Manchester, day by day

Manchester's calendar, as tracked, is a gig calendar first and everything else second: 132 listings across 48 venues, 95 of them music and 16 comedy. The venue table is a roll-call of the city's rooms: the O2 Ritz with 11 listings, the O2 Apollo with 10, the AO Arena and the Deaf Institute with 8 each, and New Century Hall and the Albert Hall with 6 apiece. Between the arena and the Deaf Institute sits the whole range of a Manchester night, from ten thousand people to a few hundred.

The page sorts that depth by date: weekend digest first, month view for the long tail. The Near row is Greater Manchester drawn the way the trams run it: Stockport 10 km, Oldham 11, Bury 13, Bolton and Rochdale 16, Blackburn 34. Several of those towns keep pages of their own, and tours that skip the city centre often surface on one of them the same week, so the row below is worth as much as the calendar above.