Man/Woman/Chainsaw Bring Their Restless Live Sound to The Grove

Man/Woman/Chainsaw The Grove Newcastle brings one of London’s most talked-about young live bands to St Michael’s Road on Thursday 24 September 2026, with doors at 7pm and support from Bathing Suits. The six-piece have built their reputation around shows that can shift from violin-led tension and quieter passages into jagged guitars and sudden bursts of noise without settling into one lane for long.

That unpredictability is a big part of the attraction. Man/Woman/Chainsaw sit somewhere between art rock, post-punk and more orchestral ideas, but the individual pieces matter less than the way the band moves between them. Their songs often feel deliberately unstable, with one section pulling against another until everything comes together in a much bigger release.

Man/Woman/Chainsaw The Grove Newcastle should thrive at close range

The Grove is a useful room for a band whose live identity relies on interaction. At around 350 capacity, it keeps the audience close enough to catch the smaller musical details while still giving the heavier moments room to land properly. Violin, keyboards and multiple guitars can easily turn muddy in the wrong space, so the attraction here is hearing those textures without the distance of a much larger venue.

The band’s recent releases have shown that the chaos is carefully controlled. Tracks can begin with an almost fragile feel before changing direction completely, and that sense of movement has helped separate them from the crowded field of new guitar bands coming through London. It also makes a headline set more interesting because the energy does not have to stay at one level all night.

Bathing Suits open the show, giving the date a support slot worth arriving early for rather than treating the evening as a single-band booking. The current ticketing puts doors at 7pm, so there should be enough time for both sets to breathe.

One date point is worth noting: the current Grove ticketing lists Newcastle for 24 September, so SoundBite is using that live ticket information for this listing. Check the band and venue channels before travelling in case anything changes.

More Newcastle gigs are on SoundBite North East’s Upcoming Gigs, with the venue’s other dates on our The Grove Newcastle page.