BEATS: GIG GUIDE

TONIGHT: Phantom Limb — Ruby Lounge; XFM’s Winter Wonderland — Academy; Status Quo — Apollo; The Oysterband — Band on the Wall; Frankmusik — Club Academy; Sunn O — Islington Mill, Salford; Sleepy Sun — Retro Bar; Broadcast — Deaf Institute; Celebrity Rockaoke — Moho Live; Under the Mistletoe — Sub 61

TOMORROW : Madball — Moho Live; Status Quo — Apollo; Gunfire 76, Bullets and Octane — Academy 3; Monster Magnet — Academy 2; Horse Feathers — Dulcimer; Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti — Deaf Institute; Silverstein — Club Academy; Ian Broudie and James Walsh — Ruby Lounge; Lightening Bolt — Islington Mill

THURSDAY: Porcupine Tree — Academy; Florence and the Machine — Apollo; Exodus — Band on the Wall; Stephen Malkmus and The Jicks — Deaf Institute; Electric Six — Club Academy; Little Boots — Academy 2; The Crave — Roadhouse; Reverend and The Makers — Moho Live

FRIDAY: Saw Doctors — Apollo; The Courteeners — Manchester Central; Hawkwind — Academy 2; The Men They Couldn’t Hang — Academy 3; Dragonforce — Academy; Skin — Club Academy; Julian Casablancas — Ritz; The Dharma — Night and Day; aA presents Richard Norris — Deaf Institute; Macka B — Band on the Wall; WHP Xmas Special — Warehouse Project; Deep Medi — K2; Kenya 46th and Tanzania 48th Independence — Club Alter Ego; Tribal Sessions — Sankeys; Courteeners Aftershow Party — Ruby Lounge; Blood and Fire present Daddy G — Band on the Wall

SATURDAY: Chew Valley Country Music: Wild Angel Trio — Greenfield Conservative Club; Manchester Zap — Islington Mill; Sonic Boom — Club Academy; The Cheaters 30th Anniversary — Band on the Wall; Versus Cancer 2009 — Arena; From the Jam — Academy; Placebo — Manchester Central; The Bluetones — Academy 2; Wayne Hussey — Academy 3; Nancy Elizabeth — St Margarets Church; Electro Height — The Lock; Guilty Pleasures — Deaf Institute; Kiddfectious meets Judgement Sundays — Warehouse Project; Bugged Out — Sankeys; Brickhouse Anthems Charity Special — Brickhouse; Festa Brazil Dancin Me Socks Off — Band on the Wall

SUNDAY: The Pogues — Apollo; Set Your Goals — Academy 3; Modest Mouse — Ritz; Your Demise — Moho Live; Bahia Beats and Boogie — Band on the Wall; The Paddingtons — Ruby Lounge

MONDAY: Only Men Aloud — Bridgewater Hall; Spiritualized — Apollo; ABBA The Show — Arena; Goldie Lookin Chain — Academy 3; Marilyn Manson — Academy; Kurt Vile and The Violators — Deaf Institute; The Raveonettes — Ruby Lounge; Dirty Sanchez Live — Moho Live