October Gigs in Manchester

These are the good gigs I know about that are happening in Manchester in October 2018:

Monday 1^st: Anna Calvi @ the Ritz (£20 plus unnecessary middle man rip off fee)

Tuesday 2^nd: Elder + Ancestors + Cattle @ Rebellion (£15.40 including rip off fee, Beauty Witch)

Wednesday 3rd: "Imagination in Play" Art Exhibition and Open Mic @ The Peer Hat (FREE)

Thursday 4th: Life + Mush + The Starlight Magic Hour @ Night and Day Cafe

Thursday 4^th: Amber Arcades + Songs for Walter @ Deaf Institute

Friday 5^th: The Sonics + The Creature Comfort @ Academy 3 (£23 plus rip off fee, although unlike most promoters these days you can still actually buy a ticket at the students union with no rip off fee and cut out the leaching online ticket sellers)

Saturday 6^th: Nick Branton, Alvarro Tores & Johnny Hunter @ Chorlton Tap 2pm

Saturday 6^th: M20 Festival: Factory Records 40^th anniversary founding celebration including Joy Division tribute band Transmission @ various Withington venues: Fuel, Indigo, Solomons, Deco Records, The Victoria, The Orion www.M20Festival.org.uk (FREE)

Sunday 7^th: Eliminator + Ascalon + Aggressive Perfector @ The Peer Hat (£5 on the door, no advance sales just like it should be)

Monday 8th: The Bear Around Your Neck @ Jimmy

Monday 8th: Devil's Avocado + The Birth Marks CANCELLED

Monday 8^th: Mark Lanegan and Duke Garwood @ RNCM (£22 plus rip off fee, unless you buy a ticket from the RNCM box office)

Monday 8^th: Johnny Hunter @ Matt and Phreds (FREE, 9pm)

Tuesday 9^th: Chris Corsano + David Birchall, Andrew Cheetham, Hannah Marsahall and Kaier @ the Peer Hat

Wednesday 10th: The Staches + Lassie + Handle + Smelvis and the Farts @ Fuel

Wednesday 10th: Daniel Johnston film @ Dulcimer, Chorlton FREE

Thursday 11^th: Angel Sword + Aggressive Perfector @ Aatma

Friday 12^th: Spaceheads with visuals from Rucksack Cinema + Cynthia’s Periscope + Project Concubine + Lucy Leave @ Peer Hat (£4.40 online or £5 OTD)

Friday 12^th: Nibiru + Even Vast + The Medea Project @ the Star and Garter (£5)

Friday 12^th: Terry Riley @ RNCM (£25)

Saturday 13^th: Bo Ningen + Witch Fever + Milk Disco @ Night and Day (promoter has been saying this is “almost sold out” for months now so maybe its almost sold out)

Saturday 13^th: Yossarians + godspeed you peter andre + Sly and the Family Drone + Mother, etc  @ Partisan (3pm start, Fat Out, £8 plus a little extra for the unnecessary online middle men)

Saturday 13^th: Punk Rock all dayer with The Drones @ The Peer Hat

Sunday 14^th: Punk Rock all dayer @ The Peer Hat

Monday 15^th: Paul Hession, Mark Hanslip, Nina Whiteman and other improvisers @ Whisky Jar

Tuesday 16^th: Low @ Manchester Cathedral (£27.50 including rip off fee)

Wednesday 17^th: Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks @ Albert Hall (£25 plus a few pennies including rip off fee)

Wednesday 17^th: Dark Thoughts + Careering @ Fuel

Wednesday 17^th: Mokoomba + Jali Nyonkoling Kuyateh @ Band on the Wall

Thursday 18^th: Gang of Four @ Ruby Lounge (£18 plus communist rip off fee to unnecessary middlemen who make their profit down on the disco floor; yes some capitalist shit is really taking the piss as tickets advertised at £18 are actually costing £21.45 on Ruby Lounge website)

Thursday 18^th: Liines + Kaze + Emily Oldfield @ Night and Day Cafe

Thursday 18^th: Mutabase @ The Peer Hat

Thursday 18^th: Caitlin Gilligan @ The Cleveland, Crumpsall Folk Club

Friday 19^th: Cocaine Piss + Crywank + Smelvis and the Farts + Alan @ The Star and Garter

Friday 19^th: “Difficult Fun: Post-Punk and the Politics of Pleasure” talk @ Irish World Heritage Centre, 1 Irish Town Way M8 0AE (not a gig, a talk about music)

Friday 19^th: Toots and the Maytals @ Academy

Friday 19^th: Magic Shoppe + Frankie Teardrop + Sioux @ Night People (starts 11pm)

Saturday 20^th: She Makes War @ The Castle

Sunday 21^st: John Carpenter @ Albert Hall

Sunday 21^st: Jo Rose @ Dulcimer, Chorlton 9pm FREE

Sunday 21^st: David Birchall, Sam Andreae and Otto Willberg @ secret location in Gorton

Monday 22^nd: The Mauskovic Dance Band + Mama Racho @ the Peer Hat

Monday 22^nd: The Chats + WITCH FEVER @ Academy 

Tuesday 23^rd: Adrena Adrena + Triangle Cuts @ the Peer Hat

Tuesday 23^rd: Sink Ya Teeth + Eton Crop @ The Eagle Inn

Wednesday 24th: Space Lady + The Seer of Eye Spirit @ Yes (£15.40 including rip off fee or £14 for those privileged kids with fancy internet phones who listen to all their music for free and wave the damn things in your face making crappy bootlegs whilst you are trying to watch the band. Its at Yes so everyone will probably just talk over the Space Lady anyway)

Thursday 25^th: Easter + Omit Sleep @ Gullivers (£7 tickets available at Gullivers just like they should be available from every venue with NO rip off fee for EVERY GIG)

Thursday 25^th: Stallion + Aggressive Perfector + Heavy Sentence @ Dulcimer, Chorlton (£5 OTD)

Thursday 25^th: Brix and the Extricated @ Night People (£15 plus rip off fee, tickets not available from Hotel Bloedel)

Friday 26^th: Henry Herbert and the Fury + Hopper Propelled Electric @ The Castle (£11 including rip off fee for some piano propelled rock’n’roll)

Friday 26^th: The KVB @ Yes (£9 plus rip off fee)

Friday 26^th: Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs + ILL @ the Star and Garter (SOLD OUT, Beauty Witch)

Saturday 27^th: Bones Shake + Thee Windom Earles + The Dee Vees + Guts + Snakerattlers + Tensheds + Weird Sex + Thee Rag and Bone Men @ Thee Peer Hat (£5 OTD, 5pm start: rock’n’roll bargain!!!)

Saturday 27^th: International Teachers of Pop @ White Hotel

Sunday 28^th: Dead Meadow @ Soup Kitchen (£14 plus rip off fee)

Monday 29^th: Marissa Nadler @ Gullivers (£13)

Monday 29^th: Melvins + Jon Spencer@ Academy (£28)

Monday 29^th: Snack Family + Bingo Harry + The Sandells @ The Peer Hat

Tuesday 30th: Duane Eddy @ Bridgewater Hall

Wednesday 31^st: Epic 45 + No Talk + Little Mother @ The Peer Hat

Friday November 2^nd: Coupe-Gorge + Heavy Sentence + Implement @ Fuel (Lovely Hens: £5 OTD just like it should be, a real underground gig with no internet rip off fee middlemen and no wannabe career promoter advance ticketing bullshit)