Wuthering Heights: A Kate Bush & Friends Discotheque

Calling all Babooshkas, Army Dreamers and Rubberband Girls! Put on your Red Shoes, saddle up the Hounds Of Love and get Running Up That Hill back to the Top Of The City (aka Aatma in Manchester) for a night dedicated to the genius of the iconic Kate Bush! And we’re counting it as a sort of “Happy Birthday Kate” party, as her birthday is on 30th July, so it’s near as dammit! • HEADS WE’RE DANCING: We’ll be doing the Jig Of Life and Moving around the dancefloor to all of Kate’s best singles, album tracks and collaborations, all interspersed with Moments Of Pleasure from complimentary artists such as Tori Amos, Fleetwood Mac, Florence + The Machine, Eurythmics & Annie Lennox, David Bowie, Bjork, Pet Shop Boys and more! • CLOUDBUSTING: We’ll be creating an authentic atmosphere for Them Heavy People through an overuse of smoke machines to accompany the free Kate face masks, Kate lyric posters and Kate capes (yes, CAPES!) that we’ll be giving away on a first come, first served basis on the night! • WOW: Dressing up is positively encouraged as we’ll be having ‘Bush-offs’ during the night, where lucky contestants will be invited onto our stage to lip-sync for their lives to selected songs from the Bush back catalogue, with prizes for the ultimate King Of The Mountain! • EAT THE MUSIC: And we’ll be playing Kate’s iconic debut single Wuthering Heights on the hour, every hour (alternating both versions)!

Token Honey | Album Launch

Token Honey | Album Launch – Manchester

+ Dakota Avenue
Moon Age

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Celebrating the release of their debut, self-titled album.

Token Honey are an indie disco band built for movement — tight grooves, shimmering guitars, and choruses that demand to be sung back at full volume. Drawing inspiration from modern disco revivalists like Parcels, Roosevelt and L’Impératrice, they fuse catchy hooks with funky grooves and playful production details that keep every track moving.

Known for high-energy live shows across the country, Token Honey have built a growing fanbase the old-fashioned way — by turning rooms into dancefloors. Whether it’s a packed venue or a festival party set, their mission is simple: make people move.

Sound Of The Crowd: Manchester’s Newest Night Of Retro Electro

For all the best New Wave, Synthpop, Italo and Hi-NRG from 1980 to now……add your voice to the Sound Of The Crowd.

If you like New Wave, Synthpop, Italo, Hi-NRG and all things Retro Electro, come to The Peer Hat where Dinsdale Godfrey and Liam Moody will be taking you through the night playing anything from ABC to ZYX.

And for our first night of 2026, we’ve gone upstairs from the Peer Hat to the bigger venue that is AATMA, and we could go on til 4AM if you all want!!

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. GET AROUND TOWN.

Flange Circus + Bjørn Felle + Cynthia’s Periscope

Analoguetrash presents…

Flange Circus bring their unique brand of hauntronica – an unnerving concoction of electronics and the phantasmagorical – back to Manchester this May. Support comes from Bjørn Felle and Cynthia’s Periscope.

 

Line-up

Flange Circus

Expect neo-kraut stompers, drones, industrialism, horror soundtracks, channelled samples, spectraltechno, megalithic slow burners, and boggart beats. Flange Circus live shows involve (analogue) electronics, haunting visuals, and often (bird) masks, seeking to both disorientate audiences and make them dance.

 Click here to listen to music from Flange Circus.

Bjørn Felle

Sitting on a branch with a Game Boy and a cup of earl grey, Bjørn Felle takes pot-shots at narcissists with an idiosyncratic electronic sound inspired by 80s synthpop and punk, 90s techno, house and indie grunge, the odd 16-bit video game soundtrack, and a healthy dose of psychedelia.

 Click here to listen to music from Bjørn Felle.

Cynthia’s Periscope

Confessional weirdo pop from Manchester, varying from melodic and tender to brutal and cathartic.

 Click here to listen to music from Cynthia’s Periscope.

£7 adv + bf

Lo Rays

Lo Rays, a Glasgow-based electro-rock band, brings their post-apocalyptic show to Manchester for the first time. Their newly released futuristic concept EP Algorithm Gods combines influences from synth-pop to metalcore. Lo Rays has been featured on BBC Radio 1, and they are fresh from playing their biggest shows to date supporting VUKOVI. Expect heavy riffs, catchy pop hooks and a theatrical high-energy performance.

Lo Rays was founded when Finnish singer and songwriter Laura moved to Scotland, following her dream to make music in the footsteps of her heroes Biffy Clyro. She met Scott Bathgate (guitar), Murray Bartle (drums) and Ryan Jones (bass) in the Scottish music scene.

For the fans of: Bad Omens, VUKOVI and Bring Me the Horizon

Doors 19.30
£9 online / £10 on the door

emzae + Factory Acts + The Junta

This show will now take place in The Peer Hat, which is on the ground floor below Aatma.
Watch emzae’s BBC Introducing Live Session, filmed in 2023: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DROdFvTNVEs
To celebrate the release of her acclaimed debut album ‘All Those Things I Thought I Knew’, singer-songwriter and producer emzae visits Manchester for her debut headline gig with support from the wonderful Factory Acts and The Junta.
A one-woman pop powerhouse, emzae’s live show balances an energy that is both intimate and laced with anecdotes, with songs that transcend the capacity of the venues she loves to call home.
Utilising live samples, looping, captivating vocals and plenty of sparkles to tell the epic story behind a project 6 years in the making and entirely written, produced, mixed and released by herself, this is not one to be missed.
“TO HAVE THIS ALBUM AT ALL IS A COMPLETE TRIUMPH, BUT FOR IT TO BE THIS EXCELLENT IS DAMN NEAR A MIRACLE” – NEW MUSIC WEEKLY
“ALWAYS EXCITING TO KNOW WHAT’S COMING NEXT FROM EMZAE” — DEAN JACKSON, BBC INTRODUCING
Even The Stars (Manchester-based music blog) – Track of the Day Feature https://www.eventhestars.co.uk/…/track-of-day-emzae-i…

Factory Acts are a Salford-based post-punk, dark-electro duo at the edge of the analogue-digital divide, sometimes dreaming, always dancing. https://open.spotify.com/artist/0YdFctSLIdN3meK55ZlvVN

THE JUNTA, otherwise known as John “Monty” Montague, is a Salford-based electronica artist with musical influences ranging from New Order and Orbital to Soulwax and Kraftwerk. He also hosts a regular show on Salform City FM.