DEADLETTER BRING ALL DAYER VIBES TO MANCHESTER’S PROJEKTS SKATEPARK

PHOTO GALLERY | DEADLETTER | PROJEKTS SKATEPARK, MANCHESTER | 10th May 2026 by Lucy McLachlan

Yorkshire born London based Deadletter are riding high after the release of their second full length offering Existence is Bliss. An album which on it’s release date was celebrated by the band playing a string of shows whilst on a pub crawl round London.

Tonight at Projekts is their third show of the Existence is Bliss tour but brought raging all-dayer festival vibes to a concrete skate park under the Mancunian Way flyover with a stacked 4 band line up. Normal tour shenanigans to resume in London on the 15th May.

The evening started with an early set from Manchester ‘Gub Rock’ (post punk, art rock, sax) 7 piece Mleko. As we’ve covered before recently at Liverpool’s So Long Good Friday, saxophone bands are on the rise and Mleko is the first of two for this evening (never a bad thing!)

Dublin alt rock band Brooki followed warming up a freezing cold crowd who have installed themselves on every ramp and grind box going. Treating the venue like an adventure playground, the crowd are attempting to run up steep ramps only to slide down again on bums. Shout out to the person wearing 4 inch stiletto boots who navigated the ramps better than most people wearing trainers.

Bleech 9:3 felt like a headline set in itself. The Dublin born, now London based band have a heavy late 90s, early 2000s hard rock style and seem to be rapidly on the rise with the release of their debut EP “Bleech 9:3” on Friday 15th May. The crowd showed up for a 7.45pm set time with the floor opening up to become one big pit, phones filming the set and every song belted out.

Deadletter had us all tense on edge. In the photo pit before the set we’re informed ‘the singer’ goes into the crowd during the first song and to be ready. Everyone bracing themselves to have to show up with a strict no flash even around the venue rule. Frontman Zac Lawrence paces round the stage with reels of microphone cable in hand almost gearing himself up to jump right in.

Deadletter give a powerful almost ominous performance, Lawrence doesn’t stay still taking frequent trips through the crowd preaching his word or prowling and jumping round the stage, coils of cable bunched up in his hand. The band have 5 shows still to go on this tour in London, Sheffield, Newcastle, Glasgow and Nottingham, but with support from RY-GUY. Manchester got the special treatment this time around and we’re glad for it.

The Existence is Bliss UK tour continues this week – tickets are on sale now.