ROCK CONCERTS IN LONDON
Most Popular Rock Concerts in London
Candlelight - A Tribute to Coldplay on Strings
Central Hall Westminster
Sat 31 May - Sat 22 Nov 2025
Jools Holland & His Rhythm & Blues Orchestra
Wycombe Swan Theatre
Sat 5 Jul - Sat 22 Nov 2025
What's Love Got To Do With It - A Tribute to Tina Turner
Orchard Theatre & Orchard West
Sat 7 Jun - Thu 11 Sep 2025
Candlelight - A Tribute to Coldplay on Strings
Central Hall Westminster
Sat 31 May - Sat 22 Nov 2025
Jools Holland & His Rhythm & Blues Orchestra
Wycombe Swan Theatre
Sat 5 Jul - Sat 22 Nov 2025
What's Love Got To Do With It - A Tribute to Tina Turner
Orchard Theatre & Orchard West
Sat 7 Jun - Thu 11 Sep 2025
Tony Hadley

Royal Albert Hall, London
Tuesday 2 December 2025
Co-founder and frontman of '80s New Romantic legends Spandau Ballet, Tony Hadley has announced a brand new UK tour for 2025, which will be a spectacular celebration of swing and crooner classics, as well as his own hits reimagined. The C...Softcult

The Dome London, London
Tuesday 2 December 2025
Canadian grunge duo, twin siblings Phoenix and Mercedes Arn-Horn, are known for their melding of grunge with shoegaze, as well as their DIY and riot grrrl-inspired ethics. ...Home Counties

Scala, London
Tuesday 2 December 2025
Since forming in January 2020, Home Counties have distinguished themselves as a key act to watch, with radio support from Jack Saunders, Huw Stephens (BBC Radio 1), Steve Lamacq, Amy Lame, Tom Robinson (BBC 6Music) and Matt Wilkinson (Beats...Sabaton

The O2 Arena, London
Thursday 4 December 2025
Swedish Heavy metal act, Sabaton embark on a groundbreaking tour that will be bigger and better than anything they have ever embarked on before. The band has put together a show unlike anything you've experienced. Throw traditional thinki...The Rasmus

O2 Shepherd's Bush Empire, London
Thursday 4 December 2025
One of the greatest rock bands ever to come out of Finland, The Rasmus, with their new line-up - female guitarist Emilia "Emppu" Suhonen replacing Pauli Rantasalmi in 2022 - embark on a European tour. Having topped the charts in Germany, A...The Icicle Works

O2 Academy Islington, London
Thursday 4 December 2025
The Liverpool alt rock trio, fronted by Ian McNabb, are best known for their 1983 UK Top 20 hit "Love is a Wonderful Colour" and their 1984 US Top 40 hit, "Birds Fly (Whisper to a Scream)". ...Panic Shack

Electric Brixton, London
Thursday 4 December 2025
Cardiff punks Panic Shack aren't interested in the keys to the boys' clubhouse or fighting with sharp-elbows for a seat at the table. They're with you, out there: in the pit, at the bar, in the group chat - and their sound, collar-grabbing ...Nothing More

O2 Forum Kentish Town, London
Friday 5 December 2025
Nothing More is an American rock band from San Antonio, Texas. ...Katatonia

Electric Ballroom, London
Friday 5 December 2025
Considered by many to be one of Sweden's most prominent metal bands, Katatonia's long, storied career has seen them shift from a rough, sludge-like doom metal sound to a more streamlined approach that embraces prog rock, assonant vocal h...EMPATHY TEST

O2 Academy Islington, London
Friday 5 December 2025
Formed in London by childhood friends Isaac Howlett and Adam Relf, the band's "big dramatic sound swoons ecstatically between the nostalgic and immediate" (KCRW), earning them comparisons with classic acts such as Depeche Mode and A Flock o...Tony Hadley

Cliffs Pavilion, Southend-on-Sea
Saturday 6 December 2025
Co-founder and frontman of '80s New Romantic legends Spandau Ballet, Tony Hadley has announced a brand new UK tour for 2025, which will be a spectacular celebration of swing and crooner classics, as well as his own hits reimagined. The C...The Slow Readers Club

Islington Assembly Hall, London
Saturday 6 December 2025
Manchester's The Slow Readers Club deliver an energetic blend of driving drums and infectious guitar lines with evocative verses and anthemic choruses, imbued with their idiosyncratic brand of insightful and confronting lyricism, all set a...Electric Six

O2 Forum Kentish Town, London
Saturday 6 December 2025
Detroit's fun-loving alternative garage rock collective Electric Six celebrate 20 years of their UK Top 10 debut album "Fire" in 2003. The high-octane collection, mixing garage rock, disco, punk, new wave, and metal into cleverly dumb, in-y...Stereolab

Southbank Centre, London
Saturday 6 December 2025
South London's Anglo-French premiere exponents of experimental lounge electronica air a breezy melodious approach with Laetitia Sadier's lilting Gallic vocals meandering merrily throughout with an irresistibly melodious bass-driven joy and ...The Undertones

O2 Shepherd's Bush Empire, London
Saturday 6 December 2025
Formed in Derry, Northern Ireland in 1975, The Undertones became renowned for combining lyrical invention and musical flair with intelligent simplicity. Their anthemic Teenage Kicks, much loved by John Peel, is one of the most influential s...London Calling - The Clash Tribute

Electric Ballroom, London
Saturday 6 December 2025
The look, sound, attitude, belief, aggression and sincerity is all there. Bringing you 'White man in Hammersmith Palais' - 'Rock The Casbah' - 'White Riot' - 'Lost In The Supermarket' - 'I Fought The Law' - 'Should I Stay Or Should I Go'......Ozric Tentacles

EartH (Evolutionary Arts Hackney), London
Saturday 6 December 2025
Formed in 1983 with a debt to jazz fusion as well as space rock, Ozric Tentacles are a band from another time, serving as the bridge from '70s cosmic rock to the organic dance and festival culture that came back into fashion during the '90...Landmvrks

The Roundhouse, London
Sunday 7 December 2025
An uncompromising style, assumed, claimed, and highly distinctive, the Marseille metalcore band take the listener through massive, energetic, or even aerial parts, without escaping the efficient groove inherited from a rap culture. ...Harleymoon Kemp

Neon 194, London
Sunday 7 December 2025
Harleymoon won Best New Artist at BCMA and was nominated as UK Best Female. Her latest single "Back in Tennessee" was picked up as the only UK artist track to be playlisted on Absolute Radio Country. ...The Raveonettes

O2 Academy Islington, London
Monday 8 December 2025
The acclaimed Danish indie duo The Raveonettes, who first burst on to the scene in 2002, juxtapose the structural and chordal simplicity of 1950s and 1960s rock with intense electric instrumentation, driving beats, and often dark lyrics abo...Max McNown

O2 Forum Kentish Town, London
Tuesday 9 - Wednesday 10 December 2025
A singer-songwriter from Bend, Oregon, Max McNown creates the kind of songs that perfectly soundtrack our most intimate moments: times of intense heartache and tremendous loss, immense upheaval and life-changing revelation. Within just a ye...Mumford & Sons

The O2 Arena, London
Wednesday 10 - Friday 12 December 2025
Grammy and BRIT Award-winning folk act Mumford & Sons return with their 5th studio album, 'Rushmere' The chart topping Londoners are best known for their multi-Platinum selling hits "I Will Wait", "Little Lion Man", "The Cave" and "Beli...The House Of Love

Islington Assembly Hall, London
Wednesday 10 December 2025
The post-Smiths guitar pop of The House of Love was popular for a short time in the late '80s and early '90s, as many college and alternative rock fans became converts to their mixture of shiny ringing guitars, pseudo-psychedelic melodies,...Inspiral Carpets

O2 Shepherd's Bush Empire, London
Thursday 11 December 2025
Regarded as one of the main components of the Madchester movement in the early 90s, indie chart-topping Oldham legends Inspiral Carpets return after taking a hiatus following the tragic loss of drummer, Craig Gill. Although 90s frontman ...Dub FX

Scala, London
Thursday 11 December 2025
Melbourne born Dub FX lived in a van for 6 years performing on street corners worldwide to build an underground fan base that rivals some of the most successful artists today. A pioneer of live looping, Dub FX builds each track in the momen...Ice Nine Kills

OVO Arena Wembley, London
Friday 12 December 2025
Like the undead slashers celebrated in their songs, visionary heavy metal trailblazers and multimedia raconteurs INK carve out a fresh, bloody homage to the VHS celluloid classics that possessed singer Spencer Charnas at an early age, with...Jamie Cullum

Royal Albert Hall, London
Friday 12 December 2025
With 10 million album sales to date and his successful BBC Radio 2 Radio show, Jamie Cullum is a celebrated musician the world over with loyal fans in every corner of the globe. With a career spanning over 20 years, his legendary live shows...808 State

Electric Brixton, London
Friday 12 December 2025
Graham Massey's Manchester dance legends and Acid House pioneers have been described as "masters of their art" (Q), "pioneers" (Future Music), "for sonic trailblazing and inestimable influence, among our most important groups" (Record Colle...Stereo MC's

O2 Shepherd's Bush Empire, London
Friday 12 December 2025
Formed in 1985, Stereo MCs hit the public's attention with 1990 album Supernatural and single Elevate My Mind. It was 1992 follow up Connected, with hit singles of the same name and Step It Up that confirmed their status at the front of a b...Bowling For Soup

OVO Arena Wembley, London
Saturday 13 December 2025
With their thirty year anniversary as a band on the horizon in 2024, Texas' favourite punk rock export Bowling For Soup continue to grow their global fanbase and expand their success year on year. Also dubbed the crown princes of pop punk, ...Three Days Grace

O2 Academy Brixton, London
Saturday 13 December 2025
Combining elements of angst-fueled alternative rock, metal, and grunge, the Canadian rockers quickly established themselves as lynchpins of the post-grunge movement. Emerging in 2003, the band have topped the Billboard Mainstream Rock singl...Black Grape

Electric Brixton, London
Saturday 13 December 2025
Featuring Happy Mondays legend Shaun William Ryder and Ruthless Rap Assassins frontman Paul "Kermit" Leveridge, Black Grape could only have been made in Manchester. The swagger, fun and cryptic humour seem hewn from a city historian AJP Tay...The Magic Numbers

O2 Forum Kentish Town, London
Saturday 13 December 2025
London four-piece The Magic Numbers comprise two pairs of brothers and sisters (Romeo and Michele Stodart, Sean and Angela Gannon) who are known for their unique harmonies, melodic hooks, songwriting craftsmanship and their timeless soun...Sanctum Sanctorium - The Dark Side Of The 80s

The Garage, London
Saturday 13 December 2025
Formed through a mutual love of 80's goth and alternative rock music. Sanctum Santorium are a live 5-piece tribute band that faithfully recreate classic hits by artists such as The Cult, Killing Joke, Sisters of Mercy, Billy Idol, Bauhaus a...Sham 69

229 The Venue, London
Saturday 13 December 2025
Formed in Hersham, Surrey in 1976, Sham 69 lacked the art school background of many British punk bands of the time, and brought in football chant back-up vocals and sing-along populist political lyrics, which earned them a large often vio...Ultimate Coldplay - Tribute to Coldplay

O2 Academy Islington, London
Saturday 13 December 2025
A live tribute to Coldplay and performing all the Coldplay hits and more in a brilliant sound and look-a-like show. The vocals, mannerisms and atmosphere these guys deliver are second to none. Giving the audience that same high energy perfo...Stereolab

Electric Brixton, London
Sunday 14 December 2025
South London's Anglo-French premiere exponents of experimental lounge electronica air a breezy melodious approach with Laetitia Sadier's lilting Gallic vocals meandering merrily throughout with an irresistibly melodious bass-driven joy and ...Black Rebel Motorcycle Club

Troxy, London
Wednesday 17 December 2025
San Francisco alt rockers BRMC return. Best known for their early 2000's UK Top 30 hits "Stop", "Ain't No Easy Way", "Spread Your Love", their music is influenced by classic hard rock, especially Led Zeppelin, while also encompassing slo...Dave Hill's Slade

O2 Shepherd's Bush Empire, London
Wednesday 17 December 2025
The farewell tour from Dave Hill and the boys end with a Christmas gig at the O2 Ritz in Manchester. Slade's unique blend of pop and rock'n'roll, outrageous flamboyance and pure fun, and no less than 23 Top 20 singles, they have become a fi...Orange Goblin

O2 Forum Kentish Town, London
Wednesday 17 December 2025
Originally formed in London under the name 'Our Haunted Kingdom' back in 1995, celebrated UK metal greats Orange Goblin entered the world of heavy music as wide-eyed enthusiasts, eager to channel the fire & fury of their favourite bands. Em...House Gospel Choir

HERE at Outernet, London
Thursday 18 December 2025
An electrifying House meets Gospel experience born out of a love for sound system culture, the healing power of house music and the London-based choir seeking to channel the magic of people working together to raise the vibrations. Working ...Candlelight - Tribute to Queen and The Beatles

St Mary's Church Marylebone, London
Thursday 18 December 2025
Discover the music of Queen and The Beatles performed under the gentle glow of candlelight by a string quartet in this awe-inspiring location. ...John Smith

Union Chapel, London
Thursday 18 December 2025
Born in Essex, raised by the Devon seaside, and making his bones in the bars and clubs of Liverpool, John Smith boasts over 100 million Spotify streams. He has played to audiences all over the world in living rooms, festival tents and so...Young Knives
