Masta Ace & Marco Polo / BOTW
2023-08-28 21:00 (Europe/London) | Band On The Wall, 27 Swan St, Manchester, M4 5JZ, United Kingdom
Hailing from Brooklyn, New York, US, Masta Ace, a.k.a Duval Clear, is an American rap artist, originally finding fame as part of the Juice Crew in 1988.

Alongside Craig G, Kool G Rap and Big Daddy Kane, Marley Marl and Biz Markie, Masta Ace featured on their classic posse track, “The Symphony,” in 1988. Masta Ace then released his debut album two years later, titled “Take a Look Around,” on Motown’s hip hop label, Cold Chillin’ Records. This first album displayed Ace’s energetic rhymes, often dealing with sociopolitical issues in a tongue-in-cheek manner. The album featured the hit single, “Me and the Biz,” which included a popular video with its release.

In 1993, Ace returned, this time with his own crew, Masta Ace Incorporated, performing alongside Lord Digga and Paula Perry. Their album, “SlaughtaHouse,” synthesised a West Coast sound with an East Coast edge that made it stand out from the crowd, finding commercial success. The single, “Born To Roll” became a crossover hit, reaching number 23 in the Billboard Hot 100. Shortly after, Ace joined Special Ed and Buckshot, of Black Moon fame, for Spike Lee- arranged crew, Crooklyn Dodgers, who appeared in Lee’s film, “Crooklyn,” with Ace and co. achieving a number 60 single with the title track.

Their next record, 1995’s “Sittin’ On Chrome,” displayed a more polished sound, featuring the hit, “I.N.C. Ride” which sampled “For The Love of You” by the Isley Brothers. It would be six years before another Master Ace full length, although Masta Ace continued to perform and collaborate with other artists. 2001’s “Disposable Arts,” Masta Ace’s fourth album, became an Underground classic, peaking at number 90 in the Billboard R&B/Hip Hop Albums chart. The veteran rapper continued to release singles and albums throughout the 2000s, which continued to be received positively.

In 2012, still going strong in the rap game, Masta Ace released the MF Doom produced, “MA DOOM: Son of Yvonne,” an album dedicated to his mother, reinstating his talent. In 2016 he released the project The Falling Season another great concept record about himself starting high school. In 2018 he released A Breaukelen story with producer Marco Polo.

Masta Ace is one of the most consistent artists in Hip Hop – catch him live at Band On The Wall on Monday August 28th.

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B. DOLAN & Mithago Craze
2023-08-29 19:00 | YES, 38 Charles Street, Manchester, M1 7DB
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Shindigger x Reform Radio Joint 10th Birthday
2023-09-09 14:00 | The Yard Manchester, 11 Bent St, Cheetham Hill, Manchester, M8 8NF
ShinDigger X Reform Radio: A Decade In The Game

ShinDigger and Reform Radio celebrate their joint-tenth birthdays with a day festival on the cobbles of Cheetham Hill: A Decade In The Game.After starting their ventures together in the same co-working space back in 2013, the good friends have co-produced numerous events together throughout their history. It only felt natural to join forces for this massive shared milestone, and A Decade In The Game is by far their most ambitious collaboration to date.

Expect plenty of live music, including first ever festival performances from some of the hottest rising stars in the city, alongside exclusive back-to-back DJ sets curated especially for this event. Reform and ShinDigger have come up together, sharing a similar ethos of supporting the local creative scene through collaboration. This lineup is very much in the spirit of that collaborative ethos, with the breadth of styles on offer shining a light on both new and established talent right here in Manchester.

ShinDigger will be pouring a range of 8 draught beers on the day, including the new Yuzu Pale created with Reform Radio plus a second top secret new release. Meanwhile you can keep your bellies full with Carribean food from Knights BBQ (including their legendary smoked jerk chicken) and Greek BBQ from Souvlaki Xpress. Vintage clothing markets, kids activities and beginners DJ sessions means there is truly something for everyone!

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Blu & Exile + M.E.D. / BOTW
2023-09-12 19:00 | Band On The Wall, 27 Swan St, Manchester, M4 5JZ, United Kingdom

Black Josh, Lee Scott, Sonnyjim, Sammy B-Side / BOTW
2023-09-21 19:00 | Band On The Wall, 27 Swan St, Manchester, M4 5JZ, United Kingdom

Stockport Paint Jam
2023-09-24 12:00 - 17:00
Jay Sharples and Grit Studios present a last minute paint jam! Please spread the word.

Celebrating Stockport’s recent Town Of Culture status we’ve got over 20 artists from in and around the North West painting live and we’d love you to come join the fun. We’ve also got music, food, drinks, skate ramps and more. Everyone’s welcome, so get yourselves down there. See you on Sunday✌️❤️

Art by Hammo

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African Head Charge + Gaudi @ Blues Kitchen
2023-09-27 19:00 | The Blues Kitchen, 13 Quay St, Manchester, M3 3HN, United Kingdom
“One of the most groundbreaking dub acts in history” – Bandcamp

African Head Charge are joining us for an evening full of unique blends of polyrhythmic outernational sounds, presenting their new album A Trip To Bolgatanga.

Pulsating with tribal drum beats and chanting from the soul of Africa, African Head Charge fuse together primal rhythms with heavy psychedelic dub, roots reggae and 21st century electronica. The London-based collective has gone on to achieve semi-legendary cult status, creating 13 albums and performances all over the world, from Australia to Glastonbury music festival.

Their epic live show features a line-up of 8 world-star performers, fusing together djembes, guitars, drums, keys and vocals with heavy electronic sampling.

Joining African Head Charge on stage will be globetrotting dub/electronica pioneer Gaudi, who has been winning over audiences around the planet with his eclectic style and versatility, roof raising live performances and, of course, through a series of excellent album releases.

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Afriquoi @ Blues Kitchen
2023-09-28 19:00 | The Blues Kitchen, 13 Quay St, Manchester, M3 3HN, United Kingdom
We bring Afriquoi to Manchester for an explosive live show combining African traditions with contemporary UK electronics.

Fusing Congolese guitar + Gambian kora virtuosity with UK electronic sensibilities to create captivating, beautiful, dancefloor- friendly music, this is perfect end of the week vibes.

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Roc Marciano / Canvas
2023-10-01 19:00 | Canvas, Unit 5, Building 4, Circle Square, Oxford Rd, Manchester, M60 7HB, United Kingdom

FLOHIO / Yes
2023-10-05 19:30 | YES, 38 Charles Street, Manchester, M1 7DB
Blurb:

FLOHIO announces a handful of UK live dates, bringing the undeniable energy of her 2022 debut album to a live setting, with the ‘Out Of Heart presents Out Of Sight’ tour. Whether commandeering packed out festival tents, esteemed venues or club stages, FLOHIO has an inimitable live presence that must be seen to be believed.

The rapper, singer-songwriter, party starter and artist extraordinaire is the table-shaking, fiercely independent titan carving out a unique lane for herself in music; that of a disruptor. A unique figure utilising the infectious sounds of UK music – everything from sparse grime to immersive, trippy house – to deliver visceral, high-energy rap anthems for a generation. 2022’s acclaimed debut album “Out of Heart” was an opus brimming with brutal honesty and euphoric production, elevating FLOHIO’s lyrical steez. An album that was almost two years in the making, its creation was fastened by the pandemic and its ensuing lockdown, forcing FLOHIO to halt her hectic touring schedule and renew her creative devices.

Across 12 tracks, executively produced by industrial hip-hop innovators God Colony and Speech, it reveals the most vulnerable yet enduring version of FLOHIO. The result is a debut album flourishing with artistic poise, an elegant exploration of UK rap and its fringes.‘Out Of Heart’ was a career-defining statement set to propel FLOHIO into the stratosphere, met with widespread critical praise and cover features with NOISEY, BEAT and most recently Heroine magazine. Don’t miss the opportunity to witness the album’s gravity in a live setting.

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Ruby Wood / BOTW
2023-10-05 20:30 | Band On The Wall, 27 Swan St, Manchester, M4 5JZ, United Kingdom
Ruby is a vocalist, songwriter and DJ hailing from Huddersfield, West Yorkshire. Her soulful yet distinctive voice has enabled her to front numerous projects; perhaps best known as lead vocalist of the critically acclaimed Submotion Orchestra, since 2009.

She also toured as lead vocalist for Bonobo’s live band, for Nubiyan Twist, and with hugely successful 1940’s-esque vocal trio, The Sugar Sisters. There have also been features for dance outfits such as GLXY & Franky Wah, additionally to writing & recording for the likes of Krept & Konan, Alfa Mist, Roska, Hemai, Barney Artist and XOA, to name just a few.

After signing to First Word Records, Ruby has recently released her debut solo EP ‘Sincerely’. Comprised of five tracks, Sincerely is firmly based in the realms of hip hop soul and neo soul sonically and has an unashamedly ’90s R&B vibe throughout.

Throughout the EP, Ruby’s story tells tales of motherhood, relationships, commitment, independence and inspirations.

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Sambroso All Stars: The Buena Vista / BOTW
2023-10-06 19:00 | Band On The Wall, 27 Swan St, Manchester, M4 5JZ, United Kingdom
Sambroso All Stars return to Band on the Wall to showcase one of the most iconic albums in living memory.

The 7-piece all star band promise to mesmerise the Band on the Wall crowd once again with their combination of Cuban Son, Latin Jazz and Rumba.

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CavemanM8 - Civilized Habits launch / Blah Cafe
2023-10-07 21:00 - 23:00 | Blah Cafe, Withington, Manchester, M20 3BW, United Kingdom
Read more here.

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Skinny Pelembe / Yes
2023-10-13 19:30 | YES, 38 Charles Street, Manchester, M1 7DB
Bio: Skinny Pelembe is a multi-talented wonder, born in Johannesburg and raised in Doncaster, who crafts patchworks of personal and musical touchstones, a distinctive musical style; memories and observations are weaved together, sun-dazzled folk, afro-tipped and psychedelic tangents diced with the murkier corners of the UK dance lineage.

https://skinnypelembe.ochre.store/

https://daily.bandcamp.com/features/skinny-pelembe-dreaming-is-dead-now-interview

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Corto.Alto / BOTW
2023-10-16 19:30 | Band On The Wall, 27 Swan St, Manchester, M4 5JZ, United Kingdom
corto.alto is the brain-child of award winning multi-instrumentalist, composer & producer Liam Shortall. Hailing from Glasgow, Scotland, this genre defying producer brings together influences from Hip-Hop, Broken Beat, Electronica, Dub and Punk with an informed Jazz sensibility.

His latest E.P release ‘Not for Now’ (Released November 2021) amassed over 1 million streams across digital streaming platforms, as well as receiving multiple plays from Gilles Peterson’s show on BBC Radio 2, as well as plays on BBC Radio 6, BBC Radio Scotland, Worldwide FM and more. corto.alto has also been awarded ‘Best Band’ and ‘Best Release’ in the Scottish Jazz Awards in 2020. This release also seen editorial playlist support from Spotify (State of Jazz, Jazz UK, 21st Century, Fusion Fest), Apple Music, Deezer, and magazines such as JazzWise, Disco Pogo, Snack Mag and Jazz Revelations.

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Arto Lindsay feat. Melvin Gibbs / Night & Day
2023-10-17 20:00 | Night and Day Cafe, 26 Oldham Street, Manchester, M1 1JN
Arto Lindsay, self-taught corrosive guitar scratcher, might be the closest experimental noise has to a soul man. Since the late 1970s, when he unleashed one of the world’s greatest manifestations of—in the immortal words of Lester Bangs—“horrible noise” with his experimental rock trio DNA, one of the flag-bearers of the New York City’s downtown No Wave zeitgeist — this vanguardist guitarist, singer, record producer and experimental composer has spent decades at the off-the-beaten sonic paths and colorful intersections of music creations and stage performances, including forging art-pop (a)tunes that melds koan-like poetry with the sophisticated Latin pop he grew up hearing while living in Brazil with his missionary parents. His heavy involvement, as both artist and producer, in a string of Tropicalia and Bossa records from the late 1980s onwards attest to his maverick, shape-shifting interests.

Most of Arto’s songs bask in a lovely sonic tension, where the hushed intimacy of the melodies and vocals is battered by low-end grooves that shimmy with elegance but aren’t overcrowded by the singer’s gentle warble. The King of Skronk doesn’t play actual soul jams. Rather, his trademark iconoclastic guitar style is, kinda unsexy-sexy: rhythmic, atonal, full of discordant bursts and unseemly, metallic feels. But in a career that goes back more than 40 years, with help from a changing cast of instrumentalists and songwriters at the vanguard of various styles, including by his long-time collaborator Melvin Gibbs (once called “the greatest bassist in the world” by Time Out New York magazine), the pioneer “non-musician” Arto Lindsay has put a high premium on feelings, expressing universality of love and intimacy even while he’s bucking convention.

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Sheffield: Phonetics x Def Pressé x Group Bracil - Call and Response
2023-10-21 22:00 - 2023-10-22 03:00 | Bal Fashions Sheffield, 16 Exchange St, Sheffield, S2 5TR, United Kingdom
A Hip Hop 50 special from the legendary Sheffield club night, teaming up with underground labels Def Pressé and Group Bracil.

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John Carroll Kirby / Yes
2023-10-24 19:30 | YES, 38 Charles Street, Manchester, M1 7DB
Now Wave presentsJohn Carroll Kirby, live at YES Pink RoomTuesday October 24th 2023£1818+7:30pm

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An Afternoon of DILLA / Low Four Studio
2023-10-28 13:00 - 17:00 | LOW FOUR, Manchester, M3 4EN
Vice Beats and the University of Bristol have set up a Dilla event to fundraise for the James Dewitt Yancey Foundation. Free entry, no tickets needed, over at Low Four Studio in Manchester (go up the stairs into Great Northern opposite the Hilton on Deansgate).

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Hip Hop Halloween / Freight Island
2023-10-28 20:00 | Escape To Freight Island, Manchester, M1 2PZ
Peter Parker (Fingathing), Danny Drive Thru and I team up with DJ Rasp (doing an AV set) for some Halloween hip hop fun at Freight. Free tickets.

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MNDSGN / Blues Kitchen
2023-11-08 19:00 | The Blues Kitchen, 13 Quay St, Manchester, M3 3HN, United Kingdom

DJ Yoda / The Yard
2023-11-11 21:00 | The Yard Manchester, 11 Bent St, Cheetham Hill, Manchester, M8 8NF
Yoda returns to the city with his Hip Hop 50 AV show.

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Space Cassette
2023-11-24 22:00 | Canvas, Unit 5, Building 4, Circle Square, Oxford Rd, Manchester, M60 7HB, United Kingdom

Stu Allan Festival 2023
2023-11-25 16:00 - 2023-11-26 03:00 | Bowlers, Longbridge Rd,, Trafford Park, Stretford,, M17 1SN, United Kingdom

Pete Rock & The Soul Brothers / Blues Kitchen
2023-12-03 19:00 | The Blues Kitchen, 13 Quay St, Manchester, M3 3HN, United Kingdom
The New York godfather of boom-bap, slick beats and smooth flow is in Manchester for a live show, showcasing one of the best live hip-hop outfits on the planet.

Collaborating with the likes of Wu-Tang Clan, Nas and De La Soul, Pete Rock has created iconic anthems since the 90s, fusing jazz, funk and soul with rap.

A star-studded line-up of musicians will be joining Pete Rock this time including Daru Jones, Mono Neon, Marcus Machado, Big Yuki and Jermaine Holmes. Expect the man himself to guide us through a night of unparalleled turntable skills and lyricism this December.

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Ice Cube / Cypress Hill / The Game @ Manchester Arena
2023-12-07 19:00
In need of no introduction, rap icon Ice Cube makes his long-overdue return to British and Irish shores as he unveils details of a hugely exciting tour in December. The Hip Hop OG is enlisting fellow rap legends The Game and Cypress Hill, who’ll be performing at the shows, making this one of the year’s must-see events for UK Raps fans.

Starting out at Glasgow’s SEC Hydro on 5th December, the 6-date tour is his biggest of the UK and Ireland yet, and takes in shows at the likes of 3Arena in Dublin, Manchester’s AO Arena, and the O2 Arena in London on 11th December.

Tour dates:5th December – SEC Hydro, Glasgow6th December – Resorts World Arena, Birmingham7th December – AO Arena, Manchester9th December – 3Arena, Dublin11th December – O2 Arena, London12th December – Motor Point, Nottingham

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Raye / O2 Apollo
2024-01-08 08:00 - 17:00 | O2 Apollo, Stockport Rd, Manchester, M12 6AP, United Kingdom

Reno Collective / Band On The Wall
2024-01-11 20:30 | Band On The Wall, 27 Swan St, Manchester, M4 5JZ, United Kingdom
Reno Collective is a creative platform showcasing artists from diverse backgrounds in the UK and beyond. Paying homage to the late legendary Moss Side night club ‘The Reno’ which opened in the 1970’s and became a safe haven for people from marginalised communities to come together to celebrate music and escape the racial prejudice they faced. Join us to honour soul, hip hop and R&B where the spirit of ‘The Reno’ lives on.

Performances from four local Manchester artists Ruby Jasmine, Hombody, Piqasso, DJ joe eddy.

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Jeru The Damaja / The Blues Kitchen
2024-01-12 19:00 | The Blues Kitchen, 13 Quay St, Manchester, M3 3HN, United Kingdom
Concert Hall: Jeru The Damaja [Early show]

East Coast hip-hop royalty, and Brooklyn’s finest returns. Join us as we celebrate 30 years of Jeru’s acclaimed album The Sun Rises in the East.

Jeru the Damaja aka D. Original Dirty Rotten Scoundrel brings his unique “hardcore conscious” style to our home this January to kick off 2024 in style.

Proclaimed the saviour of hip hop due to his honest and straight forward critique of the state of hip-hop music, he cemented his place in the rap world with his classic singles “Come Clean”, followed by “Ya Playin’ Yaself” and “Me or the Papes”.

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Heatwave / The Blues Kitchen
2024-01-18 19:00 | The Blues Kitchen, 13 Quay St, Manchester, M3 3HN, United Kingdom
Disco legends Heatwave take over the Blues Kitchen this January with an entire set of party anthems.

Globally known for floor-filling hits like ‘Mind Blowing Decisions’, ‘Boogie Nights’ and the all-time classic ‘Always and Forever’, Heatwave are no strangers to chart success and will be heating up the dancefloor with their sweet soul grooves this winter.

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