Glamourous, glittery, flamboyant, feathery, ostentatious and Rock 'n' Roll, H.O.G. plays only the best music from the 70s and beyond every last Saturday of the month: Glam / Punk / Art Rock / New Wave / Post Punk

Nominated for Emerging Artist of the Year at the 2025 UK Blues Awards After packing out venues across the country, one of the UK's most distinctive emerging blues acts comes to The Peer Hat for an intimate headline show. Raw, loud, and real as you can get. Expect the full force of our self-built instruments and foot-stomping beats. Built from scratch, played with abandon. Expect dark riffs, deep rhythms, and the immersive live energy weve become known for. Right up close. Zero polish. It's incredible They blew me away Poppyland Radio Infuriatingly talented inventive, organic, and great fun Devil's Gate Music

Sanguis Mortem take their brand new debut album, Merry Doomsday to Manchester! Witness absolute, full-blown sonic attack, joined by Special Guest Co-headliners: Ogun, as well as support from the immense: Leader + Killed In Action.

Border Live Agency is proud to present the debut tour of Headwired, a fast-rising four-piece indie rock band from the Black Country, turning heads across the UK with their anthemic hooks, gritty riffs and sing-along choruses. Since forming in 2023, they've built serious momentum by releasing six singles, with fan-favourite Carousel racking up over 120,000 streams, while latest track Head In The Clouds is quickly becoming a live staple. Built on relentless graft, the band have taken their music nationwide, playing shows up and down the country, selling out multiple headline gigs and growing a loyal, ever-expanding fanbase along the way. Their rapid rise on TikTok has only added fuel to the fire, with thousands of new fans discovering the band and calling for shows in their cities. Now, Headwired hit the road for their debut UK headline tour this October/November - bringing the energy, noise and atmosphere that's been winning over crowds everywhere they go.

Champion Trees and Kaspar Hauser embark on a joint UK tour this August. For their Manchester date the'll be joined by Troutflies! Champion Trees is a band from Cape Town, South Africa, that recently moved to the UK and released their second album, A Duck's Water Off My Back - a gentle and immersive record graced with memorable lyrics and gorgeous woodwind and string arrangements. Kaspar Hauser is a south London indie folk, chamber pop and experimental band formed in 2022. Their recent album The Pink Parade features 56 minutes of richly arranged story telling songs, often tackling themes of emotions, mental health, love and nature. Presented by Falling Moon. This is an 18+ event

Join a selection of original and unusual comedians and performers for SWAMP EGGS COMEDY! Expect the unexpected including but not limited to clown, stand up, music, characters and mayhem! All hosted by the mirthiest man in Manchester, Curtis Clement. It's free entry with a full bar, so what have you got to lose! Swamp Eggs Comedy - it's odd but you'll love it.

Calvin Love is a Canadian singer-songwriter whose music lingers in the shadows of nostalgia and noir. With a signature croon and a sound that fuses psych-folk, cinematic longing, and romanticism, he’s built a world both vintage and strangely timeless. The press has called his work “a crestfallen soundtrack of near-escape... like Chris Isaak trapped in a David Lynch film.” An artist of quiet intensity and prolific output, Love has carved a singular space on the fringes of indie music - shaped by introspection, lyrical depth, and a restless DIY spirit. Influenced by the pulse of rock ’n’ roll and the bruised glamour of 1980s balladeers, he’s crafted a sonic universe entirely his own. Known for live shows that blur the line between concert and dream sequence, Love approaches each song like a method actor - dissolving the boundary between persona and performance with slow-burning precision. Whether standing alone with a 12-string guitar or fronting a seven-piece ensemble, his performances radiate a magnetic stillness: immersive, nuanced, and emotionally resonant. With multiple albums and international tours behind him, Calvin Love has spent the last decade quietly shaping one of the most distinct and haunting voices on the outer edges of indie music.

Welsh indie-roots band Rusty Shackle have been tearing up stages including Cambridge Folk Festival since 2010. Brandishing their distinct folk-roots sound and armed with an electrifying mix of rampant fiddle, scorching electric guitars, pounding drums, searing trumpet and banjo, the band have built up a devoted fanbase with their captivating live shows. Constantly evolving their sound, the band have released three albums over the last few years, each reaching the top 3 in the iTunes 'Alternative Folk/Singer Songwriter' charts. The songs are steeped in honest emotion and story telling and are born from the fires of Bruce Springsteen, Seth Lakeman, infused with the raw energy of Jack White and creativity of Tom Waits and mix it with everything in between. Their new album DUSK takes their music into brave new areas, introducing an edginess and immediacy to their melody-driven folk credentials. DUSK trawls through the darker stations of the world whilst never forgetting to take in the lighter stops on the line.

UTB Manchester and Anarchistic Undertones proudly present... Dan Goatham (Snuff / Spoilers) Dan Goatham is the Bassist for the legendary UK punk band Snuff & Lead Singer/Guitarist for Spoilers. Hitting the road for a full solo acoustic UK tour! After a summer of one off Spoilers shows around the UK.. Dan is getting set to release a brand new full band album with his new project Wincheap. with Snuff planning a return for 2027. And just a couple of weeks before he goes to Europe for a month filling in for Spike And The Gimme Gimmes there was just about enough time to fit in a round of acoustic shows. Old songs, New Songs and a bit of a knees up! Support TBC.

Like Pop Rocks hitting the tongue, New York’s Tchotchke is classic candy-coated rock’n’roll. Sweet on the outside but filled with surprises once properly ingested, the three-piece have been winning over audiences with their Rundgren-tinged sound and masterful harmonies since 2021. Anastasia Sanchez (vocals, drums) and Eva Chambers (bass, keys, vocals) met in the mirror of an L.A. highschool locker room in 2014-they were both fixing their bangs. A deep musical friendship was quickly formed, forged on a shared love of everything from vintage dolls to the Beach Boys, and resulting in a handful of bands together. Several years passed before fellow L.A. musician Emily Tooraen (guitar, vocals) entered Anastasia and Eva’s orbit and everything finally clicked. Tchotchke was born. A move to the East Coast followed, and the band started working on their first album, produced by power-pop wunderkinds the Lemon Twigs in their Long Island childhood home. Tchotchke (2022) was a full-tilt rock'n'roll gem of catchy guitar riffs, powerpop piano lines and hook-heavy vocals. Tours with King Tuff, Broncho, The Gossip and The Makeup followed, and the band found themselves crossing the U.S. and Europe throughout 2023 and 2024. Presented by JOY.. This is an 18+ event

Live folk music at the Peer Hat! Expect guitar pedals, radio static and good old fashioned traditional tunes.

「flashback stonehenge」完全版 ‘Flashback Stonehenge’ is the bands first studio album as a four piece, with live guest Kohei Katsuma now joining as a full time member on percussion/congas (an absolute must see live) alongside Changchang (Guitar/Vocal), Tetsuji Toyoda (Bass/Vocal) and Aoi Hama (Drums/Vocals). Like the bands previous three albums, this one continues with the three shorter songs on side one, and one epic long song filling out side two mantra that has served them so well thus far. Opening track ‘Snow Sniffing Matador’ is already a firm live favourite, with it’s heavy riffage and 70’s rock swagger. Things then cool down with a more laid back ‘In Heaven’, featuring Aoi Hama’s dreamlike vocal whispers, and a fuzzed out take on traditional English folk song ‘The Cuckoo’ with Changchang & Aoi trading verses. Flip it over, and you have the epic title track, which sees the band take a slightly different approach recalling the likes of Steve Reich, Terry Riley, Faust, CAN, Eno etc over it’s extraordinary 22 minutes. Presented by The Beauty Witch. This is an 18+ event

For those that like New Wave, Synthpop, Italo, Hi-NRG and all things Retro Electro. Dinsdale Godfrey and Liam Moody will be taking you through the night playing anything from ABC to ZYX. Expect to hear the likes of ABC / A Flock Of Seagulls / Alexander Robotnick / Bobby Orlando / Bronski Beat / Cabaret Voltaire / Cerrone / Chromatics / Daft Punk / Dead Or Alive / Depeche Mode / Desire / Divine / Duran Duran / Erasure / Eurythmics / Fad Gadget / The Faint / Fischerspooner / Frankie Goes To Hollywood / Frankie Knuckles / Gary Numan / Giorgio Moroder / Glass Candy / Grace Jones / Hazell Dean / Heaven 17 / Hot Chip / Human League / Japan / Kavinsky / Ken Laszlo / Kim Wilde / The KLF / Kraftwerk / Ladytron / Laura Branigan / LCD Soundsystem / Male Tears / Miss Kittin & The Hacker / New Order / Nuovo Testamento / Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark / Patrick Cowley / Pet Shop Boys / The Rapture / S'Express / Sally Shapiro / Section 25 / Shannon / Simple Minds / Soft Cell / Spandau Ballet / Sparks / Sylvester / Telex / Todd Terje / Vicious Pink / Visage / Yazoo / !!! and more Get around town.

NORizz are back in the Northern Quarter of Manchester, this time at the Peer hat. Bringing back a long awaited party; mixing North-East and North-West antics right in Manchester City Centre.