Following the huge success of Saturday's excellent Neighbourhood Festival, organisers SJM Concerts have announced that the event will return in 2017, taking place on 7 October. More than 100 artists and bands including the likes of Circa Waves, Twin Atlantic, Liam...
Swans Sunday 9 October - O2 Ritz Swans conclude their current line up following the release of their fourteenth studio album, The Glowing Man, with an extensive tour taking in Manchester's Ritz. Noise rockers Swans, led by Michael Gira, formed in 1982 and, after...
Margo Price Tuesday 30 August - Deaf Institute The first country artist to be signed to Jack White's Third Man Records, Margo Price saw her debut album Midwest Farmer's Daughter catch the attention of critics and the public alike. The Nashville based singer channels...
Manchester’s new multi venue festival Neighbourhood Festival has announced its second wave of artists The event, which takes place on Saturday 8 October around Manchester city centre including at venues such as The Albert Hall, Sound Control and Gorilla and promises...
Following a series of raucous shows across Europe and a summer packed full of festival dates, Pretty Vicious will play a run of UK shows this September including a performance at Manchester’s Sound Control. Formed in 2014, in their hometown of Merthyr Tydfil, Pretty...
Thursday 12 May - The Travelling Band - The Deaf Institute Manchester based folk-rockers The Travelling Band, just back from tour with Lissie, are set to perform a home-town gig at Manchester's Deaf Institute before they launch into festival season. After the...
Blues is the teacher. Punk is the preacher. It’s all about emotion and energy, experience and raw talent, spirit and intellect. Exciting things happen when these things collide. Bob Vennum and Lisa Kekaula made The BellRays happen in 1991 in East LA but they weren’t...
Sound Control is set to launch a brand new monthly club night, Fermata, curated by a team of Manchester based promoters and the minds behind artist management company EQ. The regular event, which takes place on the last Saturday of every month, promises to present...
HOUSE // TECHNO // FUTURE BASS // CHILLWAVE // DANCEHALL // BASSLINE // BREAKBEAT // HIP-HOP // FUNK // GRIME // NEO SOUL // FUTURE GARAGE // AND EVERYTHING IN BETWEEN Manchester's Sound Control is set to host a brand new, forward thinking student and club night, Eat...
Wednesday 30 March - Newton Faulkner - Albert Hall Back with a major UK tour throughout March and April, Newton Faulkner comes to Manchester's Albert Hall for the first date. The singer will be performing tracks from his fifth studio album Human Love as well as some...
Signed to Virgin EMI, Manchester based storytellers Prose have released their brand new single Home of The Brave ahead of a home-coming gig at Sound Control. Following on from the release of their track Caravan and their exceptional debut EP What If? in late 2015,...
Two of Scotland's hottest bands have joined forces for a co-headline tour this May, which will see them performing at Manchester’s Sound Control. Fresh from their first UK tour earlier this year, party band White team up with the unhinged punk of Baby Strange for an...
Sunday 6 March - Josef Salvat - Gorilla Josef Salvat performs following the the release of debut album Night Swim. You might have first heard of Josef from his unique cover Rihanna's Diamonds - but since, he's become a global sensation with single Open Season...
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...
Hailing from the Ruhr area in Germany, Wolf Down have made it their task to bring back an uncompromising hardness to the hardcore genre, both lyrically and musically, to lead this subculture back to its leftist-oriented political roots. The band will release their...