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Manchester Tonight MCP Server

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Manchester Tonight is answering right now. Last checked 4 min ago. It exposes 5 tools.

What's on in Manchester: search gigs, club nights, theatre, events and venues. Read-only, no auth.

Uptime history 9 days of history
9 days agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
91 of 91 checks
5
Tools
read from the server
204 ms
Response time
average over 24h
open, no key
Access
streamable-http

What changed 14

Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 18 October 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.

21 Oct 2 tools changed the parameters they ask for search_listings, whats_on
21 Oct a tool description was rewritten whats_on
20 Oct 3 tools changed the parameters they ask for search_listings, seasonal_events, whats_on
20 Oct a tool description was rewritten get_venue
19 Oct a tool changed the parameters it asks for seasonal_events
18 Oct a tool description was rewritten2 times that day plan_night_out
18 Oct a tool changed version2 times that day
18 Oct a tool appeared plan_night_out
18 Oct a tool changed the parameters it asks for plan_night_out
and 2 more, back to 18 October 2026

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check Manchester Tonight every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

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Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 4 min ago.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add whats-on --transport http https://manchestertonight.co.uk/mcp
Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address
https://manchestertonight.co.uk/mcp
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.whats-on]
url = "https://manchestertonight.co.uk/mcp"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "whats-on": {
      "url": "https://manchestertonight.co.uk/mcp"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "whats-on": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://manchestertonight.co.uk/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 5

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

listings
search_listings
Search all regular nights out in Manchester by keyword, area, type and day of the week. Use for questions like "free comedy in Manchester", "which pubs in Stockport have a quiz" or "open mics on Mondays". Results include the day rule (e.g. "Every Tuesday", "1st Thursday of the month").
plan
plan_night_out
Turn a night out you have planned with someone (or a few days out) into a Manchester Tonight plan: a link that opens the plan on manchestertonight.co.uk, where they can change it and send it to friends on WhatsApp, plus the message text. Find the stops first with whats_on or search_listings. Listed venues get their area and page filled in, and a stop with no time gets the start time of the night on at that venue that day. The first stop each day is where everyone meets. Give the plan an intro and each stop a blurb, written to the person's friends: what you'll do there, why it's a good pick, and anything to book, bring or know (opening times, dietary notes, tickets). Returns a short link that previews as a card with the plan's name, a full message and a short one; offer whichever suits (the short one or just the link is best for a group chat). The plan is kept only to serve that link, until a month after its last day.
seasonal
seasonal_events
List upcoming dated seasonal events in Manchester, such as Halloween parties and club nights, or Christmas markets, light trails, panto and concerts. Use for questions like "Halloween in Manchester", "Christmas markets dates" or "festive things to do in Manchester". Each result has dates, times, prices and a ticket link.
venue
get_venue
Get every regular night and seasonal or one-off event at one Manchester venue, with times, address if known, sources and when it was last checked.
whats
whats_on
List regular nights out and one-off events in Manchester, UK on a given date: pub quizzes, comedy, open mics, live music, club nights, drag, happy hours, social nights and film nights. Use for questions like "what's on tonight in Manchester", "comedy in the Northern Quarter on Saturday" or "quiz in Didsbury tomorrow". Each result has a time, venue, area, notes and a link to cite.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://manchestertonight.co.uk/mcp streamable-http answering 152 ms 4 min ago

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Manchester Tonight — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Manchester Tonight do?
It exposes 5 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: get_venue, plan_night_out, search_listings, seasonal_events, whats_on. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →
Is Manchester Tonight working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 91 of 91 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 204 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect Manchester Tonight?
Copy the ready config from this page. We generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each in the form that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.
Does Manchester Tonight need an API key?
No. Manchester Tonight completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 5 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is Manchester Tonight?
It answers our handshake in 204 ms on average, which is faster than 77% of all working MCP servers we measure. That puts it in the quick quarter of the ecosystem. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.