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LIVE REVIEW: Alter Bridge – AO Arena, Manchester – 26/02/2026

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  • Posted on March 8, 2026March 8, 2026

As at home in arenas as ever, Alter Bridge arrive in Manchester packing some of the most soaring, refined hard rock around.

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LIVE REVIEW + PHOTOS: Wolf Alice – AO Arena, Manchester – 28/11/2025

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  • Posted on December 2, 2025December 2, 2025

Finally, Wolf Alice reach the arena-headlining status they were always building up to, and unsurprisingly for one of the UK’s alt-rock faves, they knock it out of the park.

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LIVE REVIEW + PHOTOS: Halestorm – AO Arena, Manchester – 24/11/2025

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  • Posted on November 27, 2025November 29, 2025

Arena-ready and at the top of their game, Halestorm continue to sit comfortably among hard rock’s most vital crowd-pleasers.

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LIVE REVIEW: The Offspring – AO Arena, Manchester – 16/11/2025

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  • Posted on November 20, 2025November 20, 2025

Decades into a legacy as punk legends, The Offspring scale arena heights in Manchester and deliver a show of pure brilliance.

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LIVE REVIEW + PHOTOS: Parkway Drive – AO Arena, Manchester – 06/10/2025

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  • Posted on October 8, 2025April 21, 2026

Now over 20 years into a near-constant ascent, Parkway Drive deliver their grandest show yet and forge a new peak in what arena-ready metal can achieve.

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PHOTOS: Limp Bizkit – AO Arena, Manchester – 15/03/2025

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  • Posted on March 18, 2025April 21, 2026

Limp Bizkit’s Loserville Tour arrives in Manchester, where the nu-metal legends are just one component of bill driven by its diversity and insanity.

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LIVE REVIEW + PHOTOS: Thirty Seconds To Mars – AO Arena, Manchester – 07/06/2024

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  • Posted on June 11, 2024August 8, 2024

Despite the odds in their favour seemingly plummeting in recent times, Thirty Seconds To Mars return to the UK to show they can still conquer an arena like nobody’s business.

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LIVE REVIEW: The 1975 – AO Arena, Manchester – 18/02/2024

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  • Posted on February 21, 2024February 21, 2024

The 1975 return home to Manchester amid a sold-out nationwide tour, a testament to the popularity of one of the UK’s biggest pop exports, and with the showmanship and catalogue of undeniable hits to match.

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LIVE REVIEW + PHOTOS: Fall Out Boy – AO Arena, Manchester, 29/10/2023

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  • Posted on November 2, 2023November 2, 2023

Fall Out Boy roll into Manchester with PVRIS and nothing,nowhere. in tow, both to reinforce their pop-rock enormity and celebrate the multitude of highs that have got them there.

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LIVE REVIEW: blink-182 – AO Arena, Manchester – 15/10/2023

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  • Posted on October 16, 2023October 16, 2023

With Tom DeLonge back in the fold, blink-182 are soaring at their highest level in years. We caught them on the Manchester date of their world tour to witness the pop-punk kings in truly incredible form.

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