Andy Lau Hong Kong Coliseum Concert: Dates, Tickets & Venue (Hong Kong)

A New Year’s Eve in the round

Andy Lau is playing the Coliseum on December 31, 2026. The show is part of his New Year’s Eve residency at the Hong Kong Coliseum, the arena in Hung Hom where Cantopop’s biggest names have played long runs since the 1980s.

Lau came up as one of the “Four Heavenly Kings” of 1990s Cantopop, alongside Jacky Cheung, Leon Lai and Aaron Kwok. He has also had a long film career, so a Lau crowd mixes fans who grew up on his ballads with people who know him mainly from the screen.

The building: an upside-down pyramid in Hung Hom

The Coliseum is easy to spot. It is an inverted pyramid that sits on four huge concrete supports, so the wide end of the building is at the top. It opened in 1983 and seats roughly 12,500.

What makes it different from most arenas is the stage. It is usually set in the middle of the floor, with seats rising steeply on all four sides. Performers work every side of the room in turn, which is why there are no truly bad sight lines here, only nearer and farther ones.

Upper-tier seats are steep and close together. The view straight down onto the stage from up there is a big part of what people love about the room.

Getting to Hung Hom

The MTR is the obvious way in. Hung Hom Station, on the East Rail Line and the Tuen Ma Line, sits right next to the Coliseum, and signposted covered walkways link the station concourse to the arena podium.

Other routes concertgoers commonly use:

• On foot from Tsim Sha Tsui East: footbridges along the waterfront promenade, about a 15-minute walk.
• Cross-harbour buses: the Hung Hom Cross-Harbour Tunnel bus stops are a short walk away, with direct links to Hong Kong Island.
• Taxi: cars drop off at the Hung Hom station area. After the show, queues at the taxi stand get long.

On New Year’s Eve this area is part of the busiest night of the year in Kowloon. Huge crowds gather on the Tsim Sha Tsui waterfront for the Victoria Harbour fireworks at midnight, and in past years the MTR has run overnight trains and used crowd-control measures at nearby stations.

Inside the pyramid: how a Coliseum crowd behaves

Cantopop crowds here are loud and organised, and they sing along. Lau’s long-running fan club, Andy World Club, tends to be well represented. Fans often bring light sticks or banners in the club’s colours, and whole sections sing the choruses of the classic ballads back to the stage.

A few things regulars know about the venue:

• Food and drink are generally not allowed into the arena itself. People eat in Hung Hom or Whampoa first.
• Recording the performance is restricted under venue rules. Ushers do walk the aisles and enforce it.
• Gates and sections are colour-coded and numbered around the pyramid. Your ticket shows which side of the stage you are on, so you know which concourse entrance to use.
• Exiting takes a while because 12,500 people leave through the same podium. Many fans wait in their seats for a few minutes rather than join the first rush for the station.

Tickets and seating

Tickets are sold by the concert’s promoter, not by the venue. The promoter’s channels hold the seating plan, the price tiers and the sale details for each night of the residency.

Since the stage sits in the middle, the plan is laid out by side and tier rather than front to back. Lower-tier seats on the long sides are closest to the action. Upper tiers trade distance for a full overhead view of the staging, and some fans actually prefer that for a big production.

New Year’s Eve shows by major Cantopop acts are some of the hardest tickets in Hong Kong to get. Fans normally treat the sale itself as an event of its own.

Before and after the show

Hung Hom makes for an easy evening around the concert. Whampoa, a short walk east, has rows of local restaurants and the Whampoa shopping complex built in the shape of a ship. The Tsim Sha Tsui East promenade, to the west, looks across the harbour to the Hong Kong Island skyline.

Many visitors stay in Tsim Sha Tsui or Hung Hom so they can walk back after the show. On New Year’s Eve that means skipping the crowded trains entirely.