Our guide to

Manchester’s best live music venues

They say a lot of things about Manchester, but one thing they don’t say is that it’s dead after dark. This is a city that has “up for it” written in its DNA, as the mind-boggling variety of the city’s nightspots and live music venues attests. We don’t like to brag, but we’ve got it all: peaceful tiled pubs serving cool cask ales, check. Rammed bars blasting Eurotrash, check. Beard-stroking hipster hangouts, check. Giant clubs full of pissed-up students pogoing to Common People, check. Specialist wine bars, bouncer-patrolled footballer haunts, funky dives, indie music halls, motorcycle real ale bars, jazz joints, Thai karaoke nightbars… we could go on. We even have a pub in a toilet. Here’s our opinionated, mini-guide to some of the city’s best music venues and after-hours haunts. Get out there and have fun (and tell ‘em we sent ya).

Manchester bars: A Place Called Common

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Man cycling outside Common, Manchester, Susie Stubbs for creativetourist
Despite a smattering of the fashionably bobble-hatted, you can sit here & sup a pint alone

How a backstreet art bar became one of Manchester’s best-loved drinking dens. How do you describe Common? Long before the Deaf Institute and Gorilla trotted off with Manchester’s bar-club-kitchen crown, Common was the go-to place…

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