Following on from a couple of busy London performances in 2015 and the announcement of her first full length record Hold On Dreamer, Frøkedal is taking to the road with her band Familien for a run of European dates which will see the singer perform four UK gigs...
Monday 22 February - Savages - Albert Hall Post-punk quartet Savages are back with a new album, Adore life, and a tour to boot, which seems them performing at Manchester's Albert Hall. Bold, loud and intense. Support comes from Bo Ningen. Tickets £15....
Bruce Springsteen And The E Street Band have announced a return to the UK for summer 2016 to bring their The River Tour to stadiums across the country. The tour comes in the wake of the release of The Ties That Band: The River, a four disc set which celebrates the...
You wouldn’t typically expect to find some Fun Lovin’ Criminals at Manchester Cathedral, but come 26 February the trio of Huey Morgan, Brian Leiser and Frank Benbini will be there performing 1996’s hit album Come Find Yourself live and in its entirety. The band are...
Fickle Friends have been cutting their teeth the old fashioned way, with 2 years of solid touring, including sets at major festivals such as Bestival, BBC R1 Big Weekend and Secret Garden Party, not to mention a sold-out show at Dingwalls in London in November. All...
Progressive supergroup, Jane Getter Premonition, is set to perform one of only two UK shows in support of the recent release On at Manchester Academy. Accompanying Jane Getter, who Guitar Player called "the fieriest fretboarding female ever to strap on a...
London-based Slowcoaches are streaming their new single 'Ex Head', which will be released on 26 February via Leisure & District (both digitally and on 7”). As vocalist/bassist Heather Perkins reveals: “This song is about a million things but mostly, it's a song...
Tuesday 16 February - RNCM Goes to Broadway - Night and Day RNCM singers from the BMus Classical and Popular Music courses join force with the Royal Northern Musical Theatre Society to perform a range of musical theatre songs with all proceeds going to Cancer...
Following the release of the band’s latest album Tell Me I’m Pretty (out 18 December through Columbia Records), Cage The Elephant are set to perform at Manchester Academy 2 on 20 February. The band, consisting of singer Matt Shultz, guitarist Brad Shultz, bassist...
Jagwar Ma have announced a brief run of UK tour dates, including a gig at Manchester's Gorilla. The announcement comes as the group sign off a European tour with fellow Australians Tame Impala this weekend with two sold out shows at London's Alexandra Palace, before...
Having already earned glowing comparisons with artists as diverse as James Blake, The Weeknd, Laura Mvula, and The XX following critically acclaimed tracks such as Right Thing, Water Came Down, How’d You Like It and Who’s That Girl?, the London-based, Devon-born...
On Friday 18 September 2015, Cattle & Cane released their debut album Home and celebrated with their biggest headline show to date – a sold out 1,000 capacity gig at Teesside University in Middlesbrough. Their recent video for fan-favourite Sold My Soul was filmed...
If Tiggs Da Author’s latest offering Run sounds familiar, that may be because he debuted it on Later With Jools late last year, it’s also included on FIFA 16 and it was also the soundbed for ITV’s 2015 Rugby World Cup trailer. Following on from his debut single...
Seal has announce three UK tour dates as a part of his European tour which will find the Grammy and BRIT award winning singer perform at Manchester’s Bridgewater Hall on 1 July 2016. The news comes after the excellent reception to his latest studio album 7 and last...
After seven years with Catfish and the Bottlemen, Billy Bibby strides out to the stage, performing in Manchester for the first time fronting his newly formed band Billy Bibby And The Wry Smiles. There’s quite a mixed crowd in Night and Day and, as Billy Bibby takes...