With a main hall holding around 3,000 standing and two smaller rooms beneath it, the O2 Academy Birmingham is one of the largest dedicated live-music venues in the city centre. The complex on Horsefair, at the lower end of Bristol Street, brings three interconnected spaces under one roof: the principal Academy, the mid-sized Academy 2 and the club-scale Academy 3, giving a combined capacity approaching 3,900 across simultaneous shows. The venue moved to its present building in September 2009, r.....

Built in 1901 as a schoolmaster's residence beside a former Victorian school, the 1901 Arts Club is an intimate salon-style recital venue on Exton Street in Waterloo, a short walk from the station and the South Bank. The restored period house has been turned into a candle-lit chamber music room that seats only a few dozen guests, offering a deliberately small and personal alternative to London's larger concert halls. The performance space is built around its acoustics and atmosphere. A Steinway.....

Occupying a converted warehouse in the warehouse arts district on the edge of downtown Tucson, 191 Toole is a flexible live-music and events venue that takes its name directly from its address on East Toole Avenue. Operated by the same team behind the city's long-running Rialto Theatre, it was developed to give Tucson a mid-sized, general-admission room that could host touring bands as well as private functions, filling the gap between the city's small clubs and its larger theatres. The main ha.....

Bringing together four interconnected venues under one roof, the 2Funky Complex is an independent music and events hub in Leicester's West End, on New Park Street near the famously diverse Narborough Road. Established in 2015 and developed in stages since, it is run by the arts organisation 2Funky Arts and built around the championing of music of Black origin and the development of new talent. The complex is made up of distinct, internally connected spaces. The 2Funky Music Cafe, a live venue w.....

229 is a multi-purpose live-music and events venue at 229 Great Portland Street in central London, a short walk from Great Portland Street and Regent's Park. Launched in April 2007 after a major refurbishment, it has established itself as one of the capital's leading mid-sized music venues, presenting touring bands, club nights, and a wide range of private and cultural events. The venue is built around two performance spaces. The main room, Venue 1, has a standing capacity of around 620 (with s.....

229 is a multi-purpose live-music and events venue at 229 Great Portland Street in central London, a short walk from Great Portland Street and Regent's Park. Launched in April 2007 after a major refurbishment, it has established itself as one of the capital's leading mid-sized music venues, presenting touring bands, club nights, and a wide range of private and cultural events. The venue is built around two performance spaces. The main room, Venue 1, has a standing capacity of around 620 (with s.....

2Funky Music Cafe is a live-music venue in the West End of Leicester, at 23A New Park Street, and the centrepiece of the wider 2Funky Complex established in 2015. The Music Cafe itself is a large indoor room with a stage, bar, and a balcony area overlooking the performance space, together with a south-facing beer garden. The venue hosts a varied programme of live concerts, club nights, and special events, supporting grassroots and touring artists across genres including rock, indie, funk, hip-h.....

First opening its doors in 1879 as the Star of Erin Music Hall, the venue now known as the 3Olympia Theatre is one of Dublin's most cherished and historic stages. Founded by the music-hall impresario Dan Lowrey on Dame Street, it has worn several names across its long life, trading as Dan Lowrey's Palace of Varieties and then the Empire Palace Theatre before settling, in 1923, on the Olympia, the name it carried for almost a century until a 2021 sponsorship deal added the 3 prefix. Architectura.....

Built into Grade II*-listed Victorian railway arches beneath the Manchester Central convention centre, 53two is an independent fringe theatre and arts venue with a flexible black-box auditorium seating around 150. A registered charity, it grew out of the Manchester Actors Platform, staging its first show in 2016 before developing into a full theatre and events space. The company began in a former car showroom on Albion Street, moved through temporary premises, and signed a long lease on two arc.....

A flagship of Houston's reinvented downtown, 713 Music Hall is a purpose-built concert venue carved into POST Houston, the sprawling redevelopment of the city's old Barbara Jordan Post Office. Named in tribute to the city's historic area code, it opened in 2021 as a state-of-the-art room designed to bring major touring artists to the heart of Houston, and it quickly became one of the region's premier mid-to-large live-music destinations. The hall holds around five thousand people and was engine.....