Coldplay appear to have just announced a huge concert in Manchester through a hidden message in their latest music video.
The British rock band released the video for Humankind last night, which features footage from their stadium show in Mexico City.
At the very beginning of the video, a drone whizzes around the quiet city streets – but all is not quite as it seems.
Did that taxi passing by have ‘Amsterdam’ written on it? Why is there a poster in the train station advertising Cardiff? And who has scrawled Barcelona in the graffiti under the bridge?
The blink-and-you’ll-miss-it easter eggs and clues in Humankind also mention cities including Coimbra, Milan, Naples, Zurich, Gothenburg and Copenhagen.
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If Coldplay’s fans are to be believed, this is the group announcing new 2023 tour dates across Europe – and Manchester looks to be on the cards.
A teaser for Zurich in the new Coldplay video.
I have neither the time nor the patience to decode the scrambled symbols scrolling around on screen, but one clever sod on Twitter has done the work for us.
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They found that it contained a potted history of Coldplay’s 26-year career, as well as venues around Europe.
COLDPLAY SEARCH
AMSTERDAM
ETIHAD STADIUM
AND RECEIVED A BRIT AWARD FOR BRITISH ALBUM OF THE YEAR A GRAMMY AWARD FOR BEST ALTERNATIVE MUSIC ALBUM AS WELL AS A MERCURY PRIZE NOMINATED pic.twitter.com/g5xIbWrbGI
If their decoding work is to be believed, Coldplay are going to perform at the Etihad Stadium in Manchester.
It’s great news for Mancs, as the band skipped our city on their current tour, which has included six sold-out shows at Wembley Stadium as well as dates in Glasgow.
Coldplay are famously big fans of a cryptic message, even inventing their own language to tease details of their most recent album, Music of the Spheres.
And now it looks like they’re dropping a trail of breadcrumbs for their next tour too.
Watch this space…
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Nelly announces massive Manchester gig on Where The Party At Tour
Daisy Jackson
Hip-hop star Nelly is heading to Manchester on his upcoming Where The Party At Tour, celebrating the 25th anniversary of his debut album Country Grammar.
The Hot In Herre singer and rapper has announced a run of shows across the UK and Europe for next year.
Those include a massive gig at the AO Arena in Manchester, where Nelly will perform hits from across his career.
He’s lined up some huge support acts to join him on the UK leg of the Where The Party At Tour too, including Eve, Fabolous, Jermaine Dupri and St. Lunatics.
Expect to hear chart-topping hits like Hot In Herre, Dilemma, and Ride Wit Me, in a show that he promises will be ‘packed with surprises’.
Nelly is a multi-platinum, three-times Grammy Award-winning entertainer and entrepreneur, who very recently landed a gig as a special guest for Janet Jackson’s Together Again Tour.
His newly-announced 54-date tour will take him across New Zealand, Australia, Canada, Europe, and the United States, kicking off on 21 March 2025.
Nelly said: “Yo, ‘Where Da Party At Tour’ we are taking this tour worldwide – I got my folks with me Ja Rule, Jermaine Dupri, Eve, the St. Lunatics, and Fabulous — so you know it’s all 2025… LETS GOOOOO..!!! Da Party AT…!!”
Nelly will be at the AO Arena in Manchester on Saturday 7 June 2025.
General sale tickets are available from 10am on Friday 13 December, with various presales live from Tuesday 10 December.
Lidl are offering a reward for their Liam Gallagher plaque to be safely returned
Danny Jones
Supermarket chain Lidl are desperate and in dire need of our help: they’re offering a reward to whoever safely returns one of their most treasured possessions – a Liam Gallagher plaque.
If you don’t remember the rather silly story from earlier this year, Oasis’ soon-to-return lead singer did plenty of poking fun at the Co-op Live‘s opening date being pushed back and multiple cancellations.
The iconic frontman ultimately ended up playing his four nights at the state-of-the-art arena with no issues, but as a tongue-in-cheek testament to his joke that’d he play a “gig in Lidl” if the venue wasn’t ready in time, the German-founded group erected a plaque in memory of the gag.
However, Lidl’s beloved Liam Gallagher plaque has since gone missing but rather than launch a full-scale manhunt, they’re trying to keep up the festive spirit and instead offering a pretty significant reward to the person that brings it back to them.
Don’t look plaque in anger – we need your help! 🚨
Our Liam Gallagher plaque in Manchester, honouring the gig that almost happened, has gone missing! 📷 Can you help us bring it home in time for Christmas?🎄We've got a £500 Lidl voucher ready and waiting in exchange for its safe… pic.twitter.com/VYr5RygttT
Although leads on the missing bit of royal blue metal are scarce, the plaque that was hung outside their Newton Heath store back in June disappeared this month.
Not only was it an amusing bit of history for the brand but the sign itself actually became a bit of an ironic but nevertheless genuine tourist attraction, with people grabbing snaps next to it and it even featured on the Manchester Taxi Tour itineraries.
This little plaque was actually just the start of a weird love affair between the two; back in October, Lidl also dropped an absolutely perfectly placed advert right in front of a giant poster of Liam Gallagher’s Berghaus ad campaign in the centre of Manchester.
Very good indeed.
All that being said, they really would love to be reunited with the memento of their relationship, so much so that they’re offering a whopping £500 to spend in Lidl vouchers for its safe return.
Credit: James Speakman/PA Media Assignments (supplied via Lidl GB)
Just think of all the nonsense you could buy in the ‘Middle of Lidl’ aisle, a.k.a. the best part of the whole shop.
Those who have any information on the whereabouts of the Liam Gallagher plaque should email the following address: [email protected]. The Burnage brothers aren’t holding grudges anymore and neither are Lidl.
Let’s bring Liam home for Christmas. As you were x
Daisy Jackson -
18th August 2022 
