Indie Thursdays
1 May 2025 - 5 Jun 2025
It's the biggest Indie night spinning all your favourite classics!
O2 Academy Leeds
The O2 Academy Leeds' Grade I listed building is a majestic hunk of Victorian Gothic, opening as the Coliseum in 1885 and originally an all-purpose theatre/meeting house/circus venue. It morphed into a cinema in the 20s and a bingo hall in the 60s before becoming the Town and Country Club in 1992. Since 2007 it's been run by Academy Music Group, hosting international acts in the main auditorium and local bands in the Underground space.
The nearest train station is Leeds, about 15 minutes' walk down Park Row. The nearest car parking is at Woodhouse Lane and the Rose Bowl Car Park around the back of the venue on Portland Crescent. Local buses stop on Caverley Street, Woodhouse Lane, Portland Way and Albion Street.
What's On @ O2 Academy Leeds
The Doors Alive
26 Sept 2025 - 11 Oct 2025
Tribute to Jim Morrison's seminal LA rock crew. Expect renditions of classic hits such as 'Light My Fire', 'When the Music's Over' and 'Riders on the Storm'. The band recreate the sounds of the 60s using the same instruments that the Doors used in their heyday, including a Gibson G101, the Fender Rhodes Bass and a vintage Gibson S.G Guitar.
Brutus Gold's Love Train: Disco Party
14 Jun 2025 - 5 Jul 2025
Hop on the Love Train and dance to the best disco classics of the '70s at this open-air party.
Scouting for Girls
23 May 2025 - 28 Mar 2026
The British pop band, who took the country by storm with their witty lyrics and catchy pop songs.
The Comedy Store
2 May 2025 - 13 Dec 2026
With nearly 40 years’ experience in the business and as the premier name in comedy, The Comedy Store is renowned as a breeding ground for new comedy talent, and remains the place to see tomorrow’s stars today. The likes of Eddie Izzard, John Bishop, Jimmy Carr, Rhod Gilbert and Sarah Millican, have all cut their comedy teeth with us.
We bring you “The Best In Stand Up” from around the globe, showcasing the brightest names in comedy today.
Simply the funniest show you’ll see all year!
The Clone Roses: The Stone Roses Tribute
17 May 2025 - 29 Nov 2025
This fine tribute to the Roses includes all the classics including ‘Waterfall’ ‘Made of Stone’ ‘This is the One’ and of course ‘I am the Resurrection.’ From the clothes and instruments to the swagger and stage mannerisms, the band’s attention to detail is spot on, while the musical accuracy is second to none. ‘I can’t believe it’s not butter, the second best Stone Roses in the world’ said Stone Roses bass player Mani. Sorted!
The Dualers
2 May 2025 - 7 Mar 2026
A musical force of sheer ska and party spirit; The Dualers' rise to kings of good times and the live music circuit has been a remarkable feat.
Over what has been a lengthy career in music for frontman Tyber Cranstoun, the nine-piece reggae and ska outfit have become a live phenomenon, selling out shows up and down the UK on account of their high energy, all embracing performances that dip into original numbers and lovingly selected covers.
With sold out dates way in advance of the Dualers even playing them, the group are seriously hot property on the live scene and have compounded this with news of their biggest tour yet, taking on some huge shows across the UK.
The Southmartins
17 May 2025 - 28 Feb 2026
The Southmartins are a unique tribute to the songs and sound of The Beautiful South & Housemartins. Constantly gigging since early 2010 in the UK they have built up an unbeatable reputation as a live experience. With a set of classic hits and other bits to draw upon such as Song For Whoever, Don't Marry Her, Perfect 10, Happy Hour and many more they are guaranteed to make you smile, dance and sing.
Rather than merely trying to recreate or reproduce the original recordings, or even live performances of the original bands, The Southmartins have always put their own stamp on the material and have led the way in how they approach paying tribute to these classic songs. This is not simple mimicry. Having said that, lead singer Andy's voice is about as close to Paul Heaton as you could hope for without it being the man himself (who has said the band are "very good") and with a highly skilled, and lively band they inject a huge amount of energy and soul into their shows.
Elvana
9 May 2025 - 28 Feb 2026
From the bowels of Disgraceland, Rock & Roll icons of the afterlife are raised from the dead! Rock & Roll meets Grunge as Elvis fronts Nirvana and gives the band the front man it’s been missing since ’94.
Elvana tear through Nirvana’s catalogue whilst splicing in grunged up sections of the king of rock & rolls finest moments, culminating in an audible orgasm of overdrive & old school Rockabilly. It smells like cheeseburgers and teen spirit, daddy-o! Elvana’s short lifetime has already seen them support NYC titans ‘Tragedy: A Heavy Metal Tribute to the Bee Gees’, Drive Thru-Metal’s finest - LA’s ‘Mac Sabbath,’ as well as tearing up venues throughout the UK.
Antarctic Monkeys
24 May 2025 - 7 Feb 2026
Brit pop / indie night with one of the UKs best live tribute bands: the Antarctic Monkeys.
Martin Kemp: Back to the 80s
2 May 2025 - 31 Jan 2026
Is this too good to be true?! The hottest 80s club night is coming to town - when actor, TV personality and star of Spandau Ballet Martin Kemp will be spinning the biggest and best hits of that decade.
The Saw Doctors
27 May 2025 - 8 Nov 2025
Hailing from the West of Ireland, The Saw Doctors, hell-bent on ‘celebrating, observing, recording and sometimes poking fun at their own locality and accent’, were discovered by Mike Scott of The Waterboys on a stormy wintry Tuesday night in Galway city.
Loved and revered by their loyal fans, The Saw Doctors continue with a resilience and an effervescent energy.
The Smyths
9 May 2025 - 16 Jan 2026
Join The Smyths as they celebrate the 40th anniversary of two iconic Smiths albums, The Smiths and Hatful of Hollow, that feature such classic tracks as “This Charming Man” “What Difference Does It Make?” “Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now” and “How Soon Is Now”.
The K's
8 May 2025 - 8 Aug 2025
The K’s: Jamie Boyle (vocals/guitar); Ryan Breslin (guitar); Dexter Baker (bass); Jordan Holden (drums). These four young men are a word-of-mouth phenomenon that’s rapidly becoming too huge to ignore.
On the surface, the appeal of The K’s seems simple: embodying the relatable frustrations of everyday Britain and its zero hours economy, yearning for a better life in escapist anthems like epic next single Landmines and breakthrough tune Glass Towns. But if creating timeless thrills really was so simple, other bands would rack up so many streams and routinely sell out tours, thanks to the frenzied fan community the band has nurtured. Their gigs are a guaranteed riot, but that shouldn’t overlook the sophistication that gives The K’s the immediately identifiable blueprint all special bands soon develop. Debut single Sarajevo is one of the few rock & roll songs to namecheck Austro-Hungary, notching up over 1.5 million streams in the process.
Cast
13 Jun 2025 - 5 Dec 2025
Originally formed in 1992 from the ashes of The La’s and Shack, Cast released four albums and had ten top 10 singles before disbanding in 2001.
As one of the most traditional guitar bands to emerge during the Brit-pop era of the mid-'90s, Cast have carved out a sound that was heavily indebted to the British Invasion of the early '60s, yet it was infused with a mystical, pseudo-hippie lyrical sensibility, which lead singer John Power expanded upon in all of his interviews.
What really made Cast into a success was Power's gift for simple, classic pop hooks, as demonstrated on the hit singles "Fine Time," "Alright," and "Walkaway." Cast became a very, very popular band within Britain following the success of Oasis and Blur. Labelled ‘The Who of the 90’s’, Noel Gallagher once described watching Cast play live as “a religious experience.”
The Wedding Present
9 May 2025 - 25 Oct 2025
The Wedding Present, formed from the ashes of Lost Pandas, were founded in Leeds, England, in 1985. The only constant member throughout the group's history was singer/songwriter David Gedge. The initial line-up included guitarist Peter Solowka, bassist Keith Gregory, and drummer Shaun Charman.
The Libertines
5 Jul 2025 - 9 Aug 2025
The Libertines are an English rock band, formed in London in 1997 by frontmen Carl Barât and Pete Doherty. The band, centred on the songwriting partnership of Barât and Doherty, has also included John Hassall, and Gary Powell for most of its recording career.
UK Foo Fighters
1 May 2025 - 13 Dec 2025
This World-Famous tribute band UK Foo Fighters takes you on a journey spanning 25 years of music from the now legendary Foo Fighters and their charismatic leader, Dave Grohl.
UK Foo Fighters' brand new show for the theatre is inspired by the Foo’s studio album In Your Honor. It offers a unique opportunity for fans old and new to explore the melodic acoustic recordings from the Foo’s live album Skin And Bones (recorded at the Pantages Theatre in Los Angeles), culminating with a powerhouse rock set featuring tracks from all 9 studio albums including greatest hits such as; Everlong, Best of You, Times Like These and All My Life.
Shed Seven
14 Jun 2025 - 2 Aug 2025
Indie superstars Shed Seven can boast four Top 20 albums and fifteen Top 40 singles. The band from York burst on to the Britpop scene in 1994 and quickly shot to fame. Their hits include Disco Down, Chasing Rainbows and Going For Gold.
Shed Seven is made up of drummer Alan Leach, guitarists Joe Johnson and Paul Banks, lead vocals from Rick Witter and Tom Gladwin on bass.
Public Service Broadcasting
6 Aug 2025 - 6 Aug 2025
Public Service Broadcasting have been “teaching the lessons of the past through the music of the future” for more than a decade now. 2013’s debut album Inform – Educate – Entertain used archival samples from the British Film Institute as audio-portals to the Battle of Britain, the summit of Everest and beyond. Two years later, The Race For Space used similar methods to laud the superpowers’ rivalry and heroism in orbit and on the moon. In 2017, joined by voices including Manic Street Preachers’ James Dean Bradfield, Every Valley was a moving exploration of community and memory via the rise and fall of the British coal industry. Pointedly topical in its analyses, it reached number four on the UK charts.
For their fourth album, Bright Magic (2021), the band take inspiration from Berlin: “It’s become an album about moving to Berlin to write an album about people who move to Berlin to write an album…”. Heralded as the band’s most varied and cerebral record, Bright Magic is an impressionist portrait of the city from the ground up, less linear and narrative than previous works, combining PSB’s use of electronics and surging guitar rock with sound samples collected in the city itself to realise the dreams of Berlin they’d constructed in their minds.
Day Fever
3 May 2025 - 28 Jun 2025
The day-time clubbing event started by Vicky McClure, Jonny Owen and Reverend & The Makers has swept the UK since it’s launch in 2024
‘The day-time disco that doesn’t ruin your Sunday’ has amassed a huge following with thousands of punters packing out clubs and theatres every weekend to dance the day away from. A whole generation who perhaps thought their clubbing days were behind them are blazing a trail for a new way to enjoy themselves.
Day Fever prides itself on creating a safe-space where people can just be themselves. No dress code, no egos, just enjoyment and positivity. This has seen a loyal fanbase leading to sold out shows in some of the countries most famous venues.
The music policy is simple, the greatest hits of the 20th century. Why can’t Madonna sit next to Madness? Pulp go back to back with Prince? The Stone Roses and The Rolling Stones?
Discos For Grown Ups
23 May 2025 - 22 Nov 2025
The legendary Discos for Grown Ups pop-up disco party is coming for an amazing night dancing to 70s disco, 80s pop and 90s dance classics.
Get glittered up for a fun, fab and feel-good night of dancing with people your own age to all the best ever 70s, 80s and 90s classics you love to boogie to...
Dance the night away to all your favourite 70s, 80s and 90s dance floor hits from Donna Summer, Earth Wind and Fire, Chic, Barry White, Billy Ocean, Sister Sledge, Odyssey, Chaka Khan, ABBA, Madonna, Robin S, Erasure, Bee Gees, Candi Staton, Faithless and many more
Kane Brown: Don’t Listen To Me
8 May 2025 - 18 Oct 2025
Fearlessly hilarious delivery combined with honesty and sincerity. Kane Brown is 19 years in the game, has performed around the world, has opened for Guz Khan on his UK Tour, can be seen on Man Like Mobeen (Netflix), Deepfake (Channel 4), She’s the One (Amazon) and heard on his hit Podcast, Rated 18.
Flaming Lips
1 May 2025 - 5 May 2025
Melodically, their sound contains lush, multi-layered, psychedelic rock arrangements, but lyrically their compositions show elements of space rock, including unusual song and album titles—such as “Psychiatric Explorations of the Fetus with Needles”, “Free Radicals (A Hallucination of the Christmas Skeleton Pleading with a Suicide Bomber)” and “Yeah, I Know It’s a Drag… But Wastin’ Pigs Is Still Radical”. They are also acclaimed for their elaborate live shows, which feature costumes, balloons, puppets, video projections, complex stage light configurations, giant hands, large amounts of confetti, and frontman Wayne Coyne’s signature man-sized plastic bubble, in which he traverses the audience. In 2002, Q magazine named The Flaming Lips one of the “50 Bands to See Before You Die”.
Travis
19 Jul 2025 - 26 Jul 2025
At various points along the trajectory, Travis have sold millions of albums (just under three million of The Man Who in the UK alone); they’ve been the subject of an award-winning feature length documentary (Almost Fashionable) and Fran has elicited acclaim from Paul McCartney, Elton John and Graham Nash – songwriters whose ability to divine a timeless melody out of thin air has sustained them through the decades.
’10 Songs’ is an album that holds you in its own emotional microclimate at the outset and keeps you there. It’s also a grown-up record. ’10 Songs’ is a record about the way life comes at love and what love does to weather those challenges. “This is no rehearsal/This is the take,” sings Fran at the beginning of Waving At The Window, over an insistent piano hook, “Promises you once kept/Are going to break
Every track on this album carries an even load. No passengers here. Nowhere to hide. “I write songs in an antiquated way,” explains their creator, “Sitting at the bottom of the bed, ‘pouring my simple sorrow to the sound hole and my knee’, as Joni Mitchell put it.” As a songwriter based in L.A., Fran Healy doesn’t need anyone to tell him this is no longer how it’s done. It’s far from uncommon for the credits on successful modern pop songs to feature upwards of ten writers. “It’s fine,” notes Fran, “Personally though, I’ll take ten songs written by one person over one song written by ten people. And if I feel that way, then surely someone else must do too.”
Rag'n'Bone Man
12 Jun 2025 - 13 Jul 2025
Blending traditional blues and hip-hop
Sussex-born Rory Graham grew up hearing his mum and dad play an assortment of blues, soul and jazz albums. When he attended his first raves as a teenager, he found himself drawn to ragga and jungle music, especially artists such as Congo Natty and Shy FX & The Ragga Twins.
Projekt
3 May 2025 - 24 May 2025
Voodoo Events present Projekt
Glasville
8 Nov 2025 - 30 Jan 2026
Glasville are a modern country covers act, formed in 2014 originally as a tribute to the music from the ‘Nashville’ tv show. After a change of direction in 2021, Glasville now perform music from legends of country music old and new.
Del Amitri
20 Jun 2025 - 26 Jun 2025
Formed in the 1980s, Glasgow five-piece Del Amitri have enjoyed global chart success over the years with their hits “Always The Last to Know”, “Nothing Ever Happens”, “Roll To Me” and many more.
James Bay
20 Jul 2025 - 20 Sept 2025
Bluesy English singer/songwriter James Bay crafts moving and evocative folk-pop delivered with a warm, raspy voice. Riding the success of platinum single "Hold Back the River," his 2015 debut Chaos and the Calm was a breakthrough, soaring to number one in the U.K. and landing in the Top Ten across Europe and Australasia. Incorporating fresh flair, he issued sophomore effort Electric Light in 2018. An EP, Oh My Messy Mind, arrived in 2019 featuring "Peer Pressure" with Julia Michaels, and was followed by non-album singles like "Chew on My Heart" and "Give Me the Reason."
Blossoms
25 May 2025 - 10 Jul 2025
Blossoms, a mosaic five piece formed in 2013, comprised of Tom Ogden, Charlie Salt, Josh Dewhurst, Joe Donovan and Myles Kellock.
Pixies
13 May 2025 - 24 May 2025
Rock band Pixies formed in 1986 and released their first album Surfer Rosa in 1988. The original line-up was composed of Black Francis (vocals, rhythm guitar), Joey Santiago (lead guitar), Kim Deal (bass, backing vocals) and David Lovering (drums) and their debut album, which received good reviews and became a college hit in the US and UK, catapulted them to fame.
With top 10 hits like Monkey Gone to Heaven and Here Comes Your Man, the band went on hiatus after the release of their second album before returning in 1990 with Bossanova, which reached No.3 in the UK. The band then disbanded acrimoniously in 1993, but reunited again in 2004, going on to enjoy several sold-out world tours. After Deal left in 2013, the Pixies hired Kim Shattuck as a touring bassist; but was replaced the same year by Paz Lenchantin, who became a permanent member in 2016.
Mogwai
17 May 2025 - 7 Aug 2025
25 years since their debut, Mogwai’s latest ‘As The Love Continues’ debuted at #1 in the UK Official Album Chart and is the band’s first top 10 in Billboard’s US Top Album Sales Chart released via their own label Rock Action Records.
Mogwai have advanced without a plan since they were teenagers, there have been no secretive meetings to work out the master plan. It is rare to hear a band that has been going for this long, and have this many albums behind them - ten records in and still no disappointments or mistaken creative left turns. You may know what to expect, but you will never get the same. Both transcendent and surprising, Mogwai are still offering solace from the mundane, supplying the soundtrack to whatever movie you are making in your head.
Supergrass
3 May 2025 - 16 Aug 2025
SJM Concerts & Live Nation present English rock band Supergrass plus support...
Ocean Colour Scene
1 May 2025 - 30 Aug 2025
Formed in Birmingham in 1989, OCS spent six years fine-tuning their sound before lighting up the Britpop party with three Top 5 albums; 1996’s ‘Moseley Shoals’, 1997’s ‘Marchin’ Already’ and 1999’s ‘One From The Modern’. The band has also achieved seventeen Top 40 singles, including a staggering run of nine successive Top 20 singles and a mantelpiece full of awards.
As with all the best groups, behind the swagger and style were great songs, with words and melodies that found their way into the public’s hearts. Honing their craft in the spirit of the soul, folk and blues greats who inspired them, Ocean Colour Scene’s celebrated live shows have cemented the relationship between the band and their fiercely loyal fanbase, with each concert serving as a communal outpouring of hope and joy, boasting the most life-affirming singalongs you’re likely to hear anywhere.
Skunk Anansie
25 May 2025 - 25 May 2025
Skunk Anansie’s performance at Meltdown crowns an incredible 25th anniversary, marked with their most recent release: 25LIVE@25 - the 25 greatest songs from their six studio albums.
Their music slips effortlessly between the confrontational and the tender, the politically charged and the nakedly emotional, the upfront and attention-grabbing and the quiet and restrained. Releasing debut album Paranoid & Sunburnt in 1995, swiftly followed by Stoosh and Post-Orgasmic Chill, they sounded and looked like nothing that had come before them. And more than 25 years later, every other band is still playing catch-up. After an eight-year hiatus, they released three more acclaimed albums: Wonderlustre, Black Traffic and Anarchytecture.
Few bands inhabit the stage like Skunk Anansie. Their exhilarating live shows are a hurricane of energy, noise and personality, an exhortation to become part of something much bigger that’s impossible to resist. Skunk Anansie have frequently been described as a political band. And they undeniably are - as their anthemic 1996 track ‘Yes, It’s Fcking Political’ pointed out: ‘Everything’s political.’ But politics are just one part of what they are: Skunk Anansie address love and rejection, anger and sadness, frustration and rage. The human emotions we all share. They are still fighting the good fight, taking no prisoners while they do it.
The Tumbling Paddies
13 Jun 2025 - 10 Apr 2026
From humble beginnings The Tumbling Paddies Band have steadily grown to become one of Ireland's most sought after entertainers.
The Waterboys
1 May 2025 - 17 Jun 2025
The popular reach of Waterboys music has never been greater. Their songs have been performed by artists as varied as Prince, The Killers and U2, all of whom have performed their classic The Whole Of The Moon; and Fiona Apple who masterfully recorded the song last year; Ellie Goulding, who scored a top 3 UK hit with “How Long Will I Love You”; indie rockers The War On Drugs, Dawes and The Mystery Jets; and classic singers Rod Stewart and Tom Jones. "The Whole Of The Moon" also featured in last year's smash Netflix film Let It Snow and top HBO series The Affair. Waterboys music shows no sign of fading, and the best place to experience it is played by the originators in a concert hall. Come and feel the fire!
The Pogues
1 May 2025 - 11 May 2025
The Clone Roses, Definitely Mightbe, The Gerry Cinnamon Experience
9 May 2025 - 9 May 2025
The Clone Roses are the UK's tribute to Manchester's The Stone Roses.
Definitely Mightbe are a long established Oasis tribute band.
The Gerry Cinnamon Experience is a tribute to the man himself.
Kip Moore
30 May 2025 - 8 Jun 2025
Kip Moore’s current Top 20 single “Last Shot” is the second taken from his revered third studio album SLOWHEART and follows his fourth No. One hit “More Girls Like You.”
“SLOWHEART,” garnered instant praise from critics as Moore’s “most complete, cohesive declaration of his artistic sensibilities yet” (NPR,) as well landing on multiple “Best Of” lists including Entertainment Weekly, Rolling Stone, UpRoxx, Bobby Bones Show, Taste Of Country, Sounds Like Nashville, The Boot, PopMatters and Whiskey Riff.
SLOWHEART follows the acclaim that surrounded Moore’s sophomore album WILD ONES heralded as “an impressively singular release from Music Row” by The Guardian and his PLATINUM debut album UP ALL NIGHT that spawned three No. One hit singles, including GOLD certified “Beer Money,” PLATINUM certified “Hey Pretty Girl,” and the DOUBLE PLATINUM breakout hit “Somethin’ ‘Bout A Truck.
Father John Misty
22 Jun 2025 - 29 Aug 2025
Father John Misty is the stage name of Joshua Tillman, American singer-songwriter and former drummer in Fleet Foxes. After years of performing as a folk artist under his own name, Tillman was reborn as Father John Misty in 2012 with the released of the critically lauded Fear Fun.
Mario
1 May 2025 - 3 May 2025
Frank Turner & The Sleeping Souls
25 Sept 2025 - 28 Sept 2025
Frank Turner is embarking on his UK headline tour to support his forthcoming album No Man’s Land.
Reef
16 Oct 2025 - 8 Nov 2025
Reef are an English band from Glastonbury, England. The band members include Gary Stringer on vocals, Kenwyn House on guitar, Jack Bessant on bass and Dominic Greensmith on drums.
Bright Eyes
16 Jun 2025 - 25 Jun 2025
Five Dice, All Threes is a record of uncommon intensity and tenderness, communal exorcism and personal excavation. These are, of course, qualities that fans have come to expect from Bright Eyes, nearly three decades into their career. The tight-knit band of Conor Oberst, Mike Mogis, and Nate Walcott tends to operate in distinct sweeping movements: each unique in its sound and story but unified by a sense of ambition and ever-growing emotional stakes.
Electric Six
26 Jun 2025 - 7 Dec 2025
An unholy musical melting pot, Detroit’s Electric 6 blitzed their way to worldwide success with 2003’s ‘Danger! High Voltage’.
Feeder
3 May 2025 - 11 Oct 2025
Feeder are a Welsh rock band formed in Newport, South Wales in 1994. They have released 12 studio albums, 12 compilations, four EPs, and 43 singles while accumulating 25 top 75 singles between 1997 and 2012.
The 30+ Club
3 May 2025 - 24 Aug 2025
Go clubbing with like-minded grown-ups from 4:30pm-8:30pm, with the benefit of having a good nights sleep afterwards! The UK & Irelands no.1 daytime clubbing experience with top DJs playing hits from 80s-00s, huge production & stage show, giveaways and best of all...no kids!
The Stranglers
13 Jun 2025 - 1 Nov 2025
The old punk warhorses play on without Hugh Cornwell. Expect classic hits from their back catalogue, such as 'Peaches', 'Golden Brown', 'No More Heroes' and 'Strange Little Girl'.
English Teacher
13 Nov 2025 - 26 Nov 2025
English Teacher are a British music group from Leeds and Lancashire playing indie rock, who formed in 2020.
They consist of vocalist Lily Fontaine, guitarist Lewis Whiting, drummer Douglas Frost, and bassist Nicholas Eden.
They won the Mercury Prize for their debut album This Could Be Texas, in 2024, a year which saw them play numerous international shows, including at Glastonbury Festival, and support IDLES on their US tour.
Heaven 17
22 May 2025 - 22 Nov 2025
Heaven 17 are a British synthpop band originating in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England that was formed in 1980, having much 80s success with their electronic sound.
Taking their name from a fictional group mentioned in Anthony Burgess's novel A Clockwork Orange (where 'The Heaven Seventeen' are at number 4 in the charts with 'Inside'), Heaven 17 formed when Ian Craig Marsh and Martyn Ware split from their earlier group, The Human League, and devised the production company British Electric Foundation (B.E.F.).
Magdalena Bay
9 Jun 2025 - 10 Jun 2025
FORM Presents
MAGDALENA BAY
(+ Special Guest)
Presented by FORM.
This is a 14+ event (Under 16s must be accompanied by an adult)
The Wailers
5 Jul 2025 - 6 Dec 2025
The Wailers are a rare breed of musicians who have earned their place in the annals of music history. Their culture-defining music, embodying the spirit of the 70s reggae movement, has left an indelible mark on the industry.
Experience the magic of their timeless classics and incredible cuts from Bob Marley’s vast repertoire in a set that is truly unforgettable. Under the guidance of Aston Barrett Jr, son of the legendary “Familyman”, The Wailers continue to preserve the legacy of their iconic sound.
Arthur Hill
17 Nov 2025 - 27 Nov 2025
SJM Concerts Presents: Arthur Hill + Support
Sharon Van Etten
27 Aug 2025 - 30 Aug 2025
Sharon Van Etten is an American singer-songwriter based in Brooklyn, New York City.
Her songs were described by the music website Pitchfork Media as having "some echoes of folk tradition but generally in a more personal, introspective space." NPR Music asserts: "Her songs are heartfelt without being overly earnest; her poetry is plainspoken but not overt, and her elegant voice is wrapped in enough rasp and sorrow to keep from sounding too pure or confident."
Beta Band
25 Sept 2025 - 4 Oct 2025
Cian Ducrot
13 Sept 2025 - 18 Dec 2025
Ducrot's honest and refreshing tunes have received critical acclaim and support from Jack Saunders and Mollie King on BBC Radio 1, and an inclusion on Amazon Music’s ‘Artists To Watch 2022’ list. Deeply autobiographical, this is an open door to Cian’s world, captured through raw and melancholic pop.
CMAT
2 Oct 2025 - 20 Oct 2025
CMAT is Irish pop artist Ciara Mary-Alice Thompson (formerly of The Bad Sea) based in Dublin.
Counting Crows
23 Oct 2025 - 1 Nov 2025
Introspective Californian roots rockers with a string of high-profile hits including Mr Jones and Accidentally In Love
It’s easy to see Counting Crows as a band out of time. While their neighbours to the north spent the early 90s backing their angst and disillusionment with monolithic distortion, the Californians instead turned their attention to Laurel Canyon and the laidback, introspective folk rock of Dylan, Joni Mitchell and John Phillips, and the twanging country rock of Gram Parsons, The Byrds and The Grateful Dead.
James Marriott
1 Nov 2025 - 20 Nov 2025
Join Swiss-born English YouTuber James Marriott as he takes to the stage as part of his UK tour.
Inspiral Carpets
1 May 2025 - 17 Dec 2025
A vital component of the infamous ‘Madchester’ movement, Inspiral Carpets formed in Oldham in 1980. Known for hit singles such as ‘This Is How It Feels’, ‘Saturn 5’ and ‘She Comes in the Fall’, they remain much-loved not only in Manchester but across the UK.
Daft Funk Live
10 May 2025 - 18 Apr 2027
Daft Funk Live! are a Daft Punk tribute-band based in the UK. Embracing the live aspect of DP's performances, they incorporate their own custom light shows, including a three-meter high LED pyramid, and use live instruments to give an immersive and dynamic show. Their stage production is meticulously crafted, paying the utmost homage to the infamous and illusive Robots.
Fishies
3 May 2025 - 21 May 2025
Fishies, the home of Wednesday night, back for another term of madness.
Wet Leg
21 May 2025 - 29 May 2025
Wet Leg’s blend of dry wit and minimalist-punk riffs started off as a joke between Isle of Wight duo Rhian Teasdale and Hester Chambers. However, reality soon hit with their debut single ‘Chaise Longue’ becoming an overnight sensation and clocking up over seven million streams to date. With the numbers initially seeming virtual, it took their set at last year’s Latitude Festival to make it all feel real. Being amongst other musicians and seeing the packed-out tent sing along with the witty, Mean Girls-loving track made Wet Leg finally see themselves as legitimate musicians
Role Model
3 Nov 2025 - 8 Nov 2025
Tucker Harrington Pillsbury, known professionally as Role Model, is an American singer-songwriter and former rapper. After self-releasing his debut extended play Arizona in the Summer in 2017, he earned a following online and was signed to Interscope Records in 2018.
Everything Everything
1 May 2025 - 5 Dec 2025
Quirky Manchester-formed quartet, fronted by the singer Jonathan Higgs, performs arty electro-rock infused indie-pop.
Peter Hook & the Light
6 Nov 2025 - 29 Nov 2025
Peter Hook first revisited the seminal Joy Division album Unknown Pleasures back in May 2010 for a commemorative charity concert and has followed it each year by performing subsequent albums from the repertoire of his bands, Joy Division and New Order. Peter Hook & The Light have since moved through each of those albums, culminating in the Factory Records Substance compilations, and recently celebrated over four decades of the continuing influence of Joy Division and Ian Curtis with the Joy Division: A Celebration concerts where both of the band’s albums were played in full.
Guns 2 Roses
4 May 2025 - 24 Jan 2026
Guns 2 Roses Est. 2002 - The world's most successful Guns N Roses tribute band!
The Only GNR tribute to have performed with 4 different members of Guns N Roses. Guns 2 Roses have existed since late 2002. Many tributes have tried but not one comes close to the looks, authenticity and natural charisma Guns 2 Roses has to emulate GNR. They have appeared on stage and in media worldwide and have played to thousands throughout the UK, Europe, India, Middle East and USA!
The Pigeon Detectives
2 Oct 2025 - 29 Nov 2025
Following on from the release of their highly-praised 2017 full-length "Broken Glances", The Pigeon Detectives have now announced plans for their long-awaited sixth studio album "TV Show".
Produced by the renowned Rich Turvey (Blossoms, The Coral, Oscar Lang), "TV Show" looks to cement a rebirth within the band's own legacy. After storming the stage at countless festivals in the summer of 2022, The Pigeon Detectives quickly became one of the more talked about names on the circuit once again, feeding the public's need for anthemic indie-rock tunes after years of isolation and social distancing.
Speaking about the new album, they said, "Making music together for all these years has been the greatest gift of our lives. This album gives a nod to every step we have taken on the amazing journey we have been on as five scruffy friends from Rothwell, whilst also driving our sound to new, exciting areas. Above all though it is full of absolute bangers and we just can't wait for everyone to hear it!"