WHAT'S ON AT NEW CENTURY, MANCHESTER
What's On at New Century, Manchester
Below you will find what's on at New Century Manchester, the recently restored three floor venue opposite Victoria Station.
With a capacity of 1300, the first floor New Century Hall 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.
With a rich musical history, 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.
Opening in 2026, the 450 New Century Locker offers a further live music venue while the ground floor is a bustling social hub of independent food traders and the basement provides an education space for the DBS Institute in music technology and games design.
Below you will find what's on at New Century Manchester, the recently restored three floor venue opposite Victoria Station.
With a capacity of 1300, the first floor New Century Hall 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.
With a rich musical history, 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.
Opening in 2026, the 450 New Century Locker offers a further live music venue while the ground floor is a bustling social hub of independent food traders and the basement provides an education space for the DBS Institute in music technology and games design.
Most Popular Shows and Events at New Century, Manchester
What's On at New Century, Manchester
Anton du Beke
New Century, Manchester
Sunday 1 November 2026
Free Book Offer with Tickets. Anton Du Beke - one of the UK's most beloved entertainers and a familiar face on BBC's Strictly Come Dancing since its very first series in 2004 - is heading out on tour in 2026 to celebrate the release of his...Cody Dahler
New Century Hall
Monday 2 November 2026
Why are our rivers full of more shit than the average tabloid newspaper? Why are seemingly intelligent people voting for Reform UK? And why do our PMs change more often than your bedsheets?  If you've found yourself asking an...Ole 60
New Century Hall
Thursday 5 November 2026
Made in Hancock County, Kentucky, Ole 60 is not your father's country band. Caught in the crosshairs of indie rock sonics, folk songwriting, and country sensibilities, the six-piece from Hawesville shot to notoriety in 2024 with "smoke & a...Wasia Project
New Century Hall
Friday 6 November 2026
 Croydon siblings Will Gao and Olivia Hardy encorporate a diverse mix of genres including Jazz, Pop, and Classical inspired by their mixed British-East Asian heritage and training. Will is perhaps best known for his debut role as Tao Xu...Robert Lester Folsom
New Century, Manchester
Friday 6 November 2026
? With a ticket in hand, settle in for an intimate seated show with Robert Lester Folsom. Highlights ? An intimate seated show with 70s cult singer-songwriter Robert Lester Folsom ? A folkrock gig for listeners drawn to softrock and psychp...
Wasia Project Manchester Tickets
Teenage Fanclub
New Century, Manchester
Saturday 7 November 2026
Glaswegian alt-rockers Teenage Fanclub return to universal acclaim to assuage the mind, body and soul, and to reaffirm that all is not lost in this world. Building on the success of their UK Top 40 hits during the 1990s with hits "Ain't Th...Deja Vega
Locker
Saturday 7 November 2026
Deja Vega are vocalist and guitarist Jack Fearon, drummer Tom Webster and bassist Mike Newton. After forming in Cheshire, they made the short journey to Manchester, a fitting backdrop to their gritty, guitar-led psychedelia. Rhythmic and ...Teenage Fanclub Manchester Tickets
Paddy Young
New Century Hall
Sunday 8 November 2026
The award-winning stand-up and star of Saturday Night Live UK's Weekend Update heads out on tour with a brand new show, Will Sir Be Laughing Alone?. You're born alone, you die alone. That's true enough. But what happened to that part in th...Nadine Shah
New Century, Manchester
Sunday 8 November 2026
Mercury Prize-nominated Tyneside indie jazz rock star Nadine Shah returns. ...Red Richardson
New Century Hall
Monday 9 November 2026
London-based Devon comedian, writer and actor Red Richardson is renowned for his Stay Toxic videos and stand up clips, which have well over 250 million views on Instagram alone, and has seen his shows sell out theatres across the globe. In...
Kelsey Lu
Locker
Monday 9 November 2026
L.A. based classically-trained North Carolina avant pop singer and cellist Kelsey McJunkins blends distorted guitars, choral swells and dark electronic pulses into a sonic landscape that moves between devotional intensity and cinematic sc...Red Richardson Manchester Tickets
Joshua Idehen
New Century, Manchester
Tuesday 10 November 2026
Joshua Idehen is a British-born Nigerian based in Sweden. A spoken word artist and musician, he has contributed poems to Mercury-nominated albums 'Channel The Spirits' by The Comet Is Coming, 'Your Queen Is A Reptile' and the Mobo winning...
OK Go
New Century, Manchester
Friday 13 November 2026
Well-loved in the UK for their hits "Here It Goes Again" and "Get Over It", YouTube mega-videos and ecstatic concert tours, Los Angeles based Chicago alt rock quartet OK Go are back to reinforce their status as a bleeding edge, blockbuster...OK Go
New Century, Manchester
Friday 13 November 2026
Well-loved in the UK for their hits "Here It Goes Again" and "Get Over It", YouTube mega-videos and ecstatic concert tours, Los Angeles based Chicago alt rock quartet OK Go are back to reinforce their status as a bleeding edge, blockbuster...Ellur
Locker
Friday 13 November 2026
Daughter of Embrace guitarist Richard McNamara, Halifax-born Ella McNamara is an infectiously authentic indie-pop artist who sings about the challenges and thrills of modern day romance and break-ups with compelling originality. Since writ...Mad Professor + Dennis Bovell
Locker
Friday 13 November 2026
A lifetime of UK dub on one night as the two heavyweights perform. Neil Joseph Stephen Fraser known by his stage-name Mad Professor, is a British dub music producer, engineer and remixer. He has collaborated with reggae artists Lee "Scratc...Day Fever
New Century Hall
Saturday 14 November - Saturday 19 December 2026
The day-time clubbing event started by Line of Duty actress Vicky McClure, her husband, Welsh actor and filmmaker Jonny Owen, and Jon McClure, the frontman of Sheffield indie kings Reverend & The Makers, has swept the UK since it's launch ...Shovel Dance Collective
New Century, Manchester
Saturday 14 November 2026
Nurturing a passion for the folk musics of the British Isles and Ireland with experimental tendencies, London's Shovel Dance Collective explore the ways in which traditional music holds queer histories, proto-feminist narratives and the vo...Grace Campbell
New Century, Manchester
Sunday 15 November 2026
 Grace Campbell, "one of the funniest women in Britain" (Times) and daughter of Alastair Campbell, is back. Grace is a contradiction: loud and anxious, spiritual and materialistic, graceful and... a disgrace. When the world wants her t...Eagles of Death Metal
New Century, Manchester
Tuesday 17 November 2026
Palm Desert, California rock band EODM (Eagles Of Death Metal) formed in 1998 by best friends Jesse Hughes (a.k.a. The Devil/Boots Electric) and Queen of the Stones Age's Josh Homme (a.k.a. Carlo Von Sexron/DP Pete/Baby Duck/Zombie Zebra)....Eagles Of Death Metal
New Century, Manchester
Tuesday 17 November 2026
Palm Desert, California rock band EODM (Eagles Of Death Metal) formed in 1998 by best friends Jesse Hughes (a.k.a. The Devil/Boots Electric) and Queen of the Stones Age's Josh Homme (a.k.a. Carlo Von Sexron/DP Pete/Baby Duck/Zombie Zebra)....
Jesca Hoop
New Century, Manchester
Wednesday 18 November 2026
Beautiful, subtle and stark the Manchester-based Californian folk star serves up stunningly original songs - minimalist yet brimming with energy, emerging from a wealth of life experience, great emotional depth, and years of honing the cra...Kid Kapichi
New Century, Manchester
Thursday 19 November 2026
 With their big punch 'beat punk' sound, and explicitly political songs the Hastings duo have been praised by Liam Gallagher as 'like Noel when he was good'. They tried to debut their Partygate polemic 'Party At No. 10' with a busking pe...Kid Kapichi
New Century, Manchester
Thursday 19 November 2026
 With their big punch 'beat punk' sound, and explicitly political songs the Hastings duo have been praised by Liam Gallagher as 'like Noel when he was good'. They tried to debut their Partygate polemic 'Party At No. 10' with a busking pe...
Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats
New Century Hall
Friday 20 November 2026
Cambridge psychedelic rock and doom metal heads Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats stand out from today's sterile desert of rock 'n' roll like a gore-drenched beacon. After enjoying such rich and fruitful artistic indulgence, frontman Kevin Starr...Jack & Jack
Locker
Friday 20 November 2026
Nebraska pop-rap duo Jack & Jack - Jack Johnson and Jack Gilinsky - found success via the social media app Vine, before turning to careers as musicians. Their 2014 single "Wild Life" peaked at number 87 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and they...Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats Manchester Tickets
Clementine Douglas
New Century Hall
Saturday 21 November 2026
Birmingham-born, Brighton-based Clementine Douglas is a rapidly rising star in contemporary music. Starting with Kudu Blue in 2019, she quickly gained recognition for her soulful voice and sharp songwriting before launching a successful so...Scott Matthews
New Century Hall
Saturday 21 November 2026
If there's one quality that defines the career of Wolverhampton folk rocker Scott Matthews it's this: evolution. The singer/songwriter has challenged himself creatively during a career that has been characterised by rare quality as he find...Graham Coxon (Blur)
New Century Hall
Monday 23 November 2026
A special, full band career-spanning show from one of the most innovative guitarists of his generation, Blur co-founder, singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and visual artist Graham Coxon. His passion for experimental and indie music ...Lambchop
New Century, Manchester
Tuesday 24 November 2026
Kurt Wagner's Nashville alt country rockers have moved through a range of genres including low-fi bedroom recordings, post-rock, soul, classical and lounge music since their formation in 1986.  ...DakhaBrakha
Locker
Thursday 26 November 2026
ДахаБраха (pronounced "DakhaBrakha") is a music quartet from Kyiv, Ukraine making a world of unexpected new music with its uncompromising vocal range and self-proclaimed "ethno-chaos." The group was created in 2004 at the Center o...
Dea Matrona
Locker
Friday 27 November 2026
Beflast rock band Dea Matrona, led by Orlaith Forsythe and Mollie McGinn, formed after competing against each other in the Scor na nOg singing competitions taking their name from Celtic mythology meaning 'Divine Mother Goddess'. They sta...Mulaa Joans
New Century Hall
Saturday 28 November 2026
After posting covers on Tik-Tok, Bath singer-songwriter Poppy Hewitt-Smith, aka Mulaa Joans, shot to fame with her cover of Etta James. Influenced by Passenger, James Brown, Rihanna and Billie Eilish, she has gone on to record her own trac...Madame Claude
New Century, Manchester
Saturday 28 November 2026
The most exciting and original ska band in years! Not our words... the words of Pauline Black, the legendary front woman of the Selecter. Meet Madame Claude, a 5 piece band from Saddleworth, mixing ska, rocksteady, reggae and even disco ...Bimini Bon Boulash (DJ Set)
Locker
Saturday 28 November 2026
 Star of RuPaul's Drag Race UK and new cultural icon Bimini Bon Boulash embarks on a DJ tour. First finding global fame as the breakout star of RuPaul's Drag Race UK, they have dominated press and social media ever since with their innat...ALOK: Eat Pray Leave
New Century, Manchester
Saturday 28 November 2026
Internationally condemned stand-up comedian ALOK returns with their most intimate show yet: a comedy about love, heartbreak, and the end times. Their therapist said stop dating projects, so they built one and are charging admission. A jour...Peter Antoniou
New Century, Manchester
Sunday 29 November 2026 - Sunday 14 February 2027
Peter Antoniou fuses his amazing and uncanny ability to read minds with razor sharp wit, story telling, and improvisational comedy to create unique live entertainment experiences. From London's West End to America's Got Talent, he has beco...Lil Peep 30th Birthday Celebration
New Century, Manchester
Monday 30 November 2026
    A celebration of the late Pennsylvania rapper. Celebrate Lil Peep's 30th birthday with an unforgettable night dedicated to his music and the community he inspired. Fans can expect a career-spanning set and a celebration of Gus'...Harry Baker
New Century Hall
Wednesday 2 December 2026 - Wednesday 5 May 2027
 Described by BBC Radio 1 as "Simply put... The greatest performer on earth", World Poetry Slam Champion Harry Baker's heart and humour has been watched by millions online and allowed him to perform all over the world. Following on from ...The Chameleons
New Century, Manchester
Friday 4 - Saturday 5 December 2026
 After celebrating their 40th anniversary in style, legendary underground Manchester band Chameleons return. The Middleton-formed band serve-up a career spanning set. Helmed from the front by long-standing custodian "Vox", previously kno...The Chameleons & Manchester Camerata
New Century, Manchester
Friday 4 - Saturday 5 December 2026
 After celebrating their 40th anniversary in style, legendary underground Manchester band Chameleons return. The Middleton-formed band serve-up a career spanning set. Helmed from the front by long-standing custodian "Vox", previously kno...
Brown Wimpenny
New Century, Manchester
Saturday 5 December 2026
Brown Wimpenny are an 11-piece folk ensemble based in south Manchester. Described by The Quietus as a source of "energy, eccentricity, communion and joy"; they weave traditional music, from the British Isles and beyond, into a web of jigs,...
How to get to New Century, Manchester
New Century Frequently Asked Questions
34 Hanover Street, Manchester, M4 4AH
The nearest carparks are;
Just Park Riga St, Manchester, M4 4AF
EuroPark 88a Miller St, Manchester, M4 4DY
The nearest train station is Victoria.
Shudehill tram stop is also just a 2 minute walk away.
The capacity for New Century Hall is up to 1300 standing.
Capacity is varied to accomodate each individual event.
You can email New Century Hall or contact your ticket provider.
New Century Hall box office opens on event days from 4pm.
When we know of a duration of a show, we add it to the description of the show on our event pages.
If the time isn't listed, we do not have the information yet. We update our pages daily so it maybe a case of knowing closer to the performance itself, so keep checking.
You can also email New Century Hall for further information.
For more information on access at New Century Hall, you can visit their accessibility page.
Whether you have positive or negative feedback you would like to feedback to New Century Hall, please email them directly.
For any lost property enquiries, please email New Century Hall with a description f the item and details of the event you attended.
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Most Popular Shows and Events at New Century, Manchester
