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MANCHESTER MUSIC STORY TOURS

Music tours of manchester.

Hear the stories behind the music while you journey through the 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s, to discover Manchester’s world famous music history, on one of our great Manchester music tours.

Manchester is the engine-room of British music. Whilst London may have had most of the business, the provinces and the other cities have often led the country, with Manchester ahead of the rest in defining musical direction.

Manchester Music Walking Tours

Join a scheduled group guided walking tour for a fascinating glimpse of Manchester’s rich music history.

Private Music Walking Tours in Manchester

Meet one of our professional tour guides at your chosen location for a private and personal music tour through the streets of Manchester.

Private tours by car, mini-bus or bus in the Manchester area

The ultimate Manchester music experience! Be guided and chauffeured through Manchester and the suburbs.

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Manchester Music Tour

Manchester music walking tour (2 hours) – departs: every saturday 1pm only £15.

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A tuneful swoop through the popular music scene of the greatest music city on the planet.

Along with football, music is Manchester’s great obsession. This walking tour is an affectionate insight into the popular music scene of the city from the 1960s to the present day, examining the huge range of inspirational sounds that have shaken the musical world. This walking tour follows a route past the venues and locations that have formed the backdrop to the city’s lyrical legacy. There will be stories and anecdotes to move, amuse and entertain as we walk the streets and of course there will be your favourite tunes to enjoy; feel free to sing, dance and air guitar along.

Expect insights and anecdotes about The Smiths, The Bee Gees, The Stone Roses, Happy Mondays, Oasis, New Order, Joy Division, 10cc, The Hollies, James, The Fall, Elbow, John Cooper Clarke and more.

It is recommended that you wear comfortable and suitable clothes and shoes for walking and being outdoors. Rain is possible throughout the year. This tour is suitable for wheelchair users.

These tours are guided by professional Manchester tour guides Emma Fox and Jonathan Schofield.

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Manchester Music Taxi Tour

A Manchester music taxi tour offers an immersive experience of the city's rich musical heritage, visiting iconic venues, studios and landmarks that have shaped the sound of popular music over the decades. From The Smiths to Oasis, Joy Division to The Stone Roses, you'll discover the history of the city's musical legends with your own expert guide in the comfort of an electric black cab.

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• Guided tour with a local music expert
• Private Tour in the comfort of an electric black cab
• Customise your tour with your guide based around the bands and artists you love
• Visits sites from musicians including The Smiths, Oasis, New Order, Joy Division and many more
• See sites in Manchester not normally visited on the tourist trail

Manchester is a city that has played a significant role in the evolution of popular music and continues to be a hub of creative energy. A Manchester music taxi tour is an excellent opportunity to explore the city’s rich musical heritage and to understand the influence that its musicians have had on the world. With the option to customise your own tour you will get to visit iconic venues, studios, and landmarks that have shaped the sound of popular music over the decades.

Visitors can see the legendary music venues that helped to launch the careers of some of the biggest names in music, including The Hacienda and The Ritz. These venues were at the forefront of the “Madchester” movement in the late 1980s and early 1990s, which brought a new level of creativity to the city’s music scene.

You will also get the chance to see the recording studios where some of the biggest hits of all time were produced. Here, visitors can learn about the techniques and processes that went into making some of the most memorable recordings of the last century.

As the tour continues, visitors will be introduced to the history of Manchester’s music legends, including Inspiral Carpets, James, Joy Division, The Stone Roses, Oasis, and many more. You will see the locations where these bands got their start and learn about the struggles and triumphs that helped to define their careers. The tour also highlights the current music scene in Manchester, showcasing the city’s thriving music community and highlighting the new talent emerging from the area.

Along the way, visitors will get an inside look at the city’s music-making history, from the influence of punk and new wave to the development of electronic music and the rise of indie rock. The tour is designed to appeal to both music fans and history buffs, offering an insightful and entertaining look at the cultural impact of Manchester’s music scene.

A Manchester music tour is a must-visit for anyone who wants to understand the city’s musical heritage and to experience the unique energy and creative spirit that has made it one of the world’s most important musical capitals. Whether you’re a lifelong music fan or simply curious about the city’s rich cultural history, this tour is a fascinating and unforgettable experience.

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• 3 hour taxi tour of Manchester
• Knowledgeable, approachable & fun guide

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Get ready to feel the pulse of Manchester's music scene as the city with music in its DNA comes alive with an electrifying array of gigs and concerts. From intimate settings of Night & Day Café and Soup  to renowned venues such as the O2 Apollo , Ritz , and Victoria Warehouse , Manchester boasts a diverse range of spaces that host performances across genres. Iconic bands and emerging artists alike grace the stages at the AO Arena and Co-op Live , creating an unforgettable experience for music enthusiasts. The city's vibrant Northern Quarter echoes with the sounds of indie bands in eclectic venues, while the Albert Hall provides a stunning setting for memorable live performances. Join the crowd at the Band on the Wall for an intimate encounter with up-and-coming talents, or revel in the energetic atmosphere of the Warehouse Project for an epic night of electronic beats. Whatever your musical taste, Manchester's gigs and concerts promise to be a journey that reverberates with the soul of this music-loving city.

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A musical tour of Manchester: from the Hallé to the Happy Mondays

Every genre of music has made its mark on Manchester, including dialect ballads, classical, TV theme tunes and all the strands of post-punk. Welcome to the north-west sound

M yth distorts any city’s musical history, and in Manchester myth looms as large as the new Co-op Live , a £365m, 23,500-capacity mega-venue that opens today and will soon be staging big-name acts, including Take That. So, for every occasion a music fan mentions the hit-making boy band or, for that matter, 10cc or the Hollies, a thousand more bark back: Joy Division, the Fall, Happy Mondays. Not that 10cc were a small Manc band, but they peaked before punk and a wall went up at the end of the 1970s that relegated all that had passed prior to 4 June 1976 – the night the Sex Pistols performed at the Lesser Free Trade Hall – to prehistory, as in dinosaurs, fossils, folk musicians. New hagiographies about music impresario Tony Wilson (1950-2007) are no doubt at the printers as I write. But how about we spend half an hour mooching round the Rainy City aboard the free buses and trams in search of the underplayed, surprising and tangential – with a few Gen X/6 Music standards for when we’re stuck at the lights.

You might not think Coronation Street a promising departure point, but it gives us an in to Bowton’s Yard. It’s one of those ditties that may prompt unpleasant memories of the BBC TV series Sit Thi Deawn, but listen carefully and you’ll hear it is in fact a Victorian reality show made song. Written by Marsden-born, Stalybridge-based Samuel Laycock, it inspired Tony Warren when he was devising the characters for his Weatherfield/Salford-set soap opera. Granada Studios on Quay Street also played a leading role in disseminating the north-western sound, from regional accents to theme tunes to the Beatles’ first TV appearance , in October 1962.

Dialect ballads spoke truth to power after Peterloo – memorialised in 2019 by Jeremy Deller’s burial mound-like stone tump – and during the cotton famine . To spread the word, broadsides were run off at printers around the Oldham Street-Swan Street junction. Lancashire songs were central to the folk revival of the 1960s. Harry Boardman, a singer and collector from Failsworth, unearthed many anonymous songs of protest and historical record. Edward II has recorded a reggae version of the Great Flood, about the time the Medlock burst its banks in 1872. Jennifer Reid , from Middleton, performs The New Poor Law Bill a cappella on her album Gradely Manchester.

The most famous folk number, Ewan MacColl’s Dirty Old Town , alludes to a “gasworks wall” or “gasworks croft”, depending on the version. The works were in Ordsall, bounded by West Egerton Street, Liverpool Street and Regent Road. Prior to their demolition in 2019, a prosaic infographic (not quite a “ muriel ”) was placed on the West Egerton Street wall. The Working Class Movement Library is a repository of MacColl’s work and life and has significant holdings of sheet music and song lyrics.

The Hallé Orchestra was founded by Sir Charles Hallé, who was conductor for the first concert at the Free Trade Hall on 30 January 1858. The Hallé premiered Elgar’s Symphony No 1 and Vaughan Williams’s Symphony No 8. The latter, dedicated to the orchestra’s celebrated conductor John Barbirolli, took place at the Kings Hall , a converted tea house at Belle Vue (demolished to make way for a car auction centre) on 2 May 1956. The BBC recorded it a few days later. The third movement, a cavatina, is a swirl of lark-like ascents and descents.

Since 1996, the orchestra’s HQ has been the purpose-built, vibration-proof Bridgewater Hall , with former St Peter’s church in Ancoats, a hulking redbrick Romanesque building, used for rehearsals, recordings and intimate shows. Manchester has an opera house , originally known as the New theatre. Recent shows include The Full Monty and Peppa Pig’s Fun Day Out, but it may get weightier fare as the ENO relocates to Manchester over the next five years. The region’s greatest opera singer was, like so much Manchester talent, from way outside town. Tom Burke, a miner from Leigh, was known as the “ Lancashire Caruso ”. What used to be the city’s Hippodrome is now a Wetherspoons named after him.

The Manchester School includes Accrington-born Harrison Birtwistle, Salford’s Peter Maxwell Davies and German immigrant Alexander Goehr, who met at the Royal Manchester College of Music in the 1950s. They founded the New Music Manchester group with pianist John Ogdon, who had attended Manchester Grammar School, and trumpeter Elgar Howarth. Exponents of avant-garde experimentation, they shunned cotton-themed concertos and any kind of parochialism.

If Unesco dispensed rosettes for demolition, Manchester would have many. Most of the old taverns that hosted turns, popular dance salons and music hall venues have been razed, together with mills, warehouses and factories. Concert halls and fun palaces were removed to make way for multistorey car parks and office blocks. The Free Trade Hall , where locals including Gracie Fields, Van der Graaf Generator and James played, as well as Dylan (AKA “ Judas ” as he was called at a gig there in 1966 ), Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd and Genesis, is now a hotel . Does a ribald, rollicking spirit live on from the boozy days of industrial Manchester? Certainly the refurbished Band on the Wall – which reopened in March – celebrates its location on the foundations of the George & Dragon and nearby Rising Sun pubs.

Every genre of popular music surfaced in Manchester between 1950 and the present, including big band, beat, rhythm and blues, soul, chart-oriented pop, punk, goth and all the strands of post-punk. There are not as many landmarks as songs, partly because, as mentioned, the wrecking ball is unsentimental and also, because pop stars have generally used their art to get away – lyrically first, and then physically. The Bee Gees, who claimed to have practised harmonising at their childhood home at 51 Keppel Road , Chorlton-cum-Hardy, never knowingly screamed a word about the town.

Northern soul, which arrived via Liverpool docks and Burtonwood airbase, drew large followings in Stoke, Wigan, Blackpool and, before any of those , Manchester. The Twisted Wheel on Brazennose Street and, later, Whitworth Street, had gigs by the Hollies and Freddie and the Dreamers, and less well-known bands such as Powerhouse 6 , but is best known for its legendary northern soul nights. The building has gone but Twisted Wheel “lives on”, according to a members-only Facebook page , at Area, 50 Sackville Street. The Ritz, on Whitworth St, survives as an O2 franchise. Originally opened as a dance hall (with a sprung floor) in 1927, it hosted a Dancing in the Dark evening in the 50s and 60s, fronted by Crumpsall’s Phil “King of the Ritz” Moss and his Band (which later became a stalwart on TV’s Come Dancing), and went on to transition through beat, northern soul, disco and mainstream rock scenes. The mobile phone firm also owns the famous art deco-style Apollo , long a fixture for bands on tour. Stockport’s MoR hitmakers 10cc were a classic art school, let’s-go-to-London-asap outfit, but they played here when they came home, as did Sad Café.

The Pistols concert in 1976 made the Lesser Free Trade Hall a holy-of-holies in Manc muso circles, but the Electric Circus , in Collyhurst (birthplace of pianist and crooner Les Dawson), earned its credentials through many seminal punk performances, including the first gig by Warsaw (Joy Division’s first name), and shows by Buzzcocks, John Cooper Clarke, the Fall, the Nosebleeds and Slaughter and the Dogs, among others. The fact it had previously been a cinema, Bernard Manning’s Top Hat club and a bingo hall should surely have made it one for the heritage buffs to list.

Richard Boon and Howard Devoto launched the New Hormones label in 1977 at a then ramshackle, now listed former hat merchants’ warehouse at 50 Newton Street . The first release, the Spiral Scratch EP , was a punk watershed and a declaration that bands needed neither London nor major labels. In 1980, Boon and others started up The Beach Club (a reference to the Situationist slogan “Under the pavement, the beach!”) at Oozits on Newgate Street. In 1978, Factory Records began as a WFH DIY disruptive startup at Alan Erasmus’s first-floor flat at 86 Palatine Road (now blue plaqued), only moving to a proper HQ on Charles Street in 1990 – where it was officially incorporated with the catalogue number FAC 251 (the name of a venue for cover bands on the site, part owned by Peter Hook). The Factory was the name of a night at the Russell Club on Royce Road in Hulme that ran from 1978-80; two years later the Haçienda (FAC 51) opened in a former yacht builders’ shop and warehouse on Whitworth Street West, beside the Rochdale Canal. The site is now occupied by “ iconic ” apartments.

The last Factory catalogue number, FAC 501, was used for the plaque on Wilson’s coffin, and no number adorns designer Peter Saville’s headstone for his business partner in Southern Cemetery . Fabled producer Martin Hannett is also buried at the necropolis – said to be entered via the Smiths’ Cemetry Gates.

There’s no better terminus than a musical graveyard. Inevitably, dozens of Manchester music sites are missing from this hop, skip and jump, including Rochdale’s recording studios, Festival of the Tenth Summer venues and countless bedrooms, garages and rave locations. But most tell versions of the same story, just as some songs seem like Venn diagrams of influence; Oasis by Happy Mondays sounds like New Order with lyrics by Morrissey or Ian Curtis, on a bad day (“You went too far, and it’s gone all the wrong way”). If you want to aurally vacuum up every Manc motif in a single song, steam on in to Mike Garry and Joe Duddell’s St Anthony: An Ode to Anthony H Wilson (Andrew Weatherall Remix; lyrics here ), perhaps while walking from the thrusting Aviva Studios/Factory International behemoth to the Epping Walk Bridge to search hopelessly – à la 80s – for Hulme Crescents and the dead souls of yesteryear.

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Billie Eilish Reveals ‘Hit Me Hard and Soft’ World Tour, Starting in September

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Billie Eilish is embarking on a world tour in support of her forthcoming third album, “ Hit Me Hard and Soft ,” set for release on May 17.

The Live Nation-produced tour will kick off in September in Quebec and continue through North America until December. In February 2025, Eilish will hit Australia, followed by Europe, the U.K. and Ireland from April to late July.

Tickets will be available for presale for American Express cardholders on April 30, with additional presales running throughout the week. General tickets go on sale May 3.

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Tue Feb 18, 2025 – Brisbane, Australia – Brisbane Entertainment Centre Wed Feb 19, 2025 – Brisbane, Australia – Brisbane Entertainment Centre Fri Feb 21, 2025 – Brisbane, Australia – Brisbane Entertainment Centre Sat Feb 22, 2025 – Brisbane, Australia – Brisbane Entertainment Centre Mon Feb 24, 2025 – Sydney, Australia – Qudos Bank Arena Tue Feb 25, 2025 – Sydney, Australia – Qudos Bank Arena Thu Feb 27, 2025 – Sydney, Australia – Qudos Bank Arena Fri Feb 28, 2025 – Sydney, Australia – Qudos Bank Arena Tue Mar 4, 2025 –Melbourne, Australia – Rod Laver Arena Wed Mar 5, 2025 – Melbourne, Australia – Rod Laver Arena Fri Mar 7, 2025 – Melbourne, Australia – Rod Laver Arena Sat Mar 8, 2025 – Melbourne, Australia – Rod Laver Arena

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Mon Jul 7, 2025 – Glasgow, UK – OVO Hydro Tue Jul 8, 2025 – Glasgow, UK – OVO Hydro Thu Jul 10, 2025 – London, UK – The O2 Fri Jul 11, 2025 –London, UK – The O2 Sun Jul 13, 2025 – London, UK – The O2 Mon Jul 14, 2025 – London, UK – The O2 Wed Jul 16, 2025 – London, UK – The O2 Thu Jul 17, 2025 – London, UK – The O2 Sat Jul 19, 2025 – Manchester, UK – Co-op Live Sun Jul 20, 2025 – Manchester, UK – Co-op Live Tue Jul 22, 2025 – Manchester, UK – Co-op Live Wed Jul 23, 2025 – Manchester, UK – Co-op Live Sat Jul 26, 2025 – Dublin, Ireland – 3Arena Sun Jul 27, 2025 – Dublin, Ireland – 3Arena

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Billie Eilish announces world tour for new album

Billie Eilish has announced an 81-date world tour starting later this year.

The What Was I Made For singer confirmed dates in North America, Australia and Europe from September.

Billie previously told music website Billboard her third studio album would be her most sustainable yet and she's partnered with an environmental group to organise it.

Tickets for the tour - named after upcoming album Hit Me Hard And Soft - go on sale on 3 May.

Billie will start in Canada on 29 September before taking her show to the US in October.

She'll then head to Australia in February, arriving in Europe next April.

She has 12 UK dates, including two shows in Glasgow, six in London and four in Manchester.

For her last tour, Happier Than Ever, in 2022, Billie partnered with Reverb, a non-profit organisation that works to promote sustainability in the music industry.

Billie is a long-standing climate campaigner and she committed to making that tour "climate positive", meaning it would eliminate more emissions than it produced.

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For Hit Me Hard And Soft, which is set to be released on 17 May, Billie's also announced plans to limit the impact of physical copies.

This includes making vinyl copies out of recycled vinyl with the packaging and album sleeves also made from recycled materials.

The singer has announced she would not be releasing any singles in advance, saying she wants fans to hear the album "in one go".

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Where to Park Your Car – and Bike

Park at the DoubleTree Parking Garage and start your tour @ Shopper’s

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Park at the SNHU Garage and start your tour @ The Patio

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The Magic Man, Dasean Greene will be performing at Diz’s Cafe, the Stonyfield Family Zone at the YMCA and throughout the event

Stop by the Manchester Animal Shelter’s booth to enter their doggie costume contest and visit their doggie water station

Ted Herbert’s Music School will be performing by City Hall Plaza throughout the event

Doug The Devil Stick Man will be performing his devil stick & comedy routine at the Stonyfield Family Zone at the YMCA

Wicked Joyful is hosting a Taco Tour after party with Carissa Johnson, Cozy Throne, & more at 9 p.m. at The Shaskeen

AR Workshop will have Taco Tour Candles & DIY Taco Tour Ornaments, and music by The Real Music School

Crimson and Clover Florist is right by AR Workshop and will have fun flowers!

Dew Collective will be hosting a photo-booth and flowers

Granite State Escape is running a scavenger hunt throughout the event! Visit their booth for details

Taste & Art of Greece will be showcasing their Greek goodies on Hanover Street

Beeze Tees is the official home of Taco Tour Manchester merchandise

The Terracotta Room will be serving up its good vibes and taco-themed merch

Live Music starting 4 p.m. at the M&T Bank Bandstand Stage located at Elm & Bridge streets.

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Janet Jackson announces 2024 UK and European tour

The 10-date run will include four stops in UK cities later this year

Janet Jackson has announced a UK and European tour for 2024 – find all the details below.

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The music legend is bringing her ‘Together Again’ tour to 10 cities later this year, kicking off in Paris at the Accor Arena on September 25.

From there, she’ll continue on to stops in Birmingham, London, Glasgow and Manchester, before heading back to mainland Europe and concluding at the Ziggo Dome in Amsterdam on October 10.

The ‘All For You’ star will be joined by special guest Wyclef Jean of The Fugees across all dates except London, where the support act is yet to be announced.

Tickets go on general sale this Friday (May 3) at 9am local time from here . There will also be a Mastercard pre-sale in select markets starting on Tuesday (April 30) at 9am local time.

The singer’s UK and European leg of her ‘Together Again’ tour will mark her first UK performance since Glastonbury 2019 . The shows will follow the US trek , where Nelly will open as support across June and July.

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The tour will offer fans the chance to watch Jackson celebrate her 50th anniversary in entertainment while spotlighting 35 years of her 1989 album ‘Rhythm Nation 1814’.

Europe…Together Again this Fall 2024 😘✌🏽 TICKETS  available Friday, May 3rd at 9am local time on https://t.co/ZflBLPwXjK Special presale & preferred tickets to Mastercard cardholders starting Tuesday 30 April. Visit https://t.co/UhaRNF39Gw for details. pic.twitter.com/6YpODdoRFJ — Janet Jackson (@JanetJackson) April 29, 2024

Janet Jackson’s ‘Together Again’ 2024 UK and European tour dates are:

SEPTEMBER 25 – Paris, France, Accor Arena 27 – Birmingham, UK, Utilita Arena 28 – London, UK, The O2 30 – Glasgow, UK, OVO Hydro

OCTOBER 1 – Manchester, UK, Co-op Live 3 – Antwerp, Belgium, Sportpaleis 5 – Munich, Germany, Olympiahalle 6 – Cologne, Germany, LANXESS Arena 8 – Berlin, Germany, Uber Arena 10 – Amsterdam, Netherlands, Ziggo Dome

Reviewing Jackson at Glastonbury back in 2019 , NME described the set as “a pop megamix, a stadium production and the making of a new ‘legends slot’.”

It added: “Janet Jackson was not booked for that slot, so she decided to carve her own, brand new legends slot instead: a full-scale dance production with stage set crammed into a 50 minute slot at the arse end of Saturday afternoon.”

The singer kicked off her ‘Together Again’ tour in Florida earlier this month, showcasing a host of hits and rarities.

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Janet Jackson UK tour 2024 - full list of dates including Manchester

Huge announcement from global music icon Janet Jackson who will be coming back to the UK in 2024

• 09:44, 29 APR 2024

Music icon Janet Jackson has confirmed a UK tour celebrating her 50th anniversary in entertainment. American superstar Janet will bring her Together Again tour to the UK, which also celebrates 35 years since her seminal album Rhythm Nation.

She will play gigs in Birmingham, London, Glasgow and Manchester in the Autumn. The UK leg will end with a night at Manchester's soon-to-open Co-op Live arena .

It will be the first time Janet has played in Manchester since her last planned UK tour in 2016 was cancelled due to "scheduling difficulties" just weeks before she was due to perform.

READ MORE: Co-op Live boss reveals exact reasons for delays to opening

A statement from Janet's tour promoters today said: "Off the back of Ms. Jackson’s highly successful and sold out Together Again tour in North America, five-time GRAMMY ® ️Award-winning Rock and Roll Hall of Fame®️ Inductee Janet Jackson reveals she will be extending her tour to Europe, adding in multiple stops across the continent. This will be Ms. Jackson’s first UK performance since her iconic 2019 Glastonbury Festival performance."

The European leg of the tour will start in autumn 2024 kicking off in Paris, France on the 25th September at Accor Arena before making multiple stops in the UK, Germany and Belgium before concluding the tour in Amsterdam, Netherlands at Ziggo Dome on the 10th October. The announcement of UK tour dates from the Miss You Much hitmaker follows her 35-date US tour Together Again, which will hit the road this summer across the States. The tour builds on the colossal success of her 2023 run, which earned the icon the highest selling trek of her career. Promoters add: "The Together Again Tour will offer everyone the chance to finally reunite with Ms. Jackson in celebration of her 50th anniversary in entertainment and spotlight the milestone for one of her most critically acclaimed albums - 35 years of “Rhythm Nation” featuring her biggest chart-topping hits."

It has also been announced that Wyclef Jean will join Janet for the UK tour dates as special guest. Janet, 57, is the youngest member of the legendary Jackson musical family.

How to get tickets

Tickets will be available on general on-sale beginning Friday, May 3rd at 9am from Ticketmaster here and further details from JanetJackson.com .

Is there a pre-sale?

Mastercard cardholders have special access to presale and preferred tickets in select markets starting on Tuesday 30 April at 9am local. Preferred ticket access is available to Mastercard cardholders in the UK on Friday 3 May at 9am. Visit here to find out more.

2024 Europe Tour dates

Wed, 25th Sept - Paris, France - Accor Arena Fri, 27th Sept - Birmingham, UK - Utilita Arena Sat, 28th Sept - London, UK - The O2 Mon, 30th Sept - Glasgow, UK - OVO Hydro Tue, 1st Oct - Manchester, UK - Co-op Live Thu, 3rd Oct - Antwerp, Belgium - Sportpaleis Sat, 5th Oct - Munich, Germany - Olympiahalle Sun, 6th Oct - Cologne, Germany - LANXESS Arena Tue, 8th Oct - Berlin, Germany - Uber Arena Thu, 10th Oct - Amsterdam, Netherlands - Ziggo Dome

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