Upcoming Gigs Worth Seeing

There is a lot going on in Manchester, but just for you I have trawled through all the listings and hand-picked the best gigs coming in the next few months, so you never have to look anywhere else:

May:

Alkaline Trio Sun, Academy 1 23/05 £16.50

Marina & The Diamonds, Academy Club 23/05 £10

A Place to Bury Strangers, Deaf Institute 23/05 £7

Ganglians + Javelin + With That Knife, Deaf Institute 24/05 £7

Sugarhill Gang, Moho 25/05 £17.50

H.E.A.T, Night and Day 26/05 £12

Chiddybang, Roadhouse 26/05 £8

Teenage Fanclub, Academy Club 27/05 £12.50

Hungry Pigeon Festival, Everywhere 28-30/05 see preview here

Slow Club, Fac251 28/05 £8.50

Neal Casal, Ruby Lounge 30/05 £10

Slayer, Academy 1 30/05 £25

Dot to Dot Festival, Various Venues, 31/05 see preview here

June:

Dawn Landes, Night and Day 01/06 £7

A Dette of Gratitude + Beth Jeans Houghton + Emmy The Great + Race Horses + secret special guests, Deaf Institute 02/06 £9

The Drift Benders, Night and Day 02/06 £10

Working For A Nuclear Free City, Moho 03/06 £5

Apitos Pequeno, Matt and Phred 04/06 £5

Stop the Blackout + Down In Paris + Kate Manning, Night and Day 04/06

Eyes Wide Shut + So Called Enemy + Impulse Eleven + Bare In The Woods, Academy Club  05/06 £6

Leftfield, Academy 1 05/06 £25

The Smith Westerns, Deaf Institute 05/06 £7

Mr Scuff’s Keep it Unreal 11th Birthday, Band on the Wall, 05/06

MI AMI (w/ Apes Fight Back), Ruby Lounge 06/06 £7

The Magic Numbers, Academy Club  07/06 £14

Band of Horses, The Ritz 08/06 £13.50

The Miserable Rich, Band on the Wall 08/06

Ellie Goulding, Academy Club 08/06 £11

Hot Club de Paris, Moho 08/06 £6.50

Supergrass, Academy 1 09/06  £22.50

Mandrake, Roadhouse 10/06 £4

Altraste, Night and Day 10/06

Foreign Office + The Dirty Troubles + The Visitors, Night and Day 11/06

Sucioperro, Roadhouse 15/06 £6

Butch Walker, Night and Day 15/06 £12

I Am Kloot, Academy Club 16/06 £14

Unicorn Kid, Moho 17/06 £8

Mykal Rose, Band on the Wall 19/06

Carpe Diem + The Kill Van Kulls, Night and Day £5

The Gaslight Anthem, Academy 1 24/06 £13.50

The Jessie Rose Trip + 1913, The Ruby Lounge 24/06 £6

Dalzell feat Shez420, Band on the Wall 26/06

Jeff Klein, Roadhouse 26/06 £7

Broken Social Scene, Academy Club 28/06 £13.50

July:

Autokratz, Ruby Lounge 02/07 £7

Dirty Projectors, Academy Club 06/07 £14

Nas & Damian Jr Gong Marley, Academy 1 16/07  £25

Beware:Jabberwock + Pistola Kicks + Pat Lyons + Modern Alarms, Academy Club 17/07 £6

William Control, Roadhouse 17/07 £10

Future of the Left, Moho 18/07 £8

Run Walk!, Roadhouse 18/07 £5

OK GO, Academy Club 25/07 £12.50

August:

Bad Religion, Academy Club 14/08 £15

September:

The New Pornographers, Ruby Lounge 08/09 £12.50

(This list is by no means exhaustive and is updated as regularly as possible. All prices were correct at time of publication but price and availability are subject to change)