Big, can’t-miss Montréal concerts in 2024

Fall concerts

Bringing SexyBack to MTL 

He collects awards and accolades like other people collect baseball cards (10 Grammys, four Emmys, nine Billboard awards and so on and so forth…). Now, for the first time in five years, former ’N Sync singer and reigning Prince of Pop, Justin Timberlake, is taking the show on the road once again. Timberlake’s Forget Tomorrow World Tour, in support of his sixth studio album, Everything I Thought It Was, will rock your body on October 4 at the Bell Centre.

Montrealers just wanna have fun

She's So Unusual, indeed. Cyndi Lauper became the first woman in history to have four top-five singles from a debut album, including her anthem Girls Just Want to Have Fun. A staple on ’80s radio and video TV, the outspoken, Brooklyn-born performer with her unmistakeable, eccentric style has gone on to sell over 50 million albums worldwide. Alas, all good things must come to an end. Show your true colours one last time by joining Lauper on her Girls Just Wanna Have Fun Farewell Tour at the Bell Centre, October 18.

They couldn’t be less evanescent 

“Adjective: soon passing out of sight, memory, or existence; quickly fading or disappearing.” Grammy-Award winners Evanescence, led by the extraordinarily talented vocalist/pianist Amy Lee, have been blazing trails through alt-rock for 20 years and are showing no signs of losing momentum. Quite the opposite, actually — the Little Rock, Arkansas goth metal outfit return to Montréal for their first Canadian headline tour in 15 years this fall when they play the Bell Centre on October 25 with openers Halestorm.

Run to the hills!

Or rather, to the Bell Centre. Metal mayhem continues to reign in MTL this year when British legends Iron Maiden return with their 17^th studio album, Senjutsu. Under the steady helmsmanship of vocalist Bruce “Air-Raid Siren” Dickinson, and shadowed by omnipresent ghoulish mascot Eddie, the Maiden’s by-all-accounts-epic The Future Past World Tour will decamp in the Bell Centre for an effects-laden, sensory-overloading blowout on October 30.

The past is blasting 

After an 11-year hiatus, and on the 30^th anniversary of their formation, post-grunge hit-makers Creed have reunited and picked up where they left off with their Are You Ready? Tour. The ninth best-selling musical act of the 2000s, Creed will join fellow rockers Mammoth WVH (fun fact: WVH stands for frontman Wolfgang Van Halen, the son of Eddie Van Halen) and Finger Eleven (fun fact: they were originally known as the Rainbow Butt Monkeys) at the Bell Centre on November 25.

Winter concerts

A (bitter)sweet emotion

The best-selling American rock band of all time is ready to hang up its spurs. Boston phenom Aerosmith — 150 million records sold worldwide, including 25 gold, 18 platinum and 12 multi-platinum albums — have paid their dues and then some, and are calling it a day with their Peace Out tour. The authors of unforgettable anthems like Sweet Emotion, Walk This Way, Dream On, Janie’s Got a Gun — the list goes on and on — will bid thee farewell with special guests The Black Crowes at the Bell Centre, January 10, 2025.