WHAT'S ON AT THE O2 RITZ, MANCHESTER
What's On at the O2 Ritz, Manchester
O2 Ritz is a Grade II listed building and a live music venue known for its sprung dance floor. It has a capacity of 1500. Built in 1927, it was originally a dance hall before becoming a nightclub in the 60’s. Following varied ownership, in 2015 it was acquired by Live Nation Entertainment as part of the O2 Academy Group.
The O2 Ritz has seen megastars such as The Beatles, R.E.M, Morrissey, Happy Mondays, Adam Ant, and The Smiths premiered there in 1982. It is a multi-use venue space, capable of hosting anything from live music concerts and gigs, to a filming location, weddings, shows, productions, parties, conferences and award ceremonies.
Manchester Psych Fest, Sonique, Reef, A Tribute To Jilly's Rock World, Heaven 17, and The Rasmus are just a few events to look forward to. See what's on at O2 Ritz Manchester with Manchester Theatres below and book tickets online.
O2 Ritz is a Grade II listed building and a live music venue known for its sprung dance floor. It has a capacity of 1500. Built in 1927, it was originally a dance hall before becoming a nightclub in the 60’s. Following varied ownership, in 2015 it was acquired by Live Nation Entertainment as part of the O2 Academy Group.
The O2 Ritz has seen megastars such as The Beatles, R.E.M, Morrissey, Happy Mondays, Adam Ant, and The Smiths premiered there in 1982. It is a multi-use venue space, capable of hosting anything from live music concerts and gigs, to a filming location, weddings, shows, productions, parties, conferences and award ceremonies.
Manchester Psych Fest, Sonique, Reef, A Tribute To Jilly's Rock World, Heaven 17, and The Rasmus are just a few events to look forward to. See what's on at O2 Ritz Manchester with Manchester Theatres below and book tickets online.
Most Popular Shows and Events at O2 Ritz, Manchester
What's On at the O2 Ritz, Manchester
Nena
O2 Ritz, Manchester
Sunday 12 October 2025
The most successful German pop singer in chart history, with over 25 million records sold, NENA is playing her first UK shows in 15 years. Featuring a 10-piece band, fans can expect to hear the 1983 smash hit '99 Red Balloons' and other ico...Nova Twins
O2 Ritz, Manchester
Wednesday 15 October 2025
 The London heavy rap rock renegades are the zeitgeist-capturing polymath pioneers that our times have been waiting for. Playing with genre and rich in different moods, textures, and layers, all the while retaining that purity and simplic...Pale Waves
O2 Ritz, Manchester
Thursday 16 October 2025
The Manchester indie-pop icons step up once more, fulfilling the promise of that widely-lauded UK Top 10 debut album My Mind Makes Noises, in 2018, and striding towards pop megastardom with the UK no.3 2021 follow-up Who Am I?. The slick f...The Groove Chorus
O2 Ritz, Manchester
Friday 17 October 2025
Get ready to dance all night with The Groove Chorus! Featuring a choir of 40 singers and a 9-piece live band, they serve up dance anthems with a disco twist. Naturally, they are joined by a resident pole dancer, special drag queens, and lot...The Pharcyde + Souls of Mischief
O2 Ritz, Manchester
Saturday 18 October 2025
 Los Angeles alternative hip hop crew The Pharcyde scored UK hits in the 1990s with "Passin' Me By" and "Runnin'" and have collaborated with Brand New Heavies and Rae & Christian among others. Souls of Mischief is a hip hop group from O...New Model Army
O2 Ritz, Manchester
Sunday 19 October 2025
Formed in Bradford in 1980, New Model Army's beginnings were inspired by Northern Soul, Punk Rock and the incendiary atmosphere of the times. Since then, they have had a long, creative and eventful journey. They have been massively influent...Glenn Hughes (Deep Purple / Trapeze / Black Sabbath)
O2 Ritz, Manchester
Tuesday 21 October 2025
The former bassist and singer of Deep Purple, known to millions as the 'Voice of Rock', Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, and the current front man for rock super group Black Country Communion, is pleased to announce that he will be per...Battle Beast
O2 Ritz, Manchester
Wednesday 22 October 2025
Famous for their energetic shows, incredibly catchy choruses and odd sense of humour, Finland's Battle Beast are destined for glory after topping the charts in their homeland and hitting #11 in Germany. Having toured tirelessly since they w...Igorrr
O2 Ritz, Manchester
Thursday 23 October 2025
 Boasting an idiosyncratic experimental style, combining black metal, baroque music, breakcore, and trip hop into a singular sound, Igorrr is the pseudonym of French multi-instrumentalist and electronic producer Gautier Serre of electroni...Black Parade - 00's Emo Anthems Halloween Party
O2 Ritz, Manchester
Friday 24 October 2025
Security - Bag Policy Large bags including rucksacks are not allowed. There are no facilities to leave large bags or luggage. If you really have to bring a bag - and it?s preferable you don?t, please make sure it?s small. Only one small bag...Black Parade - 00's Emo Anthems Halloween Party Manchester
O2 Ritz, Manchester
Friday 24 October 2025
Manchester's biggest emo Halloween party Black Parade - 00's Emo Anthems are taking over O2 Ritz Manchester on Friday 24th October...Little Man Tate
O2 Ritz, Manchester
Saturday 25 October 2025
Back together once more, the original line up of the Sheffield indie rock band - who enjoyed UK Top 40 hits "Sexy In Latin", "Man I Hate Your Band", "House Party at Boothy's", "This Must Be Love" and "What? What You Got?" - pick-up exa...One More Time - 90s & 00s Halloween Day Party Manchester
O2 Ritz, Manchester
Saturday 25 October 2025
One More Time 90s & 00s Halloween Day Party at O2 Ritz Manchester Early club night from 3pm - 8pm...One More Time 90s + 00s Halloween Party
O2 Ritz, Manchester
Saturday 25 October 2025
Security - Bag Policy: Large bags including rucksacks are not allowed. There are no facilities to leave large bags or luggage. If you really have to bring a bag - and it's preferable you don't, please make sure it's small. Only one small ba...Fields of the Nephilim
O2 Ritz, Manchester
Sunday 26 October 2025
Formed in Stevenage, 1984, Fields of the Nephilim is the creation of vocalist and front man Carl McCoy. Highly influential, especially in the world of goth, but also within the metal and electronic genres, their legacy endures to this day. ...
CAAMP
O2 Ritz, Manchester
Monday 27 October 2025
The earthy, jubilant Columbus, Ohio, folk band have been writing and singing tender love songs tinged with melancholy and determination ever since they met as students at Ohio University, playing local coffeehouses and growing more committ...
Sananda Maitreya (Terence Trent D'Arby)
O2 Ritz, Manchester
Tuesday 28 October 2025
New York pop soul singer Sananda Maitreya (born Terence Trent Howard), started his career with the stage name Terence Trent D'Arby (adapting his stepfather's surname of Darby). He found fame in 1987 with the 5 x Platinum chart-topping albu...Reef
O2 Ritz, Manchester
Thursday 30 October 2025
 UK Album Chart-topping Glastonbury hard blues rockers REEF return with their thrilling blast of unadulterated funky rock'n'roll joy. Their energetic shows serve up nineties Top 10 classics such as "Place Your Hands", and "Come Back Brigh...Lord Of The Lost
O2 Ritz, Manchester
Friday 31 October 2025
 Not only the sound is massive, but the German Eurovision genrefluid visionaries deliver a sophisticated offering, with the Hamburg gothic metal five-piece cementing their position as exceptional artists that can't be pigeonholed and have...International Halloween - Haunted Mansion
O2 Ritz, Manchester
Friday 31 October 2025
Security ? Bag Policy: Large bags including rucksacks are not allowed. There are no facilities to leave large bags or luggage. If you really have to bring a bag ? and it?s preferable you don?t, please make sure it?s small. Only one small ba...A Tribute to Jilly's Rockworld
O2 Ritz, Manchester
Saturday 1 November 2025
A celebration of a Manchester institution, the legendary Oxford Road rock club opened in the 1970s - originally known as Fagan's before being renamed Jilly's in 1983 - attracting punks, rockers, goths, metalheads, skaters, moshers and ind...The Smyths - Tribute to The Smiths
O2 Ritz, Manchester
Saturday 1 November 2025
The Smyths are a joyous celebration of arguably the greatest band of all time, Manchester legends The Smiths. Thrillingly accurate, the group have amassed a huge following and regularly sell out huge venues both here and abroad. 2023 marks...As December Falls
O2 Ritz, Manchester
Sunday 2 November 2025
The rising Nottingham pop-punk/emo rock act is one of the hottest underground British bands today, led by the distinctive frontwoman Bethany Curtis. ...John Butler
O2 Ritz, Manchester
Monday 3 November 2025
A solo tour from the Californian-Australian guitar maestro who is best known as the eponymous frontman of the multi chart-topping John Butler Trio, a funky Australian roots jam band that have scored Platinum-selling hits with "Better Than...Wednesday 13 (Murderdolls)
O2 Ritz, Manchester
Wednesday 5 November 2025
 Theatrical horror punk alter-ego of Murderdolls frontman Joseph Poole. Wednesday 13 is the stage name of Joseph Poole, frontman of Murderdolls, the theatrical metal outfit that also includes members of Static-X and Slipknot. Starting off...Wednesday 13 - Mid Death Crisis UK Tour 2025
O2 Ritz, Manchester
Wednesday 5 November 2025
Security - Bag Policy Large bags including rucksacks are not allowed. There are no facilities to leave large bags or luggage. If you really have to bring a bag - and it?s preferable you don?t, please make sure it?s small. Only one small bag...Definitely Mightbe - Tribute to Oasis
O2 Ritz, Manchester
Thursday 6 November 2025
The longest established Oasis tribute in the world with over 2,000 shows under their belt. So, as good as the real thing? Well the lengendary Alan McGee thought so when he recently introduced the band live on stage! So they..... DEFINITELY ...Scarlxrd
O2 Ritz, Manchester
Friday 7 November 2025
 SCARLXRD is the moniker of Wolverhampton-born rapper Marius Lucas Antonio Listhrop, whose music generally blends elements of heavy metal and trap. Pronounced as "Scarlord", he likes to replace the letter "o" with "x" not only in his stag...Nation of Language
O2 Ritz, Manchester
Saturday 8 November 2025
Brooklyn-based synth auteurs Nation of Language are one of the most heralded new acts in recent memory, having already earned high-praise from the likes of NME, Fader, Pitchfork, Stereogum and countless others for their ability to blend the...
Clipse
O2 Ritz, Manchester
Monday 10 November 2025
Virginian gangsta rap brothers Gene "Malice" and Terrence "Pusha T" Thornton are best known for featuring on Justin Timberlake's global smash hit "Like I Love You". They also scored their own UK Top 40 hit "Ma, I Don't Love Her" (featurin...Maruja
O2 Ritz, Manchester
Friday 14 November 2025
The extraordinary Manchester four piece are a creative force of nature, a deeply emotional and empathetic band concerned primarily with the power of community, both in the nuclear sense, as a tight knit creative unit, but also as a wider fo...Don't Stop Queen Now - Tribute to Queen
O2 Ritz, Manchester
Saturday 15 November 2025
Don't Stop Queen Now's energetic and true-to-life performance, fronted by the incredible Michael Spence who has featured on ITV1 as Freddie Mercury, brings Queen's 50 year reign to life in a show that's guaranteed to blow your mind! The si...PROGRESS Wrestling
O2 Ritz, Manchester
Sunday 16 November 2025
The pinnacle of strong style professional wrestling in the UK, PROGRESS Wrestling brings you the absolute best in British wrestling. Founded by stand-up comedian Jim Smallman in 2012 and relaunched under new ownership in 2022, former PROGR...DJ Premier + The Alchemist
O2 Ritz, Manchester
Thursday 20 November 2025
DJ Premier and The Alchemist are embarking on a joint UK/EU tour, "He's the Preemo, I'm the Chemist World Tour" Celebrating the history of hip-hop through their iconic beats. DJ Premier, known for his work with Gang Starr and his distinct ...Heaven 17
O2 Ritz, Manchester
Saturday 22 November 2025
Sheffield new wave duo Martyn Ware and Ian Craig Marsh left the original lineup of the Human League in after having differences with Phil Oakey. They recruited Glenn Gregory (who's vocal's were remarkably similar to Oakey's) and Heaven 17 w...Nothing,Nowhere
O2 Ritz, Manchester
Tuesday 25 November 2025
The Massachusetts rapper cuts deep, emerging from darkness, shedding external expectation, and moving forward into the glow of pure creation. Whether it be anesthetized beats and intoxicating lulls, the cold piano-laden longings or the emo...Matt Maltese
O2 Ritz, Manchester
Thursday 27 November 2025
 Reading indie rocker Matt Maltese first established himself as a songwriter with a knack for dry one liners and a keen eye for self-deprecation with his baroque piano-led tunes racking up over a billion streams on Spotify.  ...Wheatus
O2 Ritz, Manchester
Friday 28 November 2025
Teenage years may be fleeting for the Platinum-selling New York pop rockers, but it seems "Teenage Dirtbag"Â is for life, as Wheatus'Â debut single from 2000 popped up yet again in 2022, making itself known in a way never seen before in the...Lambrini Girls
O2 Ritz, Manchester
Saturday 29 November 2025
Brighton based noise-punk duo Lambrini Girls bottle everything wrong with the modern world and shake it up. If peppering political songs with humour is like sticking a sparkler in some bread, then their music is like a fireworks display in ...The Wailers
O2 Ritz, Manchester
Sunday 30 November 2025
Bob Marley and the Wailers recorded, toured and made history together between 1972 and 1981. It was Bob Marley himself that requested the Wailers stayed together. Today, carrying on the mission are legitimate members, children-of-legends an...The Rasmus
O2 Ritz, Manchester
Monday 1 December 2025
One of the greatest rock bands ever to come out of Finland, The Rasmus, with their new line-up -Â female guitarist Emilia "Emppu" Suhonen replacing Pauli Rantasalmi in 2022 - embark on a European tour. Having topped the charts in Germany, A...Amine
Academy 1
Tuesday 2 December 2025
At the age of 21, Adam Amine Daniel burst onto the scene with his 6x-platinum single, "Caroline." But, the Portland-born rapper has come a long way since then; a fact made clear by his critically acclaimed releases. "Good For You" drew pr...
House Gospel Choir
O2 Ritz, Manchester
Wednesday 3 December 2025
An electrifying House meets Gospel experience born out of a love for sound system culture, the healing power of house music and the London-based choir seeking to channel the magic of people working together to raise the vibrations. Working ...
Nothing More
O2 Ritz, Manchester
Thursday 4 December 2025
 Founded in San Antonio, Texas, the three-time Grammy nominated rockers Nothing More deliver unapologetically massive anthems with introspective, philosophical lyrics. Since the group's initial emergence in 2003, they have made US rock ra...Alabama 3
O2 Ritz, Manchester
Friday 5 December 2025
South London's beloved roots-futurists Alabama 3 are adored the world over for 1997's inaugural smash 'Woke Up This Morning', whose marriage of Howlin' Wolf samples and trip hop beats provided the theme music for long-running HBO series 'Th...Year's End Festival - The Twang & more
O2 Ritz, Manchester
Saturday 6 December 2025
Year's End Festival is back Saturday 6th of December 2025! Thousands of fans, Lots of great live music across multiple venues around Manchester city centre! ...Band of Skulls
O2 Ritz, Manchester
Wednesday 10 December 2025
Russell Marsden's acclaimed Southampton blues rockers are perhaps best known for their 2019 single "Sweet Sour" which won Best Rock/Hard Rock Song at the Independent Music Awards 2013. ...Stereolab
O2 Ritz, Manchester
Thursday 11 December 2025
South London's Anglo-French premiere exponents of experimental lounge electronica air a breezy melodious approach with Laetitia Sadier's lilting Gallic vocals meandering merrily throughout with an irresistibly melodious bass-driven joy and ...SG Lewis
O2 Ritz, Manchester
Friday 12 December 2025
The Reading songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and deep house producer creates expansive and ambitious music made of two halves: on one end of the spectrum, he crafts the kind of nocturnal bangers that dancefloors, underground raves, pool pa...SG Lewis Manchester Tickets
Stereo MC's
O2 Ritz, Manchester
Saturday 13 December 2025
Formed in 1985, Stereo MCs hit the public's attention with 1990 album Supernatural and single Elevate My Mind. It was 1992 follow up Connected, with hit singles of the same name and Step It Up that confirmed their status at the front of a b...MICO
O2 Ritz, Manchester
Sunday 14 December 2025
Security - Bag Policy: Large bags including rucksacks are not allowed. There are no facilities to leave large bags or luggage. If you really have to bring a bag - and it's preferable you don't, please make sure it's small. Only one small ba...The Wonder Stuff
O2 Ritz, Manchester
Wednesday 17 December 2025
 Stourbridge indie rockers The Wonder Stuff boast an extensive catalogue which includes UK Top 20 hits "The Size of a Cow", "Unbearable", "Caught in My Shadow", "Don't Let Me Down, Gently", "Circlesquare" and the chart-topping cover "D...Aurie Styla's Christmas Crack-Up
O2 Ritz, Manchester
Thursday 18 December 2025
Comedian Aaurie Styla is back with his annual Christmas Crack-up, an end-of-year celebration filled with comedy, music, prizes and more, this year with more comedians, more prizes, more dates... & a partridge in a pear tree! Line-up subject...Trevor Horn & His Band
O2 Ritz, Manchester
Friday 19 December 2025
Trevor and his band are playing an exclusive run of UK tour dates with a new career-spanning 'Video Killed The Radio Star' live show ...Christmas for Grown Ups - Pop-up Christmas Disco Party
O2 Ritz, Manchester
Saturday 20 December 2025
Discos for Grown ups returns for an incredible Christmas Disco party to remember! It's your BEST Christmas party.. EVER? So let's celebrate with a fabulous festive boogie Expect santa hats, disco elves, confetti and snow! A fab and fun part...The Man From Delmonte
O2 Ritz, Manchester
Sunday 21 December 2025
After a 34 year hiatus, 1980s Manchester indie art pop favourites The Man from Delmonte return. Between 1988 and 1991 they shone brightly creating some of the most memorable pop songs of the "Madchester" era. Water in My Eyes, My Love is Li...Dave Hill's Slade
O2 Ritz, Manchester
Monday 22 December 2025
The farewell tour from Dave Hill and the boys end with a Christmas gig at the O2 Ritz in Manchester. Slade's unique blend of pop and rock'n'roll, outrageous flamboyance and pure fun, and no less than 23 Top 20 singles, they have become a fi...
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Most Popular Shows and Events at O2 Ritz, Manchester
