Most Popular Gigs in Manchester
Thu 20 Mar 2025 - Thu 29 Jan 2026
Sun 16 Feb - Wed 3 Sep 2025
Tue 28 Jan - Sat 1 Feb 2025
Mon 24 Feb - Sat 8 Mar 2025
Tue 25 Nov 2025 - Sat 3 Jan 2026
Sophie Ellis-Bextor
Saturday 31 May 2025
Born to Blue Peter and Jigsaw presenter Janet Ellis and film producer and director Robin Bextor in April 1979, Sophie Ellis-Bextor first delved into the world of music in the mid-'90s as the lead singer of Britpop outfit Theaudience. The ba...
Nessa Barrett
Saturday 31 May 2025
New Jersey pop rocker Janesa "Nessa" Barrett rose to fame on TikTok and began uploading covers, which led her to sign a recording contract with Warner Records and scored an international hit with "I Hope Ur Miserable Until Ur Dead" in 2021....
Day Sessions
Saturday 31 May 2025
Looking for a party where you can soak up the good vibes without staying out all night?Day Sessions is the ultimate daytime party experienced in some of the UK's most stunning Cathedrals. It's all the fun of a night out with the intimacy of...
Iggy Pop
Saturday 31 May 2025
Iggy Pop is an avant-garde icon and a punk pioneer behind Stooges classics like 'I Wanna Be Your Dog' and 'T.V. Eye', 'The Passenger' and, of course, 'Lust for Life'. ...
The Sherlocks
Saturday 31 May 2025
Sheffield alt-rock stalwarts The Sherlocks became the first unsigned act since fellow Sheffield rockers Arctic Monkeys to sell out the city's iconic Leadmill venue. Undergoing a rebirth with brothers Kiaran and Brandon Crook introducing two...
The Ultimate Classic Rock Show
Saturday 31 May 2025
Dust off your air guitars for an evening of the very best classic rock anthems from legends past and present! Let The Ultimate Classic Rock Show take you on a roller coaster journey of classic rock nostalgia. Performing hit after hit live w...
Discos for Grown Ups - 70s Disco, 80s Pop & 90s Dance Anthems
Saturday 31 May 2025
An incredible night of disco, the legendary pop-up 70s, 80s and 90s disco party is bringing the boogie to town. Get glittered up for a fun, fab and feel-good night of dancing with people your own age to all your favourite 70s disco, 80s po...
Power Ballads - Anthems That Touch the Soul
Saturday 31 May 2025
From the producers of UK Pink Floyd Experience, the final countdown is on - Power Ballads brings the greatest rock anthems of all time to stages across the UK with big hair, big voices and big fun. Stadium rock lives again with state-of-the...
AC/DC UK + Dizzy Lizzy - AC/DC & Thin Lizzy Tributes
Saturday 31 May 2025
A tribute to two classic rock giants. AC/DC UK are Europe's most explosive tribute to AC/DC and have established themselves as one of the globe's forerunners in the tribute scene, not only emulating the genuine article at their most succes...
Grace Petrie
Saturday 31 May 2025
Folk singer, lesbian and checked-shirt-collector Grace Petrie has been incorrectly called Sir every day of her adult life, and, having finally run out of things to write whiny songs about, she's putting down the guitar to try and work out w...
Transmission - The Sound of Joy Division
Saturday 31 May 2025
Devoted to recreating the atmosphere of a live Joy Division gig, Transmission emulate the sound of one of the most inventive, evocative and influential groups of their era. Joy Division were formed in Manchester during the late 1970s and d...
The Luke Combs Experience - Luke Combs Tribute
Saturday 31 May 2025
A Luke Combs tribute act who will bring you everything you need to have you foot-stomping and fist-pumping to all of the country superstar's hits. From 'The Kind of Love We Make', 'Beer Never Broke My Heart' to 'Beautiful Crazy' and 'Growin...
Clint Boon Forever
Saturday 31 May 2025
Clint Boon Forever DJ Night session.? Saturday 31st May? 7pmJoin us for an unforgettable night as Manchester legend and our friend, Clint Boon takes to the decks in support of Tiny Steps. Expect a vibrant evening filled with iconic tunes, i...
Queen of the Night - A Tribute to Whitney Houston
Sunday 1 June 2025
After selling 100,000 tickets last year with its theatre tour, including sold-out shows at the Royal Albert Hall, The London Palladium and other UK venues, Queen of the Night - A Tribute to Whitney Houston is back bigger than ever with th...
Nick Harper
Sunday 1 June 2025
Phantastes inhabits an ethereal realm and explores the parallels of the seminal C19th fantasy novel of the same name by George MacDonald and the beginnings of Nick's own love story from 1982. The album was recorded, and is performed live o...
Cat Power Sings Dylan - The 1966 Royal Albert Hall Concert
Monday 2 June 2025
Last November in London, Atlanta indie rocker Cat Power took the stage at Royal Albert Hall and delivered a song-for-song recreation of one of the most fabled and transformative live sets of all time. Held at the Manchester Free Trade Ha...
Cat Power
Monday 2 June 2025
Charlyn Marie "Chan" Marshall, better known as Cat Power, pursues the slinky Hi Records sound of the '70s - folk singers, blues singers, and everything in between -with a sensuous feel and beguiling rhythms such as Memphis horns, funky stri...
MJ Lenderman & The Wind
Tuesday 3 June 2025
MJ Lenderman is an alt-Country songwriter born and raised in Asheville, North Carolina. The anatomy of an MJ record might go something like this: warped pedal steels and skuzzed out guitar; crackin' a cold one with some buds; a voice remini...
MJ Lenderman & The Wind
Tuesday 3 June 2025
MJ Lenderman is an alt-Country songwriter born and raised in Asheville, North Carolina. The anatomy of an MJ record might go something like this: warped pedal steels and skuzzed out guitar; crackin' a cold one with some buds; a voice remini...
Andrew Cushin
Tuesday 3 June 2025
Newcastle's Andrew Cushin possesses a nuanced, multifaceted talent for songwriting which has seen him signed by Libertines legend Pete Doherty's record label. The words that he conjures are both immensely personal and reflective of modern s...
Mike Peters (The Alarm)
Tuesday 3 June 2025
It's been a remarkable career. Mike Peters, frontman of The Alarm, created one of Britain's best-loved rock bands at the turn of the 1980s. He filled arenas, enjoyed hits with Sixty Eight Guns Spirit Of '76, and Absolute Reality, and opened...
Djo
Tuesday 3 June 2025
Djo - the musical project of actor / producer / songwriter Joe Keery known for his work in blockbuster projects as Stranger Things and Fargo - announces his highly anticipated new album The Crux. The follow-up to Djo's 2022 album DECIDE, ...
Billy Ocean
Wednesday 4 June 2025
Billy Ocean is the biggest selling black recording star Britain has ever produced and has sold over 30 million records in his lifetime to date. Having achieved extraordinary success as both an artist and a songwriter, Billy has collected mu...
Man in the Mirror - A Tribute to Michael Jackson
Wednesday 4 June - Friday 4 July 2025
Join us for a Thriller of an evening, as we celebrate the legendary music of the KING OF POP. This is the "Man in the Mirror" - The brand new must-see, electrifying tribute concert to Michael Jackson. Starring CJ, one of the world's greates...
Panda Bear
Wednesday 4 June 2025
Now Wave presents Panda Bear at Band on the Wall on 4th June 2025...
The Robert Cray Band
Thursday 5 June 2025
Considered one of the greatest guitarists of his generation, Cray's soulful and creative guitar work has been a dominant force in blues for over forty years, widely recognized and acknowledged by peers and audiences alike. A five-time Gramm...
The Magic Of Motown
Thursday 5 June 2025
Get ready for all the hits, glittering costumes, dazzling dance routines and outstanding musicianship in this breath-taking live concert spectacular. You will be going Loco down in Acapulco as we take you back down memory lane with all the ...
Paris Paloma
Thursday 5 June 2025
Derbyshire-born sensation Paris Paloma delivers evocative storytelling, ethereal vocal, and a hauntingly beautiful fusion of dark folk-pop. For "The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim" soundtrack, Paloma performed an original song...
Gary Numan
Thursday 5 - Friday 6 June 2025
London-born Gary Anthony James Webb helped turn the UK's budding new wave scene on its head in the late '70s. He launched his music career by starting the band Tubeway Army, who released their eponymous debut in 1978. At the time, he adopte...
Jerry Harrison (Talking Heads) & Adrian Belew (King Crimson)
Thursday 5 June 2025
Jerry Harrison is the keyboardist and guitar player for legendary band Talking Heads. He is a member of the Rock N Roll Hall of Fame, and the recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Grammy in 2021. He has multiple critically acclaimed solo albu...
The Manfreds
Thursday 5 June 2025
The '60s group Manfred Mann is now considered, more than ever, one of the finest and most respected bands from that era. Their numerous hits were R&B based with an undercurrent of jazz - a very unusual but winning combination of playing sty...
Danny Bowes (Thunder) - Maximum Chat
Thursday 5 June 2025
Thunder frontman and Planet Rock radio presenter Danny Bowes presents his highly anticipated one-man show, Maximum Chat. The tour marks a significant return to the stage for Bowes, following his recovery from a life-threatening accident in...
The Coronas
Thursday 5 June 2025
The award-winning, arena-conquering Dublin indie rock band fuse their arms-aloft melodic pop with lush electronics, spine-tingling atmospherics and a sense of adventure. Dreamy vocoder vocals, electronic drums and space as much as sound mak...
Morgan Jay
Friday 6 June 2025
A musician and comedian based in Los Angeles, Morgan Jay has made appearances on MTV's Wild'N'Out, NBC, and Comedy Central. He has carved out his own genre of performance art and comedy creating a show built on imperfection, authenticity, r...
Scam Fender + Kopycat Killers + Subarctic Monkeys + Oasis 96
Friday 6 June 2025
With 3 hours of bangers, a quadruple tribute night to Sam Fender, The Killers, Arctic Monkeys and Oasis. Kopycat Killers are next level with vocalist Stu featuring on Killers Covers with over 10 MILLION streams. They given the Killers 'bles...
Sabbotage - A Tribute to Black Sabbath
Friday 6 June 2025
Formed from the ashes of the already established Sabbath Tribute Snowblind in 2014, immediately it was obvious that this band would become the most authentic and by far the best Black Sabbath tribute in the UK. All of the band are highl...
Nelly & St. Lunatics + Eve + Fabolous
Saturday 7 June 2025
Having emerged in the early 2000s, GRAMMY award-winning rapper and entrepreneur Nelly is revered for his role in ushering in the popularity of country-rap to the mainstream, becoming the fourth best selling US rapper of all time, with over ...
Bonnie Raitt
Saturday 7 June 2025
Californian GRAMMY Award-winning Rock and Roll Hall of Fame legend Bonnie Raitt is back with her unique brand of folky-blues Americana. 50 years after the release of her debut album, Raitt continues to personify what it means to stay creati...
Sing With The Hallé - Be in the Audience
Saturday 7 June 2025
Hear the Halle Choir and a huge chorus of singers for this very special performance of Mozart's Requiem. Following a full day of rehearsals with the Halle's exceptional Choral Director, Matthew Hamilton, the massed singers, alongside the Ha...
Sing With The Hallé - Be in the Choir
Saturday 7 June 2025
Experience the thrill of singing alongside one of the world's most renowned choirs and orchestras in a full day of inspiring choral music. Everyone is welcome and no previous experience is required! You will have the joy of singing one o...
Tom Kitching: Where There's Brass
Saturday 7 June 2025
Author and musician Tom Kitching launches his new book and album, Where There's Brass, with a special storytelling and music concert tour. Documenting six months living in the London waterways community, making the long journey across Eng...
PINK by Vicky Jackson
Saturday 7 June 2025
Vicky Jackson's tribute to Pink has been a run-away success and has consistently been her most booked act since 2008. Whilst the Pink tribute show was not her first tribute act, Vicky found herself being compared both physically and vocally...
Hothouse Flowers
Saturday 7 June 2025
Irish folk rock band Hothouse Flowers feel like they are turning new corners and writing new chapters every day. No two shows are ever the same having dispensed with any premeditated programme over two decades ago and set about putting the...