Manchester Collective x The White Hotel: Lights and Places

The days are shorter, the nights longer. Lights and places flicker endlessly…

Encounter a kaleidoscope of sounds and cross-genre experimentation in a radiant celebration of voices bursting from Britain’s contemporary music scene. These are artists capturing the here and now: technological dystopia, the dark electricity of raves, the melancholic night bus journey back home.

Scottish artist Anna Meredith’s playful blend of electronic beats and acoustic instruments defies genre, earning her a Mercury Prize nomination and Pitchfork’s Best New Music seal of approval. And you can feel the heat haze of jazz in the work of Belize-born, Orkney-based Errollyn Wallen. Her work has represented Britain on an international stage – even in outer space.Some of these musicians lead double lives. Composer Mathis Saunier moonlights as the founding member of a French noise-pop band, and the electric guitar shreds through his performance art piece ‘HYPER MEMORIA’. Londoner Jocelyn Campbell grew up playing double bass before diving headfirst into alternative pop and electronica, while curator and composer Alex Groves finds inspiration in contemporary visual art practices.

The spirit of reinvention thrums under this gig. Expect a high-energy night.

Support comes from Iyunoluwanimi Yemi-Shodimu aka LINTD, a Manchester-based musician, composer, producer and filmmaker whose work explores the idea of the Black macabre and extraordinary. LINTD took part in the Collective’s EXPERIMENTA 2025 music creator residencies.

Please note this performance contains strobe and flashing lights.

Supported using public funding by Arts Council England.

7.00pm Doors open

7.30pm LINTD

8.30pm Manchester Collective

10.00pm Show ends

Manchester Collective's set includes a 20-minute interval.

Host or Publisher Manchester Collective