Alternative Events in Manchester
Find upcoming Alternative events in Manchester. Browse Alternative shows, performances and activities happening across the city.
Summit
Manchester Academy
Just Like Heaven
Night & Day Cafe
CAIRNS + DAWNWALKER + ESTRANGER
Fuel Cafe Bar
Echoes Of The Bunnymen Lions At Lions Den, Manchester - 20th June 2026
Lions Den Manchester
An Evening of Radiohead at Lichfield Cathedral
Lichfield Cathedral
True Order - The Sound Of New Order - Live In Manchester - 4th July 2026
Lions Den Manchester
Superheaven
Garstang Arts Centre, Old Grammar School, Croston Rd Garstang
Outbreak Presents Count Your Blessings | Repented
Bowlers Exhibition Centre
Joy Diversion (Joy Division Tribute)
Lions Den Manchester
Alexandra Savior
Manchester Club Academy
Outbreak Presents Count Your Blessings | Repented
Bowlers Exhibition Centre
Coldplay Oasis Stereophonics tribute show Buckley The Tivoli 17 July 2026
The Tivoli
Fell Out Boy & Black Charade | Freight Island, Manchester
Freight Island
RADAR Festival
O2 Victoria Warehouse
Elder Emo Summer Day Party
Rebellion Manchester
JuJu (IT) + Thee Lucifer Sams
artefact
KERRANG’D
Solya
The Deaf Institute
Direct Input Vol 6: Sisters, Luno, Plus More TBA
Quarry
Primus
Manchester Academy
Shearling + Special Guests
Quarry
Michael Cera Palin
Rough Trade Liverpool
TWISTED FIRESTARTER 6
Rebellion Manchester
TWISTED FIRESTARTER # 6 REBELLION MANCHESTER - INFEST WARMUP PARTY
Rebellion
ClLUB STIGMATA Afterparty with with Dj’s FRANKIE D + MARK WALKER + DARKADE
REBBELION
The Cure - Manchester Aftershow Party - The Star & Garter
Star & Garter
The Cure | Aftershow Party!
Rebellion Manchester
THE CURE - AFTERPARTY - MANCHESTER
Rebellion Manchester
Skin Flowers + Special Guests
Quarry
Part Chimp
The White Hotel
Red Leather
Gorilla
Current Joys
New Century
Drug Church
Gorilla
Dance Gavin Dance
Manchester Academy
Immersion (Colin Newman + Malka Spiegel)
The White Hotel
h3nce | Manchester, The Lodge at Deaf Institute
The Deaf Institute
Metric & Broken Social Scene
Manchester Academy
Mimi Barks
Star & Garter
VUKOVI
O2 Ritz
Seamus Fogarty + Special Guests
Quarry
Exploring Birdsong
Gorilla
HED PE / COLD
Garstang Arts Centre, Old Grammar School, Croston Rd Garstang
The Maine
Manchester Academy
HED PE / COLD
Rebellion
Split Dogs: Live + Signing
Rough Trade Liverpool
Fear Factory
O2 Ritz Manchester
An Evening with Kristin Hersh
Hallé at St Michaels
Madra Salach
Garstang Arts Centre, Old Grammar School, Croston Rd Garstang
An Evening with Kristin Hersh
Hallé at St Michaels
GB
The White Hotel
Stoned Statues UK Tour 2026
Aatma
SPARTA
YES The Pink Room
Ladylike + Special Guests
Quarry
Crash Test Dummies
Band on the Wall
Arab Strap
Band on the Wall
TIGERCUB
Manchester Academy 3
Spineshank + Orgy
Nightrain
Panchiko
New Century
R.E.M By Stipe - Academy 3, Manchester
Manchester Academy
Cootie Catcher + Special Guests
Quarry
Kanadia
The Deaf Institute
De Staat
Band on the Wall
OK Go
New Century
SHORELINE
The Deaf Institute
Dear Tash
The Deaf Institute
The Moonlandingz
The White Hotel
Young Knives
Band on the Wall
The Rabbitts Album Release Tour
Kazimier Stockroom
Chameleons - HOME IS WHERE THE HEART IS 2026
New Century
Seattle Thrift Store - a live tribute to Grunge
Factory 251
Chameleons: Home is Where The Heart Is 2026 - With The Manchester Camerata
New Century
OMO / Thraa
YES Basement
The Bends - The Music Of Radiohead - Lions Den, Manchester
Lions Den Manchester
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