Buxton International Festival rips up the rulebook with Shorts, a punchy programme of 4 brand-new 20-minute operas.

The White Hotel loads the booth with serious weight, as four of the scene’s most uncompromising figures bring a night of industrial techno, electro and scorched circuitry.

Still brilliant. Still weird. Still moving forward. Deerhoof return to Brudenell with their most abrasive album in years.

Back for 2025, Trafford’s flagship arts festival returns to Waterside for six days of experiential performance and cultural delight.

Refract returns to Waterside this July with a genre-spanning music programme that’s as playful and unpredictable as the festival itself – and much of it is completely free.

Hip hop, carnival, salsa and bhangra come together for a summer celebration of street dance. Round up your friends and family and get ready to move.

Desi Nation takes over Aviva Studios with a night of fresh sounds, live performance and cultural pride, as part of this month’s Factory Spotlight.

The North West’s most fun new band rolls into Jacaranda this July, fresh off the back of their debut EP No and a place on the NME 100 list.

A quietly radical force in contemporary club culture, John Talabot returns to The White Hotel for one of his signature all-night sessions.

Somewhere in Trafford, behind an unmarked gate, a former garden centre hosts one of Greater Manchester’s most original festivals.

From bhangra to breakbeat, Summer Sounds brings global grooves and community energy to Keighley’s Cliffe Castle Park.

Once a post-rock collective, now something closer to a live techno machine, Leeds band vessels bring it home to the Brudenell.