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Ocean Colour Scene

Ocean Colour Scene Announce Moseley Shoals 30th Anniversary Tour! Indie-rock legends Ocean Colour Scene have announced a major UK tour for 2026, celebrating the 30th anniversary of their classic album Moseley Shoals. Joining Ocean Colour Scene as the tour’s very special guests will be The Enemy. Released in April 1996, at the height of the Britpop era, Moseley Shoals was Ocean Colour Scene’s second album, and immediately became a huge success. Reaching number 2 on the UK Albums Chart, Moseley Shoals featured the massive hit singles ‘The Riverboat Song’, ‘You’ve Got It Bad’, ‘The Day We Caught The Train’ and ‘The Circle’, and was certified as triple-platinum after spending an incredible 92 weeks on the chart. In August that year, Oasis invited Ocean Colour Scene to be their special guests at one of their historic concerts held at Knebworth. Performing a blistering set in front 125000 people, Ocean Colour Scene firmly cemented their status as one of Britain’s biggest bands.

Sat 28 Nov19:00Audi Suite Manchester Arena

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Bill Bailey

BILL BAILEY Vaudevillean Before streaming, before tv, before cinema, before even radio… There was Vaudeville! This was the prime-time entertainment of its day. A celebration of comedy, songs, and multifarious skills. Tales of showbiz, tales of the city. Tales of the strange, the unusual… All with the aim to amuse and amaze a broad audience. Enthralling family fun, to divert and transport from the tribulations of daily life! Bill Bailey returns with a show that celebrates this great tradition, as the versatile multi-instrumental, multi-lingual, purveyor of humour and musical prowess, who could lay claim to being perhaps the foremost practitioner of this great tradition… An entertainer, a performer, a modern Vaudevillean! “Bailey may be one of our biggest-name comics, a national treasure no less.” The Guardian “His verbal flights of fancy exude wit, brains and boundless imagination.” The Evening Standard “More prolific the older he gets, with no dip in quality.” The Sunday Times

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Pete Tong's Ibiza Classics 2026

DJ, broadcaster and global dance music legend Pete Tong has announced the return of his critically acclaimed Ibiza Classics show for 2026, heading to the AO Arena on Friday 4th December 2026! After a milestone year marking the 10th anniversary of the acclaimed Ibiza Classics show—with four sold-out nights at London’s Royal Albert Hall and a major UK tour—DJ, broadcaster, and global dance music icon Pete Tong has announced a brand-new run of UK arena dates for 2026. He will be joined by long-standing collaborators The Essential Orchestra. Originally launched in 2015 as part of BBC Radio 1’s Prom at the Royal Albert Hall, Ibiza Classics set out to celebrate the spirit of Ibiza and its vibrant, high-energy club culture. Since then, the show has captured the hearts of millions, selling out venues across the UK and becoming a fixture of the live music calendar. Widely regarded as the world’s ultimate classical-electronic event, Ibiza Classics continues to honour the legacy of dance music with spectacular reimagining’s of iconic house tracks, breathtaking audiovisual and production earning rave reviews and uniting fans year after year.

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Culture Club

CULTURE CLUB ANNOUNCE UK ARENA TOUR THIS DECEMBER THE SINGLES TOUR - PLAYING ALL THE SONGS YOU WANT TO HEAR PLUS VERY SPECIAL GUESTS ABC & HAIRCUT 100 Music icons Boy George and Culture Club have announced a major UK arena tour for December 2026. The Singles Tour will feature all the classic songs you want to hear, along with hit singles including “Karma Chameleon”, “Do You Really Want To Hurt Me”, “Time (Clock of the Heart)”, “Church of the Poison Mind”, “Miss Me Blind”, “I’ll Tumble 4 Ya” and many more. It’s a full celebration of their chart-topping legacy, bringing together the songs that defined their career for an unforgettable live show. Kicking things off at Bournemouth International Centre on 7th December, the band will perform ten dates across the country, culminating in a huge headline show at London’s The O2 on 19th December. Boy George and Culture Club will also be joined by very special guests, legendary English pop band ABC and Platinum selling Brit-funk band Haircut 100. With a career spanning over 30 years, the GRAMMY® Award-winners first shot to international stardom in the 1980’s as one of the UK’s biggest exports of the 20th Century. When Boy George and Culture Club exploded onto the scene in 1982, they sent shockwaves around the world and changed popular culture forever. Simultaneously shifting perception in music, fashion and art. Over the next three decades, the Boy George/Culture Club name has become an iconic global brand.

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The Darkness

THE DARKNESS ANNOUNCE THEIR LARGEST HEADLINE TOUR IN 20 YEARS! The Darkness have announced their largest headline tour in 20 years and will bring their beloved rock to arenas across the UK in December 2026. The seven-date tour will see the rockers stop by the AO Arena on Friday 11th December 2026! The Darkness will be joined on all dates by support from the GRAMMY-winning, multi-platinum selling, American country rock band Brothers Osborne, as well as the multi-million streamed UK rock band A.

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Christmas Musical Spectacular

This December, Manchester steps into the spotlight. A breathtaking Christmas Musical Spectacular arrives at the iconic AO Arena, transforming one of Europe’s greatest live venues into a powerful celebration of music, emotion and festive magic. Blending world-class performance with the spirit of the season, this is a show designed not just to entertain, but to move, uplift and bring people together. At its heart, this production reimagines the festive live experience. Audiences can expect soaring singalong moments, genuine laughter, and deeply emotional performances, all brought to life through some of the greatest musical theatre anthems and Christmas songs ever written. It is a shared experience, one that invites the entire arena to feel every note, every lyric, every moment. Leading the line-up is the incomparable Michael Ball OBE, a two-time Olivier Award winner and one of the most celebrated voices in British musical theatre. With a career spanning decades at the very highest level, and millions of Christmas albums sold, his presence alone brings a true sense of occasion. His ability to command both the grandest stages and the most intimate moments ensures a performance that is as powerful as it is personal. Adding a cinematic scale to the evening is Loren Allred, the voice behind Never Enough from The Greatest Showman, featured on the Grammy Award-winning soundtrack.

Tue 22 Dec19:00Audi Suite Manchester Arena

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aespa

2026–27 aespa LIVE TOUR – SYNK : Complæxity - in MANCHESTER GLOBAL K-POP FORCE AESPA UNVEILS DETAILS OF UPCOMING WORLD TOUR, 2026-27 AESPA LIVE TOUR - SYNK : COMPLÆXITY INCLUDING UK DATES IN MANCHESTER Produced by Live Nation, the tour will bring aespa’s acclaimed live production and immersive performance experience to arenas across Asia, North America, Latin America, the UK, and Europe. Kicking off August 7 in Seoul, the run will include stops at UBS Arena in Belmont Park, NY on September 18 and Intuit Dome in Los Angeles, CA on October 3. The upcoming tour reflects the next chapter of aespa’s universe following their second full-length album. Marking a bold creative reset, the show will present an entirely reimagined concert experience with distinctly new performances, stage design, and visual storytelling—setting it apart from the group’s previous SYNK : æXIS LINE tour.

Thu 14 Jan19:00Audi Suite Manchester Arena

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Five Finger Death Punch

THE 20TH ANNIVERSARY WORLD TOUR: FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH WITH SPECIAL GUEST LAMB OF GOD AND BLEED FROM WITHIN Multi-platinum hard rock powerhouse Five Finger Death Punch announce the UK and European leg of their 20th Anniversary World Tour to take place in early 2027. Featuring special guest Lamb of God, the tour brings together two of hard rock and metal’s most dominant forces. The lineup will be rounded out by Bleed from Within from Scotland, for one of the strongest heavy tour packages of the year. The 20th Anniversary World Tour is both a celebration and a statement, honoring Five Finger Death Punch’s journey from their 2005 formation and release of debut album, The Way Of The Fist in 2007 to global arena headliners worldwide. The tour will kick off in the UK in Manchester on Saturday 16th January 2027 and will see the band perform in 21 cities across the UK and Europe, ending in Helsinki on 22nd February 2027. Five Finger Death Punch’s tenth studio album is expected to drop later this year, with the first new single anticipated to be released this month. The 20th Anniversary World Tour will showcase material from the new album, alongside classic anthems and #1 hits that defined the past two decades. 5FDP founding guitarist Zoltan Bathory states: “We built this band like a battleship, twenty years of everything life could throw at us, and we’re not just still here, we’re still growing. New fans discovering us every day, the fanbase bigger now than it’s ever been.

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Two Door Cinema Club

TWO DOOR CINEMA CLUB HEAD TO MANCHESTER! Hailing from Bangor and Donaghadee, Northern Ireland’s Two Door Cinema Club first gained attention with their debut album ‘Tourist History’ which included singles like “What you Know” **, ‘Something Good Can Work’ and ‘Undercover Martyn’ mixing guitar-driven, post-punk hooks with dancey, electronic polish, The album released in 2010 hit number one on the Irish chart, landed on the BBC Sound of 2010 Poll and went on to be a globally lauded debut record taking them from their garage where they wrote the album in Bangor to the main stages of festivals around the world. Two Door Cinema Club features singer/guitarist/programmer Alex Trimble, guitarist/singer Sam Halliday and bassist/singer Kevin Baird. Trimble and Halliday met in school, and then hooked up with Baird through mutual friends. The trio began writing in Trimble’s parents garage and skipped going to university to focus on the band, fortunately, the gamble paid off – the band’s self-released debut EP, Four Words to Stand On, was released in January 2009 to positive reviews and music blog buzz, which grew with the release of the EP’s leading track ‘Something Good Can Work’.

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Disney Descendants, ZOMBIES & Camp Rock: Worlds Collide Concert Tour

“DISNEY WORLDS COLLIDE CONCERT TOUR" HEADS TO THE UK AND EUROPE FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER IN 2027 FEATURING STARS FROM THE “DESCENDANTS,” “ZOMBIES” AND “CAMP ROCK” FRANCHISES MALACHI BARTON, LIAMANI SEGURA, DARA RENEÉ, MEKONNEN KNIFE, HUDSON STONE, SWAYAM BHATIA, KIARA ROMERO, AND ALEXANDRO BYRD Get ready, Disney fans: three iconic worlds are about to collide on stage like never before. The “Disney Worlds Collide Concert Tour” is a full-scale arena pop concert bringing together three of Disney’s biggest live-action music franchises — "Descendants," "ZOMBIES," and "Camp Rock" — for the first time on UK and European stages. Following a sold-out North American debut in 2025, the tour combines a pop concert with Disney storytelling, fan-favourite songs, choreography, special effects and audience participation in a major live event for tweens, teens, families and nostalgic Disney fans alike. Featuring stars from the "Descendants," "ZOMBIES," and "Camp Rock" film franchises, including Malachi Barton, Liamani Segura, Dara Reneé, Mekonnen Knife, Hudson Stone, Swayam Bhatia, Kiara Romero and Alexandro Byrd, the tour brings one of Disney's most popular live concert experiences to audiences overseas for the first time. The "Disney Worlds Collide Concert Tour" will visit UK, stopping in Mancheste on Wednesday 10th February 2027.

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Scouting For Girls

SCOUTING FOR GIRLS CELEBRATE THEIR 20TH ANNIVERSARY WITH A HUGE MANCHESTER SHOW. AO ARENA - FEBRUARY 12TH 2027 Scouting For Girls will celebrate their 20th anniversary with a special one-off weekend in which they will play the biggest shows of their career to date. They will celebrate with a show at Manchester’s AO Arena on February 12th 2027, before playing a huge homecoming at the OVO Arena Wembley the following day - playing to a total of approximately 33,000 fans. Frontman Roy Stride revealed the news this morning in an interview with Scott Mills on Radio 2, and it comes ahead of tomorrow’s release of their new album ‘These Are The Good Days’. And these shows promise to be the very best days in Scouting For Girls’ history. The trio - completed by Greg Churchouse and Peter Ellard - will pull out on the stops to make this an unforgettable experience. They will play their #1, triple-Platinum self-titled debut album in full - and you know all of its mammoth hits, including ‘She’s So Lovely’, ‘Elvis Ain’t Dead’, ‘Heartbeat’ and ‘I Wish I Was James Bond’. The set will also feature numerous other smash hits and fan favourites, complete with a brass section, surprise special guests, and cake! And if that wasn’t enough, their old friends The Hoosiers will perform as special guests on both nights.

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Kacey Musgraves

Kacey Musgraves — wandering East Texas wordsmith, cosmic country storyteller, and known genre-bender has always been a small-town girl with a thirst for the larger world. Her songs carry a wide-eyed glow, but her observations on the human condition offer an incisiveness that is staggering. Middle of Nowhere, the sixth album from the eight-time Grammy winner, including the prestigious overall Album of the Year for Golden Hour, exhales with a dust-blown clarity and ease that feels both evocative and calming. In a fraught world, this record invites listeners to embrace what is, laugh about what isn’t, and move forward more realized. Chill, whole, free. “I started this record while still in the throes of Deeper Well after going through a pretty ridiculous breakup,” says the truth-teller and self-proclaimed serial monogamist. “The bulk of the record was made during the longest single period of my life and I found that for the first time, it actually felt incredible being alone and existing in a space not defined by anyone else. I needed that period to really understand that I really don’t need someone to be happy. I became fascinated with the concept of liminal spaces, both geographical and emotional. We don’t linger in these spaces long enough. We rush to define where or whatever is next. I had a lot of time for reflection, clearing, and leaning into my roots in different ways. Horses. My home in Texas.

Wed 24 Feb19:00Audi Suite Manchester Arena

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C2C Festival

HOWDY MANCHESTER COUNTRY TO COUNTRY IS COMING THE BIGGEST COUNTRY FESTIVAL IN EUROPE COMES TO MANCHESTER’S AO ARENA FOR 2027 “The popularity of the UK country extravaganza is at an all-time high.” - Holler “C2C continues to be one of the UK's most spectacular annual festivals.” - The Express “Country music is best enjoyed together, and most of the biggest country artists are rooted back in the US. That’s what makes Country 2 Country so great.” - Time Out Country To Country will come to Manchester in 2027, bringing the fastest-growing genre in the UK to AO Arena for a 3 day extravaganza. The event will also spread across Manchester city centre, with artists performing at New Century Hall during the weekend, with more venues to be announced. Tickets will be available from 10am on Friday 20th March. Sign-up here to get early bird pre-sale access. Country To Country has become the premier destination to see the world’s best country artists and future stars outside of North America. Since its inaugural event in 2013 headlined by Tim McGraw and Carrie Underwood at The O2, London, Country to Country has grown to a three-day multi-arena event featuring the best in country music, with tens of thousands in attendance each year. Not only does C2C feature performances from the world’s best country stars it also showcases the best of emerging talent from Nashville, UK and Europe.

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Romesh Ranganathan

Romesh Ranganathan returns to the AO Arena on Saturday 10th April 2027, with his all-new tour!

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Gabrielle

GABRIELLE ‘THE HITS TOUR’2027 Gabrielle has announced a new UK tour for 2027, set to go on sale this April. The highlyanticipated dates will be available via artist presale beginning on 15th April and general sale launching on 17th April. Marking the next exciting chapter for one of the UK's most enduring and beloved voices,Gabrielle has spent over three decades shaping British pop and soul with a catalogue oftimeless, emotionally resonant hits. From her breakthrough success to her continued presencetoday, she remains a defining figure in UK music. Her landmark 1999 albumRisebecame one of the era’s standout releases, achieving 4xPlatinum status, while her celebrated compilationDreams CanCome True: Greatest Hitsmatched that success. Across her career, Gabrielle has achieved six Top 10 albums, including2018’sUnder My Skin, and returned in 2024 withA Place In Your Heart—an acclaimed releasethat reaffirmed her place as one of the UK’s most respected singer-songwriters.

Sat 24 Apr19:00Audi Suite Manchester Arena

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