MEN Arena

Manchester


This indoor arena about 300m north of Victoria Station hosts concerts and sporting events and has a capacity of 21,000. On 22 May 2017 a suicide bomber killed 22 young people attending an Ariana Grande concert; the venue reopened in September 2017 with a benefit concert for the victims headlined by Noel Gallagher.


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