GIGS IN MANCHESTER
GIGS IN MANCHESTER
Most Popular Gigs in Manchester
Here You Come Again - The New Dolly Parton Musical
Manchester Opera House
Tue 4 - Sat 8 Feb 2025
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
NOW That's What I Call A Musical
Manchester Opera House
Tue 28 Jan - Sat 1 Feb 2025
Tina - The Tina Turner Musical
Palace Theatre
Tue 25 Nov 2025 - Sat 3 Jan 2026
The Hallé - Tchaikovsky's Fateful Fourth
The Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
Sunday 26 January 2025
Roderick Cox - a 'trailblazer... a conductor who will be amongst the vanguard' (Minnesota Star Tribune) conducts Tchaikovsky's fateful Fourth Symphony. After Christopher Cerrone's The Insects Became Magnetic - a piece first prompted by th...RNCM International Brass Band Festival
RNCM, Manchester
Sunday 26 January 2025
The RNCM International Brass Band Festival remains a premier stage for the world's leading brass band musicians, celebrating the finest repertoire crafted for the genre. Under the artistic direction of David Thornton, the festival passio...The Brighouse & Rastrick Band
RNCM, Manchester
Sunday 26 January 2025
Regarded as one of the finest brass bands in history, The Brighouse and Rastrick Band is seen by many as being the best and most consistent "public subscription band" in the world. In its time the majority of premier band championships h...Cory Band
RNCM, Manchester
Sunday 26 January 2025
One of the oldest and best known award-winning brass bands in the world, the famous Cory Band were formed in 1884 in the Rhondda Valley in South Wales. Ranked the world's No. 1 brass band for 13 consecutive years, Cory made world histo...Femi Kuti & The Positive Force Band
Band On The Wall, Manchester
Sunday 26 January 2025
The undisputed inheritor of the genius of his father, Nigerian Afro-beat superstar Fela Kuti, Afrobeat icon Femi Kuti is renowned for his relentless energy and powerful, vibrant performances. Femi continues to captivate audiences worldwide ...Earthgang
Gorilla, Manchester
Sunday 26 January 2025
Be seduced into the eclectic world of these two Atlanta dreamers. In their native Atlanta, some people already consider funky hip hop duo EarthGang to be legends. Olu (aka Johnny Venus) and WowGr8 (aka Doctur Dot) incorporate Southern hip h...High Fade
The Deaf Institute, Manchester
Sunday 26 January 2025
Discover the electrifying, intoxicating High Fade: the most exciting thing to happen to funk since the '70s. Get your funk on. ...Andy Powell's Big Band Swing
Stockport Plaza, Stockport
Sunday 26 January 2025
Stockport's premier live entertainer Andy Powell returns with his swinging big band show. An unforgettable afternoon of Swing and Big Band Classics by artists such as Frank Sinatra, Bobby Darin, Matt Monro, Michael Buble, Tony Bennett, N...Valley
Manchester Academy, Manchester
Sunday 26 January 2025
Canadian indie pop band Valley received a nomination for Breakthrough Group of the Year at the 2020 Juno Awards as well as a nomination for Group of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2022. ...RNCM Brass Band
RNCM, Manchester
Sunday 26 January 2025
Established during the 1990s by brass innovator Howard Snell, the RNCM Brass Band has always been a flagship ensemble of the institution. Geographically the RNCM is ideally placed in Manchester for brass band students and it boasts a teachi...A Complete Unknown (15)
HOME, Manchester
Sunday 26 - Thursday 30 January 2025
★★★ Timothee Chalamet is brilliant and believable in James Mangold's conventional Dylan biopic. ~ BBC. --- Timothee Chalamet stars as Bob Dylan in the ballad of a true original. A Film by James Mangold. Co-starring Edward Norton, El...Maria (12A)
HOME, Manchester
Sunday 26 - Thursday 30 January 2025
★★★★ An on-song Angelina Jolie fronts this stirring biopic about opera singer Maria Callas. ~ Radio Times. --- From acclaimed director Pablo Larrain - director of Jackie and Spencer - Maria tells the tumultuous, beautiful, and ...Loose Articles
The Stockport Music Story In Conversation with Peter Tattersall
Stockport Museum, Stockport
Sunday 26 January 2025
The founder of the iconic Strawberry Recording Studios in Stockport talks to Dr Peter Wadsworth about creating 'the Abbey Road of the North'. This is a rare opportunity to be part of the audience in an intimate chat between Peter Tattersall...Macclesfield Youth Brass Band
RNCM, Manchester
Sunday 26 January 2025
Macclesfield Youth Brass Band has over 120 members, welcoming complete beginners and advanced musicians alike. This special showcase is in honour of the band's 20th anniversary. ...
Brass Bands England Discussion
RNCM, Manchester
Sunday 26 January 2025
Brass Bands England supports and promotes brass bands by fostering community engagement, sharing resources, and increasing public understanding of their value. They provide access to funding, training, and resources in key areas like market...Du Blonde
Yes, Manchester
Sunday 26 January 2025
Now Wave presents Du Blonde at Yes Basement on 26th January 2025...John Craigie
Night & Day Cafe, Manchester
Sunday 26 January 2025
John Craigie has mastered the art of creating live shows that feel more like intimate conversations than performances. Infusing humour, wit, and poignant storytelling, his shows are a space where audience members feel like old friends. Whet...Big Condo Records Presents Organised Sound 4
Peggy Mccools, Warrington
Sunday 26 January 2025
Big Condo Records Presents Organised Sound 4 live at Peggy McCools the vintage venue in Warrington with a super line up of emerging artists.......St.Helens Jazz & Blues Festival
The Brickhouse, St Helens
Sunday 26 January 2025
We are back for our 3rd instalment of the Jazz & Blues Festival...RNCM Monday Lunchtime Showcase
RNCM, Manchester
Monday 27 January - Monday 31 March 2025
Drop in during your lunch break and discover a wide range of performances for free with the RNCM's Monday and Thursday Lunchtime concerts. Witness the next generation of musicians in this intimate lunchtime solo and chamber music series,...
Couchgagzzz Live at Big Hands
Big Hands, Manchester
Monday 27 January 2025
A Monday night event Italian Man Utd fans, Couchgazzz hop over to Big Hands for a live show ahead of their BBC 6 music session...NOW That's What I Call A Musical
Manchester Opera House, Manchester
Tuesday 28 January - Saturday 1 February 2025
Celebrating 40 years of iconic and chart-topping compilation albums, this brand-new musical comedy has an unbeatable 80s soundtrack and show-stopping direction and choreography by Strictly Come Dancing's Craig Revel Horwood. This is an even...Soul Asylum
Manchester Academy, Manchester
Tuesday 28 January 2025
One of the most successful American Alternative Rock bands of the 1990s, Minneapolis's Soul Asylum's folk-influenced grunge beared the roots of the Country-Rock revival with their triple-Platinum certified Grave Dancers Union album, whi...Lake Street Dive
New Century Hall, Manchester
Tuesday 28 January 2025
Since forming in 2004, Lake Street Dive have matched their sophisticated musicianship with a fearless refusal to limit their sound, creating joyously soulful rock & roll with equal parts ingenuity, intelligence, and irresistible abandon. F...IVW: Beavertown X Night & Day Cafe Presents Opus Kink
Night & Day Cafe, Manchester
Tuesday 28 January 2025
in support of this year's INDEPENDENT VENUE WEEK, Night & Day are Teaming up with Beavertown Brewery to bring Brighton psychsters OPUS KINK to MCR...
Spread Your Love x IVW - YASMIN COE
The Rat And Pigeon, Manchester
Tuesday 28 January 2025
YASMIN COE headlines the 1st of 3 Independent Venue Week x Spread Your Love specials at Manchester hottest new grassroots venue: The Rat & Pigeon...RNCM Opera Scenes
RNCM, Manchester
Wednesday 29 - Friday 31 January 2025
FREE EVENT. RNCM vocal and conducting students present excerpts from some of opera's greatest moments in this free series of staged scenes. A perfect way to feed your curiosity! Click on tickets link for the perfromers and excerpts presente...Doves - In Conversation with Chris Hawkins
Yes, Manchester
Wednesday 29 January 2025
To celebrate the release of their upcoming new album, Jez & Andy from Doves will take part in an intimate Q and A Session hosted by Chris Hawkins. There will be no live music at this event. ...Mud Morganfield
The Blues Kitchen, Manchester
Wednesday 29 January 2025
The eldest son of Muddy Waters, Mud Morganfield proves to be a chip off the old block with his powerful mostly original tunes in the classic Chicago blues style. Mud's powerful voice can summon up the spirit in a way that is all but lost in...The DSM IV
Night & Day Cafe, Manchester
Wednesday 29 January 2025
Formed by Guy McKnight of cult favourites The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster, The DSM IV are one of the most electrifying live bands of the moment, having supported both Sleaford Mods and The Libertines across Europe, which offered them ...
IVW: The DSM IV
House and Garage Katalyst
Kable Club, Manchester
Wednesday 29 January 2025
This night supplies house, garage, bassline and dubstep with headliner CAP'N MORGAN supplying the bassline and up and coming DJ's providing all 140's....RTB Open Mic and Cypher
The Old Abbey Tap House, Manchester
Wednesday 29 January 2025
RTBMCR are driving the underground rap scene in Manny bringing you the hottest rappers and producers Manny has to offer. Be a part of the movement....Spread Your Love x IVW - MARTIAL ARTS
The Rat And Pigeon, Manchester
Wednesday 29 January 2025
MARTIAL ARTS headline this SYL x IVW special at Manchester's hottest new grassroots venue: The Rat & Pigeon...ATEEZ
AO Arena, Manchester
Thursday 30 January 2025
Crowned a "K-Pop Powerhouse" by The Hollywood Reporter, million-selling global pop superstars ATEEZ have scored three UK Top 10 albums. The South Korean group that took the world by storm immediately after their debut in October 2018 are kn...Bullet For My Valentine + Trivium
Co-op Live, Manchester
Thursday 30 January 2025
A co-headline tour from Welsh quartet Bullet For My Valentine, who straddle metal, punk and emo, with Florida quartet Trivium, whose inimitable masterful melody, hypnotic hook-craft, tight thrash, metal scope, and cinematic extremity has m...London Symphonic Rock Orchestra
Lowry, Salford
Thursday 30 January 2025
Boundary breaking pioneers fusing the omnipotent power of the orchestra with innovative technology the raucous rebellion of rock, London Symphonic Rock Orchestra deliver iconic rock hits in the most spectacular way.A collective of 12 ...
Pierre-Laurent Aimard
The Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
Thursday 30 January 2025
Pierre-Laurent Aimard, one of the world's greatest living pianists, climbs the Everest of solo keyboard repertoire: Book II of Johann Sebastian Bach's towering tour de force. Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier consists of two sets of 24 prelude...Sing-a-Long-a The Greatest Showman
Stockport Plaza, Stockport
Thursday 30 January 2025
Sing-a-Long-a Productions, producers of Sing-a-Long-a Sound of Music and Sing-a-Long-a Grease brings you their newest show, the smash hit film musical that everyone can't stop singing - The Greatest Showman! Look out 'cause here it com...Aswad
Manchester Cathedral, Manchester
Thursday 30 January 2025
Known for their groundbreaking blend of reggae, dub, and soul, Aswad are one of the most influential British reggae bands of all time. With hits like "Don't Turn Around," "Shine," and "Give a Little Love," Aswad has earned their place in mu...Michael Starring Ben - The Magic of Michael Jackson
St Helens Theatre Royal, St Helens
Thursday 30 January 2025
Take a journey back in time to remember Michael Jackson - the man, the music and the magic. MichaelⓇ Starring Ben is a hit theatre production starring the UK's ultimate Michael Jackson tribute star, Ben Bowman. Not only does he look and...H.E.A.T
Manchester Academy, Manchester
Thursday 30 January 2025
The current H.E.A.T line-up includes Erik Gr?nwall (Vocals), Dave Dalone (Guitars), Eric Rivers (Guitars), Jona Tee (Keyboards), Jimmy Jay (Bass) and Crash (Drums)....Julian Taylor
