Manchester is rocking and rolling with music momentum right now.

Fresh from a summer that saw Oasis fans from across the world descend on the city for the reunited band's five huge homecoming shows , civic bosses and business leaders have long been planning how to make 2026 go one better than that.

And we're starting to see exactly how they might do it.

For the world's biggest music stars are set to be making themselves right at home here in the city in the spring of 2026 after the announcement of not one, but two of the UK's most famous awards ceremonies scheduled to take place in Manchester for the first time in the new year.

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The BRIT awards, never before held outside of London, will head to Manchester in February in what is des

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