Manchester Academy: MEGADOG, featuring DJ Michael Dog, DJ Evolution and Luke Slater, £12.50, 9pm to 4am

Manchester Roadhouse: TOMPAULIN, plus support, £3/£4, 8pm

Met Cafe Bar, Bury: INDIAN GIVER, dark pop, £3/£4, 8pm

Hawthorns Nightclub, Bolton: DUFFLE, 9.30pm

Band On The Wall, Manchester: SNAKE DAVIS, £5/£6, 8pm

Oliver's Bar, Burnley Mechanics: CRAZY RHYTHM, jazz, 12.30pm

Madison Park Wine Bar, Rawtenstall: THE FIRM, 8pm

Manchester Roadhouse: DAY ONE, hip hop, £5, 8pm

Night And Day Cafe, Manchester: ALPAQUE, plus support, £2.50/£3.50, 9pm

Burnley Mechanics: CREAM'D, tribute £8/£9, 8pm

Utopia Discotheque, Blackburn: BUS STOP, '70s sounds, 10pm to 2am

Manchester University: BREAKBEAT ERA, £7

Manchester Roadhouse: MISSED HER BLISS

The Witchwood, Ashton-under-Lyne: JJ72, £4, 8pm

Adelphi, Preston: DALE WATSON AND HIS LONE STARS

The Witchwood, Ashton-under-Lyne: THE HAMSTERS, £6/£7, 9pm

Band On The Wall, Manchester: WAYNE KRANTZ, £8.50/£9.50, 8pm

Windsor Suite, King George's Hall, Blackburn: EARL, GECHO, BIGFLUFF, POINDEXTER, THE BURN, FLUX, £5, 8.30pm

Plane Tree Hotel, Burnley: DEPON EYE

Brooks Club, Accrington: SONIC BABA G, DJ SANSCRYPT, DJ AAAK, BOUKHA 2, £2.50

Cellar Bar, Blackburn: DUBTERRANEA, dub and roots DJ sounds, free, 9pm to 1am

Met Cafe Bar, Bury: THE SPLITTERS, £3.50/£5

Jazzy Kex, Blackburn: OUTASIGHT, funky DJ sounds till 3am

Utopia Discotheque, Blackburn: LUST, 10pm to 3am

Band On The Wall, Manchester: MICHAEL ROSE, £8.50/£9.50, 8pm

Converted for the new archive on 14 July 2000. Some images and formatting may have been lost in the conversion.