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🔺🔻Coffee Shop / Bar / Venue / Gallery. Manchester.🔻🔺 🕰️Mon-Tues - 19:00/00:00. Wed-Sat - 17:00/00:00. Sun - 12:00/00:00🕰️

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🚨SEPTEMBER LISTINGS!🚨

NEW HOURS!
BIG BLAH BIRTHDAY BASH! (TICKETS IN BIO)
A FESTIVAL!
ART WORKSHOPS!
FILMS!
EXHIBITION LAUNCH!
GIGS!
DJ SETS! taken in Café Blah by @cafeblah

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a month ago

Blah is turning 6 🎂 and to celebrate we have a stacked line up for you. Performances by @divorcefinance, @wet_man_music and @thewhalleysband followed by DJs Oliver Lambert @olambert200 (Crocodile Club) and DJ Krokodil @krokodil_dundee88 (Baby Turns Blue, Axeman's Jazz) spinning wax late into the night. ⚡️ Tickets are limited so make sure to grab one early (as it will be freshers week). ⚡️ We can’t wait to see you all! Ticket link in bio. taken in Café Blah by @cafeblah

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a month ago

2 EXHIBITIONS LAUNCHING TONIGHT

'Threads of Folklore' by Anna Townend @never.squeal
And
'Parade' by esK @salford.esk

Launch from 7pm, so come down, have a look at the artwork and a chat with the artists

Running until 12/09/26
NOT TO BE MISSED! taken in Café Blah by @cafeblah

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a month ago

GAZELLE RETURNS WITH A HALLOWEEN SPECIAL 🎃
Looking to start off your Halloween plans? Come down to cafe blah on the 13th October for candle carving, ghost portraits and fancy dress.
Ticket link in bio!

Poster by @karac3t

#artworkshop #artworkshopmanchester #thingstodomanchester #cafeblah taken in Café Blah by @cafeblah

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19 hours ago

Supercrush presents… RAVE UP: An Evening of Covers! 🎈💥

To celebrate one year of Supercrush entering the virtual world we have asked some of our favourite bands to dress up as some of their own favourite bands for the evening! 💫

On the docket we have:

Committee of Sleep as Belle & Sebastian 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Dear Lichen as Pavement 🚘

Rowan & Friends and Bull as The Magnetic Fields 🧲

UFOE as Ween 🦪

We will have back issues, exclusive zines, badges, stickers, all sorts of goodies! So get down to Cafe Blah for an evening of dress up fun! 🌟

Head to the link in our bio for tickets 🎟️

Date: 06/11/2026
Venue: Café Blah
Doors: 19:30
Ends: 23:00
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#manchester #whatsonmanchester #manchestergigs #diygig #indiegig taken in Café Blah by @cafeblah

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21 hours ago

Tomorrow I’ll be in Manchester at CAFE BLAH

Exhibiting a collection of art work from this year under the title JAYWALKING
Alongside Adam Porrino’s YESTERDAY, TODAY, TOMORROW, and Rhona Hobson’s SOMEONE WILL BE WITH YOU SHORTLY.

Exhibition on from 7pm tomorrow.

The works will be on display between from the 1st - 15th October for all eyes.

And for your ears I’ll be performing solo tomorrow night at CAFE BLAH to celebrate the exhibition launch, with support from Jack Harkins of Autocamper.
See you there!

Also I now have A3 prints available of DAVID BOWIE SLEEP PARALYSIS for £15 !

End of announcement by @cafeblah

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2 days ago

BLAH BOOT SALE - SUNDAY 4th OCTOBER
From 12-5pm cafe blah will be full of people selling their wares and the contents of their wardrobes.

ALL STALLS NOW FULL!

We will also be serving Bloody Mary's and cheese toasties to help your browsing, what else do you need on a Sunday! taken in Café Blah by @cafeblah

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2 days ago

Supercrush presents… THE REPLACEMENTS VS. HÜSKER DÜ 🫯

Minneapolis. The Twin Cities. A place defined by duality. And the breeding ground behind one of indie rocks great rivalries. 🌄

Join us at Café Blah where we will let the two bands hash it out over wax! 🎵

In the red corner we have Hüsker Dü - a noisy proposition whose penchant for the psychedelic bleeds through their hardcore roots. 📚🛸

And in the blue corner we have The Replacements, Paul Westerberg’s macho power poppers who take as much from KISS as they do from Big Star. ⭐️💋

There will also be songs that influenced the bands, contemporaries, and other Midwestern legends! 🎈💥

Who will win?

Venue: Café Blah
Date: 16/11/2026
Start: 20:00
End: Close
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#manchester #withington #whatsonmanchester #vinyl #indie taken in Café Blah by @cafeblah

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3 days ago

👹 A VERY CAFE BLAH WEEKEND⛓️

Due to a scheduling bugger-up with one of our venues, we are moving half our October 17th Art Market to Cafe Blah!!

One half will remain at @withypublichall and the other will now be with our friends at @cafeblah!

We can’t wait for this as it ties in our very exciting huge open call art show on the Friday night in with our Saturday all-dayer! (APPLICATIONS STILL OPEN FOR THE OPEN CALL!!)

The art classes and clubs will still be at Withington Public Hall, with tickets available through the link in our bio, and our open call is still going for another couple of weeks so have a look at our post for that!!!

(Timings for the Blah half of the market will be slightly different, but we’ll talk about that soon, all stall holders have been contacted!)

Love you!
LOCAL PRESS CLUB 💙 taken in Café Blah by @cafeblah

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4 days ago

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One of the best things about being a music photographer isn’t just photographing the bigger names — it’s unearthing the smaller acts you might never have discovered otherwise.

@mahoganyintl are one of those bands.

There’s something special about catching an artist on a smaller stage and capturing that moment before more people start paying attention.

This is exactly why I love doing what I do. Keep an eye on Mahogany. 👀

Manchester 27.09.26
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#musicphotographer #gigphotography #storytelling #indiemusic #manchester taken in Manchester, England, UK by @cafeblah

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4 days ago

THAT WAS A NIGHT WITH SOME BITE 🐊

Huge thank you to everyone that came last night! It was great to see so many new faces through the doors of our stompin’ ground! 🍻

Major thank you to our guest Gator, Carl, who played an absolute killer of a set that keppt the dancefloor alive and moving all night! 💃🏽 🪩

Our next event in October is yet to be announced, but as usual - we have a very special guest from the local Manchester music scene coming down to lay some heavy hitting tunes. 🎶

Until then…

See you @cafeblah 👀 taken in Café Blah by @cafeblah

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5 days ago

utility pole "gig1" SI PATON / MANCHESTERJAZZ.COM / DEIMATIC DISPLAY

@cafeblah OCTOBER 26TH

a night of music and noise from three choice artists of the modern english underground

SI PATON @si_paton

solo bass guitar improvisations, expanding noise into no wave and free jazz territory with an often punkish urgency, fresh off the back of his european tour. ffo ryosuke kiyasu, glenn branca.

MANCHESTERJAZZ.COM

esteemed songwriter and guitar player john lee/newman/williams joins ex-oort clod drummer bruce sargent and seiya (bass, vocals) in a band that can be described as rock n roll music.

DEIMATIC DISPLAY @doctorgirlfriendnoise

screeching electronic harsh noise from deep within the frightening midlands. ffo evicshen, merzbow.

entry four pounds

utility pole
catch the wave by @cafeblah

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