AO Arena Manchester reviews by real event-goers

Review of 90s Baby POP - The Biggest Pop Show Ever

Booked these tickets for my anniversary for the wife and I was really let down by a couple if things on the night. The fact you had Aqua cancel, the main headline and didn't tell anyone until the day. The base of the music was that loud, you couldn't hear the acts. Such a poor poor let down for a lot of money! We paid extra for the floor tickets, which ended up having one bar fir 1000s if people. Really really disappointed.

Review of 90s Baby POP - The Biggest Pop Show Ever

It was an amazing night really enjoyed it ☺️

Review of 90s Baby POP - The Biggest Pop Show Ever

Artists replaced with DJ, no reflection in ticket price

Review of 90s Baby POP - The Biggest Pop Show Ever

Only criticism is some of the artists you couldn't actually hear sing because the bass and backing music overpowered the microphone. Was a great event though

Review of 90s Baby POP - The Biggest Pop Show Ever

The sound was not that great on some acts and mic feedback was awful apart from that everything was perfect

Review of 90s Baby POP - The Biggest Pop Show Ever

Had such an amazing night. All of the artists were great. Such good fun

Review of 90s Baby POP - The Biggest Pop Show Ever

Everyone was loving it, although rightfully the biggest boo of the night was the announcement the main headline act cancelled and a lot of the reason people bought tickets. “Line up subject to change” was the official response to disappointed fans. But GALA was immense.

Review of 90s Baby POP - The Biggest Pop Show Ever

Half of the groups mics weren't working and could not hear them singing.
Prices in the venue were also a joke!!!

Review of 90s Baby POP - The Biggest Pop Show Ever

Great night, good line up of acts! However need to sort the sound out as you couldn’t hear all of the acts as clearly as others!

Review of 90s Baby POP - The Biggest Pop Show Ever

Technical issues with the acts hampered some of the show, Bar staff where massively slow as well, the bar in the standing area was always full and it took far too long to get a drink

Review of 90s Baby POP - The Biggest Pop Show Ever

Some of the acts weren't very good but the ones that were really made it a great night. It was upsetting that Aqua didn't perform but I suppose that couldn't be helped. The length of the concert was a bit excessive though....maybe if they cut the bad acts out the concert wouldn't drag on for so long

Review of 90s Baby POP - The Biggest Pop Show Ever

Bit of a shame two headline acts cancelled at the last minute the venue charges £8 for a can of drink gala spent ages setting up band in the middle of the show then played quite an obscure set which did not fit with the rest of the show and it just killed the atmosphere and half the crowd left and killed the show for the rest of the night

Review of 90s Baby POP - The Biggest Pop Show Ever

Bad technical issues

Review of 90s Baby POP - The Biggest Pop Show Ever

Acts were good but the sounds guys were shocking! One microphone didn't work and numerous acts used it before it was fixed, microphones too quiet all you could hear at times was the music and bass and someone whispering trying to sing. Constant screeching noises from the microphones too.

Review of 90s Baby POP - The Biggest Pop Show Ever

The headline act pulled out an hour before they was due on stage. Joke

Review of 90s Baby POP - The Biggest Pop Show Ever

Music was good but the audio was shocking. Lots of feedback. Especially noticeable for b*witches and towards the end of the gig. Gala was up her own backside too. But otherwise great music and band choices.

Venue was good but got the feeling the crowd control couldn’t cope.

Atmosphere amazing. Will be coming back next year

Review of 90s Baby POP - The Biggest Pop Show Ever

Good acts and time used wisely

Review of 90s Baby POP - The Biggest Pop Show Ever

Some acts in wrong order
Some acts were not there
Other than that brilliant x

Review of 90s Baby POP - The Biggest Pop Show Ever

Great show will be definitely booking for next year happy Halloween, we were dancing away at the top Shaun @ Clare 👍👻

Review of 90s Baby POP - The Biggest Pop Show Ever

Absolute shambles. Wouldn't go again, the main act was cancelled and nobody was informed until half way through the show. Nobody was booked to replace them. The order of the line up was bizarre, big acts in the middle and one hit wonders towards the end, loads of people left because one of the acts towards the end was so boring. Sound system kept messing up, liberty x's mics didn't work at one point and lots of mic feedback and horrible noise during a lot of other performances. What a disappointment.