SPREAD YOU LOVE PRESENTS... EAT GIRLS + MATERIAL GOODS
May
7

SPREAD YOU LOVE PRESENTS... EAT GIRLS + MATERIAL GOODS

eat-girls (France) + Material Goods

Just announced to play Left of the Dial 2025 (along with Spread your love alumni YAANG) - eat-girls takes you on an otherworldly journey though pop, post-punk, minimal synth, kraut and dub that bring to life their obsessions of the abstract. 
Their debut album 'Area Silenzio' was released on November 8, 2024, on the german label Bureau B. The buzzing, minimalist synth gem "Para los Pies Cansados" is filled with gleeful group harmonies, while "Trauschaft" is both furious and funky, with urgent beats and a killer bassline. Eat-Girls seem curiously spaced out, but they've clearly honed their particular style of disconnection, and the highlights of their debut are riveting.

With support from Material Goods + Fat Concubine

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PICKY NEW PROMOTIONS PRESENT... BIG OTHER + GUESTS
May
10

PICKY NEW PROMOTIONS PRESENT... BIG OTHER + GUESTS

PICKY NEW PROMOTIONS PRESENT… BIG OTHER + LUNCH + SNOUTING + CARPET

Picky New Promotions are proud to present Manchester's BIG OTHER for their EP release show. Big Other are a new indie band making brash, off-kilter alt-rock inspired by the Pixies, Veruca Salt, Sonic Youth, and Elastica. Their second single Desire in the Other has just come out on Alphaville Records, and their first EP will be released this spring.

Support comes two emerging postpunk bands: London's LUNCH and Manchester's own SNOUTING, plus Leeds-based slow-fi songwriter CARPET.

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ODESSEY SESSIONS X THUMP - IV
May
12

ODESSEY SESSIONS X THUMP - IV

ODESSEY SESSION X THUMP - IV

"Odyssey Sessions x THUMP 4" at The Rat & Pigeon, featuring Jazz, Funk, and Soul, as well as Spoken Word throughout!

Manchester, UK – Monday, May 5th, 2025 – Clampdown Promotions is excited to present a unique fusion of live music and spoken word. This 8th edition of "Odyssey Sessions" will feature an incredible lineup of artists alongside talented poets, hosted by Jude Sides from THUMP! An unforgettable evening of artistry in the heart of Manchester’s Northern Quarter. The event will run from 7:00 PM to 11 PM; as always the first 30 online tickets are free, and general entry tickets are just £4!

Live sets:

  • Elin Grace

  • Mechanical Suns

  • Linnea May

Poets:

  • TBC

  • TBC

  • Jude Sides Poet - Founder of THUMP. Angry, young poet who passionately rants about Manchester, himself and on very rare occasions, anything else.

Guests can expect an inviting atmosphere with candlelit seating and standing areas, perfect for enjoying the jazzy vibe. The venue also offers an upstairs bar, an outdoor smoking terrace, and a separate seated room, all on the same floor. 

For more information and updates, follow @clampdownpromotion on Instagram.

Contact: 

  •  Bookings & Business Enquiries: clampdownpromotion@gmail.com

CLAMPDOWN.

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MANCHESTER FOLK PRESENT... SIMEON HAMMOND DALLAS + GUESTS
May
14

MANCHESTER FOLK PRESENT... SIMEON HAMMOND DALLAS + GUESTS

MANCHESTER FOLK PRESENT... SIMEON HAMMOND DALLAS + GUESTS

Simeon Hammond Dallas was born and raised in the rich musical and cultural melting pot of Camden Town. Growing up listening to her parent’s eclectic record collection that spanned artists from The Cranberries to Ella Fitzgerald, her music traverses genres and is described by Holler Country as “a no-f***’s-given distinctly millennial take on Americana and blues, that sounds like Bonnie Raitt would have if her songs had been written by Alanis Morissette”.Through a catalogue filled with intersectional storytelling, Simeon Hammond Dallas gives voice to a generation wrangling with the complexities of modern life.

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SPREAD YOUR LOVE PRESESNTS... SERVO + THE CUTTER + SLOWHANDCLAP
May
15

SPREAD YOUR LOVE PRESESNTS... SERVO + THE CUTTER + SLOWHANDCLAP

SERVO (France) + The Cutter + Slowhandclap

"Dealing in the kind of dark, post-punk noise-rock that storms with ease between gloomy, hypnotic moments and bouts of powerful, motorik noise, SERVO’s sound finds an unstable home between heavy, droning psych-rock and gothic post-punk; forlorn, jangling guitars and deep, austere vocals breaking down into piercing blasts of feedback and distortion.

The band have spent the last few years bringing their intense live show – an assault of trance-inducing noise and blinding flashes of light – to growing audiences around mainland Europe and the UK.

The new album ‘Monsters’ came out in early 2024 with accompanying live show constructed to be powerful and immersive. Each track is blessed by brutality and heaviness. The place left after the storm can be filled with details and complexity, as predictable as unexpected. The audience is captured, hypnotized and no one can escape"

Class in tow with THE CUTTER and SLOWHANDCLAP on support duties.

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ECHO CHAMBER PRESENTS… BLOODY/BATH
May
17

ECHO CHAMBER PRESENTS… BLOODY/BATH

ECHO CHAMBER PRESENTS… BLOODY/BATH

Five-piece band, bloody/bath, was founed by singer-songwriter Kailan Price and are slowly becoming a cult favourite. Transitioning from their early days as lo-fi indie rockers, bloody/bath released their debut EP All Love Unfelt in 2023 which showed the band transitioning into a meancing, post-punk outfit.

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GREY LANTERN PRESENTS… PATIO + GUESTS
May
29

GREY LANTERN PRESENTS… PATIO + GUESTS

New York’s Patio formed when non-musician Loren DiBlasi met actual musician Lindsey-Paige McCloy, and a joke about outdoor day drinking turned into a real-life band. The duo was soon joined by Alice Suh, a college friend of McCloy's who had recently started learning drums. Instantly, the trio developed a signature sound of sparse, melodic post-punk, signing with Fire Talk Records and releasing acclaimed debut Essentials in 2019.

On latest album Collection, new sonic influences like disco and 2000s NYC indie evoke freedom and euphoric joy — maintaining the band’s signature minimalism, but with newfound confidence and control. Produced by Nate Amos (Water from Your Eyes, This Is Lorelei), Collection was named one of the best indie rock albums of 2023 by Rolling Stone.

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CLAMPDOWN PRESENTS... FRUIT, BATHING SUITS + INTERAIL
Jun
12

CLAMPDOWN PRESENTS... FRUIT, BATHING SUITS + INTERAIL

CLAMPDOWN PRESENTS… FRUIT, BATHING SUITS + INTERAIL

CLAMPDOWN PROMOTION PRESENTS:

FRUIT + SUPPORT, AT THE RAT & PIGEON, MCR

Having built a reputation for their unique, experimental and evocative writing style, Fruit have played packed out shows across northwest, Sheffield, Leicester, at Brixton’s iconic Windmill and Supersonic in Paris. Making a sound which brings a blend of dissonance, noise, and poetic lyricism, the band capture a sound which has been described “like a morose and angry John Cooper Clarke fronting Mogwai”

Support on the night will be from 'BATHING SUITS' and 'INTERRAIL'

THURSDAY JUNE 12TH 2025

  • Location: 33 Back Piccadilly, Manchester, M1 1HP

  • Age: 18+ 

  • Doors: 19.30 PM

  • Last Entry: N/A 

  • Curfew: 23.00 PM

TICKETS

  • Students: £5

  • General Sale: £8

  • Door Price: £8

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DUTCH MUSTARD + BABY UNIVERSE
Sept
5

DUTCH MUSTARD + BABY UNIVERSE

DUTCH MUSTARD + BABY UNIVERSE

Netherlands-born London-based Dutch Mustard marries a blend of ethereal dream-pop and 90s alt-rock with timeless shoegaze touches. The overall soundscape layers abstract drones and washes with bouncing psych-infused guitar lines, whilst SJ’s vocals drift between a borderline whisper and heaven-directed lung-bursts.

In 2022 she released her debut EP An Interpretation of Depersonalisation, which was quickly featured by the BBC, getting airplay on Radio 1’s Future Artists with Jack Saunders and being selected by none other than rock's enduring sage Iggy Pop. This was followed by the Beauty EP in 2023, which saw similar acclaim - notably with multiple spins from Lauren Laverne on 6 Music, as well as backing from Don Letts and Amy Lamé.

Press wise The Independent, The Line of Best Fit, CLASH, DORK and Notion have supported in the UK - and perhaps most tellingly she was picked out by The Grammy Awards Site as one of ‘6 Female Fronted Acts Reviving Rock’ alongside Wet Leg, and others.

        

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RAT RACE COMEDY NIGHT
May
1

RAT RACE COMEDY NIGHT

Rat Race Comedy

Welcome to the inaugural Rat Race Comedy show: Your monthly fix of the most weird and wonderful comedy in Manchester - with your host, winner of Chortles best compare award 2025: PHIL ELLIS! (As seen on Drunk History and Roast Battle UK)

Phil will be joined by a selection of the finest comedic talents on the scene.

This month’s line-up includes Tabish Akbar (Beat the Frog 2024 finalist), Jessie Perillo (Women In comedy Festival 2024 super star), Molly McGuinness (tour support for Joe Lycett & Sophie Duker) and Ben Silver (Hot Water comedy clubs’ comedian of the year 2023).

So join us at The Rat & Pigeon for four amazing acts, outrageous drinks deals and a whole lot of laughs
Show starts at 8pm

We'll see you there!

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SPREAD YOUR LOVE PRESENTS... CALLIS + RUDE FILMS
Apr
30

SPREAD YOUR LOVE PRESENTS... CALLIS + RUDE FILMS

CALLIS x RUDE FILMS - DBL HEADLINER - FIRST 40 FREE

CALLIS x RUDE FILMS - DOUBLE HEADLINER

Spread Your Love is back with another FREE 40 and double headliner with Callis and Rude Films.

CALLIS are going “from Todmorden to the moon” according to The Strokes producer Gordon Raphael - for now it’s a welcome stop-off at Back Piccadilly as we coax them from the Calder Valley to SYL at The Rat & Pigeon. Rhythmically heavy with impassioned vocals - it’s easy to draw comparisons to the post-punk pioneers Joy Division.

Following multiple dates supporting IST IST, manc alt-rock band RUDE FILMS recently played to a sold out crowd at The Castle promoting their debut self-titled debut album release. Ethereal, chaotic or somewhere in between - it’s reverberating shoegazey post-rock at its best.

First 40 tickets are FREE for the fastest fingers. Wild.

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