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There’s nothing quite like a homecoming gig, especially when it’s a homecoming gig by a massive local success story. Slow Readers Club, who won the CityLife Breakthrough Award this year, will play a huge gig at the Apollo this December. It’s part of a mini tour, which will also take them to Belfast, Dublin, Glasgow, and London, that will support their most recent album Build A Tower. Tickets will go on sale at 10am today. rise to fame for London-based singer/songwriter Mabel. Music runs through her veins - her mother is singer Neneh Cherry and father is Cameron McVey, who has worked with huge names like Massive Attack and All Saints. Away from that, she’s a soulful, powerful voice, and a knack for churning out impeccably catchy R&B and pop songs, such as Finders Keepers, which reached the top 10 here in the UK. After a busy summer on the festival circuit, she’ll head out on a lengthy UK tour this winter, including a gig at Manchester’s O2 Ritz. Tickets go on sale at 9am today. Coheed and Cambria would usually be classed as prog rock, but with enormous hair and double-necked guitars there’s definitely a helping of glam metal here too. They always put on a high-energy, deafeningly loud performance, and are a consistently safe bet for lovers of live rock music. This tour is in support of their upcoming album Vaxis - Act I: The Unheavenly Creatures, which will be their ninth studio album. It continues their comic book concept The Amory Wars. If you fancy a superb gig and a lot of big-haired head banging, get tickets when they go on sale at 10am today. and lyricist for The Gaslight Anthem, but he keeps pretty busy with his solo work too. Sleepwalkers is his second solo studio album, and features plenty of his iconic gravelly vocals and modern guitar riffs, all with a country music undertone. He’ll be back on British soil early next year with this acoustic tour. Tickets go on sale Friday June 29 at 9am. This will be the first headline tour for DJ and producer GRYFFIN, and if you want to have a big old singalong on a Friday night at one of the city’s most intimate venues, this’ll be right up your alley. The LA-based musician produces the sort of summer anthem that you’ll hear everywhere you go in Europe this summer. He gained recognition for his remixes, which have included Years & Years and Maroon 5. He’s promising plenty of new music when he hits the Deaf Institute this autumn. Tickets on sale today at 10am. a reggae-influenced punk band who returned from a three decade-long hiatus back in 2013. Their first live performance together since the 80s took the form of a benefit concert for Paul Fox in 2007, the original guitarist for the group, who sadly passed away later that year. They’ve labelled this comeback as a new revolution - it’s seen them tour with The Stranglers and Stiff Little Fingers across the globe, and now they’re bringing a headline gig to the O2 Ritz. Tickets on sale today at 9am Cam began her career as a songwriter, penning hits for other musicians including Miley Cyrus, but now she’s built herself quite a career as a singer too. Her singles, including Diane and Burning House, perform consistently well on the U.S. Country Music chart, and she’s been nominated for both a Grammy and an AMA. Following a long stint as the support act for Sam Smith in America, Cam will bring her jaunty country music to Gorilla as part of a short UK tour. Tickets will go on sale at 9am today.