Melanie Martinez « Hades: The Sacrifice »

Melanie Martinez brings Hades: The Sacrifice to Manchester on 12 September 2026 at Co‑op Live. Raised in New York and first noticed on The Voice in 2012, she has since built an alternative pop language that mixes dark pop, electropop and art pop with nursery‑rhyme motifs, hip‑hop and R&B shades. From Dollhouse and the Cry Baby era to the school‑set universe of K‑12 and the more organic, rock‑tinged explorations of Portals, her writing navigates childhood, social norms and inner turbulence.

On stage, Martinez treats pop as a narrative form. Costumes, makeup and carefully constructed visuals extend the characters that inhabit her records, turning each concert into a chapter of the same world. Hades: The Sacrifice pushes that storytelling further, drawing on mythic imagery and immersive staging while keeping the melodic hooks and electronic textures that run through her work. Between cinematic tableaux and more direct, autobiographical notes, this new show connects the threads of her discography and opens another door into the universe she’s been shaping since Cry Baby.