Concerts this week

Concerts around the world: where to go, city by city

Every city on Togoist has a room that touring bands ask for by name and a hall the locals keep coming back to. This is the short list: the concert venues worth planning a trip around, with addresses, and a link to everything on in each city right now. Tap a city to see its full concert listings, tonight and this week.

Concerts in London, Dublin and Edinburgh

Concerts in London run from the O2 Academy Brixton (211 Stockwell Road), a 1929 art deco cinema with a 5,000 crowd, to the Roundhouse in Camden and the Royal Albert Hall (Kensington Gore), where the BBC Proms take over every summer; Ronnie Scott’s on Frith Street has had jazz nightly since 1959. Concerts in Dublin start at Whelan’s (25 Wexford Street), the pub-venue where Irish bands break, move up to Vicar Street on Thomas Street for the best sound in the city, and end at the 3Arena on the docks for the arena tours. Concerts in Edinburgh peak in August, when the festivals fill every hall in the city.

Concerts in Paris, Amsterdam and Berlin

Concerts in Paris mean L’Olympia (28 boulevard des Capucines), the music hall with the red neon letters, and the Philharmonie de Paris in the Parc de la Villette, one of the best-sounding halls in Europe. Concerts in Amsterdam are split between Paradiso (Weteringschans 6–8), a former church by the Leidseplein, and Melkweg across the square; the Concertgebouw has free lunchtime concerts on Wednesdays. Concerts in Berlin range from the Berliner Philharmonie (Herbert-von-Karajan-Straße 1) to the Columbiahalle by Tempelhofer Feld and the small rooms of Kreuzberg and Neukölln.

Concerts in Copenhagen, Stockholm and Vienna

Concerts in Copenhagen are anchored by VEGA (Enghavevej 40), a listed 1950s union building with three rooms and around 350 shows a year, and in summer by the Friday-night stage at Tivoli. Concerts in Stockholm start at Debaser Strand on the Södermalm waterfront and Fasching (Kungsgatan 63) for jazz, with the Konserthuset on Hötorget for the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic. Concerts in Vienna are the world’s densest classical calendar: the Musikverein, the Konzerthaus and the Staatsoper, plus the Arena Wien in a former slaughterhouse for rock and the Gürtel arches for everything smaller.

Concerts in Barcelona, Madrid, Lisbon, Milan and Rome

Concerts in Barcelona happen at Razzmatazz (Almogàvers 122), five rooms in a Poblenou factory, at Sala Apolo in Poble-sec and in the stained-glass Palau de la Música Catalana. Concerts in Madrid start at Sala El Sol off Gran Vía and Café Central for jazz, and scale up to La Riviera and the Movistar Arena. Concerts in Lisbon fill the 1890 Coliseu dos Recreios near Rossio and the Gulbenkian’s garden-backed auditorium, with fado in the small houses of Alfama. Concerts in Milan are at Alcatraz on Via Valtellina and Blue Note Milano in Isola; concerts in Rome at Renzo Piano’s Auditorium Parco della Musica, whose outdoor cavea takes the summer’s big names.

Concerts in New York and the American cities

Concerts in New York run from Madison Square Garden above Penn Station to Brooklyn Steel in Williamsburg and two jazz sets a night at the Blue Note and the Village Vanguard. Concerts in Los Angeles, Boston and Las Vegas each have their own listings, updated every hour.

How to use these pages

The list at the top of this page is the live pick: one event per city, the fullest listing first, refreshed every hour. Each city page shows everything on there tonight, tomorrow, this weekend and this week, with times, venues, prices and a ticket link to Ticketmaster, the official seller.