undercurrent.band — Manchester first
Put your music online. Book the room. Sell the shirt.
Undercurrent is where unsigned artists run the parts of a career that used to need a label: a profile with your music and videos, updates that reach your followers, gigs you can actually apply to, and a merch table that takes card. We take 5% of what you sell and nothing else.
Free. No approval queue. Your page is live the minute you make it — it does not wait on anyone else being here.
State of the platform
The seed landed. It is still small, and it is still mostly Manchester.
The counts above the fold are the whole platform, not a curated slice of it. If your night is not on here it is because nobody has posted it, not because we hid it.
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- Artists
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- Venues
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- Gigs listed
Counts update live. Seeded in Manchester, open anywhere.
Coming up
All gigs →Nothing is listed yet. When gigs land they show up here in date order — not ranked, not promoted, not paid for. Post the first one.
What you get on day one
A page that works whether or not anyone else has turned up.
Parlour Ghosts
Manchester · post-punk, three-piece
412 followers
Update · 2 days ago
New one up, recorded in a garage in Levenshulme. Tapes at the merch table on Thursday.
Your music and videos, embedded
Bandcamp, Spotify or SoundCloud, and your YouTube videos, playing on the page. You keep the accounts you already have.
Updates that land in your followers' feeds
Post a rehearsal photo, a new track, the poster for Thursday. Everyone who follows you sees it — no algorithm deciding who deserves it.
A merch table with card payments
Shirts, tapes, spare gear. Stripe handles the money, we take 5%, you keep the rest. Nothing monthly.
A gig board — flag that you're looking, apply to open slots
Promoters look for artists who are available, and when a venue posts a night you apply from your profile: they already have your music and your history.
If you run a room
Post the night, read the applications, listen before you book.
Every application arrives attached to a profile with the music on it, so you are not opening WeTransfer links from strangers. Free while we seed Manchester.
If you just go to gigs
Follow the artists you rate — their gigs, new tracks, videos and updates land in one feed.
The feed is chronological and shows you what the people you follow are doing. There is no discovery engine, and there is not going to be one.
You can also RSVP to the nights and buy the shirt straight from the artist.
Not in Manchester?
You can still sign up — the profile, the merch and the classifieds work anywhere in the UK. But we only seed one city at a time, and the next one is decided by where people ask from. Tell us where you are.