Clap Your Hands Say Yeah! (CLHSY!) return for another inevitably breathtaking performance at Manchester Academy. Expect high-energy, helium-voiced, hell-for-leather music.

Support from Cold War Kids and Elvis Perkins.

www.myspace.com/clapyourhandssayyeah

Tickets £12.50 adv

All-female four-piece whose whole shtick seems to be to make their music buzz with energy throughout. They succeeds in the same way Stereolab do.

www.myspace.com/electrelane

Tickets £10 adv

The French duo return for more star-watching antics. I’ve never seen them live. Are they any good?

www.myspace.com/intairnet

Tickets £tbc

… who are actually from Sweden. Expect plenty of twee, Ooberman-style songs from this clan.

Support from Lucy & the Caterpillar.

www.myspace.com/imfrombarcelona

Tickets £7.50 advance