Manchester’s best May club nights ft. Swing Ting, Fiktion & more

Fri 12 May / Fiktion @ The White Hotel, Salford
Lorenzo Senni flies in from Milan for a bit of Salford sun, bringing his trancey new live show from his latest album on Warp Records, Persona. Four artists from Manchester’s Death Of Rave label join him: The Automatics Group and Teresa Winter live, Croww and Joost Jerk DJing.
Tickets: £10, www.residentadvisor.net

Fri 12 May / Left & Right @ The Whiskey Jar
A brand spanking new beats night serving up underground electronic music with a soul and hip hop flavour. Read our full preview.
Tickets: £3, www.skiddle.com

Fri 12 May / Ghetto Child vs Supernature Takeover @ Gorilla
George Clinton and the Parliament Funkadelic crew are across the road at The Ritz, so what better way to extend the party than full on funk, disco and boogie from these two titans? Tunes kick off at 6 and end at 2 for pre- and post-mothership transportation.
Tickets: free entry

Fri 12 May / The Flipside vs Tuff Love Soul Club @ Fallow Cafe
Crossover soul and more from The Flipside boys. They’ve invited Liverpool’s Liam Flanders, Ryan Wilson and Flanny over to share their crackly vinyl gems. Don’t expect to be able to Shazam this lot’s selections.
Tickets: free entry

Fri 12 May / Euphony: Brazil 2 Bollywood @ Soup Kitchen
A cultural melée to lose yourself in over at Soup’s basement, from Brazilian bossa nova all the way through to Nigerian dancehall.
Tickets: on the door, £3 before midnight, £5 after

Sat 13 May / Wax: Michael Jackson Special @ Soup Kitchen (pictured)
Diesler joins old pal Simon Ham for 5 hours of vinyl soul, focusing on the funk of MJ for this one.
Tickets: £5, www.skiddle.com

Sat 13 May / Endless City @ The Pilcrow
World, breakbeat, electronica, disco, afrobeat, hip hip hop & reggae and everything inbetween from the EC crew.
Tickets: free entry

Thu 18 May / NTS x The Whitworth @ Whitworth Art Gallery
Swing Ting, Jon K and Elena Columbi select tunes in the gorgeous surroundings of Oxford Road’s Whitworth Art Gallery for this live broadcast running from 7-11pm. Read our preview.
Tickets: free entry

Fri 19 May / M20 present Pareidolia, IamDDB, Lyons and La Zel @ Aatma
Grass roots crew M20 Collective bring together a roomful of soul infused sounds spearheaded by female vocals for a night of live sickness. DJ Flash Sampson joins all the dots from 9.30 ‘til 3am.
Tickets: £5, on the door

Fri 19 May / Me Gusta: Mukambo & Donna Leake @ Deaf Institute
The carefully curated global selections of Donna Leake receive a debut Manchester airing, together with Afrobeat purveyor Mukambo, out of Brussels.
Tickets: £5 / £7 / £10, www.thedeafinstitute.seetickets.com

Sat 20 May / Shindigger Sessions: House Party at the Mansion @ Antwerp Mansion
Reform Radio DJs, a Nubiyan Twist DJ set featuring live sax and bongos, new beers and more for the latest party from the Shindigger Brewing Co. It’s an early start and late finish from 3pm to 3am, so hopefully both sunshine and moonlight will be making an appearance.
Tickets: £7, www.shindiggersessions.co.uk

Sat 20 May / Swing Ting @ Soup Kitchen
Zora Jones and Sinjin Hawke join residents for forward thinking, tropical-inflected bass.
Tickets: £5, on the door

Thanks to Groovement.