Scary Pockets are a rotating roster of world class musicians who release live funk reimaginations of familiar songs every week.

Since their first recording session in 2017, Scary Pockets have released 300+ videos that have been watched over 250 million times on YouTube for over 540 million minutes. Their songs have been streamed 80 million times on Spotify by 600,000 monthly listeners.

Scary Pockets' 200+ collaborators (so far) include all-stars like Larry Goldings, John Scofield, Joey Waronker, Darren King, Sean Hurley, James Gadson, Darren Criss, Antwaun Stanley, Judith Hill, Bruno Major, Reeve Carney, Derek Hough, Bill Wurtz, Theo Katzman, Rachael Price, Lizzy McAlpine, and Joshua Radin, to name a few.

A standing show.

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

Scary Pockets

Gigs

Manchester

Band on the Wall

Second late show added due to huge demand!

Scary Pockets are a rotating roster of world class musicians who release live funk reimaginations of familiar songs every week.

Since their first recording session in 2017, Scary Pockets have released 300+ videos that have been watched over 250 million times on YouTube for over 540 million minutes. Their songs have been streamed 80 million times on Spotify by 600,000 monthly listeners.

Scary Pockets' 200+ collaborators (so far) include all-stars like Larry Goldings, John Scofield, Joey Waronker, Darren King, Sean Hurley, James Gadson, Darren Criss, Antwaun Stanley, Judith Hill, Bruno Major, Reeve Carney, Derek Hough, Bill Wurtz, Theo Katzman, Rachael Price, Lizzy McAlpine, and Joshua Radin, to name a few.

A standing show.

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

Scary Pockets (Late Show)

The Tokyo, Japan based 4-piece Instrumental Rock band MONO was originally formed in 1999. Their unique approach of combining moving orchestral arrangements and shoegaze guitar noise is held in extremely high regard; so much so, that the band’s musicianship and the diverse musical palette has eclipsed the Rock genre and exists within its own realm. As British Musical Magazine NME once stated, “this is music for the Gods”.

Price includes a 75p venue restoration levy.

This is a 10+ event.

FORM Presents

MONO + GGGOLDDD

Silent Flight, Sleeping Dawn - Remastered

MONO - Follow the Map

GGGOLDDD

Mono

Bassekou Kouyate is one of the true masters of the ngoni and is respected as one of Africa’s premier global artists.
His band, Ngoni Ba, includes ngoni players, percussionists and the fantastic singer Amy Sacko. 
An unreserved seated plus limited standing show.

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

Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba

Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba - Abé Sumaya

Bassekou Kouyate - Ngoni fola

Bassekou Kouyaté

Ngoni ba

Here is an artist often heralded as the new diva of Kuduro. No surprise there, as Pongo always made it her job to constantly freshen up the genre’s heritage by livening up her style with sounds from all over the world. Born in Angola in 1992, the passionate dancer grew up to a wealth of music and rhythms. Traditional Angolan songs, Caribbean Zouk, Brazilian beats…all provided the soundtrack to her music-filled youth. She’s barely 8 when her and her family flee the civil war raging in the country to travel to Portugal. It was there that she took her love for Kuduro music to whole other level.

Pongo spends her teenage years in the Denon Squad. It’s during those playful times, that she catches the stage bug and realises she wants to keep sharing emotions with her voice. Making a name for herself on Lisbon’s Kuduro scene, she is spotted by Buraka Som Sistema, a band famous for popularising Kuduro in the early 2000s. Fascinated by the young lady’s aura, the band invite her to play a few more shows before releasing « Kalemba (Wegue Wegue) » in 2009, a track fuelled by Pongo’s childhood memories and which is still the band’s biggest success to this day.

Connecting Kuduro to Afrobeats, Favela Funk or even Afrofunk, she supports her dedication to mixing genres and languages, a way for her to break down all cultural barriers and sets the tone for het debut upcoming project ‘SAKIDILA’ : powerful and addictive party and club music. Bring it on.

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

Pongo + SHEwillprovide

Pongo - Kuzola

Pongo - Bruxos

Pongo

Singer/songwriter Kimya Dawson is best known for her work with the anti-folk outfit the Moldy Peaches, and has maintained a solo career since the early 2000s. She made her solo debut with 2002's I'm Sorry That Sometimes I'm Mean, a collection of spare tunes performed mostly on the acoustic guitar, and continued releasing her own albums after the Moldy Peaches took a hiatus in 2004. Along the way, she contributed eight songs to the chart-topping Juno soundtrack, which brought her music to a wider audience, and made a foray into children's music.

Kimya is in Europe for a handful of Moldy Peaches reunion shows and will play three very special UK dates before jetting back to the states!

This is a 10+ event

Kimya Dawson

Kimya Dawson - Tire Swing

Less tribute and more homage, Nearly Dan is saviour to the growing legions of Steely Dan fans, desperate to hear the meticulously crafted grooves and allusive lyrical style of Donald Fagen & Walter Becker. Nearly Dan's approach is faithful, though not reverential, and relaxed but as tight as their namesakes. They bring their own unique spirit and spontaneous humour to every concert.

It’s been over 40 years since the release of the first Steely Dan album “Can’t buy a Thrill”, featuring the hits “Do it Again” and “Reelin’ in the years.”

The band now is in its 25th year on the road. Nearly Dan promise all the Steely Dan favourites in a two hour-plus show, featuring tracks from the groove of Countdown to Ecstasy to the super cool of celebrated albums The Royal Scam. Aja and Gaucho also featuring Donald Fagen’s classic solo masterpiece “The Nightfly”.

A real treat for all music lovers and an unmissable concert for any aspiring musician young or old.

A standing show.

Price includes a 75p venue restoration levy.

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

Nearly Dan 25th Anniversary Concert

Ricki Don't Lose That Number (Live)

Nearly Dan - The Nightfly

Nearly Dan

The voice behind hit songs such as Nadia (with Nitin Sawhney), Khwaab (with Niraj Chag) and Jakatta American Dream (#3 in UK charts), Swati Natekar is a UK-based renowned Indian classical, ghazal and world music singer, songwriter and composer, who is also known for her collaborations with Ustad Zakir Hussain, Craig Armstrong, Talvin Singh, Sonu Nigam and Muzaffer Ali. Swati has released several acclaimed albums and has performed internationally at reputed international venues in Europe, Caribbean, South Africa, Karachi, Nairobi and festivals including Glastonbury and WOMAD. She also features on a Hollywood Warner Brothers movie 'The In- Laws', and ‘The Republic Of Love’. Swati sang on the theme song for the Commonwealth Games in Delhi in 2010, specially recorded for the BBC. She has also recorded, composed and sung a track from the famous ”Geet Govind” couplet for the Queen’s gallery at Buckingham Palace, London.

Swati is returning to Band on the Wall almost after 13 years with her brand new show 'Raag-Rang', a confluence of Bollywood classics, popular Urdu Ghazals, Thumri and her world famous fusion pieces. She will be accompanied by brilliant UK-based musicians.

A seated show. On sale 10am 24th March.

Price includes a 75p venue restoration levy.

This is an 18+ event

Swati Natekar: “Raag-Rang”

Swati Natekar

Allison Russell is one half of acclaimed roots music duo Birds of Chicago, with her husband JT Nero, and a member of Americana supergroup Our Native Daughters.

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

Allison Russell

Lighthouse Family singer Tunde Baiyewu performs a rare and intimate show right here at Band on the Wall.

Performing Lighthouse Family favourites with a full live band, expect to hear all the hits, including Lifted, High and Ocean Drive, as well as Tunde’s new collection of 1970’s songwriter era inspired recordings, featuring songs from singer-songwriters such as Bill Withers, Elton John, Van Morrison and others.

A standing show.

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

Tunde: The Voice of the Lighthouse Family

Tunde Baiyewu

Burr Island

In this special acoustic performance Barbara Dickson and her pianist Nick Holland explore her catalogue of songs at an intimate level. The pair let the words and melodies take ‘centre stage’ as they perform a wonderful range of material drawing on Barbara’s folk roots, contemporary greats, and some of her classic hits.

Emerging from the Scottish folk scene of the late 1960’s Barbara had enjoyed mainstream chart success with hits including ‘Answer Me’, ‘Another Suitcase in Another Hall’, ‘Caravan’ and the million-selling number one single, ‘I Know Him So Well’. As Scotland’s best-selling female album artist she has earned 6 platinum, 11 gold and 7 silver albums and cemented her status as one of the UK’s best-loved performers. Her stage career has included the roles of the original Mrs Johnstone in Willy Russell’s long-running musical, ‘Blood Brothers’ and as Viv Nicholson in ‘Spend Spend Spend,’ both of which have won her an Olivier award for ‘Best Actress’. Barbara was awarded an O.B.E. by Her Majesty the Queen in the 2002 New Year’s Honours for her services to music and drama and she continues to record and to play to sold-out audiences.

Nick Holland joined Barbara’s touring band in the mid 2000’s playing keyboards and adding vocals on her ‘Full Circle’ album, the first to feature the style of music she now performs. Barbara and Nick work as a ‘duo’ where she plays guitar and piano, and Nick on keyboards –and adding harmonies to Barbara’s own wonderful vocals.

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

Barbara Dickson with Nick Holland + Anthony Toner

Barbara Dickson - Caravan Song

Barbara Dickson

Anthony Toner

Living legend and queen of soul Pat ‘P.P.’ Arnold needs no introduction, having accumulated a lifetime of show stopping performances in the studio and on stage, whether through her successful solo work with ’60s hits like ‘The First Cut Is The Deepest’ & ‘Angel Of The Morning’ and her critically acclaimed 2019 solo album ‘The New Adventures Of…’ or as the go-to voice for rock’n’soul legends like Ike & Tina Turner, Small Faces, Stevie Wonder, Roger Waters and Nick Drake amongst others.

Following the release this year of her Uncut, Rough Trade and Resident ‘Book Of The Year’ autobiography ‘Soul Survivor’ in July the next chapter in P.P. Arnold’s story is her glorious first time Christmas single ‘It Won’t Be Christmas Without You’. Produced by Mark Taylor & Patrick Mascall from Metrophonic Productions Ltd. who also share writing credits alongside Paul Barry, the opportunity to record the track was a joy for Arnold after the isolation of lockdown. “I wasn’t thinking ‘Christmas’ originally I just wanted to be in the studio recording and being able to do that.”

The BBC Radio 2 and JazzFM A Playlisted and iTunes chart topping track ‘It Won’t Be Christmas Without You’ proves that time hasn’t diminished the power and resonance of P.P. Arnold’s voice, which soars and touches the soul with the same power that it did years ago when she first burst onto the global music scene.

Price includes a 75p venue restoration levy.

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

P.P. Arnold

P.P. Arnold - Angel of the Morning

PP Arnold - Angel Of The Morning

The LOVE band featuring Johnny Echols return to celebrate the music of Arthur Lee & Love.

Price includes a 75p venue restoration levy.

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

Love with Johnny Echols + The Newds

Alone Again Or - 2015 Remaster

Love - Alone Again Or

Love

The Newds

UK salsa/Cuban/Latin music legendary DJ/promoter Lubi Jovanovic aka DJ Lubi, has teamed up with top Latin jazz musician Jonny Enright (trombonist/bandleader of London band Grupo X), to host a night of live salsa/mambo/latin jazz dedicated to the man they called "The Mambo King" and "El Rey De La Salsa" ("The King Of Salsa")....the one and only TITO PUENTE!

Tonight, DJ Lubi curates an evening of Tito Puente's music played live by an 11 piece all-star salsa/mambo orchestra featuring musicians from the UK, Spain, Cuba, Colombia and Venezuela - the DJ Lubi Salsa Allstars. They'll be performing classic Tito compositions such as "Mambo Gozon", "Ran Kan Kan", Para Los Rumberos", "Guaguanco Margarito", "Nina y Señora", "Picadillo", "Hong Kong Mambo" and of course, "Oye Como Va". The orchestra features musicians from Grupo X, The Gondwana Orchestra, Siete Rayos, Mojito Band, Vibeology and Os Caras and others who have played with Salsa Celtica, Oscar D'Leon, Larry Harlow, Tumbaito, La Clave, Joe Bataan, Dave Valentin and Jimmy Bosch - 4 brass, 3 percussion, piano, bass, vibes and lead vocals. The perfect combination to celebrate the music of "The King".

The orchestra will be playing two sets of Tito's greatest hits with DJ Lubi spinning classic salsa, mambo, son Cubano, guaguanco and cha cha cha before and between sets. Definitely the big Latin music event of July in Manchester.

A standing show.

Price includes a 75p venue restoration levy.

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

Mambo King: A Tribute To Tito Puente

DJ Lubi

Sam Bell

A true Band on the Wall favourite, the jazz ensemble Yellowjackets return to our stage with a fresh new LP, 'Parallel Motion'.

As a tight, longstanding jazz ensemble, Yellowjackets has explored a universe all its own of electroacoustic soundscapes in its nearly four-decade history. Since the band’s eponymous 1981 debut album, Yellowjackets has consistently forged ahead with innovative and challenging artistic statements. For Jackets XL, its 25th album and fourth for Mack Avenue Music Group, the band continues to stretch and reinvent itself with an exciting, full-bodied collaboration with the superb WDR Big Band of Cologne, Germany. The project combines the shapeshifting, multiple GRAMMY® Award-winning quartet with the renowned big band, re-imagining well-known band originals with dynamic new arrangements that feature twists and turns, textures and colors, moving harmonies and bold solos.

With its pockets of halcyon, buoyance, mystery, tumult, groove and whimsy, Jackets XL plays out as a multifaceted documentation of how far the band has come. “It was like putting a new set of clothes on,” Mintzer says. “ This represents how the Yellowjackets play now.

A standing show.

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

Yellowjackets

Yellowjackets - Behold The Lamb Of God (Instrumental)

Hailing from County Tyrone, the Whistlin' Donkeys consists of 6 members, with Fergal McAloon on vocals, Tomas Quinn on banjo, Mickey Kerr on fiddle, Stevie Corrigan on guitar, Danny McCormack on bass and Oscar Bradley on drums.

The band have most recently toured Canada, USA, Europe and Dubai as well as filling venues across Ireland.

With their unique sound of Irish folk/Celtic rock you are sure to have a foot stamping, hand clapping night to remember!

A standing show.

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

The Whistlin’ Donkeys

The Whistlin' Donkeys - The Craic Was Ninety In the Isle of Man

Mary Coughlan live at Band on the Wall

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

Mary Coughlan

Ancient Rain

Mary Coughlan - Ancient Rain

It begins with a tale of master and protégé...

...a tale of how then 13 year old Tyler Duncan from Ann Arbor, Michigan went to Ireland and tracked down his hero, uillean piper and whistle player John McSherry (founder of Lunasa, Tamalin, At First Light, Ulaid, and a member of Donal Lunny’s supergroup Coolfin: the most innovative Irish piper of his generation and co-author of Wheels of the World: 300 Years of Irish Uillean Pipers) and became his student, friend, and eventually his melodic partner in the olllam, a Transatlantic musical partnership enabled and maintained through early adoption of online collaboration and composition, resulting in the 2012 release of an eponymous album that has become a cult classic. The name derives from the old Irish word ollam, meaning a master of the highest rank in a particular skill.

It was four years until the olllam returned to live gigs, which earned them sold-out shows and appearances at rock, jazz, art and folk festivals and venues across Ireland, and an audience base who were now singing the melodies back to the band, with hardcore devotees following them from show to show. Then came the pandemic ...

The result, “elllegy,” was released in May 2022, ten years after their debut. It led to a triumphant Irish festivals and venues tour that summer including Dublin’s National Concert Hall and to the olllam winning Best Folk Group at the 2022 RTE Radio One Folk Awards.

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

The Olllam

the olllam - A Grey Eye Lllooks Back

the olllam - a grey eye lllooks back

the olllam

With her captivating voice and richly detailed songwriting, Sarah Jarosz has emerged as one of the most compelling musicians of her generation. A four-time Grammy Award-winner and ten-time nominee at the age of 31, the Texas native started singing as a young girl and became an accomplished multi-instrumentalist by her early teens.

After releasing her full-length debut Song Up in Her Head at 18 years old, she went on to deliver such critically lauded albums as Follow Me Down, Build Me Up From Bones, and Undercurrent, in addition to joining forces with Sara Watkins and Aoife O’Donovan to form the acclaimed folk trio I’m With Her.

Her fifth studio album, World On The Ground, produced by John Leventhal, went on to win the Grammy award for Best Americana Album.

In 2021 Jarosz released the Grammy-nominated Blue Heron Suite, a much-anticipated song cycle, which she composed after being the recipient of the FreshGrass Composition Commission. She continues to tour in support of both releases.

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

Sarah Jarosz

Istanbul’s Lalalar remind you of your favorite 80’s cult show theme, and simultaneously sound like a delightful dumpster dive of spaghetti western-psychedelics, Anatolian funk, sampling and hazy electronics. The one constant: Lalalar is the type of band you want to move to with abandon.

Price includes a 75p venue restoration levy.

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

Lalalar

İsyanlar - Radio Edit

Lalalar - Isyanlar



Age Policy is 10+. Under 16s need to be accompanied by a responsible adult.   I.D required

Now Wave

Temples

Metropolis Music presents Geese.

Price includes a 75p venue restoration levy.

This is a 14 + event, U16 w/ Adult

Geese

Geese - Cowboy Nudes

So, the end of September sees local legend George Borowski take up a performance contract and residence in France hence, the ' Au Revoir ' titled show in his home town, Manchester.

Price includes a 75p venue restoration levy.

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

George Borowski, Au Revoir

George Borowski - Manchester Boys

George Borowski

Gengahr

Band on the Wall, Manchester

29th September 2023

This is a 10+ event. Under 16s need to be accompanied by a responsible adult.

Gengahr

A Ladder

Elli Ingram at Band on the Wall, Manchester.

This is a 16+ event (Photo ID required)

the Event Organiser, AEG Presents

Elli Ingram: The Bad Behaviour Tour

Rocket

Elli Ingram

Now Wave presents Wednesday.

Price includes a 75p venue restoration levy.

This is a 10+ event (under 16s need to be accompanied by a responsible adult.  I.D required).

Wednesday

Wednesday - Bull Believer

The Watch plays GENESIS – Selling England by the Pound 50th anniversary show !

From autumn 2023 The Watch will start showcasing 1973 Genesis masterpiece “Selling England by the Pound” celebrating its 50th anniversary.

The dramatic Gabrielesque vocals of The Watch singer, closest ever to Peter Gabriel, and the all-round instrumental excellence of the band will give you the opportunity to hear some magnificent songs, like it was back in the days.

No other group manages to capture the adventurousness and electricity of Genesis in their pioneering times with quite such raw emotion. just close your eyes and there you are in the seventies!

Steve Hackett (Genesis lead guitarist) says: "The Watch is a band of very talented people and I recommend them."

Paul Whitehead (Genesis graphic artist): "The band who remind me most of the Genesis magic."

UK Prog Newsletter: "What's unique here are the vocals, so very similar to those of a young Peter Gabriel"

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

The Watch plays "Selling England by the Pound" 

The Watch

Crumb at Band on the Wall.

Price includes a 75p venue restoration levy.

Age Policy is 10+. Under 16s need to be accompanied by a responsible adult.   I.D required

Crumb

Locket



Age Policy is 10+. Under 16s need to be accompanied by a responsible adult.  I.D required.

Willie J Healey

We Should Hang

Holy Moly & The Crackers are the innovative and fiery folk-rockers from Newcastle-Upon-Tyne in the North-East UK, who mash together unique flavours of americana, rock and indie with a punk-ish edge, and have become renowned for their blazing live shows. Building a loyal and enthusiastic fan base over the years, Holy Moly & The Crackers first tasted success with the release of their second album Salem (released 2017) on their own Pink Lane Records, when lead single ‘Cold Comfort Lane’ was picked up by Hollywood and used in the vibrant, stick-it-to-the-man blockbuster Oceans 8 in 2018. Working again with Salem producer Matt Terry (Mogwai, The Enemy, Snuff), they recorded and released their follow up album Take a Bite in 2019, described as a “swaggering album that showcases a riotous blend of styles” by Louder Than War.

2020 saw Holy Moly & The Crackers blast out of the blocks. They were set to play 27 dates across 10 countries on their biggest European tour to date, as well as support Frank Turner across France and Germany, then return to Glastonbury for the festival's 50th anniversary. But, well, you know what happened next.

This band's answer to the challenge of a world flipped on its head is Solid Gold. Mixed by six times Grammy award-winning engineer Vance Powell (Jack White, Chris Stapleton), it is the group's fourth studio album and is scheduled for release in 2023.

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

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