Allo Darlin’ + Butcher The Bar at the Deaf Institute

Europe, the second album from Allo Darlin’, richly delivered on the Anglo-Australian indie-pop quartet’s ambition to create music that sounds ‘somewhere between A New England by Kirsty MacColl and Cattle and Cane by The Go-Betweens’. The band have played this venue once already this year but expect many returning ticket-holders eager to relish their lush, hummable melodies, jangly guitars and smart songs of sunny nostalgia and woozy regret. Support from Manchester’s boutique folk-pop outfit Butcher The Bar.

Fri 7 Sep, The Deaf Institute, 135 Grosvenor Street M1 7HE, Tel: 0161 276 9350, 7.30pm, £8 adv, www.ticketline.co.uk