i Tom,

Wanted to say well done on a very useful and informative site

You obviously know plenty about the Manchester gig scene, and we were hoping you could provide us with some information.
We are a new band who have been around four or so months. We have recently added a singer and drummer, but we wanted to road test our songs before we go down a full-on drums and loud guitars route.
Would you be able to suggest some good open mic nights where we might be able to get up and do a couple of tunes? Ideally, somewhere that’s fairly informal, as we don’t all have acoustic instruments. We would just want to run the guitars/bass/keys straight through the PA if possible. At this stage we don’t want to have the drums involved.

Hope you can help,

Thanks a million,

James (The Satellite Towns)