With a passion for harmonic melodies and a gift for love tales, the 5 fresh creatures who make up Van Susans are creating ear smiling tunes that are sure to raise your spirit. Their pop-rock core is beautifully accompanied by both an acoustic influence from Olly Andrews (lead vocals, rhythm guitar) and a more assertive touch by Ed Dullaway (lead guitar), while Rob Dullaway (percussion) keeps a tight beat with Holly McLatchie (violin) and Bill Showler completing the lineup. In September 2012 they released ‘Paused in the Moment‘ on Beatnik Geek Records.  Van Susans

8pm – 2am / £6.50 adv  Buy Tickets
Night & Day Cafe / 26 Oldham Street / Northern Quarter / Manchester / M1 1JN

Kraak
Internet Forever / Her Parents

Young Explorer presents “everybody’s favourite pop band”, Internet Forever, at Kraak tonight. With a 7/10 review from NME for their debut album and some accompanying complimentary words behind them Internet Forever are doing something they don’t do too often; play live. So take the opportunity to catch them while you can.  Internet Forever

Some of Internet Forever will be busy tonight as they will be supported by ace punk supergroup Her Parents, comprised of members of stairs to Korea, Dananananaykroyd and Internet Forever. Their album ‘Happy Birthday’ came out on Monday so this gig is perfectly timed and the video for their most recent single ‘why don’t you just fuck off?’ will probably give you an idea of what to expect. Check it out on their Facebook page.  Her Parents

7.30pm – 10.30pm / £5 adv / £6 otd  Buy Tickets
Kraak / 11 Stevenson Square / Northern Quarter / Manchester / M1 1DB

The Castle Hotel
R I S E / The Stalagmites

House of Cards are thrilled to present the debut gig by R I S E at The Castle Hotel with support from Salford’s Stalagmites.

Formed in early 2013 in Manchester by Daz Whittaker (vocals), Ernie Robinson (guitar), Lee Graham (bass) and Dale Baker (drums), RISE hid themselves away to write and rehearse the songs that would shape them. Working closely with friends N-Trance in the studio, the sound on record is that of a band with years of experience yet not lacking aggression and hunger. Forging a sound somewhere between The Longcut, The Music, and The Verve circa-93, RISE have a unique and refreshing sound, simply describing themselves as ‘space rock dance’.  R I S E

Stalagmites are a Post-Punk Psychedelic Rock & Roll band consisting of Bradley Lynch (Vocals/Guitar), Alex Hardman (Guitar) and Daniel Jones (Drums). Based in a warehouse in industrial Salford, they have been developing their sound for around a year now. The band have evolved quickly and solidified their unique sound, losing two bassists in the process and finally deciding to be a 3-piece.  Stalagmites

8.30pm  / £5 adv
The Castle Hotel / 66 Oldham Street / Northern Quarter / Manchester / M4 1LE

Band On The Wall
Craig Charles Funk & Soul Club featuring Renegade Brass Band

The Craig Charles Funk and Soul Club returns with the fabulous Renegade Brass Band live plus presenter, DJ, actor and funkster Craig Charles manning the decks ’till the early hours with the planet’s funkiest tunes for an all out funk party!

The Renegade Brass Band combine 8 horns with 2 percussionists, scratch DJ and live MC, then mix in funk, hip-hop and jazz with a raw brass sound and high-energy live show. They have already established a big live reputation as a headline act, and have played packed-out shows at venues around the UK. They’re currently recording new original material, to be released in 2013, as well as collaborating on live projects with artists such as Rodney P, Diesler and The Herbaliser, and releasing recordings through labels including Tru Thoughts, Record Kicks and The Herbaliser’s own label, Department H.

“Of all the current crop of UK brass bands, these guys are right up there!“  ~ Craig Charles

“Astounding … these guys take it to another level” ~ Counterfeit Magazine

9pm – 3am / £13 Earlybird / £15 adv
Band On The Wall / 25 Swan Street / Northern Quarter / Manchester

The Ruby Lounge
Hell To Pay / Revival

Hell To Pay come to the Ruby Lounge to kick off a mini-tour on the very day that their latest album ‘Judgement Day’ is released. Or should that be unleashed? Hosted by Caged Asylum and more specifically TeamRock’s Dewsbury the band will be blasting out the new album in full as well as a couple of old favourites once support act Revival are all done, and then hand the night over to the guys at Caged Asylum so that the dancing ladies and a Special Guest DJ can do what they do best. Tickets for the show get you in to the Caged Asylum party too, so that makes this something of a rocktastic bargain!  Hell To Pay

7.30pm / £8 adv / £10 otd

Caged Asylum

Want to rock and roll all night (and party every day)? Who wouldn’t?!? Then Caged Asylum is the place to be this month as they bring you a night of rock classics. Caged Asylum plan to get you in the mood for the summer festival season. Resident DJ Mikee Diablo brings the noise, the Angels of Death bring the glamour and the Ruby Lounge brings a suitably decadent atmosphere for everything to take place in.  Caged Asylum

11pm / £6
The Ruby Lounge / 28 – 34 High Street / Northern Quarter / Manchester / M4 1QB

Dry Live
Mystery Headliners(?!) / Ideal Forgery / Sharp Darts / Union Rumour / Moors

6.30pm – 10.30pm / £5
Dry Live / 28- 30 Oldham Street / Northern Quarter / Manchester

Matt & Phreds
The Fresh Dixie Project

Fresh Dixie Project are 5 young gents from the South East, pumping out the most hard-hitting, chin-scratching, toe tapping tunes you ever did hear. With a mix of re vamped standards and fresh original material, these boys will break down even the most reluctant of dance floor goers. Expect vocal acrobatics, punchy drums, chunky guitar, piano twinkles and a sax on fire!

9.30pm-1am / £5
Matt & Phreds / 64 Tib Street / Northern Quarter / Manchester

Soup Kitchen
‘Saturdays’ at Soup Kitchen

The guys at Soup Kitchen have gone for a simple solution when it came to naming their regular Saturday night event and consequently it will be called… er… “Saturdays”! The night will exhibit friends and local talents in the cavernous surroundings of their underground dancing den. They have DJs on rotation in the Kitchen and hand the basement over to a different promotion every week.

Kitchen ~ 8pm – 1am /  FREE
Soup Kitchen / 31-33 Spear Street / Northern Quarter / M1 1DF

Dry Bar
Blue Saturday

DJ Tobin Lochrie brings a musical mash up of indie, soul and funk with a dash of Britpop and a pinch of 90′s house.

9pm – 4am / FREE
Dry + Dry Live / 28- 30 Oldham Street / Northern Quarter / Manchester

Mint Lounge
Funkademia with Trafford Lovething

This Saturday Trafford Lovething takes control of the decks at Funkademia, which takes place every Saturday to a consistently full house, feeding a friendly crowd with a diet of pure unadulterated soul-funk with the dj collective taking you on a journey through four decades of the very best soul, funk, electric disco and hip-hop with a touch of smooth r&b and some big house classics.  Funkademia

This Northern Quarter stalwart sells out most weeks so you’re advised to either arrive early or purchase advance tickets.

10.30pm – 3am / £5 Adv /£6  Buy Tickets
Mint Lounge / 46-50 Oldham Street / Northern Quarter / Manchester

Black Dog Ballroom
Neil Smallridge

Every Saturday Neil Smallridge spins the beats ‘Down at the Dog’ as he blends and bends the genres, smoothly flowing between house, disco and hip hop, with queues around the block every week.

10pm – 4am / FREE before 11pm
Black Dog Ballroom / Corner of Tib & Church Street / Northern Quarter / Manchester / M4 1PW

Common
Friends In Common with White Pepper

Every Saturday night (apart from the 2nd of the month) Common invite their favourite friends to play their favourite records. Expect to hear music you never knew you liked. Pop music played with sense and sensibility, country with soul, and maybe something that will make you dance. Tonight’s special friend is White Pepper.

9pm – 2am / Free entry before 10pm / £2 after
Common / 39 to 41 Edge Street / Northern Quarter / Manchester / M4 1HW

Odd Bar
Richard Reason (Hit & Run) / Jon K ( Friends & Family / Snip-Snap)

Head upstairs at Odd tonight and you will find Rich Reason (Hit & Run) digging deep into a mightily eclectic record collection to bring the unexpected to the fore for an evening of uninhibited joy-sounds. Or you could just stay on the ground floor where Jon K (Friends & Family / Snip-Snap) will be playing an abstract masterpiece crafted from strokes of afro, Brazillian, psych,
kraut, garage, blues & ska. Decisions, decisions!

8pm – late / FREE
Odd Bar / 30-32 Thomas Street / Northern Quarter / Manchester / M4 1ER

The Bay Horse
Saturday Social

The Saturday Social takes place every Saturday in the wonderful surroundings of The Bay Horse Pub. A soundtrack of the weird, wonderful and well known, from the old to new, Funk to Punk, Disco to Indie, Folk to Pop, all played on lovely crackly vinyl. Your DJs for this aural journey are Craig Johnson and Ian Scott.

8pm – 1am / FREE
The Bay Horse Pub / 35-37 Thomas Street / Manchester / Northern Quarter / M4 1NA

Trof
Woo Hah

A new night comes to Trof as Kevlar & Kydro present Woo Hah, a night of old school hip hop, funk, soul and original breaks.

9pm – 3am / FREE before 10pm / £1 after
Trof / 8 Thomas Street / Northern Quarter / Manchester

The Frog & Bucket
Barrel Of Laughs

MC Mick Ferry presents Dave Johns, Phil Ellis & Steve Royal for The Frog and Bucket‘s flagship Saturday night show, Barrel of Laughs. The show goes on until 2am with one of the Frog’s resident DJ’s.

7pm / £17 / £10 Concessions
The Frog & Bucket / 102 Oldham Street /  Northern Quarter / Manchester / M4 1LJ

So like me I’m sure you will have noticed that the shutters have been down at Bonbon, Teacup‘s chocolate focussed little offspring, for a little while with a promise of “a spring refurb” and you may well have become a little nervous about what was happening behind the black shutters and the hastily scribbled A4 paper sign.

Well the great news is that Bonbon Chocolate Boutique has reopened serving ice-creams, frozen yogurt & chocolate coolers in time for the summer! They have already firmly established themselves in the Northern Quarter owing to the melt in the mouth truffles & salted caramels, and “the most glorious hot chocolate in Manchester” (Manchester Confidential) and now they are going to make sure we keep going back through the hazy summer (please!!) days to come.

Ice-cream & Frozen Yogurt

Bonbon will be using local ice-cream heros the Cabrelli Brothers and London’s Gelupo Gelati to serve up cones, knickerbockers and affogatos bejeweled with chocolate, nuts, fruit and a selection of homemade syrups and sauces in flavours such as fresh mint, raspberry coulis and stem ginger.

Chocolate Coolers & Signature Hot Chocolate

Bonbon hot chocolate is unmistakable. The winning recipe (composed solely of 66% Valrhona chocolate, spring water, cocoa & muscovado) will be served chilled as an indulgent cooler throughout the summer (it will also be available warm for those chillier days).

Boutique

As a boutique, Bonbon offers an ever changing selection of the best chocolates from around the world. For the Spring & Summer Bonbon will offer delights from Forever Cacao, Booja Booja and Montezuma.

Forever Cacao is an ethically focused bean-to-bar chocolate producer, creating ‘raw’ chocolate bars packed with health benefits. Working with the Ashanika tribe in Peru and sustainability charity Ecotribal, Forever Cacao have cultivated an ethical and sustainable supply chain from which they source their cocoa beans. When they arrive in the UK the beans are stone ground with cocoa butter & coconut sugar, set into bars and hand-wrapped before shipping to Bonbon.

Expect a selection of handmade vegan & gluten truffles from Booja Booja in flavours like banoffee toffee, midnight espresso & stem ginger. Montezuma offer creamy & crunchy indulgence in their handmade truffles, with firm, flavourful ganache enrobed in crisp shells, hand sprinkled with crunchy toppings like cacao nibs or toasted coconut.

Homebaked Cakes from Teacup

Teacup’s legendary cakes are available to enjoy in the boutique with a drink, or to take home to enjoy later. Teacup’s pastry chefs have created some bespoke cakes for Bonbon including a Devil’s Chocolate Cake and delicious freshly baked Éclairs. Teacup classics including the flourless chocolate cake & Grand Cru brownies are also available.

11am – 6pm Wednesday – Saturday / Noon – 5pm Sunday / By Appointment Only Monday & Tuesday
Bonbon Chocolate Boutique / 9 John Street / Northern Quarter / Manchester / M4 1EQ  Bonbon Chocolate Workshop

El Diablo‘s has built a reputation for providing Manchester’s famously open minded clubbers with a journey through only the finest reaches of dance music. The mantra is simple – create the perfect environ for ‘psychedelic disco deviance‘. Raiding everything from wonky italo to alien funk, raw house grooves up to string laden disco, the presence of Piccadilly Records’ Neil Scott and Dave Walker as residents has ensured the city’s personality has remained a core focus throughout.

Past guests at El Diablo’s have included Maurice Fulton, Greg Wilson, Todd Terje, Danny Krivit and Hercules & Love Affair’s Andy Butler, and this time round they will bounce to the beat of Darshan Jesrani.

As one half of disco inspired house music masters Metro Area, Darshan helped reshape the terrain of electronic music in the early stages of the twenty first century. Metro Area’s self titled debut album stands out as one of the very few bonafide classics house music has ever mustered, gloriously evocative of the greatness of electronic music shorn of vocals and obvious hooks. On the solo tip Darshaan has been just as warmly received, whether delivering difficult to pigeonhole productions and remixes or as a ‘selector du jour‘ behind the decks. As befitting of a man of his standing, his sets straddle the great and good of house, disco, techno and even the more delicious corners of pop music. He’s the perfect guest to bring in ten years of malevolently sordid musical swagger.

So join Neil Scott & Dave Walker and their special guest Darshan Jesrani as they celebrate 10 years at the helm of El Diablo’s Social Club.  El Diablo’s 10th Birthday Tickets

El Diablo’s Tenth Birthday / Sunday 26th May / 10pm-4am / £8 adv / £10 otd
2022NQ / 20 Dale Street / Northern Quarter / Manchester / M1 1EZ

It’s been an excellent year and Tib Street Tavern has built a name for itself by serving a fine selection of wines, spirits and craft beers. They have also introduced a food menu which has gone from strength to strength, serving traditional British cuisine and a diverse specials board which changes daily.

Where perhaps they have really established themselves is within the realm of sport. They’ve shown every sporting event under the sun from City V United derbies to Burkina Faso v Togo in the African Nations Cup, taking in the Olympics, boxing and other events along the way. They have cemented themselves as the place to enjoy watching sport in the Northern Quarter.

For the party TST residents will be playing a mixture of funk, soul and disco throughout the night, so pop along and wish them many happy returns.

Tib Street Tavern / 1st Birthday Party /23rd May /DJ’s from 6pm – late

For those of you who are mourning the end of the domestic football season, fear not as Tib Street Tavern is ensuring you can still get your fix of footballing banter!

On the 29th May they will be hosting a quiz covering the Premiership and Football League Season 2012/2013 and general football history. So if you fancy yourself as something of an expert then organise yourself a team for this ‘five-a-side’ quiz. Entrance is £5 per team with a maximum 5 per team with cash prizes and bar tabs to be handed out to the winner. In the event of a draw there will be a sudden death playoff which hopefully will be a quiz penalty competition! To register a team email info@tibstreettavern.co.uk

Following the quiz the footy action will continue as the England V’s Ireland match will be shown at 8pm so you can enjoy the game whilst you bask in the glory of your quizzing triumph, supping on the spoils of your bar tab….or of course commiserating at your woeful display! Either way it will be a great night.

Football Quiz / Wednesday / 29th May / 6pm – late / £5 per team (5 person max)
Tib Street Tavern / 74 Tib Street / Northern Quarter / Manchester / M4 1LG

The Handsome Family is a 20-year songwriting collaboration between husband and wife Brett (music) and Rennie Sparks (words). Their music has always been Americana in the truest sense – echoing everything from medieval ballad to Appalachian holler to Tin Pan Alley and punk rock. The Sparks write songs that are full of an awed sense of emotion in the face of nature’s mysterious beauty and the wonders of everyday life.

The band’s seventh CD, ‘Last Days of Wonder‘ (2006), was one of Mojo magazine’s Top Ten American Albums, and was called “an unqualified triumph” by Uncut who also named their fourth album, ‘In the Air‘,one of the most important records of the 21st Century. In 2004, a reader’s poll in Mojo named The Handsome Family’s third CD, ‘Through the Trees‘, one of the ten essential Americana records of all time, while The Guardian listed the Handsome Family song ‘Weightless Again‘ as one of the 100 best songs ever written about heartbreak.  The Handsome Family

Live Brett (guitar/vocals) and Rennie (banjo/bass ukulele/vocals) are joined by percussionist Jason Toth and tonight at The Ruby Lounge they will be supported by Snowapple.

“The Handsome Family: as funny as fuck, as sweet as love, as serious as death.”  ~ UNCUT

“This is music that moves forward by turning the clock back – haunting, primal and strangely heroic.”  ~ The Times

7.30pm / £12
Ruby Lounge / 28-34 High Street / Northern Quarter / Manchester / M4 1QB

Night & Day
Two Eyes / Wet Pelican / Minor Blues / The Bluebottle Veins

Two Eyes are four young lads from Manchester – Andy Fidler (vocals/guitar), Jimmy Wraylang (guitar), Sam Oliver (Bass) and Kevin Travis (Drums). They have been writing and playing together under different guises for the last 5 years, pulling in psychedelic blues/rock influences from the 60′s to the present day. They have now combined great songwriting with a powerful, heavy psychedelic live sound. With a rythym section that would “make Keith Moon wince“, and melodic trippy guitars sounding like “Jonny Marr having a showdown with John Squire“, they have now developed their own sound and style to the point where they are happy to unleash it to the world. Dr Luke is the first self released single, with plenty more releases to follow. Tonight they headline Night & Day with support from Wet Pelican, Minor Blues and The Bluebottle Veins.

7.30pm – 2am / £6
Night & Day Cafe / 26 Oldham Street / Northern Quarter / Manchester / M1 1JN

Kraak
Black Bee Soul Club 1st Anniversary Party

11pm – 4am / £3 adv / £5 otd
Kraak / 11 Stevenson Square / Northern Quarter / Manchester / M1 1DB

Dry Bar / Dry Live
12:51 at Dry Bar

DJ Wrighty hosts a night dedicated to the best indie and alternative music from legends of the past to the newest bands defining the sounds of the present, dipping into retro and club classics, 80′s electronica and 90′s Britpop.

9pm – 4am / FREE

Dry Live
Sub-Woofah vs Murder Resident Party

6.30pm – 10.30pm / £5
Dry + Dry Live / 28- 30 Oldham Street / Northern Quarter / Manchester / M1 1JN

Soup Kitchen
Be My Guest with Simon Tonkinson

Simon Tonkinson curates another two-floor musical marathon of beats to delight discerning music lovers and please the finest shape-shifters. In the Kitchen Simon and residents Annabel Fraser, Matt Ward, Jason Boardman & Levi Love (on monthly rotations) welcome a weekly guest whilst the Basement is handed over to various promotions. All kicking off from 8pm with Simon Tonkinson in the Kitchen, while the basement welcomes Martyn with Levi Love & Dan Hampson (PYC Sessions).

Martyn / Levi Love / Dan Hampson (PYC Sessions)

Renowned DJ & Producer Martyn comes to Soup Kitchen on the back of his latest release with support from Levi Love and Dan Hampson. All of the details are the other side of the button:  Martyn/ Levi Love/ Dan Hampson

Kitchen ~ 8pm – 1am /  FREE // Basement ~ 11pm – 3am / £7 adv / £10 OTD
Soup Kitchen / 31-33 Spear Street / Northern Quarter / Manchester / M1 1DF

Matt & Phreds
The Dixie Ticklers

A blueprint has been put together which proposes landmark street trees are planted, self-irigating hanging baskets installed and a ‘green roof‘ made of edible herbs and fruit planted on top of the disused public toilet which will sit alongside the current Outhouse street art project. It is proposed that liquid amber trees will be planted in the pavement and in the square’s central reservations in a reinstated surface material, which is made from recycled tyres. It is porous allowing the trees to receive oxygen and water which I think is pretty important for them!

“Red Rose Forest has spent the last two decades making Greater Manchester greener. We’ve planted more than three million trees in that time and made a massive difference to the look and feel of our towns and cities. But planting more trees in urban areas has been shown to bring a range of other benefits. They can improve people’s health and well-being and by providing shading and cooling in the summer can help in the battle against climate change. Trees can also reduce the risk of flooding in urban areas by soaking up rainfall.” ~ Pete Stringer, Red Rose Forest

The project has already received support from Manchester City Council who will be donating funding and works towards the project, from CityCo, from resident’s group New Leaf and from various other institutions, but now they are looking for donations from local businesses and the community as a whole to help them achieve their target. With less than £5000 of the original £40k needed left to fund, if we all pledge a couple of quid we could soon see Stevenson Square transformed. If funding is secured it’s hoped the greening initiative can be delivered by this summer and we could all enjoy a more attractive square for us to sit and relax in and help create a ‘street café’ style environment. Now wouldn’t that be nice to see in the Northern Quarter?

If you want to find out more or to pledge a little (or a lot) then hit the button and let’s get greening!!  Stevenson Square Greening

Put together by the team behind the Kahlúa Coffee House (Sparklestreet) and the Manchester Egg (Ben Holden), this red hot event will take place outside the old Fish Markets of the High Street and will feature Manchester’s first ever Chilli Smackdown. In this head-to­-head cook­off, 6 of Manchester’s best bars, restaurants and cafes (Kosmonaut, Liquor & Burn, Home Sweet Home, Pancho’s Burrito, Kahlúa Coffee House & Soup Kitchen ) will create their most delectable chilli con carne and compete to be crowned as the inaugural ‘Fuego Champions‘.

The Fiesta del Fuego will also feature a Chilli Eating Competition, the Chilli Smackdown, where contestants are asked to push their taste buds to the limit by eating increasingly hot fresh chillies and concentrated chilli products until they can take no more. Punters can also chance their luck in the Piñata Pit, smashing a giant papier­-mâché chilli on stage to gather the fiery treats within. Alternatively, and not for the faint hearted, why not brave the ‘Moruga Roulette‘ wheel? With a chance to win cocktails and tacos, the danger lies in falling on the Moruga Scorpion Chilli Nibble Challenge, meaning you have to take a bite of the hottest chilli in the world! If that’s not enough, or perhaps too much to take on, the Chilli Mercado will feature over 300 chilli products will be available to buy, surely enough to satisfy any flaming appetite while a Mariachi band will provide the soundtrack as well additional live sets from some of Manchester’s favourites.

“This is the first time a proper cook­off style event has been brought to Manchester. The Chilli Smackdown isn’t about who can make the hottest chilli con carne, it’s about who can pack in the most flavour, and for those who like it hot, there’s plenty to make you sweat too!” ~ Ben Holden

Attending the event will be free and there will be plenty of mexican refreshments available but for £10 attendees will be able to purchase a ticket that allows them to sample all 6 competing chillis presented in delicious soft shell tacos as well as receiving a free cocktail from the Kahlúa Coffee House, for whom the Fiesta will mark the final hurrah and be the closing party for the project.

Chilli Smackdown Contestants

1. Kosmonaut
2. Luck, Lust, Liquor & Burn
3. Home Sweet Home
4. Soup Kitchen
5. Pancho’s Burrito
6. Kahlúa Coffee House

Judges tickets are now available here and there will be additional tickets available on the day too (but they will be more than £10). Judges will be asked to cast their vote after tasting all 6 chillis by placing a flaming skull sticker on the Fiesta Del Fuego Voting Board. People (lunatics?) who are keen to take part in the chilli eating contest can also register their interest on the website.  Fiesta del Fuego

Fiesta del Fuego / Saturday 25th May / Midday – Late / FREE to attend / £10 earlybird ‘Judge’s Ticket’ / £12.50 Advance ‘Judges Ticket’ / £15 otd ‘Judges Ticket’
Outside the Fish Market / High Street  / Northern Quarter / Manchester / M1

Simply put you turn up with your old clothes, do some swapping, and go home with new (to you) ones! Sounds like a good day in itself but to make things even more interesting the day will also feature music, vintage stalls, fresh food, homemade cakes, craft ales and of course lots of lovely people. If you are lucky enough to be one of the first 20 people through the door you will be treated to a free tea or coffee and a slice of cake!  Waste Not Clothes Swap

Here’s How It Works:

1. Find 5-20 items of clothing you’re not too fussed about owning anymore.
2. Check they are in good condition (clean, undamaged etc.)
3. Make your way down to Soup Kitchen
4. Pay £3 to enter and you can come and go all day between 12-7pm & get 10% off a food & drink item from the Soup Kitchen menu
5. Exchange your items for vouchers; 1 item = 1 voucher. Your items are checked in and displayed.
6. Browse the rails and find the hidden gems you want to take home with you.
7. Take your chosen items back to the desk to check out.
8. Put your new gladrags on, grab a beer from the Soup Kitchen crew and have a well deserved rest.
9. Head home feeling pleased with yourself!

So raid that wardrobe and get yourself to Soup Kitchen on the Bank Holiday Sunday!

Waste Not Clothes Swap / Sunday 26th May 2013 / 12-7pm / £3
Soup Kitchen / 31-33 Spear Street / Northern Quarter / Manchester / M1 1DF