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Friday 30 January 2026

The Memory of Water

The Memory of Water

Octagon Theatre, Bolton
Starring Helen Flanagan, Vicky Binns, Polly Lister and Victoria Brazier THREE SISTERS AND A FUNERAL... Winter, 1996.  The Spice Girls are riding high in the charts, football has failed to come home, and Dolly the Sheep's been cloned. Mean...

The Bodyguard - The Musical

The Bodyguard - The Musical

Palace Theatre, Manchester
Starring international leading lady Sidonie Smith as Rachel Marron, Olivier Award nominee Adam Garcia as Frank Farmer, Sasha Monique as Nicki Marron and Coronation Street and Hollyoaks star Matt Milburn as Sy Spector. At certain performance...

Motionhouse - Hidden

Motionhouse - Hidden

Lowry, Salford
Jaw-dropping dance-circus from internationally renowned company Motionhouse, with its brand-new production Hidden. Hidden explores how, in an increasingly divided world, light can come out of darkness in times of crisis. At times narrat...

Lucinda Williams

Lucinda Williams

The Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
Three-time Grammy Award winner Lucinda Williams unabashedly has taken on some of the human, social and political issues of our day during the course of her celebrated four-decade, pioneering career. The Louisiana country and blues rocker ha...

Luminiscence

Luminiscence

Manchester Cathedral, Manchester
Arriving in the UK for the first time, after dazzling over 1 Million people in Europe, the incredible immersive projection concert LUMINISCENCE transforms Manchester Cathedral into a fully immersive world of sound, story, and light. Featuri...

Justin Moorhouse

Justin Moorhouse

Darwen Library Theatre, Blackburn
Get ready for an unforgettable experience as Justin returns with "The Greatest Performance of My Life". After a successful and extensively extended tour of his 2022 show Stretch and Think (which you can catch in full on YouTube), he's back ...

Riot Jazz Brass Band

Riot Jazz Brass Band

Albert Hall, Manchester
Riot Jazz Brass Band hail from the grimy protoplasm of Manchester's prolific creative scene. Since 2008, they have been spreading unconditional love and irresistable energy across the nation and continent. The 9-strong troupe is comprised o...

The Home We Made

The Home We Made

HOME, Manchester
Maybe it starts with a brew that never gets finished, a laugh shared under the rain, or a stranger who turns into someone you can't imagine life without. For moments like these, a city is built. From voices like these, a story begins. The H...

Daniel O'Reilly

Daniel O'Reilly

Lowry, Salford
Despite courting controversy, Daniel O'Reilly is still boasting one of the largest, strongest, most loyal and fastest growing social media followings in the UK and his fans have grown up with him through the years! Coming off the back of a ...

Dave Spikey

Dave Spikey

Stockport Plaza, Stockport
  Life in a Northern Town is all about Dave's life in ..... well.... a northern town, so no surprise there. From his working-class childhood in the small, terraced houses round the mills in Bolton through passing his 11 plus and going to g...

Half Man Half Biscuit

Half Man Half Biscuit

O2 Ritz, Manchester
Known for their satirical, sardonic, and sometimes surreal songs, Birkenhead indie rockers Half Man Half Biscuit parody popular genres, while their lyrics allude to UK popular culture and geography. Formed in 1984, their long career has se...

Matt Maeson

Matt Maeson

New Century Hall, Manchester
Hailed by American Songwriter for '(creating) a sound unlike much else out there,' 2019 saw Matt Maeson arrive at the forefront of American Alternative music with his critically acclaimed breakthrough debut album, 'Bank On the Funeral'. ' T...

Only The Poets

Only The Poets

Manchester Academy, Manchester
With delicate guitar tones and catchy pop elements, the unsigned indie band from Reading were picked by One Direction star Louis Tomlinson to support him on his 2020 UK and European tour. ...

RNCM Opera Scenes

RNCM Opera Scenes

RNCM, Manchester
FREE EVENT. RNCM vocal and conducting students present excerpts from some of opera's greatest moments in this free series of staged scenes. A perfect way to feed your curiosity! Click on tickets link for the perfromers and excerpts presente...

Ren Harvieu & Romeo Stodart (The Magic Numbers)

Ren Harvieu & Romeo Stodart (The Magic Numbers)

Hallé at St Michael's, Manchester
A unique duo show from Romeo Stodart, the lead singer/songwriter in the multi-Platinum-selling London based rock n roll harmony group The Magic Numbers, and UK Top 5 charting Salford soul star Ren Harvieu. They will be playing much loved so...

The Specials Ltd - Tribute to 2Tone Legends The Specials

The Specials Ltd - Tribute to 2Tone Legends The Specials

Band On The Wall, Manchester
Celebrating the 45th anniversary of the The Specials' classic #1 single 'Ghost Town' with a live set from The Specials Ltd., the world's most authentic and original tribute to 2-Tone Records Legends, The Specials. When the original line up ...

Noel Coward’s Private Lives

Noel Coward’s Private Lives

Hope Mill Theatre, Manchester
From the creative team behind 'Blithe Spirit' and 'The Taming of the Shrew' comes HER Productions next classical takeover: Noel Coward's PRIVATE LIVES! Embracing Coward's trademark banter and elegance, HER's production peels back the fro...

Graeme Park - Hacienda All Night Long

Graeme Park - Hacienda All Night Long

Joshua Brooks, Manchester
Hacienda - All Night Long is an exciting new series of exclusive parties featuring a single DJ who will perform an extended set from start to finish....

International Welcome Party

International Welcome Party

O2 Ritz, Manchester
Erasmus and International Social welcome the world to Manchester! Come to represent your country, meet some new faces, and party with the friendliest and best crowd in the city as International DJs spin the best of: Reggaeton | RnB | Hip-H...

Buzzcocks

Buzzcocks

The Grand, Clitheroe
With their crisp melodies, Pete Shelley's biting lyrics and Howard Devoto's vocals complementing Shelley's and Steve Diggle's driving guitars, Manchester's Buzzcocks were one of the most influential bands to emerge in the initial wave of ...

Saturday 31 January 2026

Strictly Come Dancing - The Live Tour

Strictly Come Dancing - The Live Tour

AO Arena, Manchester
Get your score cards ready, your dancing shoes on and prepare for the return of the Strictly Come Dancing Live Tour! Get ready for an electrifying spectacle full of glitz, glamour, and pure entertainment as your favourite stars take to the ...

The Hallé - The Silence of the Lambs: Live in Concert

The Hallé - The Silence of the Lambs: Live in Concert

The Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
Chilling and thrilling: experience this cult classic, multi-Oscar-winning film with iconic soundtrack performed live by the Halle orchestra. FBI agent Clarice Starling (Jodie Foster) races against time to stop a serial killer nicknamed 'Buf...

The Memory of Water

The Memory of Water

Octagon Theatre, Bolton
Starring Helen Flanagan, Vicky Binns, Polly Lister and Victoria Brazier THREE SISTERS AND A FUNERAL... Winter, 1996.  The Spice Girls are riding high in the charts, football has failed to come home, and Dolly the Sheep's been cloned. Mean...

The Bodyguard - The Musical

The Bodyguard - The Musical

Palace Theatre, Manchester
Starring international leading lady Sidonie Smith as Rachel Marron, Olivier Award nominee Adam Garcia as Frank Farmer, Sasha Monique as Nicki Marron and Coronation Street and Hollyoaks star Matt Milburn as Sy Spector. At certain performance...

The Classic Rock Show

The Classic Rock Show

Lowry, Salford
The ultimate live juke box is back, bigger and even better, celebrating the very best-of-the-best of Classic Rock. Paying tribute to its favourite rock heroes CRS thunders through legendary performances from the likes of Queen, Led Zeppelin...

Luminiscence

Luminiscence

Manchester Cathedral, Manchester
Arriving in the UK for the first time, after dazzling over 1 Million people in Europe, the incredible immersive projection concert LUMINISCENCE transforms Manchester Cathedral into a fully immersive world of sound, story, and light. Featuri...

Miles Kane

Miles Kane

Albert Hall, Manchester
The NME Award-winning Birkenhead-born co-frontman of the Last Shadow Puppets is back at his very best: energetic, infectious and full of swagger, charmingly authentic, and like nothing else you'll hear in pop music today. A former member of...

Teletech

Teletech

O2 Victoria Warehouse, Manchester
Manchester born Techno, electro and acid clubnight. ...

The Piccadilly Sinfonietta - Vivaldi's Four Seasons by Candlelight

The Piccadilly Sinfonietta - Vivaldi's Four Seasons by Candlelight

Manchester Cathedral, Manchester
Few things are more magical than hearing the world's most breath-taking classical music being performed live by a brilliant orchestra in beautiful surroundings, by the flicker of candlelight.  This experience comes to life when the city's...

The Home We Made

The Home We Made

HOME, Manchester
Maybe it starts with a brew that never gets finished, a laugh shared under the rain, or a stranger who turns into someone you can't imagine life without. For moments like these, a city is built. From voices like these, a story begins. The H...

The Piccadilly Sinfonietta - Vivaldi's Four Seasons by Candlelight

The Piccadilly Sinfonietta - Vivaldi's Four Seasons by Candlelight

St Ann's Church, Manchester
Few things are more magical than hearing the world's most breath-taking classical music being performed live by a brilliant orchestra in beautiful surroundings, by the flicker of candlelight.  This experience comes to life when the city's...

Glenn Moore

Glenn Moore

Lowry, Salford
Described by The Guardian as "The best showcase of pure joke-writing skill", Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee Glenn Moore has written too many jokes again. With his new tour, Please Sir, Glenn I Have Some Moore, expect a fast-paced whirlwind ...

Heaven 17

Heaven 17

Stockport Plaza, Stockport
Sheffield new wave duo Martyn Ware and Ian Craig Marsh left the original lineup of the Human League in after having differences with Phil Oakey. They recruited Glenn Gregory (who's vocal's were remarkably similar to Oakey's) and Heaven 17 w...

Shakespeare North Playhouse Gala Night

Shakespeare North Playhouse Gala Night

Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
The very first Shakespeare North Playhouse Gala Night, an evening where sonnets, music, and performance come together in celebration. Experience Shakespeare's timeless sonnets, alongside songs inspired by his works, brought vividly to life ...

Machine Girl

Machine Girl

O2 Ritz, Manchester
The highly acclaimed NYC electronic duo embodies DIY culture, a lo-fi sound with a distinctly hi-fi, maximalist cultural vision. Genre-transcending music for an overstimulated generation. Infamous for cathartic, erratic performances, MG has...

Candlelight - A Tribute to Queen and ABBA by Piano

Candlelight - A Tribute to Queen and ABBA by Piano

Hallé St Peter's, Manchester
  Discover the music of Queen and ABBA performed by a classical pianist under the gentle glow of candlelight at this awe-inspiring location. ...

Day Fever

Day Fever

New Century Hall, Manchester
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 i...

The Totally Improvised Musical

The Totally Improvised Musical

Chorley Theatre, Chorley
Every night is opening night as the team of top improvisers, create a completely unscripted comedy musical from your suggestions. A brand-new show from the award-winning team behind ComedySportz (Best Alternative Act - North West Comedy Awa...

Murder Mystery Evening

Murder Mystery Evening

East Lancashire Railway, Bury
Nothing works up an appetite like exercising those brain cells. So bring your best detective skills and join us for a night of mystery and murder on one of our stunning heritage steam trains. If you love Agatha Christie or Sherlock Holmes -...

The 30+ Club

The 30+ Club

Manchester Academy, Manchester
Love to dance but can't hack late nights? The 30+ Club reclaim the dancefloor for the over 30s, with the pop music, the atmosphere and bedtime to suit those who've 'still got it'. ...
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