ROCK CONCERTS IN MANCHESTER
Most Popular Rock Concerts in Manchester
TINA - The Tina Turner Musical
Palace Theatre
Tue 25 Nov 2025 - Sat 3 Jan 2026
Fleetwood Bac - The Fleetwood Mac Tribute Show
The Grand
Fri 11 Jul - Sat 13 Sep 2025
The Luke Combs Experience - Luke Combs Tribute
Manchester Academy
Sat 31 May - Sat 6 Sep 2025
Paris Paloma

Albert Hall, Manchester
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

O2 Ritz, Manchester
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)

O2 Ritz, Manchester
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

Waterside, Manchester
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

Band On The Wall, Manchester
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

The Deaf Institute, Manchester
Thursday 5 June - Saturday 5 July 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...The Twang

Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester
Friday 6 June 2025
Band on the Wall presents the Exchange Series - renowned artists in the round at the Royal Exchange Theatre. The Twang is a Birmingham-based indie rock band formed in 2004. Known for their energetic live performances and catchy Britpop-infu...Scam Fender + Kopycat Killers + Subarctic Monkeys + Oasis 96

New Century Hall, Manchester
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...Scam Fender - Sam Fender Tribute Band

New Century Hall, Manchester
Friday 6 June 2025
A band of lads from Newcastle that play Sam Fender songs. ...Natty

Manchester Academy, Manchester
Friday 6 June 2025
Dubbed a 'soul-reggae crossover sensation' by The Telegraph, Natty (San Francisco born, London raised) was 'found" playing the open mic circuit and signed by Atlantic Records. Following his BBC performance on Later with Jools, his UK top 20...Sabbotage - A Tribute to Black Sabbath

Night & Day Cafe, Manchester
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...Snake Eyes

Lion's Den, Manchester
Friday 6 June 2025
The Brighton "grit pop" trio combine "wonderfully anthemic grunge energy with sticky melodies to create a cracking piece of modern british rock" - Rock Sound, "blurring the edges between noise rock and more straight-forwardly melodic indie...Morrissey

Co-op Live, Manchester
Saturday 7 June 2025
The outspoken former lead singer of Manchester legends The Smiths - arguably the most important indie band in Britain during the '80s - Stephen Patrick Morrissey has enjoyed a successful solo career, since 1988, with his theatrical crooning...Bonnie Raitt

O2 Apollo, Manchester
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...PINK by Vicky Jackson

Stockport Plaza, Stockport
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

O2 Ritz, Manchester
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...The Kopycat Killers - The Killers Tribute Band

New Century Hall, Manchester
Saturday 7 June 2025
A Killers tribute band sounding just like the real thing. ...King of Pop starring Navi featuring Jennifer Batten

St Mary's Chambers, Rossendale
Saturday 7 June 2025
King of Pop celebrates the life and work of Michael Jackson, through note-perfect recreations of his many huge hits, starring the world's leading MJ tribute artist Navi, who is joined on stage by Jackson's iconic guitarist - Jennifer Batt...DEKAYTAH

Manchester Academy, Manchester
Saturday 7 June 2025
Hailing from the North West of England, Manchester-based Dekaytah are a hard hitting, electrifying heavy metal band that are starting to make their mark on the UK metal scene. With their inspirations from the likes of Slipknot, Gojira, Lam...Manchester Music Tours - The Smiths Tour

Vinyl Revival, Manchester
Saturday 7 June - Saturday 27 September 2025
The Smiths fans from across the globe will have the opportunity to experience once again how this iconic band made their mark in Manchester and the world. Iconic places that will be visited on the tour include; Strangeways prison, which bec...Sabrina Kennedy

Fuel The Music, Manchester
Saturday 7 June 2025
Sabrina Kennedy weaves rock pop & RnB around stadium-class vocals, and laces her defiant, disarming lyrics with witchcraft and mythology....Kip Moore

O2 Apollo, Manchester
Sunday 8 June 2025
Multi-platinum Nashville singer/songwriter Kip Moore embraces a weathered heartland-rock sound which explores his own experiences of growing up in a small Georgia town and working diligently for years to achieve his musical dreams, poetica...Coldplace - Tribute to Coldplay

Stockport Plaza, Stockport
Sunday 8 June 2025
The World's Leading Tribute to Coldplay is a stunning live concert performance, celebrating the music of one of the most successful bands of all time. The only tribute to have worked for Coldplay, this outstanding band leads you through all...Mike Peters (The Alarm)

St Helens Theatre Royal, St Helens
Sunday 8 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...The Skapones

Waxahatchee

Albert Hall, Manchester
Monday 9 June 2025
A solo tour from American indie folk singer-songwriter Katie Crutchfield. While her previous records featured a backing band with the kind of big guitars, well-honed noise, and battering sounds that characterised her Philadelphia scene, an...Echoes of Prince

Band On The Wall, Manchester
Monday 9 June 2025
Echoes of Prince is a very special and unique show, an opera funk in tribute to The Kid Of Minneapolis, created by the Parisian funk band, Echoes Of, better known recently as Jeroboam on Space Grapes Records and Echoes Of A New Dawn Orchest...Robbie Williams

Co-op Live, Manchester
Tuesday 10 - Wednesday 11 June 2025
As well as featuring countless No.1 smash hit singles which have been newly orchestrated by Jules Buckley, Guy Chambers, and Steve Sidwell, and re-recorded with the acclaimed Metropole Orkest in The Netherlands, XXV also features several br...Bôa

New Century Hall, Manchester
Tuesday 10 June 2025
With their songn "Duvet" enjoying a massive resurgence in popularity thanks to TikTok in August 2021, 1990's London rockers Boa return with their first new music in 19 years. Progressing from being a funk band to an alt-rock group, their fi...Shonen Knife

Night & Day Cafe, Manchester
Tuesday 10 June 2025
Tue 10 Jun - 7:30 pmShonen Knife+ Guests£20 adv...King Creosote

The Met, Bury
Thursday 12 June 2025
Since the mid-late 1990s, Mercury Prize-nominated Scottish singer-songwriter Kenny Anderson, DIY pop voyager, ancestral seaside home restorer, squeezebox lothario, Fife for lifer, diamond miner, hijacker of hearts, and the man also known...Something About Lennon - The John Lennon Story

Blackburn Empire Theatre, Blackburn
Thursday 12 June 2025
Imagine a show that tells the story of one of popular music's most iconic figures in a totally unique way. A tale of controversy, genius, politics and protest, Something About Lennon charts John's story from the breakup of The Beatles to h...Dark Matter presents Holy Scum

Golden Lion, Todmorden
Thursday 12 June 2025
A thunderous cacophony of synapse-mangling noise that cuts through the chaos....Catfish and the Bottlemen

Heaton Park, Manchester
Friday 13 June 2025
Originating on the North Wales Coast, alt rockers Catfish and the Bottlemen are practically of no fixed abode due to the constant touring since 2014. The band's first album The Balcony achieved platinum status in the UK followed in 2016 wit...Catfish and the Bottlemen

Heaton Park, Manchester
Friday 13 June 2025
Originating on the North Wales Coast, alt rockers Catfish and the Bottlemen are practically of no fixed abode due to the constant touring since 2014. The band's first album The Balcony achieved platinum status in the UK followed in 2016 wit...Snow Patrol

Delamere Forest, Northwich
Friday 13 June 2025
Dundee-formed Northern Irish trio Snow Patrol have carved out a unique place for themselves by constantly delivering melancholic ballads and music of depth that's painted from a broad palette. They shot to fame with their third album, Final...UK Pink Floyd Experience

Stockport Plaza, Stockport
Friday 13 June 2025
Celebrating over 50 years of one of rock's most influential bands, this highly authentic show recreates the atmosphere of Floyd. Featuring the iconic album "The Dark Side Of The Moon" and classics including "Wish You Were Here", "Shine On Y...Red Hot Chilli Pipers

Pyramid and Parr Hall, Warrington
Friday 13 June 2025
There has never been anything quite like The Red Hot Chilli Pipers, who over the past fifteen years have become the most famous bagpipe band on the planet... ever! Bagpipes with attitude, drums with a Scottish accent and a show that carries...That Night In Manchester

The Edge, Wigan
Friday 13 June 2025
That Night in Manchester is a brand new musical regaling the audience with a nostalgic and emotional journey through the heady days of the 80s and 90s Manchester indie scene. The audience will be taken back to the vibrant and exhilarating ...SandraiseR - The music of Jimi Hendrix and Rory Gallagher

The Spinning Top, Stockport
Friday 13 June 2025
SandraiseR is a North Wales and Merseyside based hard rocking blues power trio concentrating on the music of Jimi Hendrix and Rory Gallagher with some occasional pieces from other blues / rock artists. Whilst the band doesn't consider itse...Strong Enough - Ultimate Tribute Concert to Cher
