Soup Kitchen
Eastern Bloc Records with Pangaea
Kevin Mcauley aka Pangaea makes up one third of the celebrated UK label Hessle audio, one that Eastern Bloc constantly supported in the shop and had a keen ear for since it’s inception. Tonight they bring Pangaea to the Soup Kitchen basement for a 3 hour set that promises to delve deep into his ever developing sound. With a new found love of all things techno, which was competently displayed on Fabriclive:73, they’re looking forward to hearing a fresh take on things. With his own label, Hadal, set to release No.2 in the series very soon and a gig schedule that includes Dimensions, Free Rotation and Dekmantel Festival it looks as if they’ve caught him at the right time for a nice intimate 200 person setting. Support comes from Eastern Bloc residents Means&3rd and Radley. Hope you can make it. Will be the last one for a while.
11pm – 4am / £5 earlybird / £8 adv / BUY TICKETS
Soup Kitchen / 31-33 Spear Street / Northern Quarter / Manchester / M1 1DF
Matt & Phreds
Honeyfeet
If you haven’t already seen Honeyfeet, then you’re missing out! Raucous, rowdy and brimming with talent, you’ll be stomping your feet before the first song ends! Look out for the super talented Rioghnach Connolly on vocals. That girl can sing! The band describe their music as “Songs about eating people! Dancing on graves! Infidelity!” Manchester’s finest ethio-trad, folk-hop & barrelhouse-pop exponents have the skill, charm and (frankly) tunes to pull it all together into a joyful, foot-banging sound. Honeyfeet released their debut album “It’s A Good Job I Love You” on Debt Records in November 2013, and the single and video for “Buried My Husband” followed in February 2014. Catch them at Matt & Phred’s tonight.
9.30pm – 1am / £5 / FREE entry (standing) for NQCard holder
Matt & Phreds / 64 Tib Street / Northern Quarter / Manchester / M4 1LW
Mint Lounge
Top Of The Pops ’13 with Christopher Dresden Styles (Pop Curious?) / Gus Gorman
Top Of The Pops keeps up with the Friday night tradition of providing a fantastic selection of music at Mint Lounge to kick start your weekend, with their resident DJs playing an “explosive extravaganza” of dance floor gems, long lasting classics & party starters “guaranteed to make you dance yourself ditzy”!
“From Beyonce to Blondie, to The Killers & Jackson’s Thriller with healthy measures of guilty pleasures…we love the nightlife!”
10.30pm – 3.30am / £3 / GET TICKETS / Queue jump & FREE entry for NQCard holder & a guest
Mint Lounge / 46-50 Oldham Street / Northern Quarter / Manchester / M4 1LE
The Ruby Lounge
This Feeling
The UK’s most rock ‘n’ roll night out. A well known haunt of well known faces, and where to see future next big things in advance, This Feeling descends on The Ruby Lounge with Jake Evans, Slydigs and The Relays playing live and DJ sets from This Feeling DJs.
“A colossal club night” ~ Noel Gallagher
“Like a mad 60?s carnival” ~ Sergio Pizzorno
7.30pm – 2am / £5 adv / £6 otd / BUY TICKETS
Ruby Lounge / 28-34 High Street / Northern Quarter / Manchester / M4 1QB
Band On The Wall
Matt Schofield
Manchester born Matt Schofield continues to push the frontiers and reshape the boundaries of the British Blues tradition. Guitar virtuoso, singer, songwriter, producer and band leader. Ten years into his solo career, Schofield’s impact as one of the most influential and distinctive guitarists of his generation is unquestionable. Along with his ever growing fan base from performances around the globe comes awards, industry, peer and critical acclaim: three times named British Blues Awards Guitarist of the Year 2010, 2011 & 2012 ((putting him in the British Blues Awards Hall of Fame); Mojo Magazine Blues Album of the Year 2011; British Blues Awards Album of the Year 2010; Guitar & Bass Magazine’s Top Ten British Blues Guitarist of All Time, alongside Eric Clapton and Peter Green. What remains most impressive is Schofield live. Schofield’s ability to connect with audiences immediately and profoundly is unforgettable. His authenticity, mastery of guitar, emotive vocals, and improvisational brilliance are brought to life with innovative original compositions, as beautifully captured on the live album ‘Ten From The Road’. Experience Matt’s live show tonight at Band On The Wall.
8pm – 10pm / £16 adv
Band On The Wall / 25 Swan Street / Northern Quarter / Manchester
Night & Day
The Watchmakers’ Vinyl Launch / Blossoms / Randolph Swain & The Red Lights
Manchester based ‘Neo-Psychedelic’ 4 piece The Watchmakers are to release 2 brand new songs – “Illumination” and “Carpe Diem” – on June 13th 2014. This release will be available on limited edition 7″ Vinyl and digital download on Loaded Soul Records. The night will celebrate the release and also include live psychedelic visuals and Interstellar Overdrive DJs playing songs into the early hours.There will also be copies of the Vinyl available to buy should you so wish. Also at Night & Day tonight supporting The Watchmakers will be Blossoms and Randolph Swain & The Red Lights.
8pm – 2am / £5
Night & Day Cafe / 26 Oldham Street / Northern Quarter / Manchester / M1 1JN
Kraak
Zaimph / Heather Leigh / Desmadrados Soldados De Ventura / Kelly Jones & Pascal Nichols
Zaimph is the project of US sound experimentor Marcia Bassett who, after years of brain melting guitar abuse with Double Leopards, GHQ, Hototogisu and the like, has slid the 6-string to one side to make way for a tabletop full of custom-built oscillators and pedals, with which she creates thick, harsh layers of tonal warmth. She has recently also, in recent times, collaborated with Samara Lubelski (MV&EE, Chelsea Light Moving, etc) and Yek Koo. Heather Leigh is a Texas-born pedal steel player (now resident in Glasgow where she co-runs the Volcanic Tongue record store) who treats the instrument like no other. Desmadrados Soldados De Ventura is a 9-piece free-rockin’ psychedelic swarm from Manchester and Kelly Jones & Pascal Nichols are the Manchester duo best known as Part Wild Horses Mane On Both Sides, tonight playing under their own names but nevertheless still doing that incredible thing they do. See them all at Kraak tonight.
7pm – 10.30pm / £5
Kraak / 11 Stevenson Square / Northern Quarter / Manchester / M1 1DB
Kraak
Hot Space
Manchester’s newest underground dance club and dive bar, Hot Space reopens tonight at the Northern Quarter’s Kraak. “Come, dance, meet friends, sweat“. They switch the lights off so “you can be free and free to get down to some hands-on homo clubbing“. Music comes from Hot Space DJs Thom Docking and John Hodgkiss with special guest Brett Denning and covers house, deep house, techno etc.
11pm – 4am / £5
Kraak / 11 Stevenson Square / Northern Quarter / Manchester / M1 1DB
Kosmonaut
Frontier Fridays
Frontier Fridays has an eclectic DJ roster, pioneering new sounds and legendary party classics too and apparently is now “Officially the place to welcome in the weekend“! Dance Lady Dance, Damien (Club Clique), Jon (Now Wave) and Frameworks will play on rotation. For more details and the schedule head over here.
8pm – 1am / FREE
Kosmonaut / 10 Tariff Street / Northern Quarter / Manchester / M1 2FF
Twenty Twenty Two
Boombox with David Dunne / Kid Blast
Friday night at the Twenty Twenty Two is all about Boombox! Every Friday they have David Dunne & Kid Blast on the decks bringing a night of 90′s Beats, Jams & Rhythms. Their new, dedicated Ping Pong room is open to play a bit of wiff waff all night long. Doors open at 4pm with DJs on from 9p and it’s FREE ENTRY!
4pm – 3am / FREE
2022NQ / 20-22 Dale Street / Northern Quarter / Manchester / M1 1EZ
NoHo
Friday at NoHo
The Northern Quarter’s “Hippest Boogie Den”, NoHo‘s resident DJs crank up the beats and unleash the classics onto the floor of revellers before them. From high in the DJ control deck he witnesses the shapes, the struts and the boogies as he plays out 80?s soul, funk, disco, rare groove & boogie. You will be moved and if you need to reserve an area or a table so you have your own personal spot then get in touch with the bar.
5pm – 3am / FREE
NoHo / Corner Stevenson Square & Spear Street / Northern Quarter / Manchester / M1 1FB
Dry Bar / Dry Live
Good Vibes
Friday night is changing for the better at Dry Bar as they bring us good times at Good Vibes, a mix of funk, disco, soul, indie, R’n’B, house, pop and dance. If it gets you singing and dancing then it’s getting played! Good vibes indeed!
9pm – 4am / FREE
Dry Bar / 28- 30 Oldham Street / Northern Quarter / Manchester / M1 1JN
Bay Horse Pub
Free Gig Friday
The Bay Horse Pub have decided that putting on a free gig every second Friday of every month just wasn’t enough and therefore EVERY FRIDAY should be known as “Free Gig Friday” from now on, and frankly that sounds like a fantastic idea to me. Free live music on a Friday night, unheard of! Tonight’s FGF features Midnight Suns, The God Complex and Relay D’Verb. The show starts at 9pm and did we mention that it is FREE.
8pm-1am / FREE
The Bay Horse Pub / 35-37 Thomas Street / Northern Quarter / Manchester / M4 1NA
Black Dog Ballroom
WhoSaidWhat?
Resident DJ Stuart Richards hosts WhoSaidWhat? every Friday at Black Dog NQ between 10pm and 4am. WhoSaidWhat? offers a night packed full of disco, funk and house with a few breaks along the way and even some hip hop and reggae to mix the night up a little.
9pm-4am / FREE before 11pm
Black Dog Ballroom / Corner Tib & Church Street/ Northern Quarter / Manchester, M4 1PW
Common
Pumping Iron
Moving from their usual slot on the second Saturday of the month at Common, the team at Pumping Iron bring their special blend of Nu Cosmic Italio, Vintage Avant Garde Disco and Lo Fi Rhythmic Punk Funk to the chipboard DJ booth for their new monthly Friday night spot – What more could you want on a Friday night? Maybe don’t answer that!
9pm-2am / FREE before 10pm / £2 after
Common/ 39-41 Edge Street / Northern Quarter / Manchester / M4 1HW
Odd Bar
Odd Weekends
Two floors to choose from with a DJ apiece. That’s what’s normally going on at Odd, so expect something like that tonight. Will definitely be good music, inebriating drinks of the highest order and fine company. What more could you possibly need on a Friday night?
8pm – late / FREE
Odd Bar / 30-32 Thomas Street / Northern Quarter / Manchester / M4 1ER
Trof
Melting Pot
Trof drops us into the Melting Pot for an evening of elevating sounds with smooth soul, disco, hip hop, rock ‘n’ roll, reggae and old skool just some of the genres getting in the mix. A lively set of ingredients for an even livelier night.
9pm – 3am / FREE
Trof / 8 Thomas Street / Northern Quarter / Manchester / M4 1EU
The Frog & Bucket
Barrel Of Laughs
MC Danny McLoughlin presents Michael Legge, Tom Toal & Smug Roberts for The Frog and Bucket‘s flagship Friday night show, Barrel of Laughs. The show goes on until 2am with one of the Frog’s resident DJ’s.
7pm / £16 / £8 Concessions
The Frog & Bucket / 102 Oldham Street / Northern Quarter / Manchester / M4 1LJ