- The Night and Day Café
The Night and Day Café is a popular cafe bar and live music venue located on Oldham Street,
Manchester . The establishment provides live gigs most nights of the week, from new indie bands on the Manchester scene like Seizures through to more establishedsinger-songwriters , as well as acts such asDavid Devant and his Spirit Wife andAbstract Dawn , who provide visual as well as musical entertainment. Other new acts proposed for the venue include The Railway Children, The Danny Boys and the very vibrant Donnybrook Affair.The venue was threatened with closure when a redevelopment of the building was proposed, which would have featured a Manchester store for
Urban Outfitters (they finally located in a unit in Market Street).The venue is located between
Magma Design Bookstore /Vinyl Exchange on one side andCafé Pop /Dry Bar on the other. It is near to theWestworld Retail Corp. Fashion store and the Manchester branch of theForbidden Planet comics and collectors store.Trivia
* "The Night and Day Café" was mentioned in the TV show "Lost" in the season three episode "Greatest Hits" as the place where Charlie's band DriveSHAFT played their first gig.
* My Chemical Romance played one of their first UK gigs at the Night and Day Café.
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