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Join Manchester Collective for a boundary-pushing programme of music by some of today’s most exciting composers, including a new work by Ben Nobuto.

Mercury Prize-nominated artist William Doyle performs at YES in support of his revelatory new album, Great Spans of Muddy Time.

Philadelphian-via-Manchester singer-songwriter BC Camplight performs his biggest headline show in the city to date.

The Stoller Hall’s Christmas programme is always a highlight of the festive cultural calendar, and this year is no different.

One of the UK’s most exciting and innovative young drummers and producers, Yussef Dayes is bringing his electrifying live show to Manchester’s Stoller Hall this autumn.

Heavy psych act Pigsx7 are finally getting to tour their third album, Viscerals, accompanied by the black-humoured bard of Newcastle, Richard Dawson.

Kelly Lee Owens brings her dreampoppy electronica to Band on the Wall as part of this year’s BBC Radio 6 Music Festival.

Anika – the project of Berlin-based musician Annika Henderson who is also a founding member of Exploded View – is performing at YES in support of her first new album in over a decade.

In support of their new album Ookii Gekkou, East London’s Vanishing Twin are bringing their surreal psychedelia to The White Hotel.

The inaugural Corridor of Light offers an opportunity to explore algorave, a dance music movement built upon the practice of live coding.

Electronica producer Rival Consoles, notable for evoking human emotions with digital sounds, is bringing his atmospheric live A/V set to Gorilla.

Musical raconteur Baxter Dury brings his unique, character driven songs to Manchester in November, supported by Audiobooks.