Sour Grapes Records

Weekly garage-rock, psych, and punk gigs for less than a fiver?
Come pay a visit to Manchester's coolest rock and roll sanctuary 🏡
Here's what we have for you in September...

On the 13th, one of the hottest new psych-punk bands coming from Brighton: .habit - hypnotic grooves and fat fuzz tones served extremely hot. On support the wild freakbeat of

Friday 20th sees the glorious return of the . A sleazy, disturbed jukebox of Cold War-flavoured Americana and spite. Opening the dances, the furiously and cerimonious post-punk show of

If you haven't had enough of amazing punk live music, then the next day, Saturday 21st we bring you from Germany. They write songs about compulsions, love, men and other distressing subjects. On support, local post-punk heroes will make this show one not to miss

On Friday 27th, come weight the heavy post-punk sounds of from Nottingham if you can. The amazing five misfit-weirdos from Leeds will be there to support. Manchester, show these great out of town bands how welcoming you are

The A-Team of the punk scene in Manchester will make another appearance at Big Hands. Missing a show is a mistake. A raging pack of great garage-rock dogs called on support.

Cheapest gig in town starts late - at 10pm. What are you waiting for, get down to a 🍇

Tomorrow, our stage at is packed with psych and punk heavyweight bands 🫴🏻

Come down say hello! We will be at The Lodge at 💥

Still some tickets left to buy through MPF website...

Tremendous poster by the one and only 👁

𝗦𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗚𝗿𝗮𝗽𝗲𝘀 𝗧𝗩 is back TONIGHT 📺
9pm - on YouTube - premiere link in bio

In collaboration with the great people at 🙏🏻
First episode features psych-punk powerhouse .band 💥

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Proto-losers

From Melbourne with furore, garage-punk powerhouse will play TOMORROW 🤝🏻

The amazing on support, thrash-can country geese from the filthy streets behind Stevenson Square 🪿

Music from 10pm - come down early enjoy a cold beer or some fresh sangria on the rooftop terrace 🤲🏻
And if you haven't heard of this yet, the guys of are serving pizza and arancini until late 🥹

Ticket link in bio 🌄

our 7th birthday party is tonight 🍇
first time we celebrate 🥹
from 6pm on the roof terrace 💘
GLUE Tape DJs to provide the tunes 🤝🏻
all welcome, free entry 🫴🏻

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TOMORROW 11/07/24 5pm - 7pm - Adventures in Grassroots Music episode 3 featuring Jay Taylor in conversation with Alex Tadros from the multi-faceted force for good that is Sour Grapes Records, MARS TAPES, Meltchester and more. Two hours of sounds and stories from the grassroots music frontline - every 4 weeks on Slack City.

www.slackcity.org.uk // DAB Radio

Sour Grapes is turning 𝟕 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐨𝐥𝐝 this month 🎈
So we decided to throw a little party on the roof terrace of the one and only on Friday July 12th 🫢

GLUE will be spinning the reels and play a punk and garage-rock cassette TJ set from 7pm 👯‍♀️👯🏻‍♂️

Come down from 6pm, entry is free! You're all invited 🍇

Wait a minute, we are not done with our summer shows at the punk bolthole 🫸🏻💥🫷🏻

Saturday 13th of July, we are excited to bring back the Hull born post-punk four piece to Manchester. Support TBA ☝🏻

On August 2nd, we will be hosting aussie punk gang !
"‘𝑹𝒆𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒄𝒐𝒐𝒍 𝒃𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝑨𝒖𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒂’ - 𝑯𝒆𝒏𝒓𝒚 𝑹𝒐𝒍𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒔 (𝑲𝑪𝑹𝑾)
𝑻𝒐𝒑 10 𝑨𝒍𝒃𝒖𝒎𝒔 𝒐𝒇 2022 - 𝑹𝒐𝒍𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑺𝒕𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝑨𝒖𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒂"
Opening up the dances, the thrash-can punk of to make sure this is one you cannot miss 🫱🏻

Come down watch some cool bands this summer 🤲🏻

Come get mind-blowned TOMORROW night at with and 💥
Two of the best power-duos in the country on the same stage 🤯

Music starts at 10pm, £3 OTD 🪙
Don't miss this.

Ready to make plans for this weekend? We have two hot shows for you 🫕

We have been asked by the lovely people at to send some of our favourite bands to take over their venue on Saturday 8th of June 🤝🏻
So don't miss this hell of a little heavy line-up: , and 😯

On the same date, if you're keen for some late night fuzz in Manchester, we got you covered too. Tearing up the stage once again, from Warrington with fury. Support comes from the amazing ☄️
The usual awesome deal of £3 entry, you know!

𝗧𝗢𝗠𝗢𝗥𝗥𝗢𝗪 - New Zealand punk powerhouse at 🎯🎯🎯🎯
Support comes from new hot fuzz riders 🐎

Music from 10pm // £5 OTD for this one🫰🏻

will be on the decks from midnight to make sure you get your end of May dose of quality grunge and punk rock 🥼

Great write up from Backseat Mafia, thanks for coming down!

Say Psych: Live Review: Meltchester 18.05.2024 On 18 May, independent Manchester promoters Sour Grapes Records hosted Meltchester, a one day festival of all things psych, garage-rock and punk. As with the previous editions it will be …

record release show at 🤝🏻
TONIGHT - FEEE ENTRY - 8:30pm
Special guests :

"No Jury, No Prizes" is OUT. Get your cassette or record from or 🥵

We needed a few days to recover from MELTCHESTER vol.3, we would need a few months to thank each one of you who came down to our third city festival at Projekts MCR Skatepark❤️‍🔥🫠

Special thanks to:
Projekts Skatepark and all its staff 🛹
All bands who played 🤲🏻
Jordan Warren () 👁🔥
Brogan, Jan, Gareth, Grace and Huw 🙌🏻
Spirit Studios + Solotech UK Group 🔊
Habitat Studios 🥁🎸
Tarricrii🤌🏻
Signature Brew 🍻
Big Hands Bar 🎉

Great shots by Sinead Ferguson & Lucy Alexandra 🥹

See you at vol.4 👀

Incoming for Friday!

The effervescent kick off the FREE Deansgate Mews Festival this Friday (May 24th) with the equally fizzy and the bubbly . Serving , psych-rock, garage and post-punk til midnight

ALL READY - vol.3 NOW
COME DOWN EARLY WATCH ALL THE BANDS

LETS GO

🛹 𝗦𝗘𝗧 𝗧𝗜𝗠𝗘𝗦 🫠

vol.3 is only 2 days away 💥
Come down early. Don't miss any of these incredible bands.

Final advance tickets are still on sale, link in bio 🤲🏻
Free skating all day for ticket holders 😮
Afterparty at from 11pm 🪅

Get in touch if you need any more info!

⬇️🫠 𝗔𝗙𝗧𝗘𝗥𝗣𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗬 at the one and only 🔥⬇️

Californian synth-psych duo .exclusive will be playing LIVE from midnight 🫢
And if that's not enough, the funk and soul specialists will be there to DJ and make you dance until 3am 😮

𝗙𝗥𝗘𝗘 𝗘𝗡𝗧𝗥𝗬 with the festival's wristband 🫠🫠🫠

Saturday May 18th at from 1:30pm 🛹
𝗙𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗮𝗱𝘃𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗸𝗲𝘁𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗼𝗻 𝘀𝗮𝗹𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗼𝗻𝗹𝘆 𝟱 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗱𝗮𝘆𝘀

Artworks by the incredible 🙌🏻

A great write-up from the always wonderful Le at Backseat Mafia! Grab those tickets - only 10 days left!

Say Psych: Preview: Meltchester Vol. 3, Manchester On 18 May, independent Manchester promoters Sour Grapes Records once again host Meltchester, an one day festival of all things psych, garage-rock and punk. As with the previous editions it will be …

A tasty lil write up in one of our faves - Far Out Magazine

Sour Grapes Records explain the importance of independent labels In a new interview with Far Out, Manchester tastemakers Sour Grapes Records discuss the importance and complexities of being an independent label today.

🫠 𝗢𝗡𝗟𝗬 𝟭𝟵 𝗧𝗜𝗖𝗞𝗘𝗧𝗦 𝗟𝗘𝗙𝗧 𝗙𝗢𝗥 £𝟮𝟱 🔥
🔥 9 𝙡𝙞𝙫𝙚 𝙥𝙨𝙮𝙘𝙝, 𝙜𝙖𝙧𝙖𝙜𝙚-𝙧𝙤𝙘𝙠 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙥𝙪𝙣𝙠 𝙗𝙖𝙣𝙙𝙨 + 𝙛𝙧𝙚𝙚 𝙨𝙠𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙩𝙞𝙘𝙠𝙚𝙩 𝙝𝙤𝙡𝙙𝙚𝙧𝙨 + 𝙖𝙬𝙖𝙧𝙙 𝙬𝙞𝙣𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙗𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙖𝙜𝙚𝙨 + 𝙨𝙞𝙘𝙞𝙡𝙞𝙖𝙣 𝙨𝙩𝙧𝙚𝙚𝙩 𝙛𝙤𝙤𝙙 🔥

vol.3 at skatepark is only 15 days away 🛹

𝗧𝗜𝗖𝗞𝗘𝗧𝗦 𝗜𝗡 𝗕𝗜𝗢 🤲🏻

🔥 9 𝙡𝙞𝙫𝙚 𝙥𝙨𝙮𝙘𝙝, 𝙜𝙖𝙧𝙖𝙜𝙚-𝙧𝙤𝙘𝙠 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙥𝙪𝙣𝙠 𝙗𝙖𝙣𝙙𝙨 + 𝙛𝙧𝙚𝙚 𝙨𝙠𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙩𝙞𝙘𝙠𝙚𝙩 𝙝𝙤𝙡𝙙𝙚𝙧𝙨 + 𝙖𝙬𝙖𝙧𝙙 𝙬𝙞𝙣𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙗𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙖𝙜𝙚𝙨 + 𝙨𝙞𝙘𝙞𝙡𝙞𝙖𝙣 𝙨𝙩𝙧𝙚𝙚𝙩 𝙛𝙤𝙤𝙙 🔥

🫠🫠 𝙈𝙀𝙇𝙏𝘾𝙃𝙀𝙎𝙏𝙀𝙍 𝙫𝙤𝙡.3 is just over 2 weeks away 🫠
Come down to the third edition of our city festival at
Skatepark 🛹

A handful of cheaper advance tickets are left on sale now...price will change next week 👀

TICKETS IN BIO 🫠🫠🫠

📸 of the grapes by the amazing

A lovely lil preview of the fest from Louderthanwar
17 days left to grab them tickets!
https://www.skiddle.com/festivals/meltchester/

Meltchester Vol. 3 - Festival Preview Meltchester Festival returns to Manchester this month for another round of incredible garage-psych bands brought to us by Sour Grapes Records.

Still lots of sweaty nights left at in April, but we can't wait to announce what we have coming up next month 🫣

On May 3rd come get to know a bit of what Glasgow's garage-rock scene has to offer and watch fuzz-noise rockers shred on stage. Support comes from the lovely and loud 🔊

May 11th is the day of the return of Bristol garage-psych wizards . From Sheffield, the amazing weirdos will support 💥

You don't think it's good to go out on a Monday? Let us try to prove you wrong. On May 13th, the Canadian art-punk gang will stop by Manchester for a rock show. Opening the dances, local post-punk heroes 🐅

Our psych and garage-rock city festival will have an afterparty. It will be at Big Hands, of course. The date is May 18th, save it.

The last Saturday of the month, May 25th, we will be hosting , London based art-rock eclectic collective. Come witness their Manchester debut. Support is TBA 😮

Don't forget these gigs are all £3 entry and don't forget music always starts late ⌚️

𝗢𝗨𝗧 𝗧𝗢𝗗𝗔𝗬 • sooo happy to release Frech post-garage-punk trio NAKED SOFT MEN new EP 'Bad Daddy' on cassette today 🤲🏻

Come down to MARS TAPES and check out one of these super stylish pink punk tapes or order yours directly from our Bandcamp: https://nakedsoftmen.bandcamp.com/album/bad-daddy?label=3395963502&tab=merch 🏃🏻‍♂️🏃🏻‍♀️

You can get one and also catch Naked Soft Men live TONIGHT at with support from Fruit 😮
Music will start at 10pm and the ticket is the cheapest in town...