Manchester Psych Fest 2026 @ Manchester Psych Fest 2026
Manchester Psych Fest, Various venues, Manchester Directions
Sat 05.09.2026 02:00
Manchester Psych Fest 2026 at Manchester Psych Fest 2026 at 2026-09-05T12:00:00+0100
Performers
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Allah LasAllah-Las are an American indie garage rock band from California. They came about in 2008, when 3 friends, Matthew Correia (percussion), Spencer Dunham (bass), and Pedrum Siadatian (lead guitar) who worked in L.A’s well known record store, Amoeba, decided to start a band together.
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Ty SegallTy Segall is a young American songwriter, a multi talented musician who is tied down to one specific genre. He explores garage rock, acoustic, and is closely related experimental progressive rock.
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Beta BandTHE BETA BAND
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Freak SlugThe name Freak Slug encapsulates Xenya Genovese’s artistic world perversely and perfectly. Her releases under the name so far - debut 2020 EP Videos and its viral hit “Radio” (15 million streams and counting), and follow-up EPs I’m In Love (2022) and Viva La Vulva (2023) - might have introduced listeners to a “more summery, happy, LA sound”, but with the advent of debut album I Blow Out Big Candles, this Slug is burrowing down into evermore unlikely places. As she accurately points out: “The name is giving more grunge than joy”.
Hugely influenced by ‘90s cult heroes including Ride, Mazzy Star and Stephen Malkmus, Freak Slug is all about hitting a mood. Everything that fuels her creative output is raw, authentic, sometimes weird, but always totally true self-expression. I Blow Out Big Candles is a strong statement of all of this and more. Down there, picking through the curious mix of sounds and feelings, from nostalgic, 90s-influenced and dreamy as well as eccentric and experimental, lives Freak Slug.
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The Mystery Lights
Secular garage rock.
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Night Tapes
An international artist from the UK.
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Model/Actriz
Dogsbody, the debut album by Brooklyn-based Model/Actriz (vocalist Cole Haden, guitarist Jack Wetmore, drummer Ruben Radlauer, and bassist Aaron Shapiro), is a coming-of-age album set between the hours of dusk and dawn. It is as much an exploration of love and loss as it is a sharp, piercing, and violent ode to the explosive joy of being alive - the overwhelming brightness of staring at the sun.
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GwennoArtist
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snugglesnuggle is a relatively new alternative duo from Copenhagen featuring Andrea Thuesen (from Baby In Vain) and Vilhelm Strange (from Liss). They are known for their, dreamy lo-fi music, a blend of 90s grunge and shoegaze with eclectic 00s pop, weaving together ethereal guitar melodies and breathy vocals into a fuzzy sonic blanket. Debut album Goodbyehouse, out September 2025 on the Escho label, explores the bittersweet period between youth and adulthood.
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Sex MaskVague pop instilled with the ancient genius of your own blood. Sex Mask holds the many trigger words your CIA handler doesn’t want you to know. We have several testimonials from fans attesting to semi-mystical experiences, some claim it to be Deja vu from a genetic memory long dormant and locked, Others speak of foreshadowed flashes of a past life they are yet to have lived. All of this, incited after only seconds of exposure to any of our available songs.
is Sex Mask just another egregious attempt from delusional solipsists at being heard while saying close to nothing? Yes. But we make it look good. Part Taoist riddle, part lone gun-mans manifesto. We are also a post punk/alt rock band from Melbourne.
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Silver GoreSelling out shows before they’d even released any songs, London alt-rockers Silver Gore are only a couple of years into their life as a band but already making serious waves in the live music scene. The duo — drummer Ava Gore and Yorkshire musician Ethan P Flynn — have shared stages with Geordie Greep and Martha Skye Murphy, and while their online presence remains enigmatic, you’ll have to catch them playing live to see what all the fuss is about.
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Water Machine
Flooding out of Glasgow, Scotland in 2022, Water Machine quickly gained a reputation for their weird and wonky art-punk, winning hearts with sing-along songs about dogs, struggling artists and the housing crisis. The world of Water Machine is a swirling eddy of melodic bass lines and volatile guitar sliding between jazz chords and punk riffs, all the while dancing harmonies sing sardonic social commentary and silly stories. A band with pop sensibilities and indignant punk urgency, Water Machine is a band for fans of great music. xx
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LEMONSUCKR
Shabby suited Lemonsuckr, an electronic alt-punk band from South East. Chaotic and energetic, a real shakedown onstage.
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White Denimhttps://smarturl.it/white-denim
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Angine de Poitrinehttps://youtu.be/2lUC8Gimxz8
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The Belair Lip Bombs
Indie rock from Frankston, Melbourne, Australia
MGMT: dan@radmusicmgmt.com
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Sword IINo description provided for artist.
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AutomaticAutomatic is Izzy Glaudini (synth, vocals), Lola Dompé (drums, vocals) and Halle Saxon Gaines (bass). Their music rides the imaginary edge where the ‘70s underground met the corporate culture of the ‘80s; or, as the band puts it, “That fleeting moment when what was once cool quickly turned and became mainstream all for the sake of consumerism.” The band first met while immersed in L.A.’s DIY music scene and started jamming together in 2017. Once they started playing shows, word quickly spread about their explosive live shows and they became a mainstay on the L.A. club circuit. After their debut album Signal was released on Stones Throw Records in 2019, they began touring internationally and have not looked back. Their follow up LP “Excess” was released in 2022 and since then they have supported: Bauhaus, Tame Impala, Parquet Courts, and toured all over the world including Australia, EU / UK , etc.
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M.A.N.D.Y.
Berlin-based label founder of "Get Physical Music" & "Kindisch" (2002), DJ and producer and party thrower since the mid 90s.
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Indiana
Indiana (born July 28, 1987) is the stage and recording name of soul-infused electronica singer-songwriter Lauren Henson, who rose to prominence in 2014 for her hit single “Solo Dancing”, hailing from Loughborough, UK.
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Spiral Drive
Booking requests:
booking@spiraldrivemusic.com
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NightbusNightbus are a brooding, cinematic two-piece blending post-punk, trip-hop, and late-night electronica into something dark, hypnotic and unmistakably their own. Formed in Manchester, UK, in 2023, their music captures the anxious beauty of city life after hours, and is bass-heavy and emotionally raw. With haunting vocals, reverb-soaked guitars, and minimalist beats, they echo the ghosts of The Knife, Portishead, early Cure, Chromatics and The xx, while carving out their own space. Nightbus released their debut album Passenger in October 2025.
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PrewnIzzy Hagerup has been kicking around the songs that make up Prewn’s debut album for the better part of a decade. It wasn’t until the pandemic hit however that she really had the seclusion needed to complete them. With a chance opportunity to write and record at Kevin McMahon’s (Swans, The Walkmen, Pile) Marcata Studio during lock-downs, she was able to focus without distraction, bringing her ideas to life. As a member of McMahon’s Pelican Movement collective the two already had a positive working relationship, and this was a chance for Hagerup to temporarily remove herself from daily life in Northampton to create without distraction at a difficult time. She’d spend the day writing, working to weave ideas into solid threads, watching the pieces come into place during productive uninterrupted sessions. She describes the immersive time spent in the studio as “life changing,” in large part due to the pure isolation where “creating was the focus and I could really be alone, leading me to find myself more prolific than I ever thought I could be.” The results are staggeringly beautiful and triumphantly visceral. Speaking about the process, Hagerup shared, “these were some of the most rewarding, exciting days in my musical life. I learned that so much of writing a song is just pushing through all the mental blocks and fears and judgements that get in the way.”
Those sessions along with some home-recorded additions (later mixed and mastered by McMahon) came to be Through The Window, Prewn’s debut album, performed entirely by Izzy Hagerup, bringing her songs to life with a distinctive touch. Due out August 25th via Exploding In Sound Records (Pile, Ovlov, Floatie), there’s an immediacy and earnest nature to the solo recordings, at its core it’s an outpouring of unfiltered ideas and emotions. Captured with brilliantly engaging vocal performances, structures that unfold piece by piece, and a sense of unnerving fragility paired with a reckless resolve, the control in Hagerup’s delivery and compositions are astounding.
There’s a heaviness to the writing of Through The Window, built on a disposition that could often be described as bleak, but Hagerup isn’t crippled by the weight, She’s reflecting, exploring emotions from varying perspectives. Lead single “But I Want More” explores her dad’s battle with Parkinson’s disease, something he’s struggled with her entire life, and the increased seclusion from his family resulting from the pandemic. As motor functions come and go with the ailment, the reality of it became increasingly hard to stomach for Hagerup, but there’s a sincerity in her reflections.“To witness his entrapment by his own body on top of such severe isolation during covid,” Hagerup shared, “was just enough to turn a highly detached gal into one with real feeling, enough feeling to even write a song that I really, really mean.”
While the recordings have sat semi-completed, Prewn has grown to become one of Western Massachusetts’ most in-demand bands, the line-up expanding to include Mia Huggs (bass), Calvin Parent (guitar), Karl Helander (drums). With full band recordings set to come in the future, Through The Window is an intimate introduction to the project, capturing a place and time, the songs urgently needing to find their way out. The attention to detail throughout the album is obvious, these are thoughtful songs, nuanced in construction, from the raw and pinched guitars to the stability (and lack of stability) in the rhythms. There’s a sense of warbling character in the music, Prewn’s songs are standing firm but on shaky legs. That’s the magic inherent in Hagerup’s writing, she’s steadfast and holding on, but she’s not immune to slipping in stormy weather.
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GANSGANS is a 2 piece from Birmingham, England.
GANS write music about love and hate.
GANS was born in late 2023 over a shared love of noise, literature and late night shebeens. -
The Dharma ChainThe Dharma Chain are an Australian-formed, Berlin-based independent band blending psychedelic textures, shoegaze, rock, and kraut-driven momentum with poetic lyricism and raw live energy. They’ve built a reputation for emotionally charged performances that feel expansive and immersive.
With no fixed front person, the band moves fluidly between roles. Mixed vocals, hip-hop drum beats, reverb-soaked guitars, and industrial undercurrents collide to create a powerful wall of sound that is dynamic, unpredictable and deeply human.
Their debut album NOWHERE continues to gather momentum, while their second full-length record 'Some Kind Of Pure State', arriving Spring 2026, marks a bold expansion in impact and atmosphere. Festival appearances include Fuzz Club and DesertFest Berlin (2026), with recent highlights at Fusion Festival (2024), Synästhesie (2025) and VOID (2025).
At SXSW, The Dharma Chain bring a live show that’s raw, hypnotic and built to pull you in.
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Alex Amen
US-based music group.
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Girl GroupOn the one hand, breaking the dominance of patriarchal structures in the world of music, while on the other understanding one’s own position within this system in order to be able to change it: Girl Group embody the best conceivable renewal of the concept that gives them their name. The five-strong group from Liverpool capture the current zeitgeist of the streaming era with songs such as ‘Life Is Dumb’ (2023) and “Yay! Saturday!” (2025). At the same time, Girl Group express themselves freely about the supposed musts of the social media world and delivers sharp-witted, often uncomfortable commentaries on the current state of our Western societies. The debut EP ‘Think They're Looking, Let's Perform’ (2025) is an example of subversive songwriting that manages to convey empowerment in every melody and rhythmic variance. A venture that we can definitely expect great things from in the future.