ROCK CONCERTS IN MANCHESTER
Most Popular Rock Concerts in Manchester
What's Love Got To Do With It - A Tribute to Tina Turner
Lowry
Thu 30 Apr 2026 - Thu 21 Jan 2027
Fleetwood Bac - The Fleetwood Mac Tribute Show
The Met
Sat 18 Apr - Sat 17 Oct 2026
The Snuts
Pyramid and Parr Hall, Warrington
Sunday 22 March 2026
The Snuts are all about big noises and raw honest performances. Close friends who grew up together in West Lothian, the four-piece love making music with their best mates. Comprised of frontman and guitarist Jack Cochrane, guitarist Joe McG...Candlelight - A Tribute to Fleetwood Mac
Hallé St Peter's, Manchester
Sunday 22 March - Friday 21 August 2026
Come and be whisked away to the Fleetwood Mac tribute of your "Dreams" with a programme selected from the band's impressive catalogue of most treasured iconic Rock masterpieces. A talented group of classical musicians will be melding sounds...The Class of 55
Stockport Plaza, Stockport
Sunday 22 March 2026
Get ready to rock and roll as the Class of '55 reunites for an unforgettable night celebrating the legendary sounds of Buddy Holly and Jerry Lee Lewis! This spectacular production promises to transport you back in time with all the elect...The King's Voice - Gordon Hendricks as Elvis
The Monastery, Manchester
Sunday 22 March 2026
The King's Voice transports you through time from the '68 special to the Vegas era, breathing soul into ballads and those iconic jumpsuit numbers that set the stage on fire. Crowned the Worlds Ultimate Elvis Tribute by Elvis Presley Enterpr...Candlelight - Tribute to Queen and The Beatles
Hallé St Peter's, Manchester
Sunday 22 March 2026
Discover the music of Queen and The Beatles performed under the gentle glow of candlelight by a string quartet in this awe-inspiring location. ...The Watch plays Genesis
Band On The Wall, Manchester
Sunday 22 March 2026
Italian progressive rock band The Watch announce a European tour with their deliciously intense performances of early Genesis classics, 1970-76. The best from Genesis first albums (including '76 Trick of the Tail) selected to bring you ba...Axel Rudi Pell
Manchester Academy, Manchester
Sunday 22 March 2026
Axel Rudi Pell is a German hard rock guitarist formerly of the speed metal band Steeler. Since the late 1980s his eponymous band Axel Rudi Pell has boasted numerous vocalists; the longest-serving, since 1998, being Johnny Gioeli of Hardline...Dan Byrne (Revival Black)
The Deaf Institute, Manchester
Sunday 22 March 2026
Be it chart success, selling out venues or working alongside industry heavyweights, whatever the task, Liverpool-born rock vocalist and songwriter Dan Byrne has checked it off. The former frontman and songwriter of Revival Black (who notab...Bi-2
Manchester Academy, Manchester
Tuesday 24 March 2026
Popular in Eastern Europe, Belarusian pop-rock band Bi-2 formed in 1988 in Babruysk, Belarusian SSR. In 2022, the band opposed the Russian invasion of Ukraine and refused to sing at venues that had banners supporting the invasion. Their co...Geese
O2 Victoria Warehouse, Manchester
Tuesday 24 March 2026
Brooklyn art rockers Geese produce chaotic music, shambolic in structure but passionately performed, informed by an exacting vision. Big riffs are layered on choir samples; hissing drum machines pulse softly behind screeching guitars. They ...Nathan Evans and The Saint PHNX Band
O2 Ritz, Manchester
Tuesday 24 March 2026
After co-writing the UK Top 40 single 'Heather On The Hill' which hit over 100 million streams, and selling out a UK/EU tour to the tune of 25,000+ tickets, Scottish favourites Nathan Evans and SAINT PHNX have teamed up again as a folk/pop ...Bar Italia
Manchester Academy, Manchester
Tuesday 24 March 2026
Taking their name from the Soho cafe, Bar Italia are an exciting London band inspired by Brit-pop. The band's sound is often associated with indie sleaze, shoegaze, and lo-fi pop influences ...Elles Bailey
Band On The Wall, Manchester
Tuesday 24 March 2026
Elles Bailey, the inspirational, award winning, smokey voiced Bristol chanteuse who has powered her way to the forefront of the British Americana and Roots scenes in recent years, is back on tour. 'Beneath The Neon Glow' has had glowing rev...The ELO Show - A Tribute to Jeff Lynne and ELO
Lowry, Salford
Wednesday 25 March 2026
Internationally acclaimed musician Brian Cummins brings this stunning show celebrating the music of Jeff Lynne and E.L.O. with a band of amazing musicians including a female string section, this will be a fabulous night of hit after hit fro...Omnipotent Youth Society
Manchester Academy, Manchester
Wednesday 25 March 2026
A keystone of the Chinese rock scene, Omnipotent Youth Society (万能青年旅店) produce music which evokes the urban decay and hopelessness of their home city of Shijiazhuang, which was once renowned as a manufacturing hub in the 1950s...Thundercat
Aviva Studios, Manchester
Thursday 26 - Friday 27 March 2026
Multi-Grammy award winning virtuosic R&B/funk bassist and singer Thundercat is the alter ego of Stephen Bruner, a mercurial talent who is highly respected and much in-demand with his peers. Alongside his own solo releases, including UK Top...Gene
Albert Hall, Manchester
Thursday 26 March 2026
Gene rose to prominence in the mid-1990s when they found themselves categorised by the UK music press as a Britpop band, drawing comparisons to The Smiths - largely because of the similarities to Morrissey in the demeanour and lyrical style...Jim Bob (Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine)
Manchester Academy, Manchester
Thursday 26 March 2026
More topical than an episode of Newsnight, with songs about Putin, the Taliban and whoever "Billionaire in Space" is about, the album-chart smashing Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine's fiery frontman returns. It's not all doom and glo...Bootleg Blondie - Blondie Tribute Band
St Mary's Chambers, Rossendale
Thursday 26 March 2026
The world's No. 1 official Debbie Harry and Blondie tribute band. Established in 2001 this band are the only Blondie tribute to play the legendary CBGB in New York City before it's demise in 2006 and unique in that not only have they had th...WHIP ROUND THURSDAYS AT DEAF

