Birmingham's largest multi-purpose entertainment venues, Utilita Arena Birmingham and Resorts World Arena, play host to an all year round programme of music, comedy, sport and family events.

Below is a list of what's on sale this week, and when, so you can be sure to snap those tickets up before it's too late...

SIMPLY RED | UTILITA ARENA BIRMINGHAM | SATURDAY 4 OCTOBER 2025

Tickets are on sale now

Few bands have enjoyed the success and longevity of Simply Red. With over 60 million albums sold worldwide, five UK number one albums, 1.8 billion streams across streaming platforms worldwide, and over 1 million YouTube subscribers, Simply Red remain one of the UK’s most successful and well-loved bands.

Their 1991 classic Stars was the best-selling album for two years running in Britain and Europe, and all 13 of Simply Red’s studio albums, including their latest release Time, have been UK Top 10’s.

Mick Hucknall formed Simply Red in 1985 working-class Manchester, and enjoyed early success with first single Money’s Too Tight To Mention and the Brit Award-nominated album Picture Book (the first of 13 nominations, and 3 Brit Award wins). This was followed by a decade of superstardom and global hits. Today Simply Red continue to sell out tours across the globe. Their live show is renowned for its exceptional quality, with Mick Hucknall long-established as one of the great vocalists of contemporary music.

To celebrate this impressive 40-year milestone, Simply Red head back out on the road in 2025, telling the musical story of Simply Red so far – from Picture Book to Time, and everything in between.

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JAMES ARTHUR | UTILITA ARENA BIRMINGHAM | WEDNESDAY 6 MARCH 2024

Tickets go on sale at 9am on Friday 22 September

Following his recent return with new tracks Blindside & A Year Ago, James Arthur announces his fifth, brand new studio album Bitter Sweet Love.

As well as featuring the two recently released singles, Bitter Sweet Love is James back to his very best, producing thirteen bites of world class music. After being on stage, it struck him how his fifth album should sound. A sold-out crowd was singing along to his hits, immersed in the emotion that James could hear in his own voice.

The Middlesbrough-born, recent Brit Billion-certified artist has scored 4 top 10 albums, with 2016’s Back From The Edge hitting the Number 1 spot and over his career has collaborated with the likes of Anne-Marie, Sigala, Rudimental, Marshmello & many more.

James is one of the world’s biggest streaming artists, with over 38 million monthly listeners on Spotify alone. Say You Won't Let Go became his breakthrough hit in the US. It was officially the UK's most streamed song in 2016 and has gone on to be enjoyed via 4 billion streams while the song's official video has achieved 1.5 billion views on YouTube. Earlier this year, the track became his first RIAA Diamond Single with 10 million certified units – making James one of just 100 recipients of an RIAA Diamond Single certification in the programme's history.

Other huge hit singles include: Impossible, Can I Be Him, Sun Comes Up, Naked, Empty Space, Rewrite The Stars, Falling Like the Stars, Train Wreck and Lasting Lover, which are all certified platinum records. The song Cars Outside is currently becoming another global hit for James.

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STRICTLY COME DANCING LIVE TOUR | UTILITA ARENA BIRMINGHAM | 19-21 JANUARY 2024

Tickets go on sale at 9am on Friday 22 September

Strictly legends Shirley Ballas, Anton Du Beke, and Craig Revel Horwood return to take up their judging seats and It Takes Two’s Janette Manrara is back as tour host.

The Strictly Live Tour will dazzle audiences in January, opening at Birmingham’s Utilita Arena on 19 January for the first of five spectacular performances. Then the glitz, the glamour and the sequins, together with the all-important celebrity contestants and their professional dancer partners, will travel to some of the UK’s biggest entertainment venues leaving a trail of glitter in their wake.

Directing the Strictly Live Tour is TV Judge Craig Revel Horwood, who will once again be creating a dance extravaganza like no other, featuring a stellar line-up of talent from the current series of the smash hit BBC show, recently named Best Talent Show at the 2023 National Television Awards. And of course, the Strictly Live Tour Band and singers will be wowing arena audiences with their show-stopping tunes and harmonies. Celebrities and professional dancers joining the tour will be announced soon.

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ARENACROSS BRITISH CHAMPIONSHIP | RESORTS WORLD ARENA | SATURDAY 3 FEBRUARY 2024

Tickets go on sale at 10am on Monday 25 September

Arenacross is a show like no other. It’s a high-octane mix of indoor Motocross racing from 6yo kids to the top Pros, Freestyle Motocross (FMX) madness and it’s packed to the rafters with all-round family fun and frenzied entertainment. It’s guaranteed to keep you on your feet yelling and hollering for more/

FMX features throughout the show, and takes the action, quite literally, to another level! It’s mind-blowing, spectacular and dangerous in equal measure. It takes place some 60ft in the air when a group of insanely talented ‘rebels’ fly off a huge ramp over a platform in the centre of the arena, throwing loads of cool and seemingly impossible tricks, one-handed, no-handed, sideways, upside-down, you name it, they do it.   

These awesome sporting stars compete in year-round world tour events such as the X-Games and Red Bull X-Fighters, but … you’ve got to get involved as the louder you scream, the bigger the tricks.

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JASON DERULO | UTILITA ARENA BIRMINGHAM | FRIDAY 8 MARCH 2024

Tickets go on sale at 10am on Friday 22 September

Global superstar Jason Derulo has announced his highly anticipated return to the UK next year, marking his first nationwide arena tour in more than five years.

Forward-thinking, genre-defying, and massively creative, Derulo has staked his claim as one of the most dynamic forces on the global pop landscape. Since breaking through with his 5x RIAA platinum-certified single, Whatcha Say, the award-winning singer-songwriter who has a net worth in excess of $100 million, has sold more than 250 million singles worldwide and achieved15 platinum singles including Wiggle, Talk Dirty, Want to Want Me, Trumpets and many more.

Having recently released his new track Glad U Came to critical acclaim, Jason continues to work hard on new music and live shows.

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TEXAS | UTILITA ARENA BIRMINGHAM | FRIDAY 13 SEPTEMBER 2024

Tickets go on sale at 10am on Friday 22 September

Following a triumphant performance on Glastonbury's Pyramid Stage this summer, Texas' new UK tour will see the band play a set of classic hits from their recently released The Very Best Of 1989 - 2023.

34 years since they recorded I Don’t Want A Lover, then watched, gobsmacked, as it reached Number Eight in the charts, Texas, one of the UK’s most loved bands, have gone on to produce ten studio albums, selling over 40 million records worldwide.