Eleven years is a long time to stay away from a building you helped define. In September, Alan Tam (譚詠麟) walks back into the Hong Kong Coliseum for ten nights — his first residency at Hung Hom since 2015, and one of the few Cantopop stories this year that genuinely needs no hype.
Here is what has actually been confirmed: the dates, the prices, the venue, and what the fuss is about.
In This Guide
The run: dates and what's confirmed
Tam teased the residency in a promotional video released on 18 May 2026, in which he walks towards the Coliseum intercut with archival footage of his old runs at the venue. No dates came with it — just a promise to meet fans in September.
The detail landed in late June. The concerts are staged as two blocks of five: 11–15 September and 18–22 September 2026, ten shows in total. The tour is billed as the grand finale of his Unforgettable (刻骨銘心) world tour, with Hong Kong as the opening stop.
Alan Tam With You "Unforgettable" World Tour Grand Finale
Ten nights at Hung Hom from a singer who has been filling the room since the 1980s, framed as the last chapter of a long-running world tour.
Why does an Alan Tam Coliseum run matter?
Because in Hong Kong, the Coliseum is the scoreboard. Careers are measured in how many nights you can hold Hung Hom — and Tam is one of the handful of names for whom double figures was never in doubt.
He is known universally as 校長 — "the Principal" — and he spent the 1980s more or less owning Cantopop, to the point where he famously stopped accepting competitive music awards in 1988 to let younger artists through. That era is the explicit pitch here: the run is sold as a return to the golden age of the eighties, and a reunion between a singer and an audience that grew up alongside him.
The gap is what makes it news. His last Hong Kong residency was the Alan Tam 40th Anniversary Live series in 2015. Eleven years on, he is 76 this year, and the word "finale" is doing real work in the tour's title.
Tickets: prices and how the sale worked
Prices are refreshingly legible: HK$1,280, HK$880 and HK$580 — three tiers, no dynamic pricing theatre.
The sale ran in two stages. A priority window opened on 22 June 2026 for holders of CCB (Asia) Visa Infinite and UnionPay Diamond Prestige cards. Public sale opened on 30 June 2026 at 10am through URBTIX — online, via the URBTIX app, or by phone. Physical ticket outlets and self-service kiosks were not available on day one of the public sale.
The venue: Hong Kong Coliseum
The Hong Kong Coliseum (香港體育館) — 紅館 to everyone who actually lives here — is the upturned-pyramid building that has been the city's default big room since it opened on 27 April 1983. It is run by the Leisure and Cultural Services Department.
The arena seats 12,500 around a column-free floor of roughly 1,600 square metres, with the stage typically in the round. That geometry is the whole point: nobody is truly far away, and the room rewards performers who can work all four sides. Tam has had four decades of practice.
It is not a subtle building, and it is not trying to be. If you want an evening of architectural refinement, our guide to the best live music venues in Hong Kong covers the smaller rooms.
Getting there
The Coliseum is at 9 Cheong Wan Road, Hung Hom, Kowloon, and transport is the easiest part of the night. The LCSD describes the venue as adjacent to MTR Hung Hom station, reached on foot from the station via signposted walkways — the LCSD does not publish a specific exit number, so follow the Coliseum signage from the concourse rather than counting exits.
One piece of local advice, freely given: 10,000-plus people leave that building at the same time. The station crush afterwards is a Hong Kong rite of passage. Either move immediately during the encore, or accept your fate and go for a drink instead.
At a glance
| Detail | What to know |
|---|---|
| What | Alan Tam With You "Unforgettable" World Tour Grand Finale |
| When | 11–15 September and 18–22 September 2026 — 10 shows |
| Where | Hong Kong Coliseum, 9 Cheong Wan Road, Hung Hom |
| Tickets | HK$1,280 / HK$880 / HK$580, via URBTIX |
| Getting there | MTR Hung Hom — the venue adjoins the station; follow signage |
| Capacity | 12,500 |
| Best for | Anyone who owned a cassette in 1985, and their children |
Making a night of it
Hung Hom is not a nightlife district, so the standard move is one stop on the MTR into Tsim Sha Tsui — our guide to the best bars in TST and Kowloon is built for exactly this problem.
Eating first is the smarter plan, given the exodus afterwards. A proper Cantonese dinner before an eighties Cantopop show is thematically unimpeachable.
And if this run leaves you wanting more of the same building: our concerts guide for 2026 tracks who else is playing Hong Kong this year, from Hung Hom to Kai Tak.
Alan Tam at the Coliseum: your questions answered
The verdict
Ten nights at Hung Hom is not a comeback — Tam never really left, he just stopped playing this particular room. What it is, is a full stop with a date attached, and the word "finale" printed on the poster.
September. Hung Hom. Bring your parents.
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