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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.

In their first major touring project of the year, Manchester Collective bring together a strange and unsettling set of otherworldly music.

The all-new Ripples of Hope Festival celebrates the power of people to make human rights a reality for all.

Over nearly a decade, Soccer96 have metamorphosed from a punk-spirited DIY outfit to cosmic dreamers who use sound to travel the mind.

Following a series of sell-out shows, The Untold Orchestra are back at Freight Island with a night dedicated to the music of Amy Winehouse.