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
Manchester Academy
Sat 13 Sep 2025 - Sat 18 Apr 2026
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...d4vd

Manchester Academy, Manchester
Wednesday 15 October 2025
Houston indie musician David Burke, better known as d4vd (pronounced "David"), is an artist that's unable to be boxed into a specific genre, with familiar hits including his UK Top 40 hits 'Romantic Homicide,' a grungy, guitar-driven breaku...LEAP

Manchester Academy, Manchester
Wednesday 15 October 2025
Indie rock sad boys LEAP are on the verge, in every sense of the word. Bubbling with anticipation, whether it's the palpable energy at their explosive sold out shows across the UK and Europe, or landing in Shazam's top 50 viral playlist, th...Graham Nash

The Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
Thursday 16 October 2025
 Two-time Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee and Grammy award winning Salford singer-songwriter Graham Nash returns to Europe to perform songs spanning his sixty-year career from The Hollies to Crosby, Stills and Nash, to CSNY and his be...Mimi Webb

Manchester Academy, Manchester
Thursday 16 October 2025
Weaving octave-destroying vocals, gut-wrenching ballads and confessional storytelling, Canterbury-born singer-songwriter Mimi Webb is proving herself to be a viral pop powerhouse. Her emotional tales of open-heart honesty have captured hear...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...Re-Take That - The Ultimate Take That Party Night

Stockport Plaza, Stockport
Thursday 16 October 2025
Join the UK's favourite tribute act for the ultimate Take That party night with a live and fully interactive sing-a-long experience. Jason Orange calls the show "brilliant," while Dec of Ant & Dec says it's "the best Take That tribute act ...Panic Shack

Manchester Academy, Manchester
Thursday 16 October 2025
Cardiff punks Panic Shack aren't interested in the keys to the boys' clubhouse or fighting with sharp-elbows for a seat at the table. They're with you, out there: in the pit, at the bar, in the group chat - and their sound, collar-grabbing ...Randy Edelman

The Bowdon Rooms, Altrincham
Thursday 16 October 2025
Celebrate The Uptown, Uptempo Composer Randy Edelman for "80 Minutes Around the World". In a shimmering kaleidoscope of familiar songs, film composer Randy Edelman celebrates a mosaic of his experiences and his illustrious journey that colo...Gaz Brookfield

The Strines Nightingale, Stockport
Thursday 16 October 2025
Following a two-year hiatus from live touring, the Bristol folk and rock musician returns to the road with his biggest tour to date, in celebration of the release of his 8th studio album, Idiomatic. Joined by the other two-thirds of The Ori...HOPE OF THE STATES

Gorilla, Manchester
Thursday 16 October 2025
FORM Presents HOPE OF THE STATES+ Special Guests?Gorilla, ManchesterAge Restrictions: 16+ (Under 18s accompanied)...Obie Trice

The Blues Kitchen, Manchester
Thursday 16 October 2025
A key player in Detroit's explosive early 2000s rap scene, Obie Trice comes to The Blues Kitchen Manchester on Thursday 16th October 2025....Busted vs McFly

AO Arena, Manchester
Friday 17 October - Wednesday 5 November 2025
Pop rock legends Busted and McFly have announced a joint UK tour. Speaking of the tour, McFly threw down the gauntlet and commented: "Busted gate-crashed our show and challenged us to a VS tour next year. They're old men now, and we are gon...Larkin Poe

Manchester Academy, Manchester
Friday 17 October 2025
Rebecca & Megan Lovell of Larkin Poe are singer/songwriter, multi-instrumentalist sisters creating their own brand of Roots Rock 'n' Roll: gritty, soulful, and flavoured by their southern heritage. Originally from Atlanta and currently livi...Bury Tomorrow

O2 Victoria Warehouse, Manchester
Friday 17 October 2025
 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, ...Sleeper

Albert Hall, Manchester
Friday 17 October 2025
 The Platinum-selling Manchester-formed Britpop band are back. Sleeper enjoyed huge critical and commercial success in the mid 90s: achieving 8 Top 40 singles across 3 Top 10 albums with well over 1,000,000 sales. They garnered front cove...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...Barry Steele's The Roy Orbison Story

Blackburn Empire Theatre, Blackburn
Friday 17 October 2025
Barry Steele is widely recognised as one of the world's leading vocalists playing homage to legend Roy Orbison. He has stunned audiences across the globe with his uncanny similarity and ability to authentically revive the exquisite toe-tapp...We Are Scientists

New Century Hall, Manchester
Friday 17 October 2025
New York indie rock legends We Are Scientists are glued to the indie dance floor but also showcase a darker, more electronic pop rock sound. UK Top 40 hits include "After Hours", "Nobody Move, Nobody Get Hurt", "It's a Hit", "Chick Lit" ...Pop Will Eat Itself

Manchester Academy, Manchester
Friday 17 October 2025
With the help of John Peel, the industrial/alt-rock Stourbridge band's earliest singles became surprise chart hits in the late 80s and early 90s thanks to their many samples of other songs and musical scores. Tracks like "Get the Girl! Kill...Tommy Holland & The Rising Sun Band - Elvis: As it Was

The Met, Bury
Friday 17 October 2025
Tommy Holland and The Rising Sun band recreate some of Elvis' most dynamic performances in a two-part show. With his impeccable attention to detail Tommy faithfully recreates the sound, the look, and the feel of Elvis. The Movie years: Fe...Andy Fairweather Low & The Low Riders

Uppermill Civic Hall, Uppermill
Friday 17 October 2025
 Andy Fairweather Low shot to fame as Lead Singer in Amen Corner singing massive hits like 'Bend Me Shape Me', 'Hello Suzy' and 'If Paradise is Half As Nice'. A hugely successful Solo career followed with Wide Eyed And Legless being the b...The Phonics - Tribute to Stereophonics

The Citadel Theatre, St Helens
Friday 17 October 2025
Described by Kelly Jones himself as "Awesome" The Phonics are the Uk's most authentic tribute to Stereophonics. Fresh from their UK o2 academy tour, you will hear all of the biggest hits from every Stereophonics album including their latest...Darren Alboni as Mick Hucknall - Simply Red Tribute

The Grand Bar, Warrington
Friday 17 October 2025
Quoted to be the No.1 Mick Hucknall impersonator by the Simply Red Fan Club, Darren Alboni has been performing as the legendary Manchester soul star since 1991 after appearing on, and winning, his heat in Granada Television's "Stars In Thei...The Oasis Experience - Tribute to Oasis

Fatbird, Wigan
Friday 17 October 2025
Described by Alan McGee as "the best tribute to Oasis in the world!, in fact I'll go one better, they're better than the real Oasis!", if you are a connoisseur of the Mancunian mayhem makers, you will definitely see the difference between T...The Vamps

Gorilla, Manchester
Saturday 18 October 2025
The Vamps had never really had the chance to be bored before 2020 struck. Since their platinum-selling debut album, 'Meet The Vamps', crashed into the UK charts at number 2 in 2014, the band have been holding onto a dream-like rush of album...The Stranglers

O2 Apollo, Manchester
Saturday 18 October 2025
One of the UK's most exciting, credible and influential British groups, The Stranglers, are set for an extensive, full production tour - the last time they play together in this format! Covering tracks from their mighty, 45-year catalogue, ...Candlelight - Tribute to Queen and The Beatles

Hallé St Peter's, Manchester
Saturday 18 October 2025
Discover the music of Queen and The Beatles performed under the gentle glow of candlelight by a string quartet in this awe-inspiring location. ...Idlewild

New Century Hall, Manchester
Saturday 18 October 2025
 Raucous cult Scottish Highlands curiosity turned chart bothering national treasures, Roddy Woomble, Rod Jones, and Colin Newton, plus Allan Stewart, Luciano Rossi and Andrew Mitchell return. Their form of alternative rock woven together...Fairport Convention

The Met, Bury
Saturday 18 October 2025
Fairport Convention have been entertaining music lovers for over half a century, havingformed in 1967 and goiing on to win a BBC Lifetime Achievement Award, with Radio 2 listeners voting their ground-breaking album Liege & Lief "The Most...NewDad

Manchester Academy, Manchester
Saturday 18 October 2025
Growing up in Galway, Ireland, the four members of NewDad thank a random band name generator for their unusual moniker.  Dark and stormy with undeniably beautiful moments amid the mammoth guitars, there's a heaviness to the music, which t...Merry Hell

Mottram St Andrew Village Hall, Macclesfield
Saturday 18 October 2025
Joyful Wigan folk rockers Merry Hell have graced the UK charts with their trademark all-standing, all-dancing, roof-raising traditional folk music. Formed in 2010, the core members of the band include the three Kettle brothers, who were pre...Wet Wet Wet + Heather Small (M People)

Lowry, Salford
Sunday 19 October 2025
Iconic Clydebank pop act Wet Wet Wet have sold more than 15 million singles and albums to date and have featured in the UK Singles Chart and Album Chart for an incredible time period of over 500 weeks. Formed in 1982, their albums have been...Rick Wakeman (Yes)

The Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
Sunday 19 October 2025
 Legendary keyboardist Rick Wakeman is well known for being a member of the rock band Yes as well as having his own successful solo career. He made chart history in 2017 when his Piano Portraits album became the first solo piano album...Tamino

New Century Hall, Manchester
Sunday 19 October 2025
The spellbinding arrival of the classically trained Belgian-Egyptian indie rocker with a divine falsetto is enough to make even an agnostic ponder predestination. The grandson of one of Egypt's most famed singers, the great Muharram Fouad, ...Simply Dylan - A Tribute to Bob Dylan

Lowry, Salford
Sunday 19 October 2025
As straightforward as the title suggests: no frills, no gimmicks, no pretense; Simply Dylan is John O'Connell's personal exploration and celebration of the rich and diverse work of Bob Dylan.O'Connell, formerly of Groundpig, has had his nam...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...UK Pink Floyd Experience
