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Los Angeles based Spike Hellis has been hammering out hard dance music since Halloween of 2019. Since self-releasing both their debut EP and LP, their relentless touring has submitted the duo as mainstays in contemporary body music—combining elements of industrial, freestyle, acid electro, and new beat.

Live support comes from Moth Slut and with KAT MØDE soundtracking before and inbetween.

This is an 18+ event

Spike Hellis

Spike Hellis - Feed

Moth Slut - Hellhound

PC World

Gigs

Manchester

The White Hotel

Since emerging in 2015, Sextile have been a party-provoking force on the LA underground, capable of kicking up a riot with the raw-edged squall of a synth or the sharp-elbowed jerk of a guitar. Originally formed by Brady Keehn and Melissa Scaduto after the pair relocated from New York to LA, Sextile released their debut album A Thousand Hands in 2015, with its Grand Canyon-sized echoes, haunted screams, and post-punk invocations, before pushing synths further down the front with 2017 effort

Albeit Living. Sextile’s taste for electronics matured on the throbbing EBM-meets-industrial pick-me-up of 2018’s 3 EP, cut from an analogue stash that included their trusted Korg MS-10 and LinnDrum, but the band put things on ice shortly after its release. Sextile guitarist, synth player, and original member Eddie Wuebben, who joined Sextile in 2015, tragically passed away in October 2019. Cameron Michel later re-joined on guitar and synths.

In 2022, the group reconnected and dropped their first new material in three years via the split single “Modern Weekend / Contortion” and “Crassy Mel”. Now they return refreshed, renewed, and ready to rage with a serotonin-boosting new album, a new group dynamic, faster BPMs, and an even wilder new direction. Recorded in Yucca Valley, Push bounces and bops at the fringes of hardcore dance music, with the hallmarks of drum & bass, gabber and trance illuminating the record like glowsticks at a ‘90s Fantazia rave.

Sextile

Sextile - Crash

Sextile - New York

Crimewave

Soup

Grey Lantern & The White Hotel {presents}

The Bug feat. Flowdan

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The Bug and Flowdan have unfinished business at The White Hotel and return to cause sonic mayhem, following a prolific and busy year for both artists.

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Night became something it had never been. A sound lit us up like a living flame. The pale questions of the full moon were answered.

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plus support

The Bug ft. Flowdan

Pressure (feat. Flowdan)

Dlina Volny is a post-punk/dark disco/brut-pop trio from Minsk, Belarus (now based in Vilnius).

The band released their second album DAZED on Italians Do It Better in November 2021 and make their long-awaited Manchester debut. They're joined by Jennifer Touch, showcasing her unique sound in the saturated world of electronica. She draws from Electro, EBM, Pop and Dark Wave influences, combining 80’s vintage synths with industrial soundscapes, delivered with a visceral Post-Punk snarl.

Dlina Volny + Jennifer Touch

Jennifer Touch - Chemistry

Dlina Volny - Do It

Jennifer Touch

Dlina Volny

YES Basement

Following their sell out show in spring this year and the critical acclaim surrounding their 4th LP False Lankum, Dublin quartet Lankum play their biggest Manchester headline show to-date at Albert Hall.

False Lankum record heralds a new stage in the metamorphosis of the band into a modern day powerhouse, drawing on traditional and primitive methods to create bold and singular music that transcends its folk roots: an entrancing, widescreen sound incorporating experimental overtones and rumbling drones wedded with classic songwriting, close vocal harmonies and timeless narratives.

Their live show has evolved into a deeply moving collective experience, with the band performing together as though they are a single lung: sounds expand and collapse from indistinguishable mouths, lungs, fingers, keys and feet, while a wall of amp stacks push the intensity of the show to new levels.

This is an 14+ event

Lankum

Lankum - The Wild Rover

Albert Hall Manchester

Harsh Symmetry is the synthesizer driven solo project of the California based musician Julian Sharwarko. Blending 1980s post-punk and new wave influences with more contemporary genres like dark wave and minimal wave, Harsh Symmetry paints a refreshing and danceable picture while maintaining a good sense of revivalism.

This is an 18+ event. 

Harsh Symmetry

Harsh Symmetry - Mirror Twin

Performance artist, politician, model, and fingerstyling maestro Hayden Pedigo makes his Manchester headlining debut following the critical acclaim around his sixth studio album The Happiest Times I Ever Ignored - out now on Mexican Summer.

Hayden Pedigo

Letting Go

Hayden Pedigo - Left Foot

Formed in 2021, Brooklyn based Lathe of Heaven delivers a powerful take on Post-Punk and New-Wave, pushing the boundaries of both genres into an untouched realm of sonic abstraction.

With melodic riffs, urgent rhythms and Science Fiction themed lyrics, LoH carefully position themselves in the no-mans-land that exists between beauty and dissonance, offering a unique sound as reminiscent of Finnish Post-Punkers Musta Paraati as they are to pop-pioneers A Flock of Seagulls.

This is their Manchester/Salford debut.

Lathe of Heaven

Moon-driven Sea

Lathe of Heaven - The Breaking Strain

Lathe Of Heaven

Weaving kinetically through psychedelia, new wave, electronica and punk – often within the same song - Flamingods return to The White Hotel following the release of their critically acclaimed latest record Head of Pomegranate.

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