"Best Concerts in Newcastle upon Tyne" Created by: Cityseeker 9 Locations Bookmarked Newcastle University's Student Union "Bands In The Basement" Newcastle University's Student Union is one of the city's largest and most popular live music venues, holding regular gigs and dance nights that are open to the general public, as well as fulfilling its students-only function on other nights. Live music is staged in the Basement arena which has a by petermcottle capacity of 1,200. In recent years it has staged gigs by a number of well known guitar acts including Embrace, The Charlatans, Travis, and Primal Scream. The Basement, and the building's other venue the excellent Global Cafe, also stage regular club nights which have in the past featured a range of different dance music and big-name DJs. And during the annual Newcastle Comedy Festival, comedians also strut their stuff in the Global Cafe. +44 191 239 3900 www.nusu.co.uk/
[email protected] King's Walk, University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Newcastle upon Tyne City Hall "Major Live Entertainment Venue" Opened in 1927, the City Hall was Newcastle's first purpose-built concert venue. Initially home to classical performances, the last many years has seen it host everything from The Beatles to Weather Report, Billy Connolly to Roy Chubby Brown and various points between. The eighties and nineties saw a drop off in really top-class acts appearing as bigger venues by John-Paul Stephenson made more economic sense to touring acts. However the City Hall can still claim some key medium size events and it remains an important venue.