WHAT'S ON AT THE O2 ACADEMY, GLASGOW
What's On at the O2 Academy, Glasgow
Most Popular Shows and Events at O2 Academy, Glasgow
What's On at the O2 Academy, Glasgow
Jorja Smith
Monday 26 May 2025
The BRIT Award-winning Walsall R&B star is officially back. Her playfully infectious pop spirit intertwines with her youthful charisma, idiosyncratic storytelling, and informed opinions - attributes that have set her apart from her peers an...
Wunderhorse
Tuesday 27 May 2025
Arthouse indie-rock, but without the connotations, Wunderhorse is the alias of British musician Jacob Slater, who fronted The Dead Pretties, a London band who arrived in a haze of hedonism and hype, bowing out before the dust had time to se...
Kesha
Thursday 29 May 2025
After her breakthrough in 2009 appearing on Flo Rida's number 1 single, "Right Round." Los Angeles singer-songwriter and rapper Ke$ha's irreverent music and image propelled her to immediate commercial success, topping the charts around the...
Nessa Barrett
Friday 30 May 2025
New Jersey pop rocker Janesa "Nessa" Barrett rose to fame on TikTok and began uploading covers, which led her to sign a recording contract with Warner Records and scored an international hit with "I Hope Ur Miserable Until Ur Dead" in 2021....
Hardstyle Superheroes - Brennan Heart
Saturday 31 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 its preferable you dont, please make sure its small. Only one small bag p...
Djo (Joe Keery)
Monday 2 June 2025
Djo - the neo-psychedelia musical project of actor Joe Keery, known for his work in blockbuster projects as Stranger Things and Fargo - is back on tour. With lush guitars and instrumentation reminiscent of late 60's and 70's pop, Keery's ...
Djo (Joe Keery)
Monday 2 June 2025
Djo - the neo-psychedelia musical project of actor Joe Keery, known for his work in blockbuster projects as Stranger Things and Fargo - is back on tour. With lush guitars and instrumentation reminiscent of late 60's and 70's pop, Keery's ...
Iggy Pop
Tuesday 3 June 2025
Iggy Pop is an avant-garde icon and a punk pioneer behind Stooges classics like 'I Wanna Be Your Dog' and 'T.V. Eye', 'The Passenger' and, of course, 'Lust for Life'. ...
Morrissey
Wednesday 4 - Thursday 5 June 2025
The outspoken former lead singer of Manchester legends The Smiths - arguably the most important indie band in Britain during the '80s - Stephen Patrick Morrissey has enjoyed a successful solo career, since 1988, with his theatrical crooning...
Steel Panther
Monday 16 June 2025
The comedic glam metal band from Sunset Strip, Los Angeles are a living, breathing study in the art of "hair metal". With tongues firmly lodged in their cheeks, Steel Panther celebrate and ridicule all that was good and bad about the "great...
Steel Panther: Feel The Steel 15th Anniversary Tour
Monday 16 June 2025
Support: Black Sonic Pearls 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 i...
Denzel Curry
Friday 20 June 2025
The mercurial Miami rapper, as seen on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, serves up sumptuous tracks full of cinematic scope (anime and Akira Kurosawa are among his chief influences). He operates with the force of a full Jedi master, s...
Sugababes
Saturday 21 June 2025
British girl group responsible for many of the biggest pop hits of the 00s Following on from the phenomenal success of their UK reunion tour and festival performances, the era-defying, chart-topping British sensations continue their glor...
Craig Ferguson: Pants on Fire
Saturday 21 June 2025
Please note: re-sale is not permitted for this event, reselling of tickets will result in cancellation of booking. Security - Bag Policy: Large bags including rucksacks are not allowed. There are no facilities to leave large bags or luggage...
Hardy
Monday 30 June 2025
Mississippi country metal singer-songwriter Michael Hardy has made his mark as "a promising purveyor of keeping the spirit of classic heavy Southern rock alive" (American Songwriter). A juggernaut artist-writer whose influence has already...
Hardy
Monday 30 June 2025
Mississippi country metal singer-songwriter Michael Hardy has made his mark as "a promising purveyor of keeping the spirit of classic heavy Southern rock alive" (American Songwriter). A juggernaut artist-writer whose influence has already...
Daytime Clubbing for Over 30s
Saturday 19 July 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...
W.A.S.P.
Friday 25 July 2025
American West Coast heavy metal band W.A.S.P. emerged in 1982 from the same Los Angeles scene that spawned Motley Crue, Ratt, Quiet Riot and others. The band was a prominent target in the mid-1980s of the Parents Music Resource Center (P...
Wallows
Tuesday 19 August 2025
The Los Angeles alt. Rock band fronted by actors Dylan Minnette and Breaden Lemasters channel their deepest anxieties and self-doubt into a chameleonic sound informed by everything from lo-fi post-punk to indie-folk to early-'90s dance-pop...
The White Buffalo
Tuesday 26 August 2025
As real and honest as they come, Oregon alt folk and country baritone The White Buffalo, aka songwriter Jake Smith, found fame in the Sons Of Anarchy. He delves into various aspects of history through the 19th and early 20th century through...
Midland
Saturday 6 September 2025
Hailed by The New York Times for 'their retro-country elegance,' the Texan trio have the smoothest edge of anyone in Country. It's strong stuff that goes down easy, the sort of music to put on as you drive into the sunset or sunrise. ...
Midland
Saturday 6 September 2025
Hailed by The New York Times for 'their retro-country elegance,' the Texan trio have the smoothest edge of anyone in Country. It's strong stuff that goes down easy, the sort of music to put on as you drive into the sunset or sunrise. ...
Rend Collective
Saturday 13 September 2025
Originally birthed out of Bangor, genre-blurring Northern Irish Christian folk rock worship band Rend Collective have never lacked imagination. From the bewildering array of children's toys and whimsical, handmade oddities they call instrum...
Jessie Reyez
Sunday 14 September 2025
The Grammy-nominated, 4x Juno-winning, Canadian singer-songwriter captures the human experience in a way that is at once unique and relatable. Reyez was born in Toronto, to Colombian parents. Her family later moved to Brampton. She played...
Oliver Anthony
Monday 15 September 2025
In August 2023, Hank Williams-influenced Virgina country-folk singer-songwriter Christopher Lunsford - who performs under his grandfather's name "Oliver Anthony" in homage to the Depression era in which he lived - became the first artist ...
Riley Green
Tuesday 16 September 2025
Multi-platinum Alabama Country sensation Riley Green has been compelling country music fans to raise a drink, shed a tear, and, above all, celebrate where they are from, since first releasing his self-titled EP in 2018. His songs like the N...
ISMO: Woo Hoo World Tour
Wednesday 17 September 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...
Half Man Half Biscuit
Friday 19 September 2025
Known for their satirical, sardonic, and sometimes surreal songs, Birkenhead indie rockers Half Man Half Biscuit parody popular genres, while their lyrics allude to UK popular culture and geography. Formed in 1984, their long career has se...
Lord Huron
Saturday 20 September 2025
Good-time Californian indie folk rock bootscooters with guitars, cymbals, pianos, pedal steel, mandolins, microphones, saxophones and a gigantic string and woodwind orchestra deliver tales of hard luck, heartbreak and redemption. Lord Hu...
La Voix
Wednesday 24 September 2025
Direct from the West End, come and see the UK's best drag queen and Britain's funniest redhead swing into town with her most ambitious show yet. The UK entertainment sensation who proves that a killer voice and razor-sharp wit alongside ...
The Crane Wives
Saturday 27 September 2025
Born of the 2010's folk boom and now comfortably stationed in their rock and roll era, Michigan's The Crane Wives epitomise the evolving landscape of indie folk. Their high-energy performances have been described as "charged with emotion an...
Joe Gatto
Thursday 2 October 2025
Bringing his new tour Let's Get Into It to Europe, Joe Gatto is a comedian best known from the hit TV shows Impractical Jokers and The Misery Index. Most recently, he toured for two years with his stand-up solo show Joe Gatto's Night...
Auld Pals - Stars of Still Game
Thursday 2 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 its preferable you dont, please make sure its small. Only one small bag p...
Feeder
Friday 3 October 2025
Despite dropping out of mainstream radio attention, the celebrated, multi-platinum-selling, Welsh rockers have scored ten UK Top 10 albums. Ever since arriving on the Britpop scene in 1996, Feeder have never been far from the charts, or ...
Ethel Cain
Saturday 4 October 2025
Florida-born, Pittsburgh-living Goth-pop trans artist Hayden Anhedonia, aka Ethel Cain, produces music with lyrics focused on nostalgic and Southern Gothic themes, such as poverty, substance abuse, domestic violence, death, and transgenera...
Lauren Spencer Smith
Sunday 5 - Monday 6 October 2025
Often compared to Olivia Rodrigo, Portsmouth-born, Canadian pop singer Lauren Spencer Smith first appeared as a contestant on the 18th season of American Idol in 2020. In 2022, she became more known internationally when TikTok helped send h...
49 Winchester
Tuesday 7 October 2025
Virginia-based 49 Winchester is ready and roaring to break onto the scene with its unique brand of tear-in-your-beer alt-country, sticky barroom floor rock-n-roll, and high-octane Appalachian folk. ...
The Midnight
Thursday 9 October 2025
For a band that started as a synth-heavy duo, the L.A. based synthwave band have come a long way - creating fully realised arena worthy songs - including new single "Heartbeat" with its Van Halen-inspired synth leads, echoing drums, layere...
Cody Pennington Country Show
Friday 10 October 2025
Nashville artist Cody Pennington and his band bring the biggest country hits to the UK with the Cody Pennington Country Show. Don't miss a night of boot scootin' hits from artists like Luke Combs, Morgan Wallen, Dolly Parton, Chris Staplet...
Jo Whiley's 90s Anthems
Saturday 11 October 2025
BBC Radio 2 DJ Jo Whiley brings you all the best tracks from the greatest decade for music. Think Blur vs Oasis, Fatboy Slim, Primal Scream, The Verve, The Chemical Brothers, Faithless, The Prodigy and a whole lot more. ...
JADE
Monday 13 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...
New Found Glory
Tuesday 14 October 2025
Florida pop-punk band New Found Glory are known for their fast-paced punk drums and emo lyrics. They reached the UK Top 10 with their 2002 album Sticks and Stones which spawned the Top 40 hit "My Friends Over You". ...
Killswitch Engage
Wednesday 15 October 2025
Having sold over four million records in the U.S., Massachusetts heavy metal heroes Killswitch Engage are considered one of the earliest leading forces of the metalcore genre. They have scored five Top 40 albums in the UK, with 2006's As D...
Larkin Poe
Saturday 18 October 2025
Rebecca & Megan Lovell of Larkin Poe are singer/songwriter, multi-instrumentalist sisters creating their own brand of Roots Rock 'n' Roll: gritty, soulful, and flavoured by their southern heritage. Originally from Atlanta and currently livi...
Gregory Alan Isakov
Wednesday 22 October 2025
Recently nominated for a Grammy award for Best Folk Album, the Colorado based South African horticulturist-turned-musician Gregory Alan Isakov has cast an impressive presence on the indie-rock and folk worlds with his five full-length studi...
Fields of the Nephilim
Thursday 30 October 2025
Formed in Stevenage, 1984, Fields of the Nephilim is the creation of vocalist and front man Carl McCoy. Highly influential, especially in the world of goth, but also within the metal and electronic genres, their legacy endures to this day. ...
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