Tempo Magazine Presents… Summer Sessions, Volume 1.
Tempo Magazine is launching an exciting new live music series titled Summer Sessions, a run of monthly shows dedicated to showcasing emerging and established talent. This first installment, Volume One, sets the tone with a strong focus on Northern and up-and-coming musicians.
Line-up:
Big Phoenix Sword
Dulakes
Baench
Scruff of the Neck presents
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Friday 29 May 2026 | Aatma, Manchester
With support from Morton Betts
18+ | £12 Adv | Doors 19:30
Eagle & Salmon presents
benchris 7 45 pm Performing 6 songs and 1 Elliott Smith cover for reference. Expect acoustic guitar with potent rhythmic movement and strong vocals melodies
Diffuse 8:20 pm
Plover 9:05 pm A six-piece formed from the corners of South Manchester, Plover lean heavily into the shoegaze and art rock sounds. A band that will have your attention from the first to the last.
New Issue 9:50 pm A Manchester-based four-piece indie/alternative band with a sharp sound and a love for loud stages. Fusing jangly guitars, driving basslines and punchy drums, they’re building a reputation for energetic live shows across the city’s venues.
£5 adv ticket or £6 on the door.
Join No Shadow Like Shade to help raise awareness for Breast Cancer, all proceeds made from the ticket sales and merchandise will go to Breast Cancer UK. With a great line up soon to be released, you will get to listen to a variety of music from rock to heavy metal with local bands!
Little Punk Records Presents… International Women’s Day 2026 at AATMA Manchester!(1st Floor Stevenson Place, 5 Little Lever St, M1 1BE)
With an amazing lineup to scream your lungs out with:
Ancient Good Stuff (Presenting their new single “Queen of the migrant working class”)
Woke Nonsense
Dierotica
The Dirty Looks
TICKETS £8 ADV (8.80) £10 ON THE DOOR
After Extensive tours at home Finnish Alt Metal outfit Stoned Statues come to the UK for a debut tour to headline an all dayer at Aatma in Manchester
Support comes from
Tales of Time
Square Wild
Heroes Of The Gauntlet
Crescent Halo
Sigils
More bands TBA
Eagle & Salmon presents:
8pm LILFVX is a solo artist based in a small town near Manchester. Made from her bedroom, her music consists of alternative rock, grunge rock and an experimental type of alt rock and drum and bass. Main inspiration is artists such as Lil Peep, Deftones and Wisp!
8:40pm Charlie Potatoes
9:20pm Someone’s Something A product of their various upbringings, Someone’s Something challenges the current state of rock music with passionate compositions with a European twist. Although singing about religion, substance abuse and forbidden relationships can be challenging; the band channels years of musical experience to bring these topics to life in gritty and heartbreaking ways.
£6 advance ticket, or £7 on the door.
ACHTUNG! ACHTUNG! THE INFINITE TOUR IS UPON US!
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FOUR EVENINGS OF SINISTER CLOWN FUN ACROSS THE COUNTRY SO THE WHOLE NATION (up to and including Manchester, Leeds, Newcastle, and Hitchin) CAN GET THEIR CIRCUS FREAK ON
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TICKETS £6 + bf
Eagle & Salmon presents:
Vaudevilles 8:20 pm Vaudevilles are a three-piece Garage Rock ‘n’ Roll band based in Manchester. Tearing through live shows with the energy of “a greyhound on meth”, the band play songs that combine infectious melodies with a strong dose of ripping riffs.
The Alicias 9 pm Hailing from Greater Manchester, The Alicias are a band with big riffs, big presence and an even bigger God complex. Mixing searing guitar licks with huge drums and a heady pop sheen, they create a sound that’s great in your ears, whether listening to the record or at a live show. Your new favourite band are just waiting to be discovered. But while you wait for them, why not listen to The Alicias?
Concrete Swan Dive 9 40 pm Concrete Swan Dive are a band that defies description. They are a 7 piece Manchester based band, annually writing and recording new albums in a single 24 hour marathon session. Their music is a sonic hodge podge that could only come from sleep deprivation.
£5 adv, £6 on the door.