The complex is home to a Holiday Inn and Holiday Inn Express hotel, conference facilities and multi-purpose arena which hosted concerts and local sporting events, including the Aberdeen Cup tennis event.

Noel Gallagher returned to the venue on 14 February 2012[7] as part of his High Flying Birds Tour.

Iron Maiden, Neil Young and AC/DC are some the biggest acts in its history when AC/DC played in 1996, Young in 2009 and Iron Maiden in 2011, 2017 and 2018 On the start of the national 8-city UK tour in 1998, the first UK performance of Barney's Big Surprise featuring Barney, Baby Bop, and BJ was held here.

On 15 June 2014, American country star Dolly Parton performed a sold-out concert at the venue.

[9] Within the last decade it has hosted major international acts including the likes of Westlife, Steps, Kylie Minogue, blink-182, Rihanna, The Prodigy, Fall Out Boy, My Chemical Romance, Foo Fighters, Jay-Z, 50 Cent, The Killers, Hey Ocean, Katy Perry and Paramore, as well as comedians such as Frankie Boyle, Ricky Tomlinson, Peter Kay, Michael McIntyre and Russell Howard.