WHAT'S ON AT THE O2 ACADEMY, LEEDS
What's On at the O2 Academy, Leeds
Most Popular Shows and Events at O2 Academy, Leeds
Sun 23 Feb - Wed 26 Mar 2025
What's On at the O2 Academy, Leeds
James Bay
Wednesday 5 February 2025
Big dreams are often born in small towns, and James Bay is one such dreamer who dared to make his come true. The three-time GRAMMY Award-nominated and BRIT Award-winning multi-platinum Hitchin-born folk pop troubadour is on course to captiv...
Indie Thursday
Thursday 6 February - Thursday 27 March 2025
Security - Bag Policy: Large bags including rucksacks are not allowed. There are no facilities to leave large bags or luggage. If you really have to bring a bag - and it's preferable you don't, please make sure it's small. Only one small ba...
Inhaler
Friday 7 February 2025
The UK album chart-topping Dublin band serve up music teeming with expansive indie-rock grooves, soaring anthems, and swooping, epic singalongs. ...
Projekt
Saturday 8 February - Saturday 17 May 2025
This event is a student based event if you cannnot produce physical student ID when requested to do so you may be denied entry with no recourse to a refund . Final guranteed entry time for tickets 1:00am . Final entry time 2:00am Security ?...
Projekt Saturdays @ O2 Academy
Saturday 8 February - Saturday 29 March 2025
PROJEKT - Saturdays at O2 AcademyJoin us at Projekt, the North's largest weekly indoor music festival dedicated to the house music scene...
Caribou
Sunday 9 February 2025
Canadian recording artist Dan Snaith aka Caribou has released his first new music since his sixth album, Our Love, which came out in 2014. His new track Home is filled with trademark Caribou warmth and technicolour but also sounds like noth...
berlioz
Friday 14 February 2025
Enigmatic jazzy house producer berlioz, the UK's newest jazz sensation brings sun-soaked sax and swirling jazz beats to town. ...
Myles Smith
Saturday 15 February 2025
Luton singer-songwriter Myles Smith began posting cover versions of songs on TikTok in August 2020. His acoustic cover of The Neighbourhood's "Sweater Weather" went viral in 2022, leading to its full release in February 2023. He gained sig...
Mogwai
Saturday 22 February 2025
The Mercury Prize Nominated, UK. No. 1 charting, Scottish avant-rockers Mogwai continue to please old fans and gain new as they offer something for everyone. Transcendent and surprising, sweetly melancholic or engulfed by a swell of fulsome...
You Me At Six
Sunday 23 February - Wednesday 26 March 2025
Rising out of the British alternative underground, Surrey rockers You Me At Six released their debut full-length album Take Off Your Colours in 2008 through Slam Dunk Records and Epitaph Records. Celebrating early chart success, it was 2010...
Circa Waves
Tuesday 25 February 2025
Becoming one of Britain's most influential and adored guitar bands, the Liverpool indie four piece's dedication to constantly developing their sound has seen them secure increasingly high positions in the Official Album Charts, as well as a...
Circa Waves
Tuesday 25 February 2025
Becoming one of Britain's most influential and adored guitar bands, the Liverpool indie four piece's dedication to constantly developing their sound has seen them secure increasingly high positions in the Official Album Charts, as well as a...
Lottery Winners
Thursday 27 February 2025
Born in Salford and raised on romance, unstoppable indie-pop four-piece The Lottery Winners blend fizzing anthems and momentous guitar pop melodies with a humorous and wistful lyricism. The band has built an extensive and loyal fanbase thro...
The Mary Wallopers
Sunday 16 March 2025
Described by The Guardian as "invoking the raucous ghosts of The Dubliners and The Pogues to startling effect", The Mary Wallopers are a folk group from Dundalk, Ireland, breathing new life into both well known & rare ballads. Travelling th...
Ocean Colour Scene
Thursday 27 March 2025
In their 30 years together, multi-Platinum selling Birmingham indie legends OCS have enjoyed five Top 10 albums, six Top 10 singles and a mantelpiece full of awards. But behind all the swagger and the style there are great songs, with words...
Discos for Grown Ups - 70s Disco, 80s Pop & 90s Dance Anthems
Friday 28 March 2025
An incredible night of disco, the legendary pop-up 70s, 80s and 90s disco party is bringing the boogie to town. Get glittered up for a fun, fab and feel-good night of dancing with people your own age to all your favourite 70s disco, 80s po...
Louis Dunford
Tuesday 1 April 2025
Louis Dunford is a story teller, with stories which need to be told. Born, raised and founded in North London, Louis' acoustic songs are chapters straight out of his lived experiences, sometimes raw, sometimes funny, and always honest, all ...
Frank Turner & The Sleeping Souls
Wednesday 2 April 2025
The Hampshire punk and folk artist was initially a vocalist in the punk rock band Million Dead, before turning his focus towards a folkier, acoustic-based solo career. Since that time, he has reached international acclaim as a chart-topping...
Orbital
Friday 4 April 2025
Orbital, the Kent duo of brothers Phil and Paul Hartnoll, have crafted a vast catalogue of ambitious yet accessible electronic music, informed by a wide range of genres such as ambient, electro, punk, and film scores. They became one of the...
The Smyths - Tribute to The Smiths
Saturday 5 April 2025
The Smyths are a joyous celebration of arguably the greatest band of all time, Manchester legends The Smiths. Thrillingly accurate, the group have amassed a huge following and regularly sell out huge venues both here and abroad. 2023 marks...
Peach Pit
Wednesday 9 April 2025
If friendship had a sound, it would be Peach Pit. The wistful grooves, glassy guitars, and sun-kissed melodies feel like they could only be made by musicians who have spent close to a lifetime (or at least half of their lives) together. ...
Skunk Anansie
Saturday 12 April 2025
With an unparalleled influence, the iconic multi-racial Platinum-selling British Hard Rock band Skunk Anansie, fronted by female vocalist Skin, are famed for their incendiary live sets over the years, during a career that was kickstarted w...
Primal Scream
Friday 18 April 2025
Formed in Glasgow in 1982 by Bobby Gillespie, a member of Manchester-based Glaswegian indie act The Wake, Primal Scream's career didn't really take off until the legendary frontman had left his temporary role as drummer of The Jesus and Mar...
Mario
Saturday 26 April 2025
Baltimore R&B singer Mario is best known for his hits "Let Me Love You", "How Do I Breathe", and "Here I Go Again". ...
The Pogues
Thursday 1 May 2025
Following the death of Kent frontman Shane MacGowan in 2023, Celtic punk legends The Pogues return in 2025 for their first UK Tour since 2012 to celebrate 40 years of 'Rum Sodomy & the Lash'. Featuring original members, Mancunian accordian ...
The Flaming Lips
Friday 2 May 2025
Celebrating the 20th anniverary of their tenth studio album the Oklahoma psychedelic rockers perform their UK Platinum-selling Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots in full. Featuring the hit singles 'Do You Realize??', 'Yoshimi Battles the Pink...
The Clone Roses Definitely Mightbe Happy Mondaze
Friday 9 May 2025
Security - Bag Policy: Large bags including rucksacks are not allowed. There are no facilities to leave large bags or luggage. If you really have to bring a bag - and it's preferable you don't, please make sure it's small. Only one small ba...
The K's - Pretty On the Internet Tour
Saturday 10 May 2025
Security - Bag Policy: Large bags including rucksacks are not allowed. There are no facilities to leave large bags or luggage. If you really have to bring a bag - and it's preferable you don't, please make sure it's small. Only one small ba...
Pixies
Monday 19 May 2025
With elements of indie rock and surf rock, 1980's Boston alternative rockers The Pixies have been cited by avowed fan Kurt Cobain as a heavy influence on Nirvana with "Smells Like Teen Spirit" a conscious attempt to co-opt the Pixies' sty...
Supergrass
Tuesday 20 May 2025
Tearing by at a breakneck speed, it has been 30 years since 'I Should Coco', the spectacularly eclectic chart-topping debut by Oxford Britpop rockstars Supergrass, was released. At the time, the band were barely out of their teens. The albu...
Supergrass
Tuesday 20 May 2025
Tearing by at a breakneck speed, it has been 30 years since 'I Should Coco', the spectacularly eclectic chart-topping debut by Oxford Britpop rockstars Supergrass, was released. At the time, the band were barely out of their teens. The albu...
Kip Moore
Saturday 31 May 2025
Multi-platinum Nashville singer/songwriter Kip Moore embraces a weathered heartland-rock sound which explores his own experiences of growing up in a small Georgia town and working diligently for years to achieve his musical dreams, poetica...
The Waterboys
Tuesday 17 June 2025
Best known for songs including "How Long Will I Love You" and "The Whole of the Moon", The Waterboys have been led by Scottish singer and guitarist Mike Scott - their line-up otherwise ever-evolving - since the early 1980s, having won a ...
Bright Eyes
Wednesday 18 June 2025
Uncommon intensity and tenderness, communal exorcism and personal excavation are qualities that fans of American indie folk rockers Bright Eyes have come to expect, nearly three decades into their career. The tight-knit band of Conor Obe...
Martin Kemp - Back To The 80s DJ Set
Saturday 21 June 2025
The hottest 80s club night is coming to town as actor, TV personality and star of Spandau Ballet Martin Kemp will be spinning the biggest and best hits of that decade for what promises to be a pure 'Gold' night! ...
Father John Misty
Sunday 22 June 2025
Internationally acclaimed, UK Top 10 charting indie folk star Father John Misty, aka Josh Tillman, sounds and acts a bit like solo-era John Lennon, Scott Walker, Randy Newman, Harry Nilsson, and Dory Previn, while taking more than a few cue...
Brutus Gold's Love Train
Saturday 5 July 2025
Lock up your daughters.... your mothers.... your self-tan spray and your cheap cologne! Brutus Gold and his Love Train are steaming into town for a night thick and heavy with 70s grooves. Self-proclaimed Puerto Rican Love God, Brutus Gold ...
The Tumbling Paddies
Friday 10 October 2025
Security ? Bag Policy: Large bags including rucksacks are not allowed. There are no facilities to leave large bags or luggage. If you really have to bring a bag ? and it?s preferable you don?t, please make sure it?s small. Only one small ba...
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Most Popular Shows and Events at O2 Academy, Leeds
Sun 23 Feb - Wed 26 Mar 2025
