What's on in Manchester

Manchester has more going on than any city this size has any right to. Co-op Live (the UK's biggest indoor arena) and the AO Arena sit just minutes apart and between them book most of the country's biggest tours. Heaton Park hosts Parklife, the country's biggest metropolitan dance festival, every June. The Northern Quarter has gigs in venues you've never heard of every single night of the week. There are markets, food festivals, theatre, comedy, family days out, and a thousand things happening that nobody outside the city ever finds out about. This page is our attempt to fix that. Below are this week's best events, plus everything coming up. We update it constantly.