Our brand new band gigs “Toasted” with Intervene, The Sprats, and The Distance! 🥪

may be a little bit of a late post but man we are so hyped to be able to announce the first of our BAND GIGS down at the Grafton Arms! 👊

“Toasted” is our brand new monthly band night where we’ll be bringing you some of Manchester’s best in indie, rock and alternative, plus delving out a bit further to give bands across the North a chance to get heard here in the rainy city! ☔️

for our first one we’ve got a proper stellar lineup, with alternative-rock outfit The Sprats Band indie rockers The Distance and Sheffield’s very own INTERVENE! 🤘 looks to be a reyt class one, these guys are incredible and it’s sure to be one not to miss out on. ☀️

come on down next Saturday 12th March from 7:30pm, it’s free entry, quality and very affordable pints on offer, new pizza menu just launched (served til late) and some of the North’s best up-and-coming talent performing! we can’t wait! find out more at our event TOASTED: Intervene / The Sprats / The Distance 🍞

Bread Records Presents: Hayden J Barlow + Supports! 🤘

we’re super stoked to be able to announce this one! 👊 we’ve got the amazing talents of Hayden J Barlow headlining our next gig over at the Grafton Arms following the release of his EP “Rudimentary”! 😊

we’ll be down there on the Saturday 26th of March, Hayden’s an absolutely fantastic musician and songwriter, really one to watch here in Manchester. we’ve been looking forward to announcing this one for a while now, and with support from Ayanam Udoma Laila Romero and Thomas Rennie, it’s going to be a proper fantastic one! 🎸

each of our gigs over at the Grafton have just been getting better and better, it’s brilliant to see such fantastic turnouts and so many people enjoying the tunes. super heartwarming stuff! make sure you don’t miss out on this one, it’s going to be well class. find out more at our event Bread Records Present: Hayden J Barlow + Supports 🍞

Can’t wait for the Lass open mic tonight! ☀️

we’re back on down at The Lass O’Gowrie for our weekly open mic tonight, hosted by our very own michael webster🤘

the way that our open mics have been going lately at The Lass and the Grafton Arms have just been simply spellbinding – so busy, so many incredible talented artists and just a reyt lovely snapshot of the brilliant scene here in Manchester!

we’ll be starting up at 7 tonight as we’re expecting a real busy one – got some slots left for anyone who fancies it, go over and drop michael a message if you’d like to play! 🍞

Our headline gig with Nat Dempsey is tonight over at The Grafton ☀️

we can’t wait for this one tonight down at the Grafton Arms with a headline slot from the amazing Nat Dempsey! 🤘

it’s gonna be a belter this, Nat’s been going from strength to strength and he’s got some absolute tunes out ☀️ a real one to watch here in Manchester – we’ve got support from the amazing Casinos Pat Gallagher and Laura Farrow too! 👊

starting up at 7:30pm, it’s free entry, three pound pints, full pizza menu just launched too – what else could you ask for?! 😊 find out more at our event over on Facebook at Bread Records Present: Nat Dempsey + Supports 🍞

Only 9 days til Cream of the Crop! 🤘

only nine days til our next Cream of the Crop event over at The Thirsty Scholar! ☀️

we’ve got a stellar lineup for this one, with music from the amazing talents of Harrison Rimmer Mark Pratt Louis Cross and Konna Spencer! some of the North’s finest up and coming talent on this one 🤘

come on down on the Saturday 5th of March from 1:30pm to catch all the action – gonna be a super lush one, free entry, quality pints on offer and veggie/vegan food served all day! find out more at our event Cream of the Crop: 5th March! 🍞

Our open mics lately have been superb! 🙌

we’ve had some incredible nights lately down at the Grafton Arms and The Lass O’Gowrie for our open mics! 🤘

it’s fantastic to see the scene thriving so much lately, so many brilliant musicians have come down to perform and we’ve had people jamming, collaborating on the fly – boss to see! ☀️

we do the Grafton every Tuesday and the Lass every Wednesday – get in touch with michael webster for a slot! 8pm starts 🍞

One week til Nat Dempsey at The Grafton Arms! 🤘

only ONE week to go until our next gig at the Grafton Arms with a headline set from the fantastic Nat Dempsey and his band! 🤘

we can’t wait for this one, it’s gonna be fantastic with Casinos Pat Gallagher and Laura Farrow supporting – we had such a boss one last time and we can’t wait for this ☀️

come on down next Saturday 26th Feburary from 7:45pm to catch all the action – it’s gonna be class, can’t wait to catch all the acts performing! 🙌 free entry, quality pints and boss live music – what more could you ask for? find out more at our event Bread Records Present: Nat Dempsey + Supports 🍞

📸: at Retro – 78 Sackville Street for R-fest last November!

Cream of the Crop is today! 🤠

we’re down at The Thirsty Scholar today for our next songwriter event, Cream of the Crop! ☀️

got a proper class lineup for this one, with some of Manchester’s finest talent including Daf Hughes, Tallulah Guard, Chloe Slater and South by Zero! 🤘 gonna be a real lovely one, as always at The Scholar 😊

we’ll be starting up around 1:30pm, with live music all afternoon – plus, quality pints on offer and veggie/vegan food served all afternoon! 😎 can’t wait for it! find out more over on Facebook at our event Cream of the Crop: 5th February! 🍞

Nat Dempsey live at The Grafton Arms for our next gig there! 🤘

following on from yesterday’s post about our first gig down at the Grafton Arms and how insane it was, we decided to pop up our next one over there! 🤘

we’ve got the insane talents of Nat Dempsey whose been taking the scene by storm lately, and he’s going to be performing his headline set with his and who sound brilliant 😎 we’re really looking forward to this one, we’ve got support from Casinos Pat Gallagher and Laura Farrow – definitely not one to miss out on!

we’ll be back over at the Grafton for this on the Saturday 26th February, starting up at 7:30pm. gonna be a class one, one of our favourite venues in Manchester with great award-winning bevs, lovely atmosphere and just a proper lovely pub! find out more at our event Bread Records Present: Nat Dempsey + Supports 🍞

Our first gig at The Grafton was class! 🏵

oh we had a fantastic time on Saturday for our first gig over at the Grafton Arms! ☀️

a big thank you to our artists Tay Temple Olivia Browse Nina Ettridge and Laura Farrow for performing for us, each of them smashed it and played brilliant sets 🥰 so great to see an audience supporting original live music too, what a top one! also a big shout to Max for taking such boss photos of everyone, so made up! 🤘

we’ll be back next month with yet another gig, watch this space for not only this songwriter gig but more things to come.. got lots planned, collaborative gigs, band stuff – it’s all coming up! 🍞