Ritz
SHE JUSTIN MOOREHOUSE WHILE SLEEPS PEOPLE & FEELINGS
Saturday 20 January Thursday 25 January O2 Apollo
JIM JEFFERIES Thursday 25 January The Deaf Institute
RAVENEYE Tuesday 30 January Band on the Wall
THE OH HELLOS + Carousel
Friday 09 February Albert Hall
THE FRONT BOTTOMS + The Smith Street Band + Brick + Mortar
Monday 12 February O2 Ritz
THE USED Tuesday 13 February O2 Ritz
ARCH ENEMY + Wintersun + Tribulation
Friday 16 February Academy
DON BROCO + Man With A Mission
Sunday 25 February Club Academy
STONE BROKEN
+ Jared James Nichols + The Bad Flowers
Wednesday 28 February Ruby Lounge
SHAKEY GRAVES Thursday 1 March Gullivers
THE DUNWELLS
Wednesday 14 March O2 Ritz
CANNIBAL CORPSE + The Black Dahlia Murder + In Arkadia
Wednesday 21 March Academy 3
STARSET Friday 30 March O2 Ritz
TESTAMENT + Annihilator + Vader
Thursday 12 April O2 Ritz
Thursday 1 March Academy 3
EPICA
+ Oceano + Aversions Crown + Disentomb
Monday 16 April O2 Ritz
CARNIFEX Wednesday 7 March Academy 2
DANCE GAVIN DANCE & VEIL OF MAYA
+ Myrkur + Oceans of Slumber
CALUM SCOTT Friday 20 April O2 Ritz
ANDREW W.K.
New Year’s Eve Guide 2017
As one of the biggest nights in the clubbing calendar, there’s no night quite like New Year’s Eve. So whether you fancy a car-park rave, a spot of communal karaoke, or a more refined affair, Manchester has got you covered. Start planning a night to remember (or not as the case may be) with our pick of the best NYE parties in town.
WHP17 NYE Store Street | 8:30pm - 5am | £45ADV WHP have clocked up a house and techno heavy line-up to help you count down to midnight and beyond. Hannah Wants heads up the all-nighter, with Disciples, Bondax, Low Steppa, Friend Within, and many more also set to shake the walls of the illustrious Store Street car-park. If you’ve still got any skank left in you, you can also head down for their ‘Closing Party’ on New Year’s Day, featuring Bicep, The Black Madonna and many more. 22
Absolute Sh**e NYE The Ruby Lounge | 9pm - 4am | £5.50ADV Not quite ready for 2018? Turn back time with some absolute shite from the 80’s, 90’s and 00’s. From Vengaboys to Blazin’ Squad, everyone’s got their guilty pleasures, and only the coolest people dare to admit them. So drag your feet into 2018 with some of the wackest tunes at the DJ’s disposal.
The Zero Hour - New Year’s Eve Party Albert Schloss | 7pm - 2am | £25ADV Join Albert’s resident troop of DJs for night of dark cabaret and pure wonderment this NYE. This special soiree of all-night debauchery will include Haus Boheme, Deviant Disco, secret live acts, guest DJs, dancers, and performers. Get your dancing shoes ready. 23
New Year’s Eve Guide 2017 New Year’s Eve Shindig The Cosy Club | 6pm - 1am | £54.95ADV Pop the bubbles and get ready to countdown to 2018 in style with this Great Gatsby themed shindig. The refined evening of 1920’s merriment will include a four-course meal, canapés, a welcome cocktail, live music and prosecco as the clock chimes midnight. Dress to impress.
Bass Jam – New Year’s Eve Victoria Warehouse | 9pm - 5am | FRM£20 Get pumped up for 2018 with Bass Jam’s epic NYE party at Victoria Warehouse. ‘Fester Skank’ the night away with Lethal Bizzle, Tom Zanetti, K.O Kane, Amine Edge, DANCE, Tough Love, Philip George, Michael Dapaah and special guest Chris Lorenzo.
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New Year’s Eve 2017 Rebellion | 9pm - 7am | FRM£7 Head-bang your way through the holiday at Rebellion. DJs Adam and Scot from Re-Volt and Get Down will be spinning the best alternative tracks, plus your requests, from 9pm – 7am. This carnival themed night will also include a performance from Polefire, free mulled wine on arrival, a mosh-pit ball-pit, magicians, games with prizes to be won, popcorn and candyfloss. Circus themed fancy dress is highly encouraged.
Mr Scruff New Year ‘Keep It Unreal’ Special FT. MC Kwasi Band On The Wall | 10pm - 4am | £25ADV While celebrating his 18-year residency at the venue, Mr Scruff will be seeing in 2018 with a 6-hour session of jazz, soul, hip-hop, funk, disco, deep house, reggae, afrobeat, latin, electro, techno, new wave and plenty of goodies that don’t fit into a pigeonhole. Expect midnight memories, and shapes aplenty. See you on the dance floor. 25
New Year’s Eve Guide 2017 NYE Party - Howling Rhythm vs. Empty Room Night People | 9pm - 4am | £8ADV Spend your New Years in new territory, as the freshest addition to Manchester’s club scene - Night People - is putting on a New Year’s Eve bash. Two of Manchester’s most iconic club nights - The Empty Room and Howling Rhythm - will go head-to-head for your party pleasure.
Ultimate Power NYE Albert Hall | 9pm - 4am | £15ADV This NYE strangers and friends alike will come together for the largest New Year, communal karaoke in the history of all time. Expect blow up instruments, 80s attire, and an evening of quite simply the greatest songs ever written, from Bonnie Tyler to Bon Jovi – and not an Auld Lang Syne in earshot! As Tina Turner puts it - “It’s simply the best, better than all the rest.”
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Ticketline's Top Tickets For Christmas Struggling to find the perfect present for your loved ones this Christmas? What could be better than the gift of live music? From evening gigs through to weekend long festivals, Ticketline have tickets to suit all budgets. There’s early bird offers a plenty in the run up to Crimbo, plus if you buy tickets for your lucky friends and fams, they have got to have someone to go with, so it’s win win for you! Ticketline also have handy payment plans for festivals, so you can spread the cost long after Santa has swung by.
Bestival 02 - 05.08.18 Lulworth Estate, Dorset Weekend Tickets FRM£149
Rat Boy 09.02.18 - 7pm Manchester Academy £15ADV
The Beat-Herder Festival 13 – 15.07.18 Dockber Farm, Lancashire Weekend Tickets FRM£110
Blue Dot Festival 20 – 22.07.18 Jodrell Bank Observatory Weekend Tickets FRM£168
MOGWAI MOGWAI 02.02.18 / 04.02.18 02.02.18 / 04.02.18 6.30pm 6.30pm Albert Hall Albert Hall £27.50ADV £27.50ADV
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Fall Out Boy Gengahr 29.03.18 24.04.18- 6:30pm - 7pm Manchester GorillaArena FRM£43.70 £13ADV
Paramore The Vaccines 19.01.18 6pm 09.04.18 --7pm Manchester Arena Manchester Academy FRM £43 £22.50ADV
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RedFaces 13.12.17
Soup Kitchen £7.50ADV | 7pm Genre: Indie Rock/Rock ‘n’ Roll Hometown: Sheffield FFO: The Shimmer Band // Fronteers // Catholic Action Keep Your Ears Out For: BBC Introducing‘s “Track of the Week” - ‘Take It Or Leave It’. Twitter: @RedFacesMusic Facebook: RedFacesMusic
PINES 15.12.17
The Eagle Inn £4ADV | 7:30pm
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Our pick of the hottest new live acts for 2018!
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Full gig listings Sunday - 10.12.17 The Cribs + PAWS Gorilla | £25ADV | 7pm
Santa Cruz Manchester Academy 3 £12ADV | 7:30pm
Hanson O2 Ritz | £26.50ADV | 7pm
Knuckle Puck + Tiny Moving Parts + Have Mercy + Movements Club Academy | £11.50ADV | 7:30pm
Ho99o9 The Deaf Institute | £13ADV | 7pm
Jacob Banks + Joy Crookes Sound Control | £12.50ADV | 7pm
Nothing More Sound Control | £10ADV | 7pm
Gogol Bordello + Lucky Chops Manchester Academy £23.50ADV | 7pm
Yawning Man + Blown Out + Stupid Cosmonaut Soup Kitchen | £9.50ADV | 7pm Mariah Carey Manchester Arena | FRM£45 | 7pm Monday - 11.12.17
Joe Dolman + Ben Fenner + Matthew Lynch + Sean Waring The King’s Arms | £6ADV | 7pm Wednesday - 13.12.17
Gaelynn Lea Gullivers | £12ADV | 8:30pm
The Difference + The Undercurrent + Valetta + The Guidance Night & Day Café | £6ADV | 8pm
The Cribs + PINS Gorilla | £25ADV | 7pm
Yung Lean + Sad Boys Albert Hall | £15ADV | 7:30pm
ROAM + Stand Atlantic The Deaf Institute | £10ADV | 7pm
Jaykae The Deaf Institute | £10ADV | 7:30pm
Voices Beyond Gullivers | £5ADV | 7pm
Grumble Bee + Normandie Sound Control | £8ADV | 7:30pm
Tuesday - 12.12.17
Swedish Death Candy The Castle Hotel | £6ADV | 7:30pm
Grace Petrie Night & Day Café | £10ADV | 8pm ONE OK ROCK + Crown the Empire Manchester Academy 2 £26.50ADV | 7:30pm
Red Jumpsuit Apparatus Rebellion | £12ADV | 7:30pm LANY O2 Ritz | £12.50ADV | 7pm
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December RedFaces Soup Kitchen | £7.50ADV | 7pm
P.O.S Soup Kitchen | £12ADV | 7pm
Happy Mondays + Jon Dasilva Manchester Academy £32.50ADV | 7pm
Jack Carty The Castle Hotel | £7ADV | 7pm
Thursday - 14.12.17 Dirty Laces + Ashley Sherlock Night & Day Café | £6ADV | 8pm Dinosaur Jr. Gorilla | £23.50ADV | 7:30pm Mr. B the Gentleman Rhymer Gullivers | £10ADV | 7:30pm King Krule Manchester Academy 2 £13.50ADV | 7:30pm Pete Tong Manchester Arena | FRM£35 | 7:30pm
Katherine Jenkins Bridgewater Hall | FRM£45.50 | 7pm Lugubrious Children + Gay Panic Defence + Tout Suite + Groak + Leeched The Eagle Inn | £5OTD | 7pm Friday - 15.12.17 The Warehouse Project - Featuring + Tchami + Malaa + Mercer + Jaded + Jax Jones + Riton + More Store Street | £35ADV | 9:30pm Red Kite Night & Day Café | £6ADV | 8pm Jordan Allen The Ruby Lounge | £7ADV | 7:30pm
Neville Staple Band Band On The Wall FRM£14.50 | 7:30pm The Prodigy O2 Apollo | £42.50ADV | 7pm Plastic House + Larkins + Glass Caves + Bright Black O2 Ritz | £11ADV | 7pm Majestic The Deaf Institute | £12ADV | 7pm Silverstein Sound Control | £14ADV | 7pm
Dirty Thrills + Blue Nation Factory | £10ADV | 7:30pm The Springsteen Sessions Manchester Academy 3 £14ADV | 7:30pm The Men They Couldn’t Hang Sound Control | £15ADV | 7pm Emma Ruth Rundle + Jaye Jayle + FVNERALS Soup Kitchen | £10ADV | 7pm
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Full gig listings Peter Hook & The Light Manchester Academy £26ADV | 7pm John Bramwell + Dave Fidler RNCM | FRM£20 | 7pm Jordan Allen The Ruby Lounge | £5ADV | 7pm Jonny Brown Band On The Wall | £11ADV | 7pm Chop Suey Rebellion | £10ADV | 7pm
Dinosaur Jr. Gorilla | £23.50ADV | 7pm The K’s The Deaf Institute | £7ADV | 7pm A Country Christmas Party Night - Featuring Thorne Hill and Band + The Blue Genes + Lee Paul Gullivers | £10ADV | 7pm HIM Manchester Academy £27.50ADV | 7pm
Saturday - 16.12.17
Youth Club Factory | £7ADV | 7pm
LEVELZ O2 Apollo | £18.25ADV | 9pm
King Kurt The Ruby Lounge | £11ADV | 7pm
Kula Bay + Arrowhead + Heir + New Columbia Night & Day Café | £6ADV | 8pm
Kaiber Koi + Blind Summit + The Human Veil + Manifolds Rebellion | £8ADV | 7pm
Chameleons Vox Manchester Academy 2 £21ADV | 7:30pm
A Certain Ratio + Gramme O2 Ritz | £19ADV | 6:30pm
March + Holiday + Joe Yorke + Incisions + Feed Them To The Forest The Eagle Inn | £6ADV | 7:30pm
The Warehouse Project - Featuring + Floorplan + Jackmaster + Hunee + Henrik Schwarz + DJ Bone + More Store Street | £35ADV | 6pm
ORB Soup Kitchen | £8ADV | 7:30pm Special Kinda Madness Manchester Academy 3 £12.50ADV | 7:30pm No Hot Ashes + Courtyards + Foxe Club Academy | £7ADV | 7:30pm
Liam Gallagher + Trampolene + Rat Boy Manchester Arena | FRM£36 | 6pm Sunday - 17.12.17 Dinosaur Jr. Gorilla | £23.50ADV | 7pm
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December Soulwax + Joe Goddard Manchester Academy | £20ADV | 7pm Slade Manchester Academy 2 £23.50ADV | 7pm
Serene + Galaxy Monsters + Big Cat And The Smoke Machine + Carl Morris Night & Day Café | £6ADV | 8pm Honeyblood Gorilla | £11.50ADV | 7:30pm
UB40 O2 Apollo | FRM£35 | 6:30pm
Bootleg Beatles O2 Apollo | £29.50ADV | 7:30pm
Hoodie Allen + Goody Grace O2 Ritz | £16.50ADV | 6:30pm
Tyla’s Dogs D’Amour + The Main Grains + Gorilla Riot Rebellion | £14ADV | 7pm
Small Faces Sunday - Featuring The Big Peach + Martin The Mod + Twisted Wheel DJ’s Night People | £10ADV | 3pm Monday - 18.12.17
Thursday - 21.12.17 One Night In Nashville Featuring Maria Jordan Night & Day Café | £14ADV | 8pm
5ive O2 Ritz | £25ADV | 7pm James Albert Hall | £45ADV | 7pm Zach Lount Rebellion | £6.50ADV | 7pm Tuesday - 19.12.17 Richard Dawson Band On The Wall | £14ADV | 7:30pm Billy Bibby & The Wry Smiles Jimmy’s | £6ADV | 7:30pm Khalse Rebellion | £25ADV | 7pm Wednesday - 20.12.17
Eliza Carthy & The Wayward Band RNCM | £20ADV | 7pm
Baked A La Ska Band On The Wall £12.50ADV | 7:30pm Friday - 22.12.17 Alfie Sky + Fuzzy Sun + Zac Curran + Calum Hogan Night & Day Café | £6ADV | 8pm Shinny’s Christmas No 1 Celebration Show Manchester Academy 3 £8ADV | 7:30pm Harlem Spartans Club Academy | £14ADV | 7:30pm
In partnership with
Full gig listings Shed Seven + Cast Manchester Academy £24ADV | 7pm The Nix The Deaf Institute | £6ADV | 7pm Kim Wilde + Lawnmower Deth + Toyah O2 Ritz | £29.50ADV | 6:30pm Saturday - 23.12.17 Craig Charles Funk & Soul Club - Featuring King Bee Band On The Wall | £17.50ADV | 9pm Shed Seven + Cast Manchester Academy | £24ADV | 7pm Just Banco The Deaf Institute | £9ADV | 7pm Spunk Volcano And The Eruptions + Brocker + Born To Destruct +Skurvi + 2 Sick Monkeys The Star and Garter £10ADV | 3:30pm Tuesday - 26.12.17 The Warehouse Project - Featuring + Solardo + Skream + Waff + Butch + Sidney Charles & Santé + More Store Street | £35ADV | 8:30pm Shut Down Showcase - Featuring Two4Kay + Kay Rico + Kemoy with DJ David + DJ Remzy + DJ Win + Team Shellinz O2 Ritz | FRM£7 | 6pm
Thursday - 28.12.17 Sauce Night & Day Café | £6ADV | 8pm Lungs + Leather Party + Queasy + Ronda Band On The Wall | FREE | 7:30pm Friday - 29.12.17 Arrowhead + Fear Me December Night & Day Café | £5ADV | 8pm Ilyas Yalcintas O2 Ritz | £29.75ADV | 7pm Sunday - 31.12.17 The New Years Eve Hi Society Ball - Featuring Sam Brown + Gordon West + Governor General + P.I.C. Crew + Tiny G + Dr Funk + More Club Academy | £20ADV | 10pm Mr Scruff Keep It Unreal New Year’s Eve Special - Featuring MC Kwasi Band On The Wall | £25ADV | 10pm Charlie Sloth NYE Party O2 Ritz | £23ADV | 10pm BassJam New Years Eve Party Featuring Lethal Bizzle + Tom Zanetti & K.O Kane + Amine Edge & Dance + Tough Love Victoria Warehouse | FRM£20 | 9pm Horse Meat Disco NYE Party + Joy Social + More The Deaf Institute | FRM£10 | 9pm
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December / January The Warehouse Project NYE - Featuring Hannah Wants + Disciples + Bondax + Low Steppa + Friend Within + Icarus + More Store Street | FRM£35 | 8pm Monday - 01.01.18 The Warehouse Project - Featuring Peggy Gou + Tom Trago + Shanti Celeste + Lone +Kim Ann Foxman + Die Vögel + More Store Street | £45ADV | 5pm
Keni Burke Band On The Wall | £22.50ADV | 7pm Thursday - 11.01.18 Kingdom Lost Night & Day Café | £6ADV | 8pm Verity White The Castle Hotel | £10ADV | 7:30pm MATOMA Gorilla | £15ADV | 7pm
Friday - 05.01.18
Halflives Jimmy’s | £6ADV | 7pm
Gdansk81 The Castle Hotel | £2OTD | 7:30pm
Friday - 12.01.18
Mark Radcliffe’s Galleon Blast + Faerground Accidents Band On The Wall FRM£10.50 | 7:30pm Saturday - 06.01.18 The Hunna O2 Apollo | £21ADV | 7:30pm
Grigio + Probes + Babylon + Mark Pratt Night & Day Café | £6ADV | 8pm Friend The Foe The Castle Hotel | £7ADV | 7:30pm False Advertising +III + Freakout Honey Band On The Wall | FREE | 7:30pm
Good Foxy + Black Pudding + Louie Louie + Slow Knife Band On The Wall | FREE | 7:30pm Tuesday - 09.01.18 MAX The Deaf Institute | £7.50ADV | 7pm
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As Editor of Theunsignedguide. com Louise Dodgsonhas her ears firmly to the ground of the new music scene. Here she gives us her top tip for a band to keep your ears out for.
intense vocals. If Sleater Kinney and Savages float your boat, then LIINES will definitely be a worthwhile addition to your playlist. Following a series of blistering single releases, they’ve quickly built an avid following and an enviable live reputation for frenetic shows, cemented with performances at Camden Rocks, Dot To Dot and Tramlines festivals.
In a city that has no shortage of exciting and inspirational new musical talent coursing through its veins, LIINES are, in my humble opinion, one of the most impressive acts to come out of Manchester in recent years.
Since first discovering LIINES in 2015 it’s been an absolute joy to watch their star gradually ascend, and as recent recipients of funding through PRS Foundation’s Women Make Music programme, it looks like there are new heights on the horizon.
As powerful and exhilarating on record, as they are live, the trio are overflowing with a post-punk angsty spirit, which is shrewdly channelled through their arresting, insistent guitars, robust drums and 38