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Contents Hello again! This month we've been getting all hyped up about Halloween, we've found a unique way for you to live beyond the groove, we have an exclusive interview with our cover stars The Pigeon Detectives, we’re sharing our top picks for October and November shows, John Robb's given us a tip-off of a band to watch out for, plus there’s a whole host of gig listings in the back to help you plan your upcoming gig rota. Not forgetting our local news section, your reviews in 140 characters or less, and your gig crushes. Swooon. Emma Baker, Editor-In-Chief 5
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Local News
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Picks Of The Month
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The Pigeon Detectives Interview
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Off The Record Conference Guide
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#1tweetreview
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Halloween Guide '17
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Gig Listings
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John Robb's Tip Off
Contributors / Say Hello Words: Emma Baker Simon Robinson John Robb
Photos: Jacob Morch Tom Oxley Nedda Afsari Thomas Roberts IllumiNaughty VEVO Luke Marcus Nugent Off The Record Umberto Cofini Futuresound Matt Eachus Festival Republic Ticketlight
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Live music venue and bar Jimmy’s has expanded with a suave new room. The Northern Quarter hotspot, which is co-owned and ran by two musician brothers, already has its own brand of beer ‘Jimmy’s Lager’, and now has an extra red and black room to drink it in. Whoopee!
Could you be the next Bongo’s Bingo host?
A new, three-room venue and late night drinking den has opened on Princess Street in Manchester. Night People takes its name from a John Cooper Clarke song. It is home to the Twisted Wheel Club night, which runs alternate Sundays, as well as the recently launched Cherry Cola rock 'n' roll night, which runs every Friday.
Do you have entertainment experience? Have you got an encyclopedic knowledge of music? Are you decisive enough to choose a dance-off winner? Well, maybe this job is for you? Bongo’s Bingo takes over the Albert Hall every Tuesday and the curators of the bonkers event, are looking for a new host - and are willing to pay a whopping £50,000 per year!
Honey Beat Vinyl has opened in Altrincham. The quirky café come record store is owned by former Cinnamon Club promoter Abi Richardson and will offer music lovers a place to relax, eat cake, and browse a selection of old and new records.
If you think you have what it takes, send a minute-long video of yourself telling the team why you should get the job, along with your CV to hello@ bongosbingo.co.uk - Good luck!
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Manchester City Council has approved plans for the expansion of Band On The Wall. The building, which has been operating as a music venue for over a century, will expand into the derelict Cocozza building to the rear increasing the capacity from 350 – 500 for headline performances. The £3.5million plans also encompass a second, more intimate stage area with a capacity of 80, remodelling of The Picturehouse Bar with increased external terrace space and a new commercial kitchen, as well as new learning spaces, a rooftop A/V suite and improved archive facilities. To get involved and support the venue visit: Bandonthewall.org
BBC 1xtra Live | 11.11.17 Manchester Arena | £15ADV BBC 1xtra Live 2017 is held in a different city each year and 2017 is Manchester’s turn. Celebrating their 15th anniversary, 1xtra will host Travis Scott, Bryson Tiller, Bugzy Malone, Donae’o, J Hus, Not3s and Stefflon Don at the flagship event, with more names to be added soon.
From The Fields are on the hunt for a new Marketing & Digital Designer. The Manchester-based promoters are behind Cumbria’s Kendal Calling, Jodrell Bank’s internationally renowned Bluedot Festival, Scotland’s Electric Fields and emerging music all-dayer Off The Record. The ideal candidate will have demonstrable success in managing marketing campaigns and a creative flair for graphic design. For more information and to apply for this role visit: Fromthefields.co.uk
Got some hot gossip, tip offs or tantalising teasers about Manchester’s music scene? 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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guitar rockers Sundara Karma create culturally captivating pop epics, as evidenced in their debut album ‘Youth is Only Ever Fun in Retrospect’. The long-haired, flare loving foursome will be swinging by the Academy twice in October for two whole evenings of beautiful karma. See you there.
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Neighbourhood Festival Various | £30ADV | 7pm Pop down to Neighbourhood Festival for some locally grown Cabbage and Superfood - but this ain’t no village fate! Dominating 11 music venues across Manchester city centre, the event will be headed up by Peace and Ratboy, with over 100 bands in support throughout the day. Check out The Amazons, Sea Girls, Neon Waltz,
Our pick of the best shows this month 03.10.17 / 12.10.17
Sundara Karma Manchester Academy £15ADV | 7pm Likened to Arcade Fire, Foals and The Maccabees, euphoric
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Stereo Honey, and Swimming Tapes all with one wristband. 12.10.17
Loyle Carner O2 Ritz | £18ADV | 7pm Mid month Loyle Carner will bring his chilled out brand of hip-hop to the O2 Ritz. His Mercury Prize nominated debut ‘Yesterday’s Gone’ boasts a selection of smooth and sensitive tracks. ‘Ain’t Nothing Changed’ will make you feel like sipping a single malt and smoking a cigar – bagsy some of those chilled out seats at the back! 16.10.17
Magic Mountain (supporting Drahla)
how I imagine their support set at Night & Day will be. We’re sure you’ll be begging for more.
Night & Day Café £7ADV | 7:30pm
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Magic Mountain is not just a theme park in California, no - it’s also a band made up of best and brightest of Leeds’ thriving DIY scene. Lins Wilson, formally of the Grammatics, leads the garage rock trio, which also boasts Tom Hudson from Pulled Apart By Horses and Nestor Matthews from Menace Beach and Sky Larkin. Their debut track ‘Zodiac’ is chaotic, quick paced and over all too quickly, which is
London Grammar O2 Apollo | FRM£32.50 | 7pm London Grammar always deliver a captivating live show. Frontwoman Hannah Reid’s voice has a Florence Welch vibe, taking centre stage as delicate electronic twinges hum in the background. Touring new album ‘Truth Is a Beautiful Thing’, released in June, the indie-poppers will perform twice in the city. 11
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St. Vincent
The Pigeon Detectives
O2 Apollo | FRM£30 | 6:30pm
Manchester Academy £18ADV | 7pm
Anne Erin "Annie" Clark – AKA St. Vincent - will be storming the O2 Apollo, hitting up fans with her newly released album ‘Masseduction’, out 13 October. Expect off the wall outfits (she once dressed as a toilet for one of her shows!), risqué lyrics, dispassionate singing and grungy guitars. A real spectacle.
Can you believe it’s 10 years since our cover stars The Pigeon Detectives released their debut album ‘Wait For Me’? Well neither can we! The Rothwell indie-rockers will be performing the Platinumselling album in full on a 15-date UK tour. So transport yourself back to 2007 at their Manchester show. 21.10.17
Low Chimes The Eagle Inn, Salford FRM£7 | 7pm Championed by Elbow’s Guy Garvey and BBC 6 Music’s Marc Riley, Low Chimes have been racking up some radio play with their soothing alt-folk sounds. Previously known as Hot Feet, the now five-piece have a debut album set to drop this autumn and judging by the songs they already have in the ether it is set to be uplifting, intricate, and beautiful. 23.10.17
Declan McKenna O2 Ritz l £13.50ADV | 7:30pm When he’s not donning FILA dungarees and sampling 12
cream of the indie-pop. With 2 EP’s and fistful of catchy singles down, the quintet are back and forth to L.A. to work on their debut album with producer extraordinaire Mike Crossey, who’s previously sprinkled his magic on Arctic Monkeys, Wolf Alice, The 1975 and Foals’ records. Check out their latest EP ‘Glue’ and catch the band at Gorilla later this month you’ll be ‘glued’ to them all night. 03.11.17 / 04.11.17
Liam Fray Albert Hall l FRM£22 1:30pm / 6pm / 7pm tastings on Sunday Brunch, Declan McKenna is honing his energetic set on the live scene. After a summer of festivals and the release of his debut album ‘What Do You Think About The Car’ Declan and co. are back on the road for a 13-date UK tour. Catch them (if you can) at the Ritz for a night of synchronized bopping, glittery eyes, crowd surfing, and uplifting fun.
Courteeners front-man and songwriter Liam Fray will be performing three shows in Manchester as part of his upcoming acoustic tour. At the intimate shows, Liam promises Courteeners’ classics alongside rarely heard cuts from the band’s decade old back catalogue. Unfortunately all three gigs (including a matinee performance) are sold out, so if you’re not one of the lucky ones you might have to trawl through the secondary ticket sites to bag a ticket. – Sorry guys!
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The Pigeon Detectives Let me take you back to 2007 – Rihanna’s ‘Umbrella’ is dominating the airways, Britney has shaved her head, new rave is all the rage, Skins has aired on the TV for the first time, contouring kits don’t exist, Emo’s are rife, the phone hacking scandal is all over the news, the smoking ban has just come in and The Pigeon Detectives have released their debut album ‘Wait For Me’.
Ahead of the shows, we sit down with frontman Matt Bowman to reminisce about those days; breaking bones, performing on the roof of their van, taking shares in Dance To The Radio, and canoeing down student’s staircases.
“I remember not knowing what was to come,” reflects Matt. “So, we were making an album and it was fun but I don’t think we necessarily had a record deal so some of us were still holding down full-time jobs while trying to pop into the studio to do bits and bats. So it was a time of innocence really. You know? We were just doing what we did, there was no agenda and there
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was no kind of ‘end goal’, we just felt lucky enough that someone had given us some money to go record an album but there was nothing set in stone, just let's see what it sounds like.”
in their hometown of Leeds, ‘Wait For Me’ was released on the 28 May 2007 and entered the charts at No.3. Matt rants, “Well in the first week I was pissed off, to be honest, I thought we should have had a No. 1 but then again Amy Winehouse was getting the hell out the charts, and Linkin Park had just released their first album in like 10 years. So I kind of felt a bit aggrieved but you know getting a No. 3 with a record that we weren’t even sure was ever gonna be released was pretty good.”
“Yeah, it was a good time, it was fun. There was nothing else to consider, other than recording the songs we’d spent the last five years writing.” The five-piece were in the place every new band wants to be, fighting off record contracts from major labels and plucky DIY labels.
“We were offered stupid advances of a quarter of a million quid”
The album, which sold around 227,000 copies “We were on a in 2007, went on Bowman shoestring budget. to reach Platinum We released the status in 2008, album on a DIY label - Dance To The Matt adds: “I’d get monthly phone Radio - and we didn’t receive an calls from our management and we advance for that” considers Matt. got one saying it had gone Silver, “We were offered stupid advances and we were like ‘can we get a silver of a quarter of a million quid and disk?’ and they said ‘whoa hang fire, stuff from big labels but instead we it’s still got legs in it’, then they’d took shares in Dance To The Radio ring us saying it had gone Gold, and and kind of saw the longer picture we’d say ‘can we get a gold disk?’ of being able to release future and they said ‘hang on a minute I albums.” think it’s got more to do’." Recorded at Soundworks Studios
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"Then eventually, as soon as it’s gone Platinum you order your disks. That was a big thing for me, but I gave all mine away. I’m not really into keeping things like that but every time I go round to my Mum’s it’s on her wall.”
The band found themselves heading to fan’s post-show house parties. Recalling one of those mad nights, Matt adds, “I remember once me and Oli went back to a student house party in Wales and we both ended up going down the stairs in a canoe and the guy was like ‘Yeah! This is fucking ace, Pigeon’s are going down my stairs in a fucking canoe!’ I woke up the next day thinking ‘Oh, did that happen? Is this my life now? I go down student’s stairs in a canoe?’”
Recalling touring the album in the early days, Matt discloses, “So we toured the first album in the back of a van, and we were playing these kind of huge venues, compared to what we were used to playing, and still driving ourselves The ‘I’m Not to gigs. But there’d Sorry’ hit-makers be people who will kick off their couldn’t get into ‘album-versar y ’ Matt Bowman shows, so we’d go run of shows in outside and play Manchester on acoustic sets for them, all stood on the 19th October. Upon asking top of our van and it just felt quite what the indie-rockers have planned for the shows, Matt organic.” contemplates, “Erm, d’you know “The first time we went on tour we’ve thought long and hard it was a real party atmosphere, I about this and we’re gonna try mean I couldn’t do it at this age it and keep it simple.” would kill me [laughs], but at 19-20 when you don’t give much of a toss “We tried to think if I were to watch The Stokes play ‘This Is It’, I it was a really good time.” wouldn’t want too many bells and whistles. I would want the first
“Is this my life now? I go down student's stairs in a canoe”
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The Pigeon Detectives at Leeds Festival 2017 song they played to be the first song on the album, I’d want to know what the next song coming was. We’re not playing the songs in the exact order, but the first four tracks are certainly what you’d hear if you put the album on, and I think the songs are gonna speak for themselves. You know, they’ve been around in people’s CD collections and then iPod collections, and now on Spotify over the last 10 years so we don’t need to do much trickery pokery.”
The Pigeon Detectives’ fans are pretty diehard. Matt concurs, “I love our fans but they’re fucking lunatics - let's not mince our words! For a start, anyone turning up with song lyrics etched across their chest or their leg, that I wrote in my bedroom smoking weed and eating crisps is pretty mental.”
“Yeah fans are weird but you know, they’ve bought me a house, they keep me from having to stand at a bus stop on a Monday morning waiting for the 443, so happy days!”
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a tour - I’ll need genuinely patching up.”
But it’s not just the fans that are ‘lunatics’, as the group are renowned for energetic, bone breaking sets, with Matt often scaling the lighting rigs and speakers side of stage.
Perhaps inspired by these A&E experiences, the band released their second album ‘Emergency’ the following year in 2008. Now on album number five, ‘Broken Glances’, released in February, we asked Matt how their music has changed over the years. “It’s a real funny one that 'cause the music I listen to has not really changed, and the music I’m into has not really changed, but for some reason, the music we’ve stacked and make is really different to the music we were making at the start.”
Explaining that I had broken my arm at an early Pigeon’s show, Matt said, “Sorry about that dude!” adding, “I’ve been black and blue, I’ve fractured my heel, snapped my hamstring, I’ve had stitches in my mouth, I’ve had my teeth repaired. I’ve got cuts on the back of my head which I’ve had stitched up. I mean it’s rare that I come out of a show without a bump or a bruise. More often than not - at least once
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"We could write another ‘Wait For in us, there’s people in the band Me’ in a heartbeat - we could do it in writing music all the time that might a day - because writing that kind of not necessarily be right for the music comes easy to us, but would band, so people might wanna go people want to hear it? I don’t think off and do little solo projects.” so. Would it undermine the first record by just being a carbon copy? “The Pigeon Detectives will always Probably would. So yeah we’ve just be a work in progress, we’ll never tried to evolve and call it a day, people leave somewhere can go away, for us to go, and come back, we sometimes fans can ignore each grumble a bit if other for 10 years you don’t write and get together them another ‘I’m and milk ‘Wait For Not Sorry’ or ‘I Me’ for the 20 year Found Out’ but I anniversary. This think in the long band belongs to run they’ll thank everybody that’s in us for it ‘cause it’s it, so it’ll always be Matt Bowman something to stay a vessel for making interested in.” music, releasing music, touring Back in the present day, the music, but who knows what we’re band are at a bit of crossroad, gonna do next.” considering splintering off into solo projects and pondering the Matt and co. may be unsure what's next for the band, but one thought of another album. “We’ve not decided on anything in thing is for sure their dedicated particular. We’re gonna do this ‘Wait fans will be watching with eager For Me’ tour, there’s people pecking eyes. our heads to do a ‘Greatest Hits’ but I always feel like a ‘Greatest Hits’ Join them and transport yourself is a band’s swan song you know? back to 2007 at The Pigeon Where do you go from that? So, Detectives' show at Manchester Academy on the 19th October. yeah I think we’ve got more music
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Off The Record Conference Guide Are you in a budding band and want to break into the music industry? Do you want tips on how to set up your own tour, or make the most out of merch? Want advice on how to get signed, or break loose and set up your own label? Or need help in bagging your dream job in
the industry? Well, Off The Record’s conferences may hold all the answers, as attendees harness a wealth of knowledge and expertise from big names within the industry. Here we give you the low down on all the talks, debates, and panels taking place at Off The Record 2017.
In Conversation with Cabbage
Perception is Everything, the art of selling yourself
Find out how political punk-rockers Cabbage found themselves on a oneway path to success, signing to BMG owned label Infectious Records, and landing a Worldwide publishing deal with Blue Raincoat Songs.
Speakers - Andy Kettle (Steaming Kettle PR) and Victoria Turnbull (Silent Radio)
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Off The Record Various NQ venues - 10.11.17 Gig Pass FRM£15 – Conference Pass FRM£20 Taking place across Manchester’s hip-happening Northern Quarter, Off The Record is a conference by day and a festival by night. Returning for its second year, OTR shines a spotlight on 30+ emerging artists in seven legendary venues, all within a 5-minute walk from each other. The line-up is kept under wraps until 24 hours before the event, so prepare for lots of surprises!
What happens on tour no longer stays on tour
Love for Grime Speakers - Despa Robinson (BE83 Artists) and Vital
- Is life on tour all that it’s cracked up to be?
This panel welcomes both the old and new school grime names to discuss the importance of sustaining the once “criminally overlooked” genre. Sharing their expert advice on everything from starting out as an artist to producing in the Grime scene.
Speakers - Nathalie Candel (freelance), Nick Otaegui (Sound City/Sentric), Alice Hogg (Live Nation), Richard Jupp (Rogue Emperor / formerly of Elbow)
How to break a band in 10 weeks Speakers - Mark Knight (Rightchord Music), Sophie Neville & Melissa Mould (MEC Wavemaker) The team at London media and partnerships’ agency MEC Wavemaker, took on a unique challenge to attempt to break an unsigned band in just 10 weeks using media, social content, and great storytelling. No budgets, record labels, radio pluggers or music press. This session explains what they did, and what they achieved during the 10-week campaign. 23
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Break Down Barriers, We Will Come: Attitude Is Everything
Speaker - Matt Parsons
Speakers - Suzanne Bull (Attitude is Everything), Hannah McKeamen (AIE Blogger), Rob Madison (Musician & Producer) and Richard Phoenix (Constant Flux)
In Conversation with False Heads Indie rock trio The Falseheads tell conference goers about how they caught the attention of punk’n’roll legend Iggy Pop, and discuss how they ended up being championed and supported by some of the industries biggest names.
To launch their new guide for gig organisers, bands and artists, live music accessibility charity Attitude Is Everything will curate a unique panel discussion to shine a light on the simple changes that event organisers can implement to maximise inclusivity at their shows.
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New Kids On The Block Speakers - Phil Saxe (Factory Records), Coral Williamson (PRS for Music), Kali Bradford (Distiller Records), Emily Foreman (Warner Chappell) and Henriette Heimdal (WIN) The industries new generation brings you an exclusive insight into what it takes to break into the industry. Learn their tricks of the trade from application processes to gaining that vital work experience, as well as landing a dream job.
How to Make Money from Merch Speakers - Will Spencer (Music Glue), Cimone Fagan (Hospital Records) and Lee Burgess (30 Century Management)
Signed, Sealed, Delivered: All you need to know about Labels Speakers - Stuart Baxter (Warren Records), Charlie Arme (Tileyard Studios) and Ruth Barlow (Beggars Group)
Music in Television: Promotion? Easy money? Or selling out? Speakers - Peter Bradbury (Sky Music), David Connolly (Molecular Sound) and Patrick Cloherty (Sentric Music) 25
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Tuesday 24 October The Star & Garter
Saturday 18 November Liverpool O2 Academy
+ In Search of Sun
+ Black Foxxes + Deacade
THE RAVEN AGE DEAF HAVANA Tuesday 21 November Academy
Saturday 4 November Sound Control
DINOSAUR PILE UP MR. BIG + The Answer + Faster Pussycat
+ Demob Happy + Fizzy Blood
Thursday 23 November The Bridgewater Hall
Monday 6 November Sound Control
RHIANNON GIDDENS
PARCELS
+ Kaia Kater
+ Hush Moss
Thursday 23 November Ruby Lounge
ROYAL THUNDER
Tuesday 7 November Holmfirth Picturedome
AFRO CELT SOUND SYSTEM
+ The Last Internationale
Friday 24 November Southport Atkinson Arts Gallery and Library Monday 18 December The Comedy Store
+ The Dhol Foundation
JUSTIN MOORHOUSE MILBURN KIM CHURCHILL Tuesday 7 November Gorilla
JULIA JACKLIN + Faye Webster
Saturday 11 November Academy
+ Neon Waltz
Sunday 26 November Deaf Institute
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Thursday 30 November Academy 3
Friday 9 February Albert Hall
MY NAME IS BEAR
+ The Smith Street Band + Brick + Mortar
NAHKO THE FRONT BOTTOMS + Sound of the Sirens
Tuesday 13 February O2 Ritz
ARCH ENEMY
Sunday 3 December Soup Kitchen
SON LITTLE
+ Wintersun + Tribulation
Tuesday 20 February O2 Apollo
MARKIPLIER’s
Monday 4 December O2 Ritz
BENJAMIN CLEMENTINE
YOU’RE WELCOME TOUR
Wednesday 14 March O2 Ritz
CANNIBAL CORPSE
Thursday 7 December Deaf Institute
RYAN MCMULLAN
+ The Black Dahlia Murder + In Arkadia
Saturday 20 January O2 Apollo
Thursday 12 April O2 Ritz
JIM JEFFERIES
EPICA Friday 20 April O2 Ritz
ANDREW W.K. THE OH HELLOS Tuesday 30 January Band On The Wall
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Halloween Guide 2017
All Hallows Eve is almost upon us… So here’s the low down on the most killer nights to get your ghoulish groove on in Manchester this October. Readers beware; you’re in for a scare!
Strangest Things Halloween 80’s Party The Ruby Lounge - 24.10.17 - 10pm - 3am Price: £5ADV Dress up in your favourite blood-drenched 80’s clobber and head on down to The Ruby Lounge to celebrate the second series of Stranger Things launching on Netflix. The DJ will be delving deep into Joyce Byer’s record collection for some absolute 80’s bangers including The Clash, Toto, Joy Division, Foreigner, Corey Hart, The Bangles and Jefferson Airplane. This will be one hell of a night. 32
Ultimate Power – Bat out of Helloween Special O2 Ritz - 27.10.17 - 10:30pm - 3am Price: FRM£8 Grab your worst wig and your best air guitar, and get ready to sing-along to a deadly selection of power ballads! Think Cutting Crew’s ‘(I Just Died) In Your Arms Tonight’, The Animals’ ‘House Of The Rising Sun’, Alice Cooper’s ‘Poison’ and of course Meatloaf’s ‘Bat Out Of Hell’. Your throat is sure to be sore on Saturday!
IllumiNaughty presents: Underworld - Halloween MCR Bowlers Exhibition Centre - 28.10.17 - 8pm - 5am Price: £22.50ADV Join The Goblin and his pals for the next bonkers chapter of the IllumiNaughty story, with 6 themed rooms each with a unique sound, visuals and décor. From psytrance to drum n bass, psychedelic electronic, reggae, dub, and chillout. This Halloween bash will also include stage performers, bumper cars, a fun fair, laser quest, confetti cannons, fire and pyrotechnics, and a food court just in case you get peckish. 33
Halloween Guide 2017 Vevo Halloween – The Other World Victoria Warehouse - 28.10.17 - 9pm - 12:30am Price: £5ADV Vevo Halloween will return to Manchester this October, and we just can’t bloody wait! On the night, 5,000 lucky ticket holders will bare blood-curdling witness to five hotter than hell artists from Vevo’s LIFT programme. Now in it’s fifth year, the infamous event has previously played host to James Bay, Years & Years, Ella Eyre, Blossoms and more. This year Vevo will showcase
headliner and double BRIT bagger Rag N Bone Man, the soulful JP Cooper, DJ and serial collaborator Jonas Blue, new recruit Yungen. As well as a night packed with sinister sets, gig-goers can expect to be transported to ‘The Other World’, the evening’s nightmarish theme - a parallel world where nothing is quite as it seems… See you on the other side.
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WHP Ants Halloween Takeover Store Street - 28.10.17 - 9:30pm - 5am Price: £35ADV Ants follow up previous WHP shindigs with a Halloween takeover. Topping the killer line-up is Paul Kalkbrenner, who is joined by special guests Groove Armada, along with Eli & Fur, Jesse Rose, Route 94, wAFF and a host of other DJs who will showcase the full spectrum of house, from jacking bass bombs to deep, melodic disco.
Jungle Jam Halloween Takeover Soundcontrol - 28.10.17 - 10pm - 4am Price: £8ADV Before Sound Control bites the dust, enjoy what might be your last night of hellish house music at the venue, as Jungle Jam hosts a Halloween takeover. With a full line up to be announced soon, there’ll be giveaways including t-shirts, horns and whistles, so you’ll be sure to wake the dead.
Stringer Things – Halloween show Gullivers - 30.10.17 - 7:30pm - 11pm Price: £3ADV Chris Stringer and his band The Rocketeers return to Manchester to perform a spooktactular headline show celebrating Halloween and the return of the hit Netflix series 'Stranger Things'. At a bloodcurdling bargain price of just £3, we can’t think of much better ways to spend your money or your Monday. 35
Halloween Guide 2017 Motherfunkers Fright Night Antwerp Mansion - 31.10.17 - 10pm - 3am Price: FRM£8 Guys, girls and ghouls; a dilapidated, haunted mansion is the perfect setting for your Halloween. So dress up, get down and get ready dance the creepiest night of the year away to the very best of funk, soul, disco and Motown. Afros and flares at the ready, there’s gonna be live music, performers, installations, visuals, the obligatory disco balls, balloons, and confetti cannons. It’s gonna be DEAD 70’s.
Applebum - The Hip-Hop Horror Show Gorilla - 31.10.17 - 11pm - 3am Price: FRM£5 As we all know hip-hop has a dark side… Guns, shanks, drugs, and murder (RIP Tupac!) have inspired some of the greatest hip-hop tracks of all time. So dress to kill and get yourself down to Gorilla for one big supernatural skank off to the flyest hip-hop and R&B jams.
Regression Sessions x The Nightmare Project – Halloween! O2 Ritz - 31.10.17 - 10pm - 3am Price: FRM£7 Think back to the Halloween of your childhood - trick or treating, pumpkin carving, face painting, apple bobbing - well at this Regression Sessions Halloween special you’ll be transported straight back to those days. Only now there will also be a blood and guts ball pit, walkabout freak show entertainers, immersive Halloween production, giant cob webs, a trick or treat tuck shop, spooky inflatables, and litres and litres of fake blood. Creeeepy. 36
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I met my 'Gig Crush' through a love of live music. He was touring with a band and I went to the show. 5 years of gigs and festivals later, (and way too much Ibiza chillout!) and we're happier and stronger than ever. Happy anniversary tour doctor Next stop a decade! Forever your long serving musical sidekick, Emma Notts x
Dear Hannah, Earlier this month I went to watch Girlpool, and left with eyes only for you. After the gig I invited you to my club night, and we had a boogie to some Fleetwood Mac and now ‘I want to be with you everywhere’. If you can ‘hear me calling out your name’ lets arrange another date. Disheveled disk-jocky Melvin, 29, at Girlpool show
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Black hair, piercings, and a whole lot of eyeliner; you’re just what I am looking for in a woman. I spotted you at the New Found Glory gig, we’re becoming a rare breed you know? Let me know if this is a ‘Hit or Miss’ or if it’s ‘All Downhill From Here’. Eager emo Ethan, at the New Found Glory show
Hey good looking! You beat me to the bar at the Banfi show. Thanks for the drink, maybe I can return the favour some time? Laura, 26, at the Banfi gig
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Full gig listings Tuesday - 10.10.17 The Schizophonics Night & Day Café | £7ADV | 8pm Josh Pyke + Jack Carty Gullivers | £10ADV | 7:30pm Honey G Manchester Academy 3 £10ADV | 7:30pm Louie Louie + Zarco + Shallow Waters Jimmy's | £5ADV | 7:30pm Slowdive + Blanck Mass Albert Hall | £22.50ADV | 7pm The Dears The Deaf Institute | £15ADV | 7pm Ulrika Spacek + Mush + Wedding Soup Kitchen | £9ADV | 7pm Dua Lipa Manchester Academy £18ADV | 7pm Moonchild Band On The Wall | £11ADV | 7pm ONYX Rebellion | £15ADV | 7pm Marty Stuart and His Fabulous Superlatives RNCM | £28.50ADV | 7pm Wednesday - 11.10.17 The Night & Day Showcase Featuring Avenue + Free Believer
+ Lighthouse + Bare Minimum Night & Day Café | £6ADV | 8pm Hot 8 Brass Band Manchester Academy 2 £22.50ADV | 7:30pm 60s Space Engine + Cavernzz The Eagle Inn | £4ADV | 7:30pm Papa Roach + Ho99o9 O2 Apollo | £38.75ADV | 7pm French For Rabbits The Deaf Institute | £7ADV | 7pm Still Remains Rebellion | £12ADV | 7pm Reel Big Fish + Anti-Flag + Mad Caddies + Sweet Little Machine + Everyone and Anyone O2 Ritz | £12ADV | 6pm Thursday - 12.10.17 Henri Herbert & The Fury Gullivers | £8.50ADV | 7:30pm Tower Of Power + Stone Foundation Manchester Academy 2 £28.50ADV | 7:30pm Indie Week UK - Featuring False Advertising + The Big Peach + Astral Project + Tuscan Sun Night & Day Café | £14ADV | 7:30 pm Glowrogues Band On The Wall | £8ADV | 7:30pm
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october October Loka The Eagle Inn | FREE | 7:30pm Melvins Gorilla | £24ADV | 7pm Loyle Carner O2 Ritz | £25.50ADV | 7pm In Hearts Wake Sound Control | £10ADV | 7pm Sundara Karma + The Magic Gang Manchester Academy | £15ADV | 7pm Windhand + Satan's Satyrs Rebellion | £12ADV | 7pm Kingdom Of Giants + Our Hollow Our Home + Create To Inspire Satans Hollow | £8ADV | 6pm Friday - 13.10.17 Lag + Joe Farr Soup Kitchen | £6ADV | 11pm The Warehouse Project - Featuring Giggs + Devlin + Charlie Sloth + Nadia Rose + Abra Cadabra + Oneman + DJ Target + More Store Street | £29.50ADV | 9pm Jarrod Dickenson The Deaf Institute £10ADV | 7:30pm Jehst Sound Control | £12ADV | 7:30pm The Twisted Dolls + Gardenback + Daydream Hotel
Gullivers | £5ADV | 7:30pm Beatrix Players Gullivers | £6ADV | 7:30pm Inego + Lanterns Club Academy | £7ADV | 7:30pm Justin Currie + The Pallbearers + Les Johnson And Me Manchester Academy 3 £22ADV | 7:30pm Indie Week UK - Featuring China Lane + Disparity By Design + Mosley Bar + Bluelights Night & Day Café | £14ADV | 7:30pm Wolfarth/Kahn + Ryoko Akama The Eagle Inn | £5ADV | 7:30pm Gary Numan + Jayce Lewis Manchester Academy £29.50ADV | 7pm Arun Ghosh + Steve Ojay Band On The Wall | £13.50ADV | 7pm Babylon Fire Rebellion | £5ADV | 7pm Jason Kahn & Christian Wolfarth + Ryoko Akama The Eagle Inn | TBC | 7pm Hippo Campus + Toothless Gorilla | £10ADV | 6:30pm The Selecter + The Beat feat. Ranking Roger O2 Ritz | £28.75ADV | 6:30pm
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Full gig listings Uneven Structure + Voyager + Valis Ablaze + Searu Satans Hollow | £10ADV | 6pm Saturday - 14.10.17 Pete Rock & CL Smooth + Jeru The Damaja O2 Ritz | £26ADV | 11pm The Warehouse Project - Featuring MK + Cassius + Jax Jones + Todd Terry + Waze & Odyssey + TCTS + KC Lights + More Store Street | £35ADV | 9pm Ralph McTell RNCM | £25ADV | 8pm Corella + Faux Pas + Dear Caroline + Narrow Margin Manchester Academy 3 £8ADV | 7:30pm Bobbie Peru + Nick Aslam The Eagle Inn | £5ADV | 7:30pm
Bigfoot Sound Control | £8ADV | 7pm Fakear Soup Kitchen | £10ADV | 7pm Dizzee Rascal + Donaeo Manchester Academy | £25ADV | 7pm Superorganism Band On The Wall | £9ADV | 7pm Cleargreen Rebellion | £6ADV | 7pm Amelia Coburn + Red Old Eyes The King's Arms | TBC | 7pm Lethal Bizzle O2 Ritz | £21.50ADV | 6:30pm Indie Week UK - Featuring We Signal Fire + Jonny Oates Band + Moon Tan + Ninja Report + Elephant Bay The Deaf Institute | £8ADV | 7pm Sunday - 15.10.17
Blind Summit + The Human Veil + Gaias Stone + Trading Arms The Star and Garter | £6ADV | 7:30pm
Melanie De Biasio The Deaf Institute £12.50ADV | 7:30pm
John Hackett Band Aatma | £8ADV | 7:30pm
Laurel Halo Soup Kitchen | £10ADV | 7:30pm
Neck Deep + As It Is + Woes + Real Friends O2 Apollo | £22.45ADV | 7pm
Luke Haines Night & Day Café | £17:50ADV | 7:30pm
Ist Ist + Urban Theory + Control Of The Going Gorilla | £8ADV | 7pm
Peatbog Faeries Band On The Wall £17:50ADV | 7:30pm
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october October Turner ‘Daydreams & Stars’ + Carl Morris The Eagle Inn | £8ADV | 7:30pm
Lamb Manchester Cathedral £25ADV | 7pm
Johnny Flynn & The Sussex Wit Manchester Academy 2 £17.50ADV | 7pm
Sylvette + Brass Phantoms + Violet Youth + Forevers Jimmy's | £4ADV | 7pm
The Flatliners Rebellion | £10ADV | 7pm
Tuesday - 17.10.17
Howie Payne + Treetop Flyers Night People | £8ADV | 8pm Monday - 16.10.17 Flatworms The Eagle Inn | £9ADV | 8pm Jordan Rakei Gorilla | £12ADV | 7:30pm Kele Okereke The Deaf Institute | £16ADV | 7:30pm Drahla + Magic Mountain Night & Day Café | £7ADV | 7:30pm Freya Ridings Fallow Café | £7ADV | 7:30pm Seether + LTNT + Sons Of Texas O2 Ritz | £22.50ADV | 7pm James TW Sound Control | £12ADV | 7pm Diet Cig + The Spook School Soup Kitchen | £7.50ADV | 7pm
Stephen Kellogg Manchester Academy 2 £20ADV | 7pm Beth Ditto + Annabel Allum Albert Hall | £16ADV | 7pm London Grammar O2 Apollo | £32.50ADV | 7pm Dave Giles + Lewis Fieldhouse + Shaun Redlake Gullivers | PWYW | 7pm Roddy Woomble The Deaf Institute | £16ADV | 7pm Sälen Gullivers | £7ADV | 7pm The Navettes + The Mantells + Palmes & Sugar Jimmy's | £3ADV | 7pm Michael Kiwanuka The Lowry | FRM£20 | 7pm Church Of Misery Rebellion | £15ADV | 7pm
Public Service Broadcasting + Palace Manchester Academy | £24ADV | 7pm
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Full gig listings Wednesday - 18.10.17 Vagabon Night & Day Café | £8ADV | 8pm Collie Buddz Club Academy | £17.50ADV | 7:30pm Iguana Death Cult The Eagle Inn | £6ADV | 7:30pm St. Vincent O2 Apollo | £30.25ADV | 7pm
Dream Wife + Pearl City + Psyblings Band On The Wall | £8ADV | 7:30pm Marc Almond Bridgewater Hall | £26.50ADV | 7:30pm Richard Thompson + Josienne Clarke + Ben Walker The Lowry | FRM£28.50 | 7:30pm Train O2 Apollo | £31ADV | 7pm
Becky Hill Gorilla | £12.50ADV | 7pm
Manchester Folk Fest - Featuring John Smith + Special Guests Gorilla | £18ADV | 7pm
Too Many T's The Deaf Institute | £8ADV | 7pm
Buzzcocks + PINS O2 Ritz | £26.75ADV | 7pm
Gang Of Youths Gullivers | £9ADV | 7pm
Rationale Sound Control | £12ADV | 7pm
Phoebe Bridgers Soup Kitchen | £10ADV | 7pm
Slowcoaches + Monster Treasure + Patty Hearst Soup Kitchen | £7ADV | 7pm
Pale Waves Sound Control | £8ADV | 6pm Thursday - 19.10.17
The Pigeon Detectives Manchester Academy | £18ADV | 7pm
Dan Owen Night & Day Café | £9ADV | 10pm
CHON Rebellion | £12ADV | 7pm
(Sandy) Alex G The Deaf Institute | £10ADV | 7:30pm
Gabrielle Aplin Manchester Cathedral £16.50ADV | 7pm
Shakka Manchester Academy 3 £16ADV | 7:30pm
Friday - 20.10.17 The Warehouse Project - Featuring Loco Dice + Joseph Capriati + Yousef + Skream + Heid + Kim Ann Foxman
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october October + Paul Woolford + Krysko + More Store Street | £35ADV | 9:30pm Marshmello Albert Hall | £28.50ADV | 9pm The Coronas Night & Day Café | £12.50ADV | 8pm Liv Dawson Fallow Café | £8ADV | 7:30pm Gaz Brookfield + Joe McCorriston The Star and Garter | £7ADV | 7:30pm London Grammar O2 Apollo | £32.50ADV | 7pm Manchester Folk Fest - Featuring Keston Cobblers Club + Jinnwoo + Jack Rutter Gorilla | £16ADV | 7pm Priests + Downtown Boys The Deaf Institute | £10ADV | 7pm Future + Stefflon Don + Rich The Kid + Zoey Dollaz + Ace Tee + Kwam.E Manchester Academy | £45ADV | 7pm Ibeyi + Ider Band On The Wall | £15ADV | 7pm Voodoo Blood Rebellion | £7ADV | 7pm Little Mix Manchester Arena | FRM£25 | 7pm Autonomads + Popes Of Chillitown + Jake & TJF The Eagle Inn | £6ADV | 7pm
Spindrift + Hey Bulldog + Bones Shake + The Kundalini Genie Aatma | TBC | 7pm Manchester Folk Fest - Featuring Afro Celt Sound System O2 Ritz | £26.75ADV | 6:30pm Taken Sound Control | £10.50ADV | 5pm Saturday - 21.10.17 The Cosmics Jimmy's | £6ADV | 8:30pm The Warehouse Project Featuring Mura Masa + Nao + Bonzai + 67 + Special Request + Jacques Greene + Overmono + Mumdance +Bok Bok + More Store Street | £35ADV | 8pm The Night & Day Showcase Featuring Submariners + Babylon + Too Cool Kid + Parka Burns Night & Day Café | £6ADV | 8pm Manchester Orchestra Manchester Academy 2 £16ADV | 7:30pm Mykal Rose + DJ Wizzy Dan Band On The Wall £19.50ADV | 7:30pm Low Chimes The Eagle Inn | £7ADV | 7:30pm Zara Larsson O2 Apollo | £26ADV | 7pm
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Full gig listings Forest Swords Gorilla | £12.50ADV | 7pm
Maher Zain O2 Apollo | £28.75ADV | 7pm
Nell Bryden The Deaf Institute | £18ADV | 7pm
Dodie Manchester Academy 2 £14ADV | 7pm
Brother Strut Sound Control | £20ADV | 7pm Mother Soup Kitchen | £5ADV | 7pm Sleaford Mods Manchester Academy £18.50ADV | 7pm
Crazy Town Rebellion | £12ADV | 7pm Emeli Sandé Manchester Arena | FRM£37.50 | 7pm Brandy Clark RNCM | £22.50ADV | 7pm
J. Cole Manchester Arena | FRM£40 | 7pm
OMBRA Soup Kitchen | £10ADV | 3pm
Abhorrent Decimation + Overoth + This Is Turin + Triverse Massacre The Star and Garter | £5ADV | 7pm
Monday - 23.10.17
W.A.S.P O2 Ritz | £26.25ADV | 6:30pm Sunday - 22.10.17 The Undercover Hippy Night & Day Café | £10ADV | 8pm Otherkin + Kashmere The Deaf Institute £6.50ADV | 7:30pm Marmozets Manchester Academy 3 £12ADV | 7:30pm Big Brave The Star and Garter | £8ADV | 7:30pm
Busty and the Bass + Ink Night & Day Café | £8ADV | 8pm Declan McKenna O2 Ritz | £14.85ADV | 7:30pm Hundred Waters The Deaf Institute | £11ADV | 7:30pm Razz + Delphina Kings + Hayes & Y Gullivers | £6ADV | 7:30pm Azymuth + DJ Sno Band On The Wall £17.50ADV | 7:30pm Noothgrush The Star and Garter £11ADV | 7:30pm
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october October MC Lars Factory | £9.50ADV | 7pm
Wildwood Kin + Clara Bond Night & Day Café | £11ADV | 8pm
Vallis Alps Sound Control | £8ADV | 6pm
The Breath The Deaf Institute | £12ADV | 7:30pm
Tuesday - 24.10.17
The Hoosiers Manchester Academy 3 £15ADV | 7:30pm
Ben Smith + Alistair Mcgeorge + Lauren Luca Night & Day Café | £5ADV | 8pm The Weather Station The Eagle Inn | £8ADV | 7:30pm The Raven Age + In Search Of Sun The Star and Garter | £10ADV | 7:30pm Puppy Jimmy's | £8ADV | 7:30pm Fickle Friends Gorilla | £9ADV | 7pm Starsailor O2 Ritz | £22.50ADV | 7pm Over Atlantic Sound Control | £10ADV | 7pm
Jason Isbell + The 400 Unit Albert Hall | £22ADV | 7pm Weezer O2 Apollo | £46ADV | 7pm MØ + Skott O2 Ritz | £17.50ADV | 7pm Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O Soup Kitchen | £12ADV | 7pm Slaves (USA) Rebellion | £12ADV | 7pm Michael Malarkey The Star and Garter | £12.50ADV | 7pm Elderbrook Sound Control l £10ADV | 6pm
Banks Manchester Academy £22.50ADV | 7pm
Thursday - 26.10.17
Irit Band On The Wall | £12ADV | 7pm
Wednesday 13 + Courtesans Club Academy l £15ADV | 7:30pm
Make Them Suffer + Novelists + Cursed Earth Rebellion | £12ADV | 7pm
CUD Night and Day l £14ADV | 7:30pm
Wednesday - 25.10.17
Joey Bada$$ Albert Hall l £22.50ADV | 7pm
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Full gig listings The Haggis Horns + Miasma Band On The Wall £11.50ADV | 7:30pm Gov't Mule O2 Ritz l £30.25ADV | 7pm Little Dragon Manchester Academy £19.50ADV | 7pm Tigercub The Star and Garter l £8ADV | 7pm Bad Breeding + Riggots + BetaBlockers + Only Strangers + Incisions Aatma l £6ADV | 7pm VAMA + Little Eye Factory l £20.50ADV | 7pm Tom Zanetti + K.O. Kane Gorilla l £10ADV | 6:30pm Friday - 27.10.17 Eric Benet Club Academy l £20ADV | 8pm The Warehouse Project - Featuring Andy C + Bad Company + Bane + Calyx & Teebee + Camo & Krooked + Culture Shock + Delta Heavy + Killbox + More Store Street l £29.50ADV | 9pm The Night & Day Showcase - Featuring Paisley + Picture Atlantic + Ember Weir + Pacifica Night & Day Café l £6ADV | 8pm
Messengers + Pomona The Eagle Inn l £5ADV | 8pm Anti-Nowhere League Manchester Academy 3 £15ADV | 7:30pm Gathering Of Strangers Jimmy's l £4ADV | 7:30pm Kidsmoke + The Capitals + Beach Royals + Bliss Aatma l £6ADV | 7:30pm The Lovely Eggs Gorilla l £10.50ADV | 7pm Kojey Radical The Deaf Institute l £10ADV | 7pm Worriedaboutsatan + Pye Corner Audio Soup Kitchen l £6ADV | 7pm Black Rebel Motorcycle Club Manchester Academy | £25ADV | 7pm Mammal Hands + Caoilfhionn Rose + Gondwana DJs Band On The Wall l £12ADV | 7pm Akercocke Rebellion l £14ADV | 7pm Henry Gallagher Factory l £10ADV | 7pm Saturday - 28.10.17 Craig Charles Funk & Soul Club Featuring The Invisible Orchestra Live Band On The Wall l £17.50ADV | 9pm
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october October The Warehouse Project - Featuring Paul Kalkbrenner + Andrea Oliva + Eli & Fur + Jesse Rose + Olli Ryder & Luke Welsh + Route 94 + More Store Street l £35ADV | 8pm Mugstar Night & Day Café l £8ADV | 8pm The Proper Ornaments Gullivers l £8ADV | 7:30pm The Gas Panic + Rum Thief + Transition, Baby! Soup Kitchen l £7ADV | 7:30pm Maruja + Freeda + Seegulls Manchester Academy 3 £8ADV | 7:30pm
Foy Vance RNCM l £17.50ADV | 7pm Mount Kimbie O2 Ritz l £17.50ADV | 6.30pm Sunday - 29.10.17 Pulvis Et Umbra + Vice + Stormirder + With The Wolves Night & Day Café l £6ADV | 8pm Pantha Du Prince Gorilla l £15ADV | 7:30pm Francobollo Gullivers l £10ADV | 7:30pm Robbie Cavanagh Soup Kitchen l £10ADV | 7:30pm Los Campesinos! Club Academy l £14ADV | 7:30pm
Tash Sultana Manchester Academy 2 £15ADV | 7:30pm Baba Naga The Eagle Inn l £6ADV | 7:30pm Godspeed You! Black Emperor + Liars + Bardo Pond Albert Hall l £25ADV | 7pm Ibibio Sound Machine Gorilla l £14ADV | 7pm Cassia + Five Days North The Deaf Institute l £8ADV | 7pm Metallica Manchester Arena l FRM£50 | 7pm
Yolanda Brown + Lucy Mae Band On The Wall £15.50ADV | 7:30pm Mutation The Deaf Institute l £12.50ADV | 7pm AJ Tracey Manchester Academy 2 £15ADV | 7pm Akon + Tre Carter + Og Boo Dirty + Tone Tone Manchester Academy £27.50ADV | 7pm
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Full gig listings Oskar’s Drum + Patrick The Eagle Inn l £10ADV | 7pm
+ DJ Andrea Trout Band On The Wall l £16ADV | 7pm
ChuggaBoom Satans Hollow l £5ADV | 7pm
Doldrums Rebellion l £5ADV | 7pm
Monday - 30.10.17
Deadthrone + Behind Blue Eyes Aatma l £5ADV | 7pm
Skinny Living The Deaf Institute l £7ADV | 7:30pm Tina Guo Albert Hall l £22.50ADV | 7pm Switchfoot O2 Ritz l £19.50ADV | 7pm Stringer Things Gullivers l £3ADV | 7pm Squeeze + Nine Below Zero Bridgewater Hall l FRM£34.50 | 7pm
Wednesday - 01.11.17 The Away Days + Mark Corrin + Andy Shand + Rishi Saluja Night & Day Café l £6ADV | 8pm !!! (CHK CHK CHK) + Sink Ya Teeth Gorilla l £13ADV | 7:30pm Zola Jesus Band On The Wall £15.50ADV | 7:30pm
Tuesday - 31.10.17
Harry Styles O2 Apollo l £30ADV | 7pm
Kusanagi + Blanket + Peaks + Hungdrawn The Eagle Inn l £4ADV | 7:30pm
Kenny Wayne Shepherd + Laurence Jones O2 Ritz l £30.25ADV | 7pm
Kaleo + Judah & The Lion O2 Apollo l £21ADV | 7pm
Pixx Soup Kitchen l £7ADV | 7pm
Orchestra Baobab Gorilla l £18ADV | 7pm
Fozzy + Hardcore Superstar + Madame Mayhem + The Last Band Club Academy l £16ADV | 7pm
Steven Page The Deaf Institute l £25ADV | 7pm Oh Wonder + Sigrid Manchester Academy | £15ADV | 7pm
Logic Manchester Academy £19.50ADV | 7pm
José James + Romario
Thursday - 02.11.17
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October / November The Night & Day Showcase - Featuring Taking Liberties + The Pages Of History + The Void + Gunrunner Night & Day Café l £6ADV | 8pm
O2 Apollo l £37.95ADV | 7pm
Peter Perrett Gorilla l £22.50ADV | 7:30pm
Blind Pilot Soup Kitchen l £10ADV | 7pm
Island The Deaf Institute l £8ADV | 7:30pm
ABC + Kid Creole and the Coconuts Bridgewater Hall l £34.50ADV | 7pm
CC Smugglers Gullivers l £10ADV | 7:30pm
Jamiroquai Manchester Arena l FRM£37.50 | 7pm
Etches + Methods + Jade Ann The Castle Hotel l £6ADV | 7:30pm
The JB Conspiracy + Tree House Fire + Wadeye + The Crash Mats The Eagle Inn l £6ADV | 7pm
Cradle Of Filth Manchester Academy 2 £18.50ADV | 7:30pm
Akala O2 Ritz l £19.50ADV | 7pm
John Power Factory l £15ADV | 7pm Friday - 03.11.17
Glasville Manchester Academy 3 £15ADV | 7:30pm Slamboree Club Academy l £14.50ADV | 7:30pm Big Country + Suburban Symphony Band On The Wall l £22ADV | 7:30pm
The Warehouse Project - Featuring Adam Beyer + Alan Fitzpatrick + Bart Skils + Dense & Pika + Enrico Sangiuliano + Ida Engberg + More Store Street l £35ADV | 9:30pm
Go Primitive + Kill The Silence Jimmy's l £6ADV | 7:30pm
The Night & Day Showcase Featuring M60 + Bear Foot + Kelly’s Heroes + Project Number 1 Night & Day Café l £6ADV | 8pm
Hannah Aldridge + Jetbone Aatma l £12ADV | 7:30pm
The Fallen Leaves The Eagle Inn l £8ADV | 8pm
Boyce Avenue Albert Hall l £26ADV | 7pm
Big Thief The Deaf Institute l £11ADV | 7:30pm
Rise Against + Sleeping With Sirens + Pears
Japanese Breakfast Soup Kitchen l £7.50ADV | 7:30pm
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Full gig listings Husky featuring Jordan Klassen Gullivers l £9ADV | 7:30pm Mikey Guitar + Greg Matthews The Castle Hotel l £7.40ADV | 7:30pm Picture This Manchester Academy 3 £11.50ADV | 7:30pm The Rocket Summer Club Academy l £15ADV | 7:30pm Carousel Clouds + Kurtis Starkie + Twin Visions The King's Arms l £6ADV | 7:30pm Liam Fray Albert Hall l £22.50ADV | 7pm Bugzy Malone O2 Apollo l £17.50ADV | 7pm Perfume Genius Gorilla l £15ADV | 7pm Dub Pistols Sound Control l £12ADV | 7pm Goldfrapp Manchester Academy £28.50 ADV | 7pm Roots Manuva O2 Ritz l £23ADV | 6:30pm Saturday - 04.11.17 Gorgon City Albert Hall l FRM£17.50 | 11pm The Jade Assembly
Jimmy's l £6ADV | 8:30pm The Warehouse Project - Featuring Craig David Presents TS5 + David Rodigan + Kurupt FM + Mistajam + Big Narstie + More Store Street l £35ADV | 8pm TAMSYN + Vala + Three Day Weekend Gullivers l £6ADV | 7:30pm The Attic Doctors + Noah Noah + Headclouds + Bare Minimum The Castle Hotel l £6ADV | 7:30pm Space Monkeys + Stillia + The Scuttlers Manchester Academy 3 £22ADV | 7:30pm The Magic Band Band On The Wall £22.50ADV | 7:30pm The Doobie Brothers + JD & The Straight Shot O2 Apollo l £41.55ADV | 7pm Henge The Deaf Institute | FRM£5 | 3pm & 7pm Dinosaur Pile Up Sound Control l £10ADV | 7pm Embers Soup Kitchen l £6ADV | 7pm Reverend And The Makers + Will And The People Manchester Academy £18.50ADV | 7pm
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November Liam Fray Albert Hall l £22ADV | 3:30pm & 6pm
Avey Tare The Deaf Institute l £9ADV | 7pm
Michael Schenker Fest + Departed O2 Ritz l £34.25ADV | 6pm
Parcels Sound Control l £10ADV | 7pm
Sunday - 05.11.17
Lucy Rose + Charlie Cunningham RNCM l £15ADV | 7pm
Rusty Shackle Gullivers l £8ADV | 7:30pm Twisted Tubes + Jenna & The G’s Band On The Wall l £5ADV | 7:30pm Christine Ott + Arc Soundtracks + A-Sun Amissa The Eagle Inn l £5ADV | 7:30pm Father John Misty + Weyes Blood O2 Apollo l £26ADV | 7pm Tennyson The Deaf Institute l £8ADV | 7pm The Winter Passing Soup Kitchen l £8ADV | 7pm Monday - 06.11.17 Goat Girl Gullivers l £7.50ADV | 7:30pm Jared & The Mill The Castle Hotel l £6ADV | 7:30pm
Eason Chan O2 Apollo l £110ADV | 6:30pm Tuesday - 07.11.17 The Night & Day Showcase - Featuring Ladies + Quiet Boy + Surf + Jake Spicer Night & Day Café l £6ADV | 8pm Jula Jacklin + Faye Webster Gorilla l £11ADV | 7:30pm The Americans Gullivers l £8ADV | 7:30pm Super Hans Club Academy l £15ADV | 7:30pm Psychic TV Band On The Wall l £22ADV | 7:30pm Clean Bandit O2 Apollo l £17.50ADV | 7pm Sean Paul Victoria Warehouse £32.50ADV | 7pm
Ron Pope + Brian Mackey + The Heart Of Manchester Academy 3 £18.50ADV | 7:30pm Seafoal The Eagle Inn l £6ADV | 7:30pm
Shabazz Palaces The Deaf Institute l £12ADV | 7pm
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Full gig listings Idlewar The Eagle Inn l £8ADV | 7pm
Wolf Alice O2 Apollo l £22.15ADV | 7pm
Newton Faulkner RNCM l £25ADV | 7pm
Run The Jewels Victoria Warehouse l £32.50ADV | 7pm
Wednesday - 08.11.17
Nick Hakim The Deaf Institute l £10ADV | 7pm
Gordi Night & Day Café l £8ADV | 8pm Lucy May Gullivers l £10ADV | 7:30pm Her’s + Hannah's Little Sister The Eagle Inn l £8ADV | 7:30pm
Key 103 Live 2017 - Featuring Rita Ora + John Newman + Louisa Johnson + Rudimental + James Arthur + More Manchester Arena l FRM£25 | 7pm Friday - 10.11.17
TLC O2 Apollo l £52.55ADV | 7pm
The Warehouse Project - Featuring Marcel Dettmann + Robert Hood + Fatima Yamaha + Palms Trax + Tom Trago + Call Super + More Store Street l £35ADV | 9pm
Angus & Julia Stone O2 Ritz l £30.75ADV | 7pm
Kat & Roman Kostrzewski Club Academy l £25ADV | 7:30pm
Marillion Manchester Academy l £30ADV | 7pm Thursday - 09.11.17
Our Last Night + The Color Morale + New Volume Manchester Academy 3 £15ADV | 7:30pm
Forever Amy Gorilla l £22.50ADV | 7:30pm
Joanne Shaw Taylor Bridgewater Hall l FRM£22 | 7:30pm
Together Pangea Gullivers l £8ADV | 7:30pm
Trombone Shorty Gorilla l £17.50ADV | 7pm
MoStack + Young T + Bugsey Manchester Academy 2 £12.50ADV | 7:30pm
Low Island + Demons Of Ruby Mae + Young Monarch The Deaf Institute l £8ADV | 7pm
Talvin Singh + Jason Singh Band On The Wall l £20ADV | 7:30pm
Sampa The Great Sound Control l £8ADV | 7pm
Nothing But Thieves Albert Hall l £18.50ADV | 7pm
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November J Hus Manchester Academy £17.50ADV | 7pm
Alex Lahey The Deaf Institute l £8ADV | 7pm
Wretch + Monolith Cult + Mower + Oily Toys The Eagle Inn l £6.66ADV | 7pm The Lemon Twigs + Flyte O2 Ritz l £15ADV | 6:30pm Unleash The Archers + Cleanse The Bloodlines + Tonight We Ride + General Of The Dark Army + Vice Satans Hollow l £8ADV | 6pm Off The Record 2017 Various l FRM£15 | 12pm
Eighteen Visions Sound Control l £22.50ADV | 7pm Kagoule + Catholic Action Soup Kitchen l £8ADV | 7pm Milburn Manchester Academy l £20ADV | 7pm BBC Radio 1Xtra Live - Featuring Travis Scott + Bryson Tiller + Bugzy Malone + Donae’o + J Hus + More Manchester Arena l £15ADV | 7pm Will Black The King's Arms l £20ADV | 7:30pm
Saturday - 11.11.17 Sundown Hounds The Eagle Inn l £5ADV | 8pm Ghostpoet Manchester Academy 2 £15ADV | 7:30pm The Southmartins Club Academy l £12.50ADV | 7:30pm The Magic Band Band On The Wall £22.50ADV | 7:30pm Blondie O2 Apollo l £65ADV | 7pm
Milky Chance O2 Ritz l £16ADV | 6pm People's Concert - Featuring British Sea Power + Field Music + Mr Scruff + Dutch Uncles Albert Hall l £25ADV | 7pm The Warehouse Project Featuring Jamie XX + Friends Store Street l £35ADV | 2pm
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Sylvan Esso + Bayonne Gorilla l £15ADV | 7pm
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John RObb's Tip-Off As a founding member of punk bands The Membranes and Goldblade, and the editor of Louder Than War, John Robb has his fingers in many a musical pie. Here he gives us his tip-off of a band to watch out for. Vukovar, who hail from St. Helens, are creating a totally original music from the debris of the past and are further proof that all the action in the UK happens in the cultural nooks and crannies, and not Camden or Hoxton. The three-piece are not sure what they are and their schizo music is engrossing. On one level they talk all excited about Throbbing Gristle and strip down on stage like a demented version of 1976 TG, they also worship Karl Blake and talk of communicating with the great man himself as well as Tibet and UK
industrial folk mainstays. It’s great conversation and yet when they play it's like this amazing combination of dark and unsettling ideas with this almost pure pop. The keyboard textures clash beautifully with the heavy bass and steady drums to create a sound that is impossible to place – the closest I can place them is like some kind of 21st century Soft Cell with that combination of dark throbbing underground and a knack for writing catchy melodies by mistake – there is something quite astonishing going here and we will be watching with an eagle eye.
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And Vinyly… by Emma Baker, Editor-in-Chief We thought we’d end our macabre issue of Halloween fright nights and gory gigs by informing you of a unique way you can pay tribute to your deceased, music-loving family and friends.
up over 90,000 views and since it was uploaded Jason has been inundated with requests. As Jason eloquently puts it: “Sound is vibrating; you, the room, and it’s actually moving the air around you, and that’s what’s so powerful about hearing someone’s voice on a record, that they’re actually moving the air. For me that’s powerful.”
Yes, strangely enough, you can commission musician and record presser Jason Leach to create personal vinyl records containing the ashes of your loved ones. Jason uses photos, voice recordings and the deceased’s favourite music to design and devise a unique musical memorial. The ashes add to the crackles and nuances that make vinyl such a special medium, meanwhile photographs decorate the sleeve notes and album cover.
Strange as it may sound the odd novelty is pretty endearing once you get your head around it. Personally, I don’t want to become worm food when I die, and I can’t think of a better way to store my ashes once I am gone, than in the extensive vinyl collection I will almost certainly list in my will.
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