Live music in Manchester this week: 19-25 Oct

Now Wave throw another showcase of great rising names with an All Dayer at The White Hotel, Jagwar Ma are back with a new album, Widnes trio Mums launch new stuff – as do Manchester-based Tekla and Playacting. It's all there if you scroll down!

Feature by Jess Hardiman | 19 Oct 2016

We dive into the listings to bring you this essential guide to gigs in Manchester this week plus the latest news on festivals, tour announcements and more. Think we've missed something? Hit up jess@theskinny.co.uk with the details.

Wed 19 Oct

London’s dreamlike grunge quartet Beach Baby first came to our attention when they played the Now Wave stage back at 2015’s Sounds From the Other City festival. Since then they’ve graduated from such obscurity, and respectably onto the stage of one of Manchester’s favourite venues – all in the name of their debut album, No Mind No Money. The Deaf Institute, 7pm, £8

Thu 20 Oct

Manchester’s own Tekla and Playacting – the mononym of Tekla Szerszynska and folktronica solo project of Evan Wilson, respectively – have teamed up for a split EP, which they’ll launch this Thursday with a release party. Along with live sets from the two acts in question, Elle Mary and The Bad Men and Irma Vep pad out the bill in support. Fallow Café, 8pm, £3 (£8 with CD)

Fri 21 Oct

Manc promoter Grey Lantern welcomes Widnes noise-rock power trio Mums to Fat Out’s Burrow at Islington Mill, as they get loud and lary for an album launch party celebrating debut release Land of Giants. They’ll headline the live show alongside Grey Hairs, Lake of Snakes and Super Luxury. Islington Mill, 7.30pm, £5

[Jagwar Ma, photo: David Howarth]

Aussie trio Jagwar Ma are out touring their second album, Every Now and Then – which, incidentally, you can read more about in our interview with them here. Expect to witness their unique brand of hazy neo-psychedelia in action, as well as mutated takes on old and new material. Academy 2, 7.30pm, £13.50

If you didn’t grab tickets for Psychedelic Texan trio Khruangbin then don’t waste time moping; you’ve still got time to beg for some on the Facebook event page, before basking in their blessed-out spaced-out funk that’s inspired by 1960s Thai music this Friday. The Deaf Institute, 7pm, £returns only

Sat 22 Oct

We’re excited to be catching mesmeric London five-piece Pumarosa again after they closed the Now Wave stage at this year’s Sounds From the Other City to rapturous applause: they’ll be returning to these parts for Now Wave’s All Dayer at The White Hotel, which will also welcome psychedelic pop duo Let’s Eat Grandma, the lo-fi alter-ego of Mchelle Zauner, Japanese Breakfast, plus London producer Kelly Lee Owens and newcomers Sweat. The White Hotel, 5pm, £10

Having just returned with new album, In Amber, multi-instrumentalist The Sad Song Co – aka Nigel Powell from Frank Turner and The Sleeping Souls, Dive Dive and Unbelievable Truth – heads out on the road to perform his solo material in intimate venues across the country, with support from Non Canon and Patrick Craig. Star and Garter, 7.30pm, £5 

Mon 24 Oct

[Warpaint, photo: Daniel Harris]

Psychedelic LA art rockers Warpaint hit up Albert Hall to blow out the cobwebs of your Monday evening, this time presenting third studio album, Heads Up. Albert Hall, 7pm, £18

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[The Underground Youth, photo: Sam Huddleston]

Fuzz Club Records’ The Underground Youth draw their year of gigging to a close with a special hometown show this December, having recently relocated from their native Manchester to Berlin, ahead of a new LP set for release in early 2017. Support comes from Static Caravan’s TVAM and Liverpool shoegazers Rongorongo. Tickets available here.

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