We have trawled through the forthcoming gigs in and around Manchester so you don’t have to. We believe that if we are going to recommend a gig to you, then it should be exactly that, a recommendation.

There are many other sites out here on the internet that have a gig guide, but how many of them can say they have actually listened to every single band/act they have listed? Well to be honest we don’t know the answer to that, but we’d guess not many, if any at all. Anyway, this is exactly what we do and hopefully the result is the best Manchester gig guide available. We shall let you be the judge.

This page is updated on a regular basis, so please check back often.

If we’ve missed anything please feel free to plug any gigs in the comments box at the bottom of this page.

Want to hear what these chosen artists/acts sound like? Of course you do! Just click on the artist/act name and you’ll be magically taken to a place you can hear them.

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FEBRUARY 2014

1 – The Wave Pictures – Deaf Institute

1 – Swim Deep – The Ritz

1 – Whales In Cubicles / Bad Grammar / Kindest of Thieves – Night & Day Cafe

2 – Independent Venue Week with Kult Country / Naked (On Drugs) / Francis Lung – Soup Kitchen

3 – Bill Callahan / Alasdair Roberts – The Ritz

4 – Anamanaguchi – Night & Day Cafe

4 – Young Fathers / LAW – Deaf Institute

5 – Twisted Wheel – Kraak

6 – Sex Hands / Those Rotten Thieves / Fruit Tones / Mistoa Poltsa – Night & Day Cafe

6 – Twisted Wheel – Kraak

6 – Kevin Devine – Soup Kitchen

6 – Anna Calvi – Albert Halls

7 – Moderat – Albert Halls

7 – Findlay – Band On The Wall

7 – Slaves / Pup – Soup Kitchen

7 – Twisted Wheel – Kraak

7 – Autobahn – Fallow Cafe

7 – Psyence – Fuel Cafe

8 – Twisted Wheel – Kraak

8 – Cleft (album Launch) / Alpha Male Tea Party / Halfling’s Leaf / Bear Makes Ninja – Zombie Shack (above Thirsty Scholar)

8 – Polica – The Ritz

8 – The Naughtys – Gorilla

8 – Forest Swords – Deaf Institute

8 – Not A Summer Festival (16 acts for a fiver) – The Castle Hotel / Gullivers

9 – Twisted Wheel – Kraak

9 – Fanfarlo – Deaf Institute

10 – Shy Nature – The Castle Hotel

11 – Kaiser Chiefs – Gorilla

11 – Ezra Furman / Kiran Leonard – Soup Kitchen

11 – Phoenix – Academy

12 – Cloud Control / Younghusband – Gorilla

12 – Lily and Madeleine – The Castle Hotel

13 – Warm Widow / Groves / Salford Media City – Kraak

14 – Basia Bulat – Gullivers

14 – Bad Grammar / Ten Mouth Electron – Star & Garter

15 – Cate Le Bon – Deaf Institute

15 – Carefully Planned All-Dayer – Gullivers

15 – Parquet Courts / Eagulls – Academy 2

15 – Hatcham Social – Soup Kitchen

16 – Ry X – St. Philip’s

16 – Speedy Ortiz / Joanna Gruesome – Deaf Institute

17 – Thumpers / Pawws – Soup Kitchen

17 – Mowbird – Fuel Cafe

18 – Nordic Giants – The Ruby Lounge

18 – Jenny Wilson – Soup Kitchen

18 – Fat White Family – Gullivers

18 – Grouplove – Gorilla Rescheduled to May 28th

19 – Girls Names – Gullivers

19 – Of Montreal – Gorilla

20 – Dumb – Fallow Cafe

20 – Midlake – The Ritz

21 – Three Dimensional Tanx – Gullivers

21 – Damien Dubrovnik  – Islington Mill

21 – St Vincent – Manchester Cathedral

21 – Boy & Bear – Deaf Institute

21 – Circa Waves – Soup Kitchen

21 – Casual Sex – Fallow Cafe

23 – Literature Thieves – The Eagle Inn

23 – Jake Bugg – The Ritz

24 – TOY – Gorilla

26 – Gerard & The Watchmen – Kraak

26 – Trash Kit / Sex Hands / iLL – Gullivers

26 – J. Roddy Walston & The Business – Night & Day Cafe

26 – Goblin – Gorilla

27 – Father Murphy – The Eagle Inn

27 – Colorama – Gullivers

27 – Crystal Antlers – Roadhouse

27 – The Orwells – Night & Day Cafe

28 – The Minx – The Eagle Inn

28 – Traams – Fallow Cafe

28 – PINS (free gig) – The Ruby Lounge

28 – I Like Trains – St. Philip’s

28 – BBC 6 Music Festival – Victoria Warehouse