Iconic music venue Band on the Wall will reopen in the autumn with a huge homecoming party for fans.
The club will be re-launched on September 25 with a month-long music showcase called Back to Our Place.
The venue has been redeveloped with help from Arts Council, National Lottery and Manchester council grants.
It closed in 2005 because the building was deteriorating.
Back to Our Place - from September 25 to October 31 - will feature artists from around the world.
Mike Chadwick, the club's music programmer, said: "The diverse showcase is there to both celebrate it reopening with a world-class programme of artists and to give fans a taste of what's to come."
Band on the Wall was the centre of Manchester's punk scene in the late 1970s, when The Fall, Buzzcocks and Joy Division first played there.
But the building dates back to 1865, when it opened as the George and Dragon pub.
The venue got its name after landlord Ernie Tyson put a drummer and an accordion player on a small platform on the wall away from the flying glasses in the 1930s.
It was in decline by 1975, but it was saved by saxophonist and entrepreneur Steve Morris.
He turned it into a jazz, blues and reggae venue and officially adopted the Band on the Wall name. The venue, in Swan Street, closed briefly in 1982 before being bought by the Jazz Centre Society and reopened.
Highlights of the Back to Our Place showcase include an unmissable double bill of soul diva Mica Paris with jazz pianist Julian Joseph.
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I am working on a piece of fiction. I
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