ROCK CONCERTS IN MANCHESTER
ROCK CONCERTS IN MANCHESTER
Most Popular Rock Concerts in Manchester
Queen of the Night - A Tribute to Whitney Houston
Pyramid and Parr Hall
Thu 20 Mar 2025 - Thu 29 Jan 2026
What's Love Got To Do With It - A Tribute to Tina Turner
Manchester Opera House
Sun 16 Feb - Wed 3 Sep 2025
Tina - The Tina Turner Musical
Palace Theatre
Tue 25 Nov 2025 - Sat 3 Jan 2026
Candlelight - A Tribute to Coldplay on Strings
Manchester Cathedral
Sat 8 Feb - Thu 6 Mar 2025
Fleetwood Bac - The Fleetwood Mac Tribute Show
Manchester Academy
Sat 29 Mar - Sat 13 Sep 2025
The Luke Combs Experience - Luke Combs Tribute
Manchester Academy
Sat 31 May - Sat 6 Sep 2025
The Flaming Lips
O2 Apollo, Manchester
Sunday 4 May 2025
Celebrating the 20th anniverary of their tenth studio album the Oklahoma psychedelic rockers perform their UK Platinum-selling Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots in full. Featuring the hit singles 'Do You Realize??', 'Yoshimi Battles the Pink...
Mike Masse
Band On The Wall, Manchester
Sunday 4 May 2025
Internationally acclaimed Denver, Colorado, guitarist, Mike Masse is known for his known for his epic whirlwind acoustic covers of rock classics. He initially became known for his YouTube Channel, which now has over 400,000 subscribers an...The FIXX
Gorilla, Manchester
Sunday 4 May 2025
Despite never scoring a Top 40 hit in their home country, London new wave act The FIXX have been heralded as one of the most innovative bands to come out of the 1980's "MTV era", garnering three #1 hits in the USA, five more in the Top 5 a...Wormwitch
Star and Garter, Manchester
Sunday 4 May 2025
Tapestry Promotions are proud to present:WormwitchPlus special guests:UnderdarkSunday 4th MayThe Star & Garter, Manchester...Vundabar
The Deaf Institute, Manchester
Monday 5 May 2025
In the decade since their inception, Boston, Massachusetts indie rockers Vundabar have built a dedicated fanbase and staked their reputation on their madcap live performances. In late 2021, their 2015 song "Alien Blues" went viral via TikTo...The Pogues
O2 Apollo, Manchester
Wednesday 7 May 2025
Following the death of Kent frontman Shane MacGowan in 2023, Celtic punk legends The Pogues return in 2025 for their first UK Tour since 2012 to celebrate 40 years of 'Rum Sodomy & the Lash'. Featuring original members, Mancunian accordian ...
Olly Murs
Co-op Live, Manchester
Thursday 8 May 2025
Fresh from his nationwide tour as special guest to Take That earlier this year, Olly Murs has announced a massive UK Arena tour for next Spring. Get ready to party with a set that features all the hits and more! Blue will be special guests ...This Flight Tonight - A Tribute To Joni Mitchell
Knutsford Little Theatre, Knutsford
Thursday 8 May 2025
Acclaimed singer/songwriters Zervas & Pepper present 'This Flight Tonight' an intimate acoustic tribute to the music of Joni Mitchell. Featuring songs such as 'California', 'Blue', 'Woodstock' 'Both Sides Now', 'Coyote', 'Big Yellow Taxi', ...Decapitated
Manchester Academy, Manchester
Thursday 8 May 2025
Raw, vital and crushing, Polish Tech Death masters DECAPITATED have built a reputation as one of the international leaders of their genre and they are considered to be among the genre's most influential artists. The band cross-breed various...Federico Albanese
Low Four Studio, Manchester
Thursday 8 May 2025
Between before and now; between reality and imagination; between memory and remembering. Berlin-based Italian composer and pianist Federico Albanese captures and inhabits these moments and passages of time. Each exquisitely rendered fusion...Bryan Adams
AO Arena, Manchester
Friday 9 May 2025
For most people, a No.1 hit like (Everything I Do) I Do It For You would define their entire career. For Canadian rocker Bryan Adams, it's possibly not even his most popular song. Pre-worldwide chart domination with the theme song from R...
Tangerine Dream
Aviva Studios, Manchester
Friday 9 May 2025
Described by The New York Times as 'the best synth band in the world', seven-time Grammy nominees Tangerine Dream are a German electronic music group founded in 1967 by Edgar Froese. They have released more than one hundred albums with th...Clearwater Creedence Revival - All Star Creedence Clearwater Revival Tribute
O2 Ritz, Manchester
Friday 9 May 2025
The best tribute to Creedence Clearwater Revival you're ever going to see. Selling out at venues all over the world, the band features road-hardened players who, collectively have performed with Stax legend Steve Cropper, Big Country, Den...Genesis Connected - Genesis Tribute Band
St Helens Theatre Royal, St Helens
Friday 9 May 2025
Celebrating the music of Genesis and the biggest selling acts connected: Peter Gabriel, Phil Collins and Mike & the Mechanics, this show has an incredible mix of material, from atmospheric anthems to chart toppers. Hits spanning from the la...High Fade
The Irish Club, Warrington
Friday 9 May 2025
Discover the electrifying, intoxicating High Fade: the most exciting thing to happen to funk since the '70s. Get your funk on. ...
Clubland
AO Arena, Manchester
Saturday 10 May 2025
The return of the legendary dance brand Clubland... back in UK arenas with a stella line-up. CASCADA / DARREN STYLES / FLIP N FILL v ULTRABEAT / KAREN PARRY / KELLY LLORENNA / VENGABOYS / Hosted by KEYES & FINCHY. Re-live the classic tunes...PUP
O2 Ritz, Manchester
Saturday 10 May 2025
Noisy, biting, and recklessly fun Toronto punk band PUP have earned love and accolades from The New York Times, Pitchfork, and SPIN, which helped to cement them as one the most energetic and exciting up and coming bands in the punk communit...Make Them Suffer
Manchester Academy, Manchester
Saturday 10 May 2025
Dynamic Aussie extreme metal outfit, Make Them Suffer employ a punishing blend of deathcore and blackened symphonic death metal. Some bands are bred through major labels and are handed their success, Make Them Suffer are a prime example of ...Special Kinda Madness - Tribute to The Specials & Madness
Manchester Academy, Manchester
Saturday 10 May 2025
2 Bands... 2-Tone... 1 Fantastic Night! A Specials Tribute Band and a Madness Tribute Band, all on one stage. That's Special Kinda Madness. Special Kinda Madness perform a truly authentic set from each band, combining the phenomenally energ...Still Dangerous - A Tribute to Thin Lizzy
The Spinning Top, Stockport
Saturday 10 May 2025
Still Dangerous are a UK based band that play the greatest hits from legendary rockers Thin Lizzy. With blisteringly precise dual guitars, heavy drums and the signature vocals of Phil Lynott. ...
Soul & Motown Night - Manchester
Patricroft Conservative Club, Manchester
Saturday 10 May 2025
Join us for a soulful evening celebrating the classic sounds of Soul & Motown, featuring DJ Ste Young, who will be on the decks spinning all the legen...Twenty One Pilots
AO Arena, Manchester
Sunday 11 May 2025
Grammy Award-winning Ohio electopop duo Twenty One Pilots are best known for their Platinum-selling UK hits "Stressed Out", "Heathens" and "Ride". The duo are most frequently labelled as alternative hip hop, borrowing from a wide variety o...Hawkwind
The Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
Sunday 11 May 2025
Famed for their 1972 UK no.2 hit "Silver Machine", Hawkwind was formed in 1969 by Dave Brock, who still remains at the helm today. In 1970, the band played at the first-ever Glastonbury Festival, released their eponymously titled debut albu...
The Waterboys
The Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
Tuesday 13 May 2025
Best known for songs including "How Long Will I Love You" and "The Whole of the Moon", The Waterboys have been led by Scottish singer and guitarist Mike Scott - their line-up otherwise ever-evolving - since the early 1980s, having won a ...The Necks
Band On The Wall, Manchester
Tuesday 13 May 2025
The Necks are one of the great cult bands of Australia. The deceptive simplicity of their music throws forth new charms on each hearing. Not entirely avant-garde, nor minimalist, nor ambient, nor jazz, the music of The Necks is possibly un...
Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band
Co-op Live, Manchester
Wednesday 14 - Tuesday 20 May 2025
Lauded by Rolling Stone as "the embodiment of rock & roll", with more than 140 million records sold around the globe and more than 70 million in the United States, Bruce Springsteen is one of the world's best-selling artists. Long recogni...Soccer Mommy
New Century Hall, Manchester
Wednesday 14 May 2025
Quietly catchy and surprisingly confrontational. Soccer Mommy is the indie pop project of Sophie Allison, a wise beyond her years young Nashville native and musical wunderkind. Her songs, which have confronted toxic relationships and infat...The Wiggles
O2 Apollo, Manchester
Thursday 15 May 2025
Children and parents are in for a big treat as The Wiggles hop into their Big Red Car and embark on one of their biggest global tours ever. An incredible musical adventure awaits as they take their new show on tour, based on the smash hit s...
Supergrass
Albert Hall, Manchester
Friday 16 - Saturday 17 May 2025
Tearing by at a breakneck speed, it has been 30 years since 'I Should Coco', the spectacularly eclectic chart-topping debut by Oxford Britpop rockstars Supergrass, was released. At the time, the band were barely out of their teens. The albu...The All or Nothing Experience - The Story Of The Small Faces
Octagon Theatre, Bolton
Friday 16 - Saturday 17 May 2025
After three sell out tours and a successful West End run of All or Nothing - the Mod Musical, writer Carol Harrison and the show's multi-talented cast, perform the new, All Or Nothing Experience Concert Show, celebrating the music of the...Barry Steele's The Roy Orbison Story
The Albert Halls, Bolton
Friday 16 May 2025
Barry Steele is widely recognised as one of the world's leading vocalists playing homage to legend Roy Orbison. He has stunned audiences across the globe with his uncanny similarity and ability to authentically revive the exquisite toe-tapp...Bradley Simpson (The Vamps)
O2 Ritz, Manchester
Friday 16 May 2025
Bradley is best known for his role as singer, songwriter, and frontman of British band The Vamps, and commands a massive fanbase, already with multiple chart-topping albums. With an impressive 15 performances at London's O2 Arena, including...China Crisis
Lowry, Salford
Friday 16 May 2025
Eddie Lundon and Gary Daly are the founder members of the band which started in Kirkby, Merseyside back in 1979. China Crisis found major success in the UK with five Top 40 singles, ten Top 50 singles and three Top 40 albums and hits across...Beyond the Barricade
