3–10 October 2026
There is one event in Newcastle this week: Newcastle Red Bulls v Leicester Tigers at Kingston Park.
Updated 3 Oct, 09:23 · Event data from Ticketmaster
It is a quieter stretch in Newcastle, with 1 event on this week, which makes choosing easy. All of them are matches and sports events. Here is what is on, who it suits and how to plan your days out.
There is one pick: Newcastle Red Bulls v Leicester Tigers at Kingston Park (Saturday, 19:45, 19:45).
It starts at 19:45.
1 event, including Newcastle Red Bulls v Leicester Tigers at Kingston Park.
Newcastle has the reputation for a night out and earns it every weekend, but it also has an arena that hosts the big tours, a concert hall for the Royal Northern Sinfonia across the river, one of Britain’s best small venues, and a football club that fills St James’ Park in the middle of the city. Below is where to go in Newcastle for a night out, with addresses, and what tends to be on when.
The Utilita Arena (Arena Way) takes the arena tours; the O2 City Hall (Northumberland Road), a 1927 concert hall, the seated ones, and NX (formerly the O2 Academy) on Westgate Road the mid-sized. The Glasshouse (Gateshead Quays, theglasshouseicm.org), Norman Foster’s silver curve across the Tyne, is home to the Royal Northern Sinfonia and takes folk, jazz and pop. The Cluny in Ouseburn is the city’s best small room, and the Boiler Shop the club and mid-sized venue in Stephenson’s old works.
The Quayside has the bars along the river; the Bigg Market and Collingwood Street the loud end; Ouseburn the venues, breweries and the crowd that goes to gigs; Jesmond the bars locals use. The Pink Triangle around Times Square is the gay village. Bars close at 2, clubs at 3 or 4; the Metro stops around midnight.
The Theatre Royal (Grey Street), a Victorian house with the Royal Shakespeare Company as a regular visitor, takes the touring musicals and plays; Northern Stage on the university campus and Live Theatre on the Quayside produce new work; the Stand on High Bridge is the comedy club.
Newcastle United at St James’ Park, the most central big stadium in England, from August to May; the Newcastle Falcons rugby at Kingston Park; the Great North Run in September, the world’s biggest half marathon; and Sunderland twenty minutes away for the derby.
BALTIC (Gateshead Quays), the contemporary art centre in a former flour mill, is free and open late on Thursdays; the Laing Art Gallery and the Great North Museum are free; the Biscuit Factory in Ouseburn is the largest commercial gallery in the country.
The listings above are the live version of all this: every concert, show, game, club night and exhibition on in Newcastle tonight, tomorrow and this weekend, with times, prices and tickets, updated every hour.
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