BEATS GIG GUIDE

POSH rockers Coldplay will play a series of stadium shows next year including a September date in Manchester.

The lads will take on Lancashire County Cricket Club on September 12 with support from US rapper Jay-Z.

The band’s sellout UK tour, which started in Sheffield last month, will hit the Manchester Arena on Thursday and Friday. Visit www.coldplay.com for more info.


WELSH wonders the Stereophonics will be bringing their greatest hits Manchester on Wednesday when they stop off at the Arena.

Buy your tickets online at www.gigsandtours.com or call 0871 2200 260. Visit www.stereophonics.com

TONIGHT: Slipknot — Arena; The Almighty — Academy 3; Iglu and Hartly — Club Academy; Cafe La Belle — 235; Heavens Basement — Music Box; Findlay Brown — Ruby Lounge; The All New Adventures of Us — Night and Day; Robin Williamson — Dulcimer

TOMORROW: The Human League, ABC, Heaven 17 — Apollo; The Hold Steady — Academy; Stereophonics — Arena; Sonic Boom Six — Academy 3; The Bluetones — Academy 2; The Indelicates — Ruby Lounge; Nightmares on Wax Soundsystem — Moho Live; Vivian Girls — Deaf Institute; The House That Dub Built — Roadhouse

THURSDAY: Twisted Wheel — Ritz; Coldplay — Arena; Edgar Jones and Free Peace — Academy 3; Tyla — Music Box; Duncan Lloyd — Night and Day; Gideon Conn and Friends — Deaf Institute; Taste — Lounge 31; Naughty or Nice — Ampersand; My Name is Hero — Castle, Oldham

FRIDAY: Hawkwind — Academy 2; Coldplay — Arena; Alabama 3, Jerzey Street Band — Academy; Primal Scream — Apollo; Gone Til Winter — Club Academy; Indigo — Moho Live; Squarepusher — Warehouse Project; Illuminaughty — Ritz; Oh My God — Music Box; Hotmilk — Saki; Bugged Out — Sankeys; Two Skies, The Paris Riots — Castle

SATURDAY: I Like Trains — Ruby Lounge; Jason Donavan — Apollo; Amplifier — Academy 3; Dashboard Confessional — Academy; The Pogues — Arena; Herman Dune — Deaf Institute; Walton Hesse — Club Academy; Keith — Green Windmill; Friends of Mine — Joshua Brooks; Chemical Brothers — Warehouse Project; Re-Birth — The Zoo; Whatever the Weather Meets Bass Camp — Music Box; Guilty Pleasures — Deaf Institute; Sankeys Connected — Spektrum; Backhanded Compliment, Dyson, Liam 1987 — Castle

SUNDAY: Argy Bargy — Star and Garter; Joan As Policewoman — Academy 2; D12, Obie Trice, Royce 5’9’’ — Academy; Tracy Chapman — Apollo; Cafe La Belle — 235

MONDAY: The Ghost of a Thousand — Satan’s Hollow; The Black Angels — Ruby Lounge