Halloween: Prunk + Watchers | Joshua Brooks Manchester

Halloween 2026 at Joshua Brooks, Manchester. Amsterdam's Prunk – DJ, producer and founder of PIV Records – headlines the newly refurbished basement under the arches on Princess Street, with Watchers in support. Doors 10pm, music till 4am.

Prunk

Nilz Pronk, better known as Prunk, has spent the last decade building one of house music's most respected independent labels. He founded PIV in Amsterdam in 2015, and the label quickly earned its reputation for a steady run of high quality, groove-led house EPs that sit somewhere between classic deep house and something altogether more modern.

His own story starts earlier. He was handed an Ian Pooley record by his older brother on his eleventh birthday, started DJing at fifteen while EDM was taking over Amsterdam, and went deliberately the other way – old school deep house, and the deep, jackin' US sound of artists like Mark Farina.

Since then he has toured every continent and played Space in Miami, Hi and Amnesia in Ibiza, Awakenings in Amsterdam and Defected in Croatia, with music out on Defected, PIV, Djebali, Key Records and Ewax. Expect a proper house set: rolling, percussive and built for a dark basement.

Watchers

Watchers takes the support slot for the night, warming up the basement ahead of the headline set.

The newly refurbished basement

Joshua Brooks has been a cornerstone of Manchester nightlife for over twenty years, and the basement has just had a full refurbishment. Low ceilings, brick arches and a sound system you feel through the floor – it is one of the few rooms in the city built for exactly this kind of house music. Halloween dress is encouraged, but not compulsory.

Tickets

Tickets go on sale Friday 25 September at 9am. First release £10, then £12, then £15, with a final release of £17. A limited allocation of 25 student tickets is available at £8 with valid student ID.

Essential information

• Saturday 31 October 2026, Halloween night
• 10pm until 4am, last entry 11:30pm
• Joshua Brooks, 106 Princess Street, Manchester, M1 6NG
• 18+ only – valid photo ID required for entry