GIG GUIDE

TONIGHT: Blitz Kids and Cuba Cuba — Moho Live; Thea Gilmore — Band on the Wall; Fat Freddy’s Drop — Academy

TOMORROW: Everything Everything — Moho Live; The Tragically Hip — Academy 3; Taste of Chaos — Academy; Josh T Pearson — Ruby Lounge; Julian Plenti — Academy 2; Cass McCombs — Roadhouse; Menage a Trois — Music Box

THURSDAY: Bless the Fall — Roadhouse; Swallow the Sun — Star and Garter; Regina Spektor — Apollo; Cruxshadows — Moho Live; Buddy Whittington, Aynsley Lister — Academy 3; Jerry Bergonzi — Band on the Wall; Six Organs of Admittance — Islington Mill, Salford; Ocean Reid — Dry Bar; Deer Tick — Dulcimer; Sam Isaac, The Xcerts — Ruby Lounge; Coppellia — Dancehouse Theatre; Circus Electric — Club Academy

FRIDAY: Martin Carthy — Band on the Wall; Lightening Dust — Roadhouse; Chuck Berry — Apollo; Shed Seven, The Tides — Academy; The Doors Alive — Academy 3; Clubland Live — Arena; The Lancashire Hotpots Xmas Cracker — Club Academy; The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart — Academy 2; Coppellia — Dancehouse Theatre; Good Shoes — Ruby Lounge; Indigo — Moho Live; Cadenza Records Presents — Warehouse Project; Hacienda Classics — Sankeys; Dutch Uncles — Night and Day; Disco Down — Brickhouse; Curve — Band on the Wall

SATURDAY: Coppellia — Dancehouse Theatre; UB40 — Arena; Paul Barrere, Fred Tackett — Band on the Wall; Kaluki — Sankeys; The Vortex — Club Academy; A — Academy 3; A Foreign Town — Academy 2; Rent A Crowd Xmas Party — Ruby Lounge; Box Kid EP Launch — Hope Mill; The Caravans — Satan’s Hollow; Celebrate Originality — Warehouse Project; D3K 1st Birthday — Band on the Wall

SUNDAY: Sonic Syndicate — Roadhouse; Athlete — Ritz; Hollywood Undead — Academy; Alestorm — Moho Live; Natalie Imbruglia — Club Academy; Yeah Yeah Yeahs — Apollo; ABC — Bridgewater Hall

MONDAY: Ruiner — Satan’s Hollow; High Llamas — Band on the Wall; Har Mar Superstar — Ruby Lunge; Rodriguez — Deaf Institute; J Mascis and The Fog — Moho Live; Battles, Flying Lotus, Nice Nice — Academy 2