Whether you’re after a spontaneous night of new music, a memorable trip to the theatre or a bucket-list arena show featuring your favourite global megastar, there are plenty of unmissable live performances around town this week with last-minute tickets still available.
Founded in 2005 with a hit self-titled album reaching number 17 on the Billboard 200 a decade later, Oklahoman country outfit The Turnpike Troubadours perform the following night, bringing their raw and melodious red-dirt Americana sound to the city.
There are still a few tickets remaining to catch Canadian triple-threat sensation Tate McRae, who takes over Co-Op Live with a blockbuster concert on the Manchester leg of her Miss Possessive World Tour.
Head to Gorilla this Thursday to see indie rock icons Stephen Malkmus (Pavement), Matt Sweeney (Chavez), Jim White (Dirty Three), and Emmett Kelly (Cairo Gang) perform as the freshly formed supergroup, The Hard Quartet.
Hailed as ‘an unmissable piece of theatre’ in Manchester Evening News’ glowing five-star review, the National Theatre’s Olivier-winning sensation Dear England brings a soaring celebration of the heady highs and excruciating lows of English football to Lowry for a limited run this month.
Accompanied by her band and the Hallé Orchestra, the legendary singer and Queen of Motown Diana Ross plays Co-Op Live with a career-spanning setlist of timeless hits, including Chain Reaction, Ain’t No Mountain High Enough, I’m Coming Out, Stop! in the Name of Love, Can’t Hurry Love and many more.
The vibrant, dynamic and radically all-embracing rock ‘n’ roll house band ARKELLS bring their eclectic sound to Band on the Wall for a Friday night that ‘hits all the perennial pleasure points’, with a setlist blending ‘the anthemic power of alt-rock, the pulpit-shaking passion of vintage soul, the off-the-cuff intimacy of singer-songwriter music, the urbane edge of 21st-century indie, and the futurist aesthetics of modern R&B.’
Manchester Classical, the North West’s foremost festival of orchestral music, returns to The Bridgewater Hall with another wondrously diverse weekend of live performances, food, crafts and free entertainment, uniting the city’s best musical organisations to showcase the region’s world-class artistry and blossoming classical music culture.
Check out our roundup of the highlights HERE.
The innovative and unapologetically northern singer-songwriter Hannah Mazey takes to the Deaf Institute stage with her genre-blending melodies and razor-sharp lyricism this Saturday.
The social media comedy sensation Tom Lawrinson presents a side-splitting new stage show about family, rubbish childhoods and the absurd hilarity at the core of mundane life which only he can render with such agonising resonance.
Making their Band on the Wall debut next Sunday, the UK ‘darlings of the modern soul scene’ SouLutions mark a decade of meteoric success with a one-night-only showcase of their sublime, singular sound, performing songs from their four critically acclaimed albums – Destiny, Thankful, Fate and Anthology – alongside several pivotal singles.
- Words:
- Wolf McFarlane
- Published on:
- Fri 20 Jun 2025
The legendary singer-songwriter and unmistakable voice of a musical generation heads to New Century this Tuesday, performing all the hits, fan favourites and poetic B-sides from across her sparkling career as part of the On How Life Is 25th Anniversary Tour.