Planning a trip away around a concert of your favourite artist? Well it seems there’s only one place for it.
With the iconic Taylor Swift Era’s tour finally coming to an end and the highly anticipated Oasis reunion tour of 2025 on the horizon, it’s fair to say that live music is very much having its moment.
The current trend of ‘gig-tripping’, planning a short holiday around a concert, has become the ultimate way to experience live performances.
But often your favourite artist is performing all over the country, so how do you decide where to go?
Well luckily for us, TransPennine Express has done the research for us by finding out which city in the UK is the best gig destination.
The train operator has created an index using fifty of the UK’s biggest towns and cities and scoring them out of 100 on their accessibility, enjoyability, popularity and affordability to help you determine the very best spot for your next gig.
And even luckier for us, taking first place is our very own city of Leeds.
Leeds comes up trumps as the best gig-tripping city, scoring 74.94 out of 100 thanks to its whopping 53 music venues – equating to over one venue for every square mile of the city.
With a whopping 508 events scheduled over the next year, Leeds is really delivering for the music fans and for that, we are very grateful.
Not only that, the three venues with the most events scheduled are highly reviewed by their patrons, with an average Google review score of 4.50.
The 10 best gig-tripping destinations in the UK are:
- Leeds – 74.94
- Manchester – 74.19
- Glasgow – 73.45
- Cardiff – 73.20
- Liverpool – 71.22
- Birmingham – 70.47
- Nottingham – 69.48
- Bristol – 67.00
- Sheffield – 65.76
- Newcastle – 65.01
Well, that’s a bit of a win isn’t it? Time to start grabbing your tickets as once this news gets out Leeds will be flooded with music fans flocking to our brilliant venues. And we absolutely don’t blame them.
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Featured image – First Direct Arena
