WHAT'S ON AT MANCHESTER ACADEMY, MANCHESTER
What's On at Manchester Academy, Manchester
Manchester Academy is four independent venues all (almost) under one roof, located on campus at The University Of Manchester. The venues are Academy 1,2,3 and Club Academy. The original student union building was built in 1957, the Academy in 1990, with Buzzcocks being the first band to play there. Following a refurb, capacity grew to around 2600 for Academy 1, 950 for Academy 2, 450 for Academy 3, and 650 for Club Academy.
Manchester Academy attracts a varied wealth of local and worldwide artists, including Adele, Nirvana, Blur, Oasis, David Bowie, Bruno Mars, Inspiral Carpets, Stevie Wonder and Lady Gaga. It is often referred to as one of the UK’s greenest venues, making substantial steps towards minimising environmental impact and improving sustainability.
Enjoy exciting shows, events, concerts and premieres at these four live music venues. See what's on at Manchester Academy below and book tickets online.
Manchester Academy is four independent venues all (almost) under one roof, located on campus at The University Of Manchester. The venues are Academy 1,2,3 and Club Academy. The original student union building was built in 1957, the Academy in 1990, with Buzzcocks being the first band to play there. Following a refurb, capacity grew to around 2600 for Academy 1, 950 for Academy 2, 450 for Academy 3, and 650 for Club Academy.
Manchester Academy attracts a varied wealth of local and worldwide artists, including Adele, Nirvana, Blur, Oasis, David Bowie, Bruno Mars, Inspiral Carpets, Stevie Wonder and Lady Gaga. It is often referred to as one of the UK’s greenest venues, making substantial steps towards minimising environmental impact and improving sustainability.
Enjoy exciting shows, events, concerts and premieres at these four live music venues. See what's on at Manchester Academy below and book tickets online.
Most Popular Shows and Events at Manchester Academy, Manchester
What's On at Manchester Academy, Manchester
Wild Rivers
Academy 2
Friday 22 November 2024
Totonto, Ontario indie folk trio Wild Rivers have a gift for penning introspective lyrics and genre-fluid melodies that transmit wisdom beyond their years, touching on coming-of-age themes and embracing the unknown. The live setting is wher...The Luka State
Academy 3
Friday 22 November 2024
The Winsford indie rockers offer a solid guitar attack and urgent melodies that are both catchy and powerful, scoring an early success with the song "30 Minute Break." Their song "Bring This All Together" was featured in the game Dream Leag...Bury Tomorrow
Academy 1
Saturday 23 November 2024
Forming in Hampshire in 2006, metalcore outfit Bury Tomorrow rapidly propelled the genre into the British mainstream. Now comprising co-vocalists Daniel Winter-Bates and Jason Cameron, bassist Davyd Winter-Bates, drummer Adam Jackson, as ...Bayboards
Academy 2
Saturday 23 November 2024
Undeniably set to be a huge household name, Manchester's Bayboards have earnt notoriety through their electric live shows up and down the North of England, with the four-piece often dragging all of Manchester's indie kids out with them. Whi...Pink By Vicky Jackson
Academy 3
Saturday 23 November 2024
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...Pokey LaFarge
Academy 2
Sunday 24 November 2024
Pokey LaFarge is a singer, songwriter, guitarist, recording artist, poet and actor living in Los Angeles. Raised on a healthy diet of blues, bluegrass, ragtime, Western swing and old- time country, the Illinois native writes timeless, multi...HRVY
Academy 1
Monday 25 November 2024
Born Harvey Cantwell in Kent in 1999, HRVY turned to social media at an early age to share his vocal performances with the world. Having grown up with a love of pop music, his videos attracted the attention of former East 17 member Blair Dr...
Jake Bugg
Academy 1
Tuesday 26 November 2024
Raised on a steady diet of the Beatles, Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, and Oasis, the Nottingham singer/songwriter's bluesy, Brit-pop-forward indie folk pairs working-class swagger with wry, weathered romanticism, with elements of country-rock...The Blow Monkeys
Club Academy
Tuesday 26 November 2024
With hits like 'Digging Your Scene' and 'It Doesn't Have To Be This Way', The Blow Monkeys epitomised the glamour of mid-80s pop at its most graceful and sophisticated. In the London band's frontman Robert Howard (aka Dr. Robert), they poss...Sasha Alex Sloan
Club Academy
Tuesday 26 November 2024
Critically praised Boston, Massachusetts, indie pop artist Sasha Alex Sloan returns. ...Myles Kennedy (Alter Bridge / Slash)
Academy 1
Wednesday 27 November 2024
Boston-born and Pacific Northwest-raised vocalist for Alter Bridge and Slash, is also a successful solo artist. A self-confessed "music geek" with an affinity for many different styles and genres, Myles Kennedy (originally Myles Richard Bas...Electric Six
Academy 2
Wednesday 27 November 2024
Detroit's fun-loving alternative garage rock collective Electric Six celebrate 20 years of their UK Top 10 debut album "Fire" in 2003. The high-octane collection, mixing garage rock, disco, punk, new wave, and metal into cleverly dumb, in-y...Reverend And The Makers
Academy 1
Thursday 28 November 2024
The Sheffield indie band, fronted by Jon McClure, nicknamed The Reverend, gained success in Britain with their debut album "The State of Things", which reached no.5 in 2017, and spawned the UK top 10 single "Heavyweight Champion of the Worl...The House Of Love
Academy 2
Thursday 28 November 2024
The post-Smiths guitar pop of The House of Love was popular for a short time in the late '80s and early '90s, as many college and alternative rock fans became converts to their mixture of shiny ringing guitars, pseudo-psychedelic melodies,...
Skinny Lister
Academy 3
Thursday 28 November 2024
Regularly cited as one of the best live bands in the biz, London indie punk folk band, "The Skinnies" have been described by The Independent, in a 5 star review, as "a visceral, deafening experience." Following the release of their rave-re...Confidence Man
Academy 1
Friday 29 - Saturday 30 November 2024
Parading within a brand of dance pop that sounds like Donna Summer and Giorgio Moroder gleefully discovering house music via Dee-lite, Confidence Man will make you feel good. Real good. With ponytails higher than the heavens and moxie turn...Hugh Cornwell (The Stranglers)
Academy 2
Friday 29 November 2024
When future historians of music draw up a list of the movers and shakers who changed the modern musical landscape, there will be no doubt that North London-born Hugh Cornwell, the former leader and main songwriter of all The Stranglers' mos...Joey Valence & Brae
Academy 3
Friday 29 November 2024
Pennsylvania rap duo Joey Bertolino and Braedan Lugue (a.k.a. Joey Valence & Brae), scored a TikTok viral hit during Lockdown with their song "Crank It Up," a celebration of rap music's early boom bap sound. ...
Rosellas
Academy 2
Saturday 30 November 2024
Fresh from supporting Starsailor, the young Mancunians serve up stadium-ready guitars, punchy drums and pure adrenaline, with a sound that gives a nod to the bands of 90's Britpop, drawing sonic comparisons to The Verve, The Stone Roses and...The Gerry Cinna-Man Experience - Tribute to Gerry Cinnamon
Club Academy
Saturday 30 November 2024
Gary Digan Aka is the UKs Premier & Definitve Tribute to Gerry Cinnamon. With his Strong Scottish Accent, his infamous live shows are a mixture of up-beat acoustic guitars, soulful harmonica and heartfelt vocals. The anthemic sing along tra...
Night Lovell
Academy 2
Sunday 1 December 2024
Canadian rapper Night Lovell, the son of MC Renegade, grew up in a highly musical environment and has embraced a dark and mysterious atmospheric sound with tense beats and haunting vocal samples. His songs have a brooding atmosphere, with t...Orphaned Land
Academy 3
Sunday 1 December 2024
Often criticised in their own land for being "leftist Arab lovers", Israeli metal band Orphaned Land are one of the most exclusive bands of the whole prog metal scene in the world, combining Mizrahi and Maghrebi Jewish, Arabic, Turkish, an...Royel Otis
Academy 1
Tuesday 3 December 2024
Australian duo - childhood friends Otis Pavlovic and Royel Maddell - swing between melodic, pop-inspired indie and woozy psych, but it never feels tied to one lane. As soon as one style or mood has outstayed its welcome, they handbrake turn...Dying Fetus
Club Academy
Wednesday 4 December 2024
Though forever doomed, commercially speaking, by their controversial name, Maryland's Dying Fetus endured beyond most observers' wildest expectations. Formed in the waning days of death metal's glorious heyday (1991, to be exact) they co...Pure Reason Revolution
Club Academy
Thursday 5 December 2024
Melding prog and pop through dreamy moods, epic riffs and angelic harmonies, the University of Westminster-formed rockers Pure Reason Revolution drawing on influences like Porcupine Tree, Nirvana, Justice, Kraftwerk, Fleetwood Mac, Talk Tal...Nilufer Yanya
Manchester Academy, Manchester
Thursday 5 December 2024
It does not take long listening to West London-based singer-songwriter Nilufer Yanya's music to realise that playing by the rules has never been her forte. First discovered at 20 years old after uploading her sparse, acoustic demos to Sound...The Damned
Academy 1
Friday 6 December 2024
The greatest surviving British punk band THE DAMNED formed in 1976, releasing the first ever UK punk single 'New Rose' over forty years ago. Considered one of the greatest songs from this period, THE DAMNED's 'New Rose' brought focus on the...
Asen
Club Academy
Friday 6 December 2024
Chinese rapper and member of hip hop sensation Digi Ghetto, Asen has been pushing boundaries in the Chinese rap scene with his narrative melody rap and meaningful lyrics. ...GUN
Academy 2
Friday 6 December 2024
MTV EMA award winning glam metal band GUN were formed in Scotland by guitarist Giuliano Gizzi. During their career GUN have achieved 3 UK top 20 albums and 8 UK top 40 singles including a cover of Cameo's "Word Up" which reached the UK top ...
Kate Rusby
Manchester Academy, Manchester
Saturday 7 December 2024
Often hailed as the 'First Lady of Folk', Kate Rusby celebrates 30 years as a professional musician in 2022 with the release of a brand new album, "30 : Happy Returns" which features a stellar array of guest musicians who have all inspire...Emofest
Academy 1
Saturday 7 December 2024
Put on your eyeliner, lace up your high-tops and get ready to rock to all your favourite nostalgic emo anthems as the Emo Festival is the greatest tribute night to the music that was never just a phase...  Teenage Nostalgia featuring all ...Academy in the UK
Academy 2
Saturday 7 December 2024
'Academy In The UK' is the ultimate punk and alternative tribute night. Transport yourself back to the Seventies with The Pistols, Totally Blondie, A Band Called Malice (The Jam tribute) and The Ramonas the UK's best tribute to The Ramones....Niko B
Club Academy
Saturday 7 December 2024
Often compared to Mike Skinner of The Streets, the Buckinghamshire rapper, named after Grand Theft Auto IV's protagonist Niko Bellic, is best known for his UK Top 30 single "Who's That What's That". ...Ultimate Coldplay - Tribute to Coldplay
Academy 3
Saturday 7 December 2024
A live tribute to Coldplay and performing all the Coldplay hits and more in a brilliant sound and look-a-like show. The vocals, mannerisms and atmosphere these guys deliver are second to none. Giving the audience that same high energy perfo...Restless Road
Club Academy
Sunday 8 December 2024
Nashville Country music trio Restless Road - Zach Beeken, Garrett Nichols and Colton Pack - make up three different but complementary voices, each originally auditioning solo for the third season of The American X Factor before performing a...Obituary
Club Academy
Monday 9 December 2024
The Florida death metal legends show no signs of slowing down as they continue to reign as kings of their genre. Their classic no-holds barred death metal assault has influenced countless bands since their debut release in 1989. ...Fat Freddy's Drop
Academy 1
Tuesday 10 December 2024
Fat Freddy's Drop is a New Zealand seven-piece band from Wellington, whose musical style has been characterised as any combination of dub, reggae, soul, jazz, rhythm and blues, and techno. Originally a jam band formed in the late 1990s by m...Kishi Bashi
Club Academy
Tuesday 10 December 2024
In a sonic departure from the symphonic folk of his critically lauded 2019 LP Omoiyari -a career-defining body of work born from his intensive meditation on the mass incarceration of Japanese-Americans during World War II - the Seattle-born...Alcest
Academy 2
Thursday 12 December 2024
Blackgaze pioneering French duo Alcest unleash black metal punch, rhythm and organic conversation. Clearly influenced by bands such as The Smashing Pumpkins, Tool, Dinosaur Jr., Grimes and The Cure, they have reached the Top 30 in Finland, ...A Tribute To Manchester
Academy 1
Friday 13 December 2024
A TRIBUTE TO MANCHESTER:THE CLONE ROSES + OASISH + THE SMITHS LTD + HAPPY MONDAZE + DJ CLINT BOON. What better way to celebrate all things Mancunian than with the annual return of 'A Tribute to Manchester'. Returning to the Academy stage...
Wayne Dilks - The George Michael Legacy
Academy 2
Friday 13 December 2024
Following his previous productions "Faith" (2017- 2018) and "Freedom!'19", international tribute artiste Wayne Dilks and his band return to pay tribute to the late George Michael in this stunning new show, "The George Michael Legacy." Wayn...Ingested
Manchester Academy, Manchester
Friday 13 December 2024
The legendary Manchester UK SLAM KINGS return with their most ambitious and powerful music to date, cementing the band ever more fimrly at the forefront of the UK Death Metal scene. Blistering speed, crushing hooks, dark melodies and of cou...The Lancashire Hotpots Big Bash
Academy 1
Saturday 14 December 2024
The fourth annual Big Bash from Bernard and the boys features Showaddywaddy + Black Lace + Chas & Dave tribute act, Rockney Rebels. Strap yourself in for an unbeatable night of music and laughs. The good times are back!...Our Last Night
Academy 2
Saturday 14 December 2024
Known for their post-hardcore and alternative metal renditions of popular pop songs, which have gained hundreds of millions of streams, New Hampshire trio Our Last Night mix post-hardcore and alternative rock with some elements of metalcore...The Duran Duran Experience + Love DistrAction (Tributes to Duran Duran + Human League)
Academy 3
Saturday 14 December 2024
The Duran Duran Experience the UK's most authentic and professionally presented Duran Duran tribute are joined by The Human League tribute Love DistrAction. ...
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