groovement

Anchorsong + re:tract
2022-06-06 19:30 (Europe/London) | YES, 38 Charles Street, Manchester, M1 7DB
Plus support from re:tract

Originally from Tokyo, and now based in London, Anchorsong AKA Masaaki Yoshida is a highly-fêted producer, and solo live act, renowned for crafting immersive and rhythmic releases.Anchorsong has become globally recognised for his unique live shows, which spectators have described as “like watching a painter drawing on a white canvas”. He creates electronic music entirely live using an MPC1000, right in front of the audience. While he mainly performs solo, he frequently augments this setup with a string quartet, for a genuinely spellbinding show.

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Run The Jewels
2022-06-06 19:00 | O2 Victoria Warehouse, Trafford Park, Stretford,, Manchester, M17 1AB, United Kingdom
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Ghost- Note + DJ Jamie Groovement
2022-06-05 19:30 | Band On The Wall, 27 Swan St, Manchester, M4 5JZ, United Kingdom
I’ll be warming up for this Snarky Puppy-led outfit tonight at Band On The Wall.

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J.Chambers
2022-06-04 19:30 | 33 Oldham Street, 33 Oldham St, Manchester, M1 1JG

Mamas Gun
2022-06-02 19:00 | The Bread Shed, 126 Grosvenor St, Manchester, M1 7HL
In support of new album Cure The Jones, out now.

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Shalamar + Odyssey
2022-06-01 19:30 | The Bridgewater Hall, Lower Mosley St, Manchester, M2 3WS
This event has been rescheduled from Friday 5 June 2020. Original tickets remain valid. Ticket holders are being informed.

As Shalamar, Howard Hewitt and Jeffrey Daniel sold over 25 million records worldwide and collected no less than 100 gold, silver and platinum awards. Their live show includes multi- million selling hits,A Night To Remember , I Can Make You Feel Good , Make That Move, There It Is, Dead Giveaway, I Owe You One, The Second Time Around and many more .

USA Disco Legends Odyssey provide the support, performing there Top Ten classic hits that include Native New Yorker , If You’re Looking For a Way Out, Inside Out, Going Back To My Roots, and the multi million selling number One Use It Up and Wear It Out.

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Action Bronson, The Alchemist, Earl Sweatshirt and Lord Apex
2022-05-30 19:00 | Manchester Academy, University Of Manchester Students' Union, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PR, United Kingdom

Automatic
2022-05-29 19:00 | YES, 38 Charles Street, Manchester, M1 7DB
Post-punk, Stones Throw-signed three piece Automatic headline a trio of new bands.

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Sno + MC Kwasi
2022-05-29 13:00 - 23:00 | The Old Abbey Taphouse, Guildhall Cl, Manchester, M15 6SY
We’re excited to bring SNO to the Taphouse’s beer garden for a 10 hour, all vinyl, all day long set hosted by the uplifting talents of MC Kwasi.

“As likely to play South African hip-hop as she is Congolese rumba, Egyptian jazz or Brazilian boogie, Gauteng-born, Manchester-based SNO is spreading the word about music often overlooked by the Western industry” DJ Mag

SNO

Originally from South Africa but now based in Manchester, SNO has been making waves around the world with her regular show on NTS Radio and acclaimed sets at festivals including Dimensions, We Out Here and Houghton.

Having played alongside legends of the likes of Gilles Peterson, Mr Scruff, Midland and loads more, she’s definitely one to watch at the moment.

To top it off we’ll be dishing out a tasty BBQ prepped by our wonderful chefs to bring some added heat to accompany the fire in the DJ booth. Not to be missed.

Read SNO’s recent DJ MAG feature.

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BETTER DAYS/SIT & BUN: THE KTNA / JULY 7 / CHIMPO
2022-05-29 12:00 - 22:00 | Escape To Freight Island, Manchester, M1 2PZ

Me Gusta presents Analog Africa
2022-05-28 23:00 - 2022-05-29 04:00 | YES, 38 Charles Street, Manchester, M1 7DB
After Habibi Funk and Coco Maria, we thought we’d stay on the vinyl vibe and invite another label that inspired us to start Me Gusta collective!

For more than a decade, Analog Africa label has been unearthing the best in both explosive foot-shufflers and hypnotic sauntering treasures from Africa.

It’s achieved more than most in celebrating the rich and diverse heritage of a much misunderstood and overlooked continent. The label has spared nothing in its pursuit of choosing authentic and eye-opening records.Support by your local musical selectors Atiké , Obeka and Yohan providing floor stompers from start til 4 in the morning Book tickets early to avoid any chances of missing our this show will sell out!

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Craig Charles Funk & Soul Club ft The Allergies (live) & Andy Cooper
2022-05-28 21:00 | Band On The Wall, 27 Swan St, Manchester, M4 5JZ, United Kingdom
I’ll be supporting at this one too.

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So Flute 8th Anniversary
2022-05-28 20:00 - 2022-05-29 03:00 | Niamos, Warwick St, Hulme, Manchester, Hulme, Manchestrer, M15 5EU, United Kingdom

George Clinton + Ibibio Sound Machine, DJ Woody, more
2022-05-27 21:00 - 2022-05-28 03:00 | Albert Hall, 27 Peter St, Manchester, M2 5QR
Still the ‘farewell’ tour for George… presented by the Moovin’ Festival crew.

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Hypnotic Brass Ensemble
2022-05-26 19:00 | The Blues Kitchen, 13 Quay St, Manchester, M3 3HN, United Kingdom
The bad boys of jazz, sons of Phillip Conran, return to Manchester. It’s always a huge show, and it’s their first time at this venue.

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Matthew Halsall & Band
2022-05-25 19:30 | YES, 38 Charles Street, Manchester, M1 7DB
Timings:

19:30 – Doors20:00 – Set 120:45 – Interval21:15 – Set 222:00 – Finish

Line up:

Matthew Halsall – TrumpetMatt Cliffe – Flute & SaxophoneAlice Roberts – HarpGavin Barras – Double BassAlan Taylor – DrumsJack McCarthy – Percussion

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Allysha Joy
2022-05-20 19:30 | YES, 38 Charles Street, Manchester, M1 7DB
Allysha’s new album, Torn:Tonic, is out now on First Word Records.

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Werkha album launch
2022-05-19 20:00 | Wilson’s Den, 42_44 Oldham Street,, Manchester,, M4 1LE
One of the city’s most prolific musicians readies the launch of his latest LP on First Word.

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Nikitch & Kuna Maze + Mango Thomas
2022-05-13 20:00 | Band On The Wall, 27 Swan St, Manchester, M4 5JZ, United Kingdom
Band on the Wall presents a series of free entry gigs and DJ sets on our second stage, located to the rear of our brand new bar. We’ll be shining a light on our favouring emerging artists across all genres with a diverse programme of global sounds from, and inspired by, the music of cultures from around the world.

Nikitch & Kuna Maze are an electronic instrumental jazz trio synthesising broken beat, footwork, hip-hop and jazz.

The collaboration project between musician Nicolas Morant aka Nikitch and Brussels-based producer Edouard Gilbert aka Kuna Maze began when the duo met at the Chambery Jazz Conservatory in France. Before attending university to study jazz, both artists had trained in classical music while growing up in the Lyon countryside.

This early musical development from Nikitch & Kuna Maze laid the blueprint for their musicianship today, allowing the duo to gradually explore the new artistic languages of jazz, and later electronic music. Both artists used their time at university to widen their horizons, encountering other musicians from outside from classical and jazz music circles, and as a result, started gigging and working on projects beyond the conservatory’s curriculum.

It wasn’t long until the duo started making electronic music together – a genre that wasn’t popular at the conservatory at the time, as retaliation. Born out of wanting to try something different, and a mutual love of the same artists, the pair produced their first beat on the train from Chambery to Lyon. Influenced by the likes of Flying Lotus (a pivotal artists for Kuna Maze, who started producing after hearing his fresh sounds), as well as Roy Hargrove, Thundercat, Flako, Dorian Concept, Tigran Hamasyan, Esböjrn Svensson Trio and Erykah Badu – the duo blend their influences from jazz, broken beat and a wide pallet of electronic music, into dance-floor package.

he duo perfectly syncretises their sound – with the vibrant colours of jazz, mixed with the frenetic beats of footwork & juke from Nikitch, combined with the granular synth-cosmict extures of Kuna Maze. This oscillation of jazz, downbeat, and hip-hop produces the duo’s signature sound, a crisp groove-laden output, that offers intimate and irresistible vivid textures to the listeners.

Part of the new wave of musicians, producers and DJs who are heavily influenced by the melting point of jazz and club culture – Nikitch x Kuna Maze draw parallels to UK counterparts such as Neue Grafik, Nubya Garcia, Joe Armon-Jones, and fellow broken beat revivalist Kamaal Williams aka Henry Wu.

Mango Thomas

Twist and turn through a dark world of unexpected whimsy and emerge laughing into the sarcastic sunshine. What the fuck was that?? No-one wants to say, “You’ve been mangoed”, but that’s the flavour on everyone’s lips. Genres are flying in every direction and no-one is even sure what decade it is anymore! Mango Thomas is a genre-defying, rule-breaking and mind-bending phenomenon, fraught with laughter, surprise, intensity and excitement! Fusing together a progressive & psychedelic mashup of live and electronic styles, Mango takes you on a magical, mystical and eccentric journey from the depths of the soul to the heights of madness!

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Jehst
2022-05-12 19:00 | The Blues Kitchen, 13 Quay St, Manchester, M3 3HN, United Kingdom
One of the UK’s most iconic hip hop artists, Jehst has been at the forefront the UK’s hip hop scene for the past 20 years.

As an MC, producer and driving force behind his own YNR label he’s has asserted himself as possibly the most influential rapper to ever emerge from these shores. Pushing the boundaries of his chosen art-form while providing the blueprint for countless sound-alikes, Jehst’s sound has defined a generation. With a discography now stretching into triple figures his career has been typified by a restless creativity and side-projects galore.

Joining Jehst on stage is Boots Records boss Jazz T. Support comes from Nelson Dialect & Mr Slipz, whose latest LP on High Focus Records is making waves throughout the scene.

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Kenny Thomas + Acantha Lang + Soul Central DJs
2022-05-12 19:00 | Band On The Wall, 27 Swan St, Manchester, M4 5JZ, United Kingdom
The multi-platinum selling, twice BRIT Award-nominated soul singer takes to the road to celebrate the 30th anniversary of his debut album Voices, that featured the hits Thinking About Your Love, Outstanding, Tender Love and Best of You.

Support on the night comes from Acantha Lang & Soul Central DJs.

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Asian Dub Foundation + Pandit G
2022-04-08 19:00 | Band On The Wall, 27 Swan St, Manchester, M4 5JZ, United Kingdom
From BOTW:

Asian Dub Foundation are a genre unto themselves. Their unique combination of tough jungle rhythms, dub bass lines and wild guitar overlaid by references to their South Asian roots and militant high-speed rap has established them as one of the best live bands in the world. During their long and productive career Asian Dub Foundation have shared the stage with the likes of Rage Against The Machine, the Beastie Boys and Primal Scream also collaborating on record with the likes of Radiohead, Sinead O’ Connor, Iggy Pop and Chuck D.

The story began in the early 90’s when ADF formed from a music workshop in East London at the institution which is their spiritual home, Community Music. Their unique beginnings in a music workshop in east London marked out both their sound and their wider educational aspirations, as showed by their early involvements with Roma Youth in Budapest, hooking up with the legendary Afro Reggae in the favelas of Rio, and setting up their own education organisation ADF Education (ADFED), not to mention their campaigns on behalf of those suffering miscarriages of justice. Building a solid live reputation in the mid-90’s, particularly in France, they eventually established themselves as an important worldwide force and particularly as an explosive alternative to the backward-looking obsession with britpop in the UK.

In addition to their blistering live reputation ADF were one of the first bands to experiment with the now more commonplace live film re-score, beginning with their rapturously received interpretation of the French classic La Haine back in in 2001, which they performed to a sold out crowd here at Band on the Wall back in 2018.

They’ve continued to perform said project for nearly two decades, taking in David Bowie’s Meltdown at London’s South Bank and a controversial show at the Broadwater Farm Estate, scene of the events that led to the London Riots of 2011.They’ve also rescored George Lucas’ debut THX 1138 (with encouragement from Mr. Lucas himself) and they’ve recently revived their explosive live interpretation to the continually relevant Battle of Algiers at the Museum of Immigration in Paris.

It was a busy 2019 for Asian Dub Foundation with the long-awaited reissue of their Mercury Prize-nominated 1998 classic Rafi’s Revenge. The reissue garnered ecstatic reviews, all of which agreed that the sound and the message that ADF threw down in 1998 is as relevant now as it was then-perhaps even more so.

So it’s timely that in 2020 the band released their nineth album “Access Denied” which finds them as uncompromising as ever. The album showcases ADF in full spectrum mode from the tough Jungle Punk sound of “Stealing The Future” and “Mindlock” through to the orchestral meditation of “Realignment” and the reggae lament of the title track.

With guest spots from Greta Thunberg, incendiary Palestinian shamstep warriors 47 Soul, Chilean revolt’s rap main figure Ana Tijoux and radical UK comedian Stewart Lee, Asian Dub Foundation continue their sonic opposition to the powers that be and “Access Denied” kicks harder and higher than ever.

On the sunrise of 2021, at the very moment that UK left the EU, Asian Dub Foundation found themselves at No.1 on the new official sales and national download chart.

The single “Comin’ Over Here” feat. Stewart Lee, an anti-brexit and anti-racist anthem, became the UK’s biggest selling record at the beginning of the brexit era.

Lineup:

Steve Chandra Savale aka Chandrasonic – Guitar, vocals, programming

Aktar Ahmed aka Aktarvator – Lead Vocals

Nathan “Flutebox” Lee – Flute

Aniruddha Das aka Dr. Das – Bass, programming

Ghetto Priest – Lead and Backing Vocal

Brian Fairbairn – Drums

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De La Soul with full band / O2 Apollo
2022-03-26 00:00 - 23:59 | O2 Apollo, Stockport Rd, Manchester, M12 6AP, United Kingdom

Shabazz Palaces @ Yes
2022-03-23 19:30 - 23:00 | YES, 38 Charles Street, Manchester, M1 7DB
A triumphant return for Ishmael Butler, now solo as Shabazz Palaces.

His latest is Don Of Diamond Dreams, listen below.

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MF Robots / BOTW
2022-03-11 00:00 - 23:59 | Band On The Wall, 27 Swan St, Manchester, M4 5JZ, United Kingdom

Celebrating Manchester's Black Artists @ Night and Day
2022-03-06 19:00 - 2022-03-07 01:00 | Night and Day Cafe, 26 Oldham Street, Manchester, M1 1JN
Showcasing some of Manchesters freshest Hip Hop and R&B artists + special guest LAYFULLSTOP

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HUEY MORGAN + DON LETTS: NYC VS LDN + Agent J (Groovement)
2022-03-05 23:00 | Band On The Wall, 27 Swan St, Manchester, M4 5JZ, United Kingdom
Two International music heavyweights collide at Band on the Wall for a one-off night of deep cuts and and big, big vibes, connecting the dots and taking you on a dancefloor journey between funk, soul, punk, reggae and rock’n’roll. From arms-in-the-air bangers to hidden gems, it’s time to dig deep into the record collections of two of the most influential figures in global club culture – Huey Morgan and Don Letts.

It’s New York City versus London, right here in Manchester!

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Maverick Sabre / BOTW
2022-03-05 00:00 - 23:59 | Band On The Wall, 27 Swan St, Manchester, M4 5JZ, United Kingdom

Emma-Jean Thackray / BOTW
2022-03-03 00:00 - 23:59 | Band On The Wall, 27 Swan St, Manchester, M4 5JZ, United Kingdom
Yellow by Emma-Jean Thackray

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Metalheadz: Goldie, Nookie, Diverge, Medic MC / Joshua Brooks
2022-02-26 00:00 - 23:59 | Joshua Brooks, 106 Princess St, Manchester, M1 6NG, United Kingdom
