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Allysha Joy is also known for performing in Melbourne Hip Hop collective 30/70, and their success over the past few years has lead her to further challenge her expression in a project of her own. Allysha is pushing boundaries as a keys player, poet, singer and producer.
Whether performing solo on Fender Rhodes or accompanied by her band, featuring members of 30/70, Allysha’s steady groove, husky vocal tone and unique style of writing emanates her own personal truth and powerful energy, learning to be peaceful.
Support comes from Ellen Beth Abdi.

This is an 18+ event.

Allysha Joy

Allysha Joy - Let It!

Gigs

Manchester

YES Basement

For WEMA, collaboration is a state of mind. The five-piece collective – consisting of Tanzanian multi-instrumentalist Msafiri Zawose, producer Photay and Penya members Magnus P.I, Lilli Elina and Jimmy le Messurier – is an artistic pursuit founded on community; a space in which to harness the transformative power of connection. Translated from Swahili, ‘wema’ means kindness and benevolence – virtues that lie at the core of the project, and are reflected in the group’s world-embracing approach to music. “WEMA is a state of gratitude and belief, without sorrow or grief. It’s about giving your entire heart,” Msafiri declares.
They make their Manchester debut in support of their self-titled !K7 label debut.
Support comes from GOMID and Photay.

This is an 18+ event.

WEMA

WEMA - WEMA SONG

Wema - WEMA SONG

Photay

Carlton Club

Massive Dais Records double header with Los Angeles new romantic icon Riki joining the incredible SRSQ on tour, including a stop off at The White Hotel.

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Riki + SRSQ

Temporal Love

Priceless Bodies

Riki

srsq

The White Hotel

Dais Records triple-header featuring co-headliners Soft Kill and Choir Boy, supporte by Private World.

This is an 18+ event.

Soft Kill & Choir Boy

Whirl

Soft Kill - Be Alone

Choir Boy

Private World

Soft Kill

The Factory, Manchester

This event was originally scheduled for the 27th October 2021, but will now take place on the 29th May 2022.

Montreal's Suuns return to the northwest to play The White Hotel in support of their fifth LP The Witness.

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Suuns

Suuns - Mirror Mirror

Kee Avil

Mary Lattimore is a harpist living in Los Angeles experimenting with her Lyon and Healy Concert Grand harp and effects. She comes to the northwest for the first time in six years.

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Mary Lattimore

Mary Lattimore - Sometimes He's In My Dreams

Ben Bertrand

Tour support with Machine Girl, Mexican four-piece Meth Math make a stop off in Manchester for their own headline show. 

Their 2020 four track EP, Pompi, on In real life RECORDS, bedded down the thriving energy present in CDMX’s neo-perrero scene, but MM’S influences actually come from much further afield: they cite both Enya and Autechre amongst them. 

Their latest single, »tambaleo,« was produced by sega bodega.

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Meth Math

Meth Math - Tambaleo

Art-punks Deliluh forge their own path. The Europe based / Toronto bred project of Kyle Knapp and Julius Pedersen has maintained a slow-burn of self-produced analog offerings since their 2017 debut. Three albums in, they’ve continued to mine the gaps between post-punk, drone and experimental music, exploring the spectrum with an organic, yet fiercely resonating sonic identity.

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Deliluh

Deliluh - Amulet B

Forged in the fires of the East Coast underground music scene in the 90s, experimental Hip Hop pioneers, Union City, NJ-based duo Dälek has spent decades carving out a unique niche fusing hardcore Hip Hop, noise and a radical approach to sound. Their brutal sonic temperament pushes rap music’s capacity for noise and protest to some exhilarating conclusions.
Support comes from Manchester experimental noise rockers Holy Scum.

This is an 18+ event.

Dälek

Spiritual Healing

Dälek - Opiate the Masses

Holy Scum

Grey Lantern and Do Your Best Records team up to celebrate the launch of Sonny Bliss' new release Private Descent, joined by Prangers, itsnatevendahk and Gidouille.

This is an 18+ event.

Sonny Bliss 'Private Descent' Launch

Sonny Bliss - Skin Contact

Gidouille

Prangers

Sonny Bliss

itsnatevendahk

Soup

Fightmilk create sweaty, loud, shouty pop songs. They have shared the stage with Johnny Foreigner, Mclusky, Desperate Journalist, Art Brut, Spearmint and Skinny Girl Diet (amongst many others) and toured Germany and the UK extensively.
The South London based four-piece released their debut album Not With That Attitude in 2018 via Reckless Yes, gaining a fan in Steve Lamacq and John Kennedy (BBC 6Music) as well as praise from Echoes and Dust, Drowned in Sound, and Louder Than War Magazine, appearing in many end of year picks. Fightmilk's 2021 sophomore album Contender is a marked step forward for the band, blending acerbic lyrics and riffs galore to make a record chock full of high energy heartbreak and pop songs to make you and your parents dance. 

This is an 18+ event.

Fightmilk

I'm Starting To Think You Don't Even Want To Go To Space

Fuel

BLK JKS are a seminal force in the South African underground. After an extended hiatus the Johannesburg foursome, championed by The Mars Volta and TV On The Radio (amongst many others), return with a groundbreaking new album and their first tour to the UK in years.
Monster grooves meet guitar and brass driven afro-rock. Echoes of spiritual jazz, post-apocalyptic funk, renegade dub and kwaito. 

This is an 18+ event

BLK JKS

BLK JKS - Human Hearts

After spending nearly a decade recording and touring with the collaborative psych rock band Quilt, Anna Fox Rochinski broke out on her own last year with her first solo record, Cherry. A total departure from her former band, Rochinski realized pop was the most authentic vehicle for her and unites her varied musical influences under its umbrella. 
We can't wait to welcome her for her solo debut in Manchester.

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Anna Fox Rochinski

Anna Fox Rochinski - Party Lines

Deaf Kids are a guttural, scorched mutation of psychedelia, with an intent to fry the listener’s perception, while void of anything approaching earthy wistfulness, wholly fluid in nature, paying no heed to any musical expectations other than the creators own internal logic. 

The Brazilian trio make their Leeds debut.

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Deaf Kids

Deafkids - A Experiência Holotrópica

Leeds

Wharf Chambers

Vintage Crop serve to serve again. Over the last few years the Geelong group have become a burgeoning force in the Australian punk scene. Bringing to mind Wire tackling tracks from early 7"s by The Yummy Fur in being both striking and effortlessly mirthful, Vintage Crop dish-up plenty of commanding stomp, their lyrics remain as keen-eyed as ever, but they're unafraid to mess with the tempo and drive their point home. Geelong’s favourite sons return this summer with their much-anticipated fourth album, ‘Kibitzer’.

This is an 18+ event.

Vintage Crop

The North

Vintage Crop - Stock Options

The Peer Hat

Following the release of their brilliant 2021 collaboration LP Henki, Richard Dawson joins forces with Finnish band Circle - described as "the world’s greatest band - in every category” - to bring the record onto the live stage.

This is an 18+ event.

Richard Dawson + Circle

Richard Dawson & Circle - Lily

Richard Dawson - Methuselah

Nadja

Richard Dawson

Gorilla

Since the turn of the decade, Lorena Quintanilla has made a name for herself as one half (guitarist/vocalist) of Guadalajara, Mexico’s Lorelle Meets The Obsolete, an incredible psych and shoegaze band with a reputation for exceptional live shows and a catalog of equally impressive albums to match. Since 2017 Quintanilla has also been focusing on her solo project, J. Zunz. After the hypnotic debut album “Silente”, released via Monofonus Press, and second album “Hibiscus” (released by Rocket Recordings), she returns with her third record Del Aire - and makes her solo Manchester debut along the way.

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J.Zunz

J. Zunz - Y

One of the UK's finest rock bands of the 21st century return to the northwest. Since 2003 the group have been driving around the continent with their pirate ship backline of broken amps and triple-guitar drang, elevating audiences in every type of venue imaginable; a doctor's waiting room in Salford, an industrial unit in Liege and a vast field next to a river in Portugal.

This is an 18+ event.

Hey Colossus

Norwegian musician and novelist Jenny Hval returns to Manchester in support of her lastest album, Classic Objects. 

Classic Objects is a map of places; past places, like the old empty Melbourne pubs Hval’s band used to play in, public places Hval missed throughout lockdown, imagined, future places, and impossible places where dreams, hallucinations, death and art can take you. It is interested in combining heavenly things and plain things.

Classic Objects is Hval’s version of a pop album. Every song has a verse and a chorus. There are interchangeable moments of complexity, interesting melodies throughout, and a feeling of elevation and clarity in the choruses. Heba Kadry mixed it to sound as though it’s played through “a stereo in a mysterious room.”

Price includes a 50p venue restoration levy.

This is a 10+ event. Under 16s must be accompanied by an adult.

Jenny Hval

Spells

Band on the Wall

Tricot are back in Manchester for the first time in over three years after selling out SOUP in 2018. The band develops an unusual and distinctive sound that consists of harmonization of pop and emotional vocals with a complex rhythm.

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Tricot

Manchester-formed, Berlin-bred The Underground Youth make a welcome return to the northwest, this time joined by American psych rock duo The Vacant Lots for a special double billing.


This event was originally scheduled to take place on 14th September 2021 but will now take place on 14th September 2022.

This is an 18+ event.

The Underground Youth + The Vacant Lots

The Underground Youth

The Vacant Lots

Night & Day Café

The cyber-post-punk project from Drab Majesty’s Andrew Clinco, VR Sex make their Manchester debut in support of his new album Rough Dimension.
Taking its title from an architectural phrase but more importantly refers to the warped, wicked underworld the songs both chronicle and condemn. Donning the moniker Noel Skum – an acerbic anagram of Elon Musk – Clinco vents his scorn for and fascination with the seedy, surreal margins of low-life Los Angeles, doomed to dead ends of vanity, lust, and technology.

This is an 18+ event

VR Sex

VR SEX - Glutton For Love

VR SEX

Martin Khanja (aka Lord Spike Heart) and Sam Karugu emerge from Nairobi’s flourishing underground metal scene as former members of the bands Lust of a Dying Breed and Seeds of Datura. Together in 2019 they formed Duma (Darkness in kikuyu) with Sam abandoning bass for production and guitars and Lord Spike Heart providing extreme vocals to the project.

Their unique sound fuses the frenetic euphoria, unrelenting physicality and rebellious attitude of hardcore punk and trash metal with bone-crunching breakcore and raw, nihilist industrial noise through a claustrophobic vortex of visceral screams.

Duma are a sinister force facing pain and difficult emotions head on is the place from which Khanja writes. A sonic aggression of feral intensity with disregard for styles, the duo promises to impact the hungry East African metal scene moving it into totally new, boundary-challenging experimental territories. Their self-titled debut album was released August 7th 2020 on Nyege Nyege Tapes and has received the best accolades from the press, including best album in several end-of-the-year lists (Metal Hammer, Pitchfork, The Wire, The Quietus…).

Duma has a new 7″ out on Subpop’s singles club and a new AV collaboration with Jesse Kanda. A remix for Mdou Moctar and a collaborative album in the works with Indonesian duo ‘Gabber Modus Operandi’ and with Brazil metal band Deafbricks.

This is an 18+ event (Photo ID Required).

Duma

Duma - Lionsblood

As a self taught guitarist and recording engineer, Midwife explores dark subject matter in her anthemic, soft-gaze hits. Self-described as “Heaven Metal,” or emotive music about devastation - catharsis, she makes her Manchester debut at YES.

This is an 18+ event.

Midwife

Midwife - Christina's World

Xeno &amp; Oaklander are a minimal electronics duo (Liz Wendelbo and Sean McBride of Martial Canterel) based in Brooklyn, New York. As artists, they have been deeply involved in the analog synth community since 2004 (the release of their debut Vigils LP on Xanten), and have helped promote and inspire the revival of synth wave and the rise of dark wave in the US and throughout the world through their extensive touring and prolific output.

This is an 18+ event.

Xeno & Oaklander

Sheen

Xeno & Oaklander - Autumn's Edge

Peaness write hook-saturated, fuzzy, harmony-driven indie-pop songs about love, friendship, and mid-twenties frustrations. The trio have been playing together since summer 2015, and their fun, friendship-fuelled live performances have been winning the hearts and minds of people up and down the country ever since. 

This is an 18+ event

Peaness

Peaness - Oh George

After their sold out show at Deaf Institute in 2021, we're thrilled to welcome Delta Sleep back to Manchester! 
What started as an earnest foray into pushing the boundaries of fledging math-rock, over the course of thirteen years has morphed into something much more for Canterbury (via Brighton) quartet Delta Sleep. Continuously surprising their listeners with every release by constantly tweaking and perfecting their sound, so far the bands expansive repertoire defies to be constrained by any strict sub-genre or category: moulding their sound into something that goes beyond the labels of just math-rock. 

This is an 18+ event

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