Last updated: 2 October 2026
MK has four UK headline club shows booked for early 2027. The American house producer and DJ plays O2 Academy Glasgow on Saturday 30 January, two nights at the Telegraph Building in Belfast on Friday 5 and Saturday 6 March, and O2 Victoria Warehouse in Manchester on Friday 12 March.
The Glasgow show sold out quickly after tickets went on sale in late September 2026, and Belfast was split into a Friday and a Saturday show. These are late-night events: the Manchester show runs from 9pm until 2am.
MK, real name Marc Kinchen, has been one of the most in-demand names in British dance music since his remix of Storm Queen's 'Look Right Through' went to number one in 2013. This page covers the 2027 dates, his long history at UK festivals and clubs, and how tickets are sold.
The four confirmed dates are:
Glasgow, O2 Academy Glasgow (Saturday 30 January, sold out) · Belfast, The Telegraph Building (Friday 5 and Saturday 6 March) · Manchester, O2 Victoria Warehouse (Friday 12 March, 9pm to 2am).
No London or Dublin date has been announced so far. MK often adds dates and festival appearances closer to the time, so this page will be updated as soon as more are confirmed.
The Telegraph Building is the former home of the Belfast Telegraph newspaper, converted into one of the city's main venues for club nights and gigs. O2 Victoria Warehouse is a former cotton warehouse beside the Manchester Ship Canal, close to Old Trafford, and one of the north of England's biggest club spaces.
Saturday 30 January 2027 — Glasgow Academy, Glasgow (sold out). In Glasgow, the last documented MK concert was at Hampden Park (2 August 2026). The tour starts here.
Friday 5 March 2027 — The Telegraph Building, Belfast (Friday show). This is show 1 of the 2-night stand here.
Friday 12 March 2027 — O2 Victoria Warehouse, Manchester (doors 9pm, curfew 2am). MK last played O2 Victoria Warehouse on 1 January 2020. This venue closes the tour.
MK's British history is mostly written at festivals and big club nights rather than conventional tours. The earliest show in our records is at Knebworth House in August 2013, a few months before 'Look Right Through' reached number one. Since then he has been a fixture of the summer festival circuit.
Creamfields at the Daresbury Estate in Cheshire is the event he has played most, with six documented appearances between 2014 and 2023. He has also played Clapham Common in London several times, Parklife at Heaton Park in Manchester, Reading Festival in 2021 and 2023, Glastonbury in 2023, BBC Radio 1's Big Weekend in Middlesbrough in 2019 and Boardmasters at Watergate Bay in Newquay in 2018.
In clubs, the Warehouse Project in Manchester has booked him repeatedly (2014, 2016 and 2017), and he played Victoria Warehouse on New Year's Day 2020. In Glasgow he played SWG3 in 2019 and the Barrowland in February 2023. More recently he played Boxpark in Liverpool and Depot Mayfield in Manchester in autumn 2025, and Hampden Park in Glasgow on 1 and 2 August 2026.
Taken year by year, the pattern is clear. In 2014 he played the Ironworks in Inverness, the Rainbow Venues in Birmingham and O2 Academy Sheffield as well as Creamfields and Clapham Common. In 2016 he was at Bute Park in Cardiff, Heaton Park, Blackpool's North Pier, Clapham Common and Creamfields within three months. In 2018 and 2019 he returned to Heaton Park, Newquay, Clapham, Middlesbrough and Daresbury. Our records list over forty UK appearances in total, with Manchester (eight), Creamfields (six), London and Glasgow (five each) at the top.
The table below lists 41 documented UK concerts by MK between 2013 and 2026, with the most shows in Manchester (8), Halton (6), Glasgow (5), London (5), Reading (2), Upminster (2). It is not exhaustive: it only includes documented shows.
| Date | City | Venue | Tour / event |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 August 2026 | Glasgow | Hampden Park | |
| 1 August 2026 | Glasgow | Hampden Park | |
| 22 May 2026 | Houghton le Spring | Main Stage (festival) | |
| 7 December 2025 | London | The O2 Arena | |
| 11 October 2025 | Manchester | Depot Mayfield | |
| 26 September 2025 | Liverpool | Boxpark Liverpool | |
| 27 August 2023 | Halton | Daresbury Estate | |
| 26 August 2023 | Reading | Little John's Farm | |
| 24 June 2023 | Pilton | Glastonbury Festival (Worthy Farm) | |
| 11 February 2023 | Glasgow | Barrowland | |
| 2 July 2022 | Glasgow | Hampden Park | |
| 4 June 2022 | Chelmsford | Hylands Park | |
| 27 August 2021 | Reading | Little John's Farm | |
| 1 January 2020 | Manchester | O2 Victoria Warehouse | |
| 24 August 2019 | Halton | Daresbury Estate | |
| 8 June 2019 | Manchester | Heaton Park | |
| 24 May 2019 | Middlesbrough | Stewart Park | |
| 22 March 2019 | Glasgow | SWG3 Galvanizers | |
| 26 August 2018 | Halton | Daresbury Estate | |
| 25 August 2018 | London | Clapham Common | |
| 10 August 2018 | Newquay | Watergate Bay | |
| 10 June 2018 | Manchester | Heaton Park | |
| 14 October 2017 | Manchester | The Warehouse Project | |
| 27 May 2017 | Upminster | Damyns Hall Aerodrome | |
| 4 November 2016 | Manchester | The Warehouse Project | |
| 28 August 2016 | Halton | Daresbury Estate | |
| 27 August 2016 | London | Clapham Common | |
| 23 July 2016 | Blackpool | North Pier | |
| 12 June 2016 | Manchester | Heaton Park | |
| 3 June 2016 | Cardiff | Bute Park | |
| 28 May 2016 | Upminster | Damyns Hall Aerodrome | |
| 30 August 2015 | Halton | Daresbury Estate | |
| 25 July 2015 | Birmingham | The Arena, Rainbow Venues | |
| 17 July 2015 | London | Victoria Park | |
| 14 November 2014 | Manchester | The Warehouse Project | |
| 6 October 2014 | Sheffield | O2 Academy | |
| 24 August 2014 | London | Clapham Common | |
| 24 August 2014 | Halton | Daresbury Estate | |
| 4 May 2014 | Birmingham | The Arena, Rainbow Venues | |
| 18 April 2014 | Inverness | The Ironworks | |
| 4 August 2013 | Knebworth | Knebworth House |
Concert data: setlist.fm
MK is primarily a festival and club act in Britain. Beyond Creamfields, Parklife, Reading and Glastonbury, our records include Damyns Hall Aerodrome in Upminster, Hylands Park in Chelmsford and a Main Stage set at Houghton le Spring in May 2026.
No 2027 summer festival bookings have been announced yet. Given his history, Creamfields and Parklife are the events fans usually watch for.
Marc Kinchen was born on 3 August 1972 in Detroit and started producing as a teenager. In the early 1990s he had two number ones on the US dance club chart with 'Always' and 'Love Changes', both sung by Alana Simon, and the underground house classic 'Burning'. 'Always' first reached the UK chart in 1995.
His remixes defined a whole era of house music. His 1990s remix of the Nightcrawlers' 'Push the Feeling On' became a number three hit in the UK, and he remixed Céline Dion, Jody Watley and many others. In the 2000s he moved to Los Angeles and worked as a producer for Will Smith, on Shark Tale and the TV series All of Us, and for Pitbull, including the Men in Black 3 theme 'Back in Time'.
His return to the club world came in 2013, when his remix of Storm Queen's 'Look Right Through' went to number one in the UK. In 2014 Route 94's remix of 'Always' reached number 12. He then launched his own label, Area10, and released a run of UK hits including collaborations with Becky Hill. In 2023 'Rhyme Dust', his collaboration with Dom Dolla, won the ARIA Award for Best Dance/Electronic Release.
His album In the Night Again was released in 2026.
| Album | Year | UK chart peak |
|---|---|---|
| "Somebody New" | — | |
| "Decay" (with Never on Sunday) | — | |
| "Burning" (featuring Alana) | — | |
| "Always" (featuring Alana) | 69 | |
| "Love Changes" (featuring Alana) | — | |
| "Surrender" (featuring Alana) | — | |
| "Burning '95" (featuring Alana) | 44 | |
| "Lift Me Up" (featuring Clare Rivers) | — | |
| "Always" (Route 94 Remix) | 12 | |
| "Bring Me to Life" (featuring Milly Pye) | — | |
| "Piece of Me" (with Becky Hill) | 37 | |
| "My Love 4 U" (featuring A*M*E) | — | |
| "17" | 7 | |
| "Back & Forth" (with Jonas Blue and Becky Hill) | 12 | |
| "Body 2 Body" | — | |
| "There for You" (with Gorgon City) | 99 |
Few American house producers have a following in the UK like MK's. The 'Look Right Through' remix in 2013 arrived at the moment deep house was crossing over into the British charts, and his remixes of the period, built on chopped vocals and warm, rolling basslines, became a template for a generation of UK producers.
His DJ sets lean on those signature remixes, newer productions and classics, which is why he plays to big crowds at festivals and in arena-sized clubs. The 2027 venues are all large club spaces rather than theatres, matching that format.
MK's reputation was built on remixes long before he became a festival headliner. In the 1990s his version of the Nightcrawlers' 'Push the Feeling On' turned a modest record into an international hit and a UK number three, and its chopped, rearranged vocal became one of the most copied sounds in house music. He gave Céline Dion her first number one on the US dance club chart with his remix of 'Misled', took Jody Watley's 'Your Love Keeps Working On Me' to number two on the same chart and Betty Boo's 'Thing Goin' On' to number five.
The second wave came two decades later. His remix of Storm Queen's 'Look Right Through', released by Defected in November 2013, went to number one in the UK singles chart, and remixes for Lana Del Rey, Ellie Goulding, Sky Ferreira, Jamie Jones and Lee Foss followed. Many of these are still the backbone of his DJ sets.
Between the two dance-music peaks of his career, Kinchen spent years as a producer in mainstream pop. He moved to Los Angeles in 2001, where Denise Martell introduced him to David Foster. From 2002 he was an in-house producer for Will Smith, working on Shark Tale, one of Smith's albums and the music for the sitcom All of Us, and he produced for Willow and Jaden Smith with Omarr Rambert, his partner in the duo Stoopid Robots.
He also produced three songs on Pitbull's Armando (2010) and two on Planet Pit (2011), and co-produced 'Back in Time' for Men in Black 3. The success of 'Look Right Through' in 2013 pulled him back towards the club scene, where he has stayed ever since.
Scotland and Northern Ireland have become important for MK. His Glasgow history includes the Barrowland (February 2023), SWG3 (March 2019) and Hampden Park (2022 and August 2026), and the quick sell-out of O2 Academy Glasgow for January 2027 confirms the demand.
In Belfast, the decision to book two nights at the Telegraph Building, a Friday and a Saturday, reflects strong demand there too. In Ireland he has also played Dublin's 3Arena, in 2022.
Area10, MK's label, has been the home of his own records and of artists he champions. His collaborations with singers, especially Becky Hill, gave him a run of crossover hits in the UK in the late 2010s.
In the Night Again (2026) is his first album in decades, after a career built on singles and remixes. The 2027 club dates will be his first UK headline shows since its release, so expect new tracks alongside the remixes that made his name.
O2 Victoria Warehouse sits on Trafford Wharf Road, next to the Manchester Ship Canal and a short walk from the Old Trafford and Wharfside Metrolink stops. With a 2am curfew, trams will have finished for the night, so plan a taxi or pre-booked car home, and expect queues on the road outside after the show.
The Telegraph Building is on Royal Avenue in Belfast city centre, within walking distance of most hotels, bars and late-night taxis. O2 Academy Glasgow is on Eglinton Street on the south side of the river, a short walk from Bridge Street subway and Glasgow Central station.
An MK headline show is a DJ set of around two to three hours, often with support DJs before him, in a late-night club format. The Manchester event runs from 9pm to 2am.
Expect a crowd that knows the remixes as well as the originals. These are standing, club-style events with strict age rules (normally 18+); check the policy on your ticket and bring photo ID.
If you have only heard MK on the radio, his club sets are a different experience: long blends, unexpected edits of his own hits and a lot of vocal house. Arrive early enough to get a good spot, since these rooms fill up quickly after 10pm.
An artist presale opened at 10am on Wednesday 23 September 2026, and the general sale followed at 10am on Friday 25 September through Ticketmaster and the venues. Glasgow sold out; Belfast and Manchester were still on sale at the time of writing.
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When is MK playing in the UK in 2027?
Glasgow (30 January), Belfast (5 and 6 March) and Manchester (12 March 2027).
Is MK's Glasgow show sold out?
Yes, O2 Academy Glasgow on 30 January 2027 is sold out.
Is there a London date?
Not yet. No London or Dublin date had been announced as of October 2026.
What time is the Manchester show?
Doors at 9pm, with a 2am curfew.
What is MK's real name?
Marc Kinchen, born on 3 August 1972.
What is MK's biggest UK hit?
His remix of Storm Queen's 'Look Right Through', a UK number one in 2013.
Did MK remix Push the Feeling On?
Yes. His remix of the Nightcrawlers' song was a number three hit in the UK.
Has MK played Creamfields?
Yes, six times in our records, between 2014 and 2023.
Is there an age limit?
Club shows like these are normally 18+. Check the age policy on your ticket.
Is MK playing Dublin?
No Dublin date had been announced as of October 2026. Belfast's Telegraph Building on 5 and 6 March 2027 is the closest show.
What is MK's new album?
In the Night Again, released in 2026, his first full album since the early 1990s.
Has MK played Glastonbury?
Yes, at Worthy Farm in June 2023. He also played Reading Festival in August 2021 and August 2023, and Parklife at Heaton Park in 2016, 2018 and 2019.
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