WHAT'S ON AT NEW CENTURY HALL, MANCHESTER
New Century Hall Manchester flows across three floors and its recent exquisite restoration has brought its musical history to a whole new generation. With a capacity of 1300, the first floor has its original sprung dance floor, disco ceiling, and state of the art sound system, ensuring it is capable of hosting numerous styles of events, concerts, gigs, productions, conferences, exhibitions and shows.
New Century Hall has hosted music legends such as Jimi Hendrix, Jerry Lee Lewis, The Hollies, The Kinks, Hermans Hermits, Tina Turner, and was a go to venue in the 80’s for the MADchester acid house parties. With the ground floor a bustling social hub of independent food traders and the basement providing education via the DBS Institute in music technology, and games design, now is the time for New Century Hall Manchester.
With exciting concerts and gigs ahead such as comedian Kane Brown, The Kopycat Killers - The Killers Tribute Band, Macy Gray, Hilltop Hoods, Echobelly, and 808 State, there is always something to look forward to, whether it be a premier or an old favourite. See what's on at New Century Hall Manchester with Manchester Theatres below and book tickets online.
Most Popular Shows and Events at New Century Hall, Manchester
What's On at New Century Hall, Manchester
Beth McCarthy

New Century Hall, Manchester
Friday 2 May 2025
York TikTok sensation Beth McCarthy's unique ability to draw in an audience with honest storytelling and captivating vocals, combined with a dynamic pop sound, creates anthems for the heart. Beth's career sky rocketed in December 2020 after...ROLLA

New Century Hall, Manchester
Saturday 3 May 2025
 Hotly tipped Manchester rock quintet Rolla, make music which has been compared by Louder than War to "the towering anthems of The Verve" and "elements of The Sex Pistols and Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, creating a jet energy roar of so...Day Fever

New Century Hall, Manchester
Saturday 10 May - Saturday 21 June 2025
The day-time clubbing event started by Line of Duty actress Vicky McClure, her husband, Welsh actor and filmmaker Jonny Owen and Sheffield indie kings, Reverend & The Makers has swept the UK since it's launch in 2024 "The day-time disco tha...Soccer Mommy

New Century Hall, Manchester
Wednesday 14 May 2025
Quietly catchy and surprisingly confrontational. Soccer Mommy is the indie pop project of Sophie Allison, a wise beyond her years young Nashville native and musical wunderkind. Her songs, which have confronted toxic relationships and infat...Laura Belbin

New Century Hall, Manchester
Friday 16 May 2025
The comedian behind the blog Knee Deep In Life is known as Laura Belbin, she's the perfect tonic in a world of perceived perfection and filtered happiness. She says the things everyone is thinking but probably doesn't often dares to say. H...Cassia

New Century Hall, Manchester
Saturday 17 May 2025
Combining a rich musicality with continent-spanning influences, Cassia have made their mark with their own brand of calypso-flavoured indie pop. The Macclesfield trio have built a cult following in the last few years, amassing millions of S...Charles Wesley Godwin

New Century Hall, Manchester
Sunday 18 May 2025
A tunesmith at the peak of his powers - melding melody with memories, workmanship with wisdom, West Virginian Country star Charles Wesley Godwin describes his musical style as inspired by artists such as Kris Kristofferson, Willie Nelson,...Kane Brown (comedian)

New Century Hall, Manchester
Thursday 29 May 2025
Come and laugh yourself into hysterics as the Man Like Mobeen star and force of comedy delivers his brand new one man show, Don't Listen To Me, I Talk Sh*t. Guaranteed to have you rolling around in your seats! Kane's not holding back for t...OASIS96 - Oasis Tribute

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. ...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. ...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...Kim Deal (Pixies / Breeders)

New Century Hall, Manchester
Tuesday 17 June 2025
A solo tour from the original bassist and co-vocalist of Pixies (from 1986 to 1993 and 2004 to 2013) and frontwoman of the Breeders, which she formed in 1989. ...Macy Gray

New Century Hall, Manchester
Tuesday 24 June 2025
 Born and raised in Canton, Ohio, Macy Gray - real name Natalie Renee McIntyre - moved to Southern California in the '80s to attend university. She studied scriptwriting and was even in film classes with Ally Sheedy and Rob Lowe. During t...Turnpike Troubadours

New Century Hall, Manchester
Wednesday 25 June 2025
Everybody loves a good comeback story. After releasing five genre-defining albums and building a fiercely loyal fanbase, Turnpike Troubadours - the Tahlequah, Oklahoma kings of Red Dirt music - all but fell apart in 2019, taking a three-ye...Dale Elliott Jr

New Century Hall, Manchester
Saturday 28 June 2025
Jamaican-born comedian Dale Elliott Jr. brings his highly anticipated "Son of an Immigrant" World Tour to stages across the globe! Drawing from his experience as a child left behind while both parents ventured to "foreign," Elliott masterfu...The Backseat Lovers

New Century Hall, Manchester
Wednesday 2 July 2025
Utah's The Backseat Lovers are an alt-rock indie quartet based in Salt Lake City. Their radio hit "Kilby Girl" made the US Billboard Alternative Airplay singles chart in late 2020. ...Oasis Official Aftershow

New Century Hall, Manchester
Friday 11 - Saturday 19 July 2025
Manchester Music Tours presents the Oasis Official Aftershow party with guest DJs including: Bez (Happy Mondays) + Clint Boon (Inspiral Carpets) + Mani (Stone Roses) + Tin Tin (New Order's tour DJ) + Col White (Vinyl Revival) + Ricco (Cream...Jessica Pratt

New Century Hall, Manchester
Thursday 17 July 2025
The revered Californian folk artist Jessica Pratt has become one of the most singular and distinctive songwriters of her generation, largely through the bewitching sound of her acoustic guitar and vocals: a mystical, elusive blend that conj...Hilltop Hoods

New Century Hall, Manchester
Thursday 28 August 2025
While Australian Hip Hop continues to break new ground, there is only one act synonymous with the term ground-breaking. Within a genre that is growing at an exponential rate, Adelaide's Hilltop Hoods will always remain leaders having record...Blondshell

New Century Hall, Manchester
Thursday 4 September 2025
Los Angeles indie rocker Sabrina Mae Teitelbaum, better known as Blondshell, moved from a pop-leaning career under the name BAUM, to a more rockier output as Blondshell in 2022. Transforming into a songwriter without fear. The loud-quiet e...Dope Lemon (Angus Stone)

New Century Hall, Manchester
Saturday 6 September 2025
One half of Angus & Julia Stone, Dope Lemon (aka Angus Stone) has amassed over 400 million streams from his two widely acclaimed albums, Smooth Big Cat (2019) which came in at #2 on the Australian ARIA Album charts, and Honey Bones (2016), ...Dinosaur Pile-Up

New Century Hall, Manchester
Thursday 11 September 2025
Leeds fuzzy punk-rock supremos Dinosaur Pile-Up mix up big, melody-driven alt-rock songs with the energy of in-your-face punk. Â ...Kofi Stone

New Century Hall, Manchester
Monday 22 September 2025
Inspired by his Grandad's poetry, Birmingham rapper Kofi has had an advanced taste from as early as he can remember, freestyling and writing whenever he had the chance. A musical diet of Lupe Fiasco, Common, Kano and Sway further sparked hi...Echobelly

New Century Hall, Manchester
Thursday 2 October 2025
Known for their sensationally energetic live shows and no shortage of critical acclaim, Britpop band Echobelly were often compared to Blondie, thanks largely to Delhi-born vocalist Sonya Madan and Swedish guitarist, and former pornographic ...Nurse Georgie Carroll

New Century Hall, Manchester
Sunday 5 October 2025
As seen on Britain's Got Talent 2023, and winner of 'Best Comedy Show' at the Adelaide Fringe Festival, don't miss Nurse Georgie Carroll - she is just what the doctor ordered. Hospital-grade humour from everyone's favourite Mancunian nurs...John Grant

New Century Hall, Manchester
Monday 6 October 2025
John Grant is an American singer-songwriter from Colorado originally known as the lead singer of alternative rock band The Czars. Called "one of the most gifted singer-songwriters of his generation," by The New York Times, singer-songwriter...John Grant Manchester Tickets

Mass Of The Fermenting Dregs

New Century Hall, Manchester
Saturday 11 October 2025
Mass of the Fermenting Dregs (マス オブ ザ ファーメンティング ドレッグス, Masu obu za Famentingu Doreggusu) is a post-hardcore/shoegaze trio from Kobe, Japan. In Japanese, they are also popularly known by a shortened form...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...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, ...Somebody's Child

New Century Hall, Manchester
Tuesday 21 October 2025
Somebody's Child is a rising young Irish male singer-songwriter who has been making serious waves in the Irish music scene, having supported acts like The War on Drugs and headlined the 3Olympia Theatre. His music has drawn comparisons to ...Spanish Love Songs

New Century Hall, Manchester
Thursday 23 October 2025
Los Angeles based punk band Spanish Love Songs are self-described as "grouchrockers" making "music for fans of boxed wine, divorce, and crushing self-doubt", tapping into the emotions we all seem to feel but harbour. ...Tide Lines

New Century Hall, Manchester
Thursday 30 October 2025
Scottish folk pop band Tide Lines rounded off a huge 2023 with a unique conceptual tour throughout Scotland entitled Elements. Such was the success of these special, stripped back shows, the band are now getting set to take Elements on t...The Enemy

New Century Hall, Manchester
Saturday 1 November 2025
Since 2007, the socially anchored, Coventry power rock trio led by lead singer and main songwriter Tom Clarke haven't been afraid to shed a tonne of bravado as a shield for some deep-seeded insecurities - mainly Tom's own personal hang-ups....The Enemy Manchester Tickets

Perfume Genius

New Century Hall, Manchester
Friday 7 November 2025
Dazzling Seattle art-pop auteur Michael Alden Hadreas delivers ornate pop 'n' cathartic folk balladry, defiant make-out anthems 'n' queer R&B soul. For fans of Kate Bush and Scott Walker.      ...The Guest List

New Century Hall, Manchester
Friday 21 November 2025
Formed in early 2021, up-and-coming Manchester rock band The Guest List have built up a global following on social media, clocking up millions of streams on Spotify with the release of their self-titled EP, 'Steel Police', and the heartfelt...Turin Brakes

New Century Hall, Manchester
Saturday 22 November 2025
With characteristically robust pop melodies and spine-tingling harmonies, South London's Mercury Music Prize-nominated urban folk-pop act Turin Brakes have sold over a million records worldwide, including the UK Top 5 hit, in 2003, "Pain K...The Horrors

New Century Hall, Manchester
Friday 28 November 2025
After nearly 20 years making music, there are few bands who've created a canon as determinedly innovative and consistently critically-acclaimed as The Horrors. Emerging as zeitgeist-shaking garage-goths on their 2007 debut, 'Strange House',...The Pigeon Detectives

New Century Hall, Manchester
Saturday 29 November 2025
With platinum and gold selling accolades across their back catalogue, Leeds band The Pigeon Detectives return with their high octane live show, peppered with sing-a-long hits that have passed the test of time with flying colours attracting ...Oklou

New Century Hall, Manchester
Sunday 30 November 2025
French electro pop artist Marylou Mayniel, better known by her stage name Oklou (pronounced "Okay Lou") has established herself as one of the most promising artists of her generation, collaborating with names like Mura Masa, Pomme and Flavi...Dreadzone + The Orb

New Century Hall, Manchester
Friday 5 December 2025
A co-headline tour from two London ambient and dub electronica legends. Formed in 1993 in London by ex-Big Audio Dynamite drummer Greg Roberts and musician Tim Bran, Dreadzone scored a Top 20 hit in 1996 with "Little Britain". The Orb - Ale...808 State

New Century Hall, Manchester
Saturday 13 December 2025
Graham Massey's Manchester dance legends and Acid House pioneers have been described as "masters of their art" (Q), "pioneers" (Future Music), "for sonic trailblazing and inestimable influence, among our most important groups" (Record Colle...James B Partridge - The Big Christmas Assembly 2025
