Live music in Manchester this week: 28 Sep-4 Oct
This week's got everything from rising Aussies The Goon Sax and local acts aplenty at the Oxjam Takeover in Chorlton, through to electro heads Moderat and legendary folktronica pioneer Beth Orton.
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 28 Sep
[Photo: Derek Robertson]
After launching last week, Manchester’s famed clubbing series The Warehouse Project gets into its stride by welcoming the electronic tag-team collab between Apparat and Modeselektor, Moderat, heading our way to fill the lofty Albert Hall with some of Berlin’s finest electro sounds. Lone and Now Wave DJs also step in to support. Albert Hall, 7pm, £20
Thu 29 Sep
Proving their knack for constantly being one step ahead of the game, the ever-reliable Now Wave bring in teenage Brisbane trio The Goon Sax as they hit the UK as part of their first European tour, in support of debut album Up to Anything. The Eagle Inn, Salford, 7.30pm, £7
Fri 30 Sep
The Oxjam Takeover returns to the streets of Chorlton this weekend for another three-dayer of live music at Dulcimer, Oddest, Coopers, Morley Cheek’s, St Clement’s Church and The Jam Inn. On the roster you’ll find more than 40 artists including O>L>A, Oh Man, the Mountain, Lucy Mae, Dom Major, Chloe Foy, Liam McClair and many more, along with an opening party at Oddest on Friday. 30 Sep-2 Oct, various venues and times, £10 (weekend passes)
Screened/MCR will also be getting in on the action with a post-festival event on Tue 4 Oct, presenting the Banjee Cunt Experience with Jay Boogie, star of NYC's LGBTQ rap scene, at Texture from 6pm. All proceeds will be donated to Oxfam as part of the takeover.
Sat 1 Oct
High-energy Oklahoman quartet Broncho may have first piqued our interest when It’s On found fame in the closing credits of Lena Dunham’s HBO series, Girls, but now they’re onto third album Double Vanity, which sees them shed the pop pace in favour of textured, more experimental territory. Riddled with murky guitar work and reverb-heavy vocals, it's meatier than the indie jangle of their earlier stuff. Soup Kitchen, 7.30pm, £9
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Visceral Cumbrian psych quartet The Lucid Dream return with new album Compulsion Songs, peddling layered, heavily affected guitar sounds that’ve earned them slots on every high-profile alt/psych billing in the North this year: Liverpool Psych Fest, Cosmosis and Bluedot – the latter of which saw vocalist Mark Emmerson whip up a storm with “Loop-esque slabs of distortion-soaked dream pop... with the Nebula stage left reeling as a result.” Night & Day Cafe, 8pm, £8
Tue 4 Oct
Much-loved folktronica pioneer Beth Orton takes to the suitably ethereal Manchester Cathedral this week, trailing her latest album, Tindersticks, which was co-produced by Fuck Buttons' Andrew Hung (read more about that here) and was listed as one of our favourite records of 2016 in our mid-year report. Manchester Cathedral, 7pm, £18.50
Having risen through the ranks of the
Now booking:
Two-time Mercury Prize nominee Michael Kiwanuka has announced an April 2017 date at Manchester's Albert Hall, bringing his emotive and personal new record, Love & Hate, to a live setting with fire in his belly. Tickets go on sale at 9am on Friday 30 September.