Audio

Nickelback announce massive Manchester gig on new world tour

They wanna be big rockstars

Daisy Jackson Daisy Jackson - 9th October 2026

Nickelback have announced a massive world tour, which will include a night at the Co-op Live in Manchester.

The Canadian rockers will be performing here, with a setlist of their biggest hits as well brand-new music.

Nickelback have announced the Everything Under The Sun Tour in support of their upcoming 11th studio album of the same name.

The tour follows their record-setting Get Rollin’ world tour, and will once again take them to venues across North America, Europe, and Australia.

Formed in Hanna, Alberta, the band made up of Chad Kroeger, Ryan Peake, Mike Kroeger and Daniel Adair, have sold nearly 65 million albums worldwide.

ADVERTISEMENT

Best known for rock anthems including Rockstar, Photograph and How You Remind Me, Nickelback have built up a huge global following over the course of their career.

The group have sold nearly 65 million albums worldwide, and achieved billions of streams across digital platforms.

ADVERTISEMENT

The upcoming tour will see the band celebrate their new album, Everything Under The Sun, and they’ll be kicking off the UK leg of the tour in Leeds before performing in London, Birmingham, Glasgow, and eventually Manchester.

They’ll be supported on the tour by Don Broco, an English four-piece featuring Rob Damiani, Simon Delaney, Tom Doyle and Matt Donnelly, known for their genre-defying sound and dynamic approach to modern rock.

Tickets will go on sale via artist presale from 10am on Tuesday 13 October, before general sale kicks off at 10am on Friday 16 October HERE.

Read more

Featured image: Publicity picture

Audio

Pussycat Dolls at Co-op Live – tickets, times and more for UK tour

Thomas Melia Thomas Melia The Pussycat Dolls have announced a major global tour with a Manchester date

American girl group Pussycat Dolls have reunited for a UK tour, stopping off at Co-op Live in Manchester with their powerhouse pop anthems.

Releasing their first LP in 2005, this pop girl group have a variety of radio hits to their name like ‘Don’t Cha’, ‘When I Grow Up’ and ‘Buttons’.

Over the years, the Pussycat Dolls lineup has gone through significant changes with this latest reunion comprised of Nicole Scherzinger, Kimberley Wyatt and Ashley Roberts.

The trio even released some brand-new material to coincide with the announcement of their UK and EU tour titled ‘Club Song’.

Now the girls are about to put their Doll Domination to the test as they bring their PCD Forever Tour in arenas across the nation.

Gig guide – Pussycat Dolls at Co-op Live, Manchester

Pussycat Dolls UK tour dates

  • Tue 29 September – Birmingham, UK – Utilita Arena
  • Wed 30 September – Nottingham, UK – Motorpoint Arena
  • Fri 2 October – Leeds, UK – First Direct Arena
  • Sat 3 October – Liverpool, UK – M&S Bank Arena
  • Wed 7 October – Glasgow, UK – OVO Hydro
  • Fri 9 October – Newcastle, UK – Utilita Arena
  • Sat 10 October – Manchester, UK – Co-op Live
  • Tue 13 October – London, UK – The O2

Are there any tickets left for Pussycat Dolls at Co-op Live in Manchester?

‘Don’t Cha’ wish you had tickets to see Pussycat Dolls when they strut their stuff at Co-op Live in Manchester?

You can grab tickets to their Saturday 10 October live show HERE.

Pussycat Dolls setlist for 2026 UK tour

  • When I Grow Up
  • Beep
  • Whatcha Think About That
  • Bottle Pop
  • I Don’t Need a Man
  • Wait a Minute
  • I Hate This Part
  • Jai Ho! (You Are My Destiny)
  • Glaciers
  • Walking on the Sun
  • Candy
  • Woman Up
  • As If We Never Said Goodbye
  • Whatever U Like
  • Right There
  • Don’t Hold Your Breath
  • Wet/ Poison
  • Buttons
  • Stickwitu
  • Hush Hush; Hush Hush
  • Club Song
  • React
  • Don’t Cha

What are the stage times for Pussycat Dolls in Manchester?

Doors for Pussycat Dolls at Co-op Live open from 6pm with a start time listed of 7pm with Lil’ Kim and rising girl group Deja Vu kicking things off.

Co-op Live has a strict curfew of 11pm, meaning you can get home and loosen your ‘Buttons’, hopefully before the clock strikes twelve.

How to get to Co-op Live

Tram

For those of you heading to Co-op Live, you’ll be glad to know it’s right next door to a rather famous big blue stadium and its integrated Metrolink stop.

Head along the light blue or orange lines directly to the Etihad Campus or Ashton-under-Lyne, and you can get off the tram literally spitting distance from the arena. You can find the full map HERE.

Trams run frequently on the Ashton-Eccles line to the Etihad stop, with services leaving every six minutes from the city centre and until 1am on Fridays and Saturdays.

Bus

You can find the full list of bus routes HERE, with the one in closest proximity to the venue being the 53 bus, which runs from Cheetham Hill through to Higher Crumpsall, Old Trafford and Pendleton, leaving just a two-minute walk to Co-op Live.

Getting there by car and parking

If you’re driving, there is limited parking available at the venue, but this must be pre-booked ahead of time, and there are designated drop-off areas.

The postcode is M11 3DU, and you can follow the signs towards the wider Etihad Campus as you get closer; directions to the adjacent drop-off points will also be signposted.

Keep in mind that congestion on the roads close to the stadium is expected to gather around two hours prior to any event, so if you are travelling on the road, these are the suggested times they provide on event day, though estimates will obviously vary:

  • Alan Turing Way (both directions): plan an additional 20 minutes into any journey by road.
  • Hyde Road (eastbound): expect an additional 15 minutes to be added to your journey.
  • Mancunian Way (westbound): plan for an extra 10 minutes of travel time.

There are also three park-and-ride facilities near Co-op Live, but be advised that the Velopark and Holt Town stops will be closed post-event to help safely manage crowds:

ADVERTISEMENT
  • Ashton Moss (Ashton line) – 183 spaces and 12 disabled spaces
  • Ashton West (Ashton line) – 184 spaces and 11 disabled spaces
  • Ladywell (Ashton-Eccles line) – 332 spaces and 22 disabled spaces

Walk/cycle

Lastly, Co-op Live is only a half-hour stroll from Manchester Piccadilly, and you could even walk along the canal all the way to the front door if you fancy taking the scenic route.

Greater Manchester now also offers the option to hire bikes on the Beryl app, with riders able to locate, unlock, get to their destination and then safely lock up the bike all through an easy-to-use app. There are hire points just near the south-west corner of the Etihad Stadium on Ashton New Road.

For more information on all travel options, you can check out the enhanced journey planner.

Read more:

For all the latest news, events and goings on in Greater Manchester, subscribe to The Manc newsletter HERE

Featured Images – Publicity picture, Rankin

Audio

Hans Zimmer at Co-op Live, Manchester – movie magic brought to life

Lonnie Bowes Lonnie Bowes World of Hans Zimmer — A New Dimension

What do Batman, Kung Fu Panda, and Captain Jack Sparrow all have in common? Music by Hans Zimmer, of course.

I must admit it’s an odd sight seeing 20,000 people seated in the Co-op Live. Manchester is no stranger to a big night out, but this is a different beast entirely. No mosh pits, no flying pints, no one on anyone’s shoulders. Just a full orchestra, a choir, and a wall of screens.

At the centre of it all is conductor Matt Dunkley, steering the Odessa Orchestra & Friends through some of the most recognisable music ever put to film. Zimmer appears on the big screens between pieces to introduce the music and the stories behind it. I was disappointed that Hans didn’t make an appearance but let me tell you this performance was no less impressive.

And in no time at all the gloves came off. Batman is, quite simply, incredible. All menace and muscle, strings sawing away like something is about to go very wrong, brass and percussion hitting so hard you feel it in your ribcage before you hear it.

Gladiator pulls things the other way. Where Batman pins you to your seat, this one lifts you out of it in a big way. Lets face it, if you are some what of a self respecting movie head, you’ll have seen Gladiator and know first hand how ‘Now we are free’ can command your mood. Well imagine that in person.

If the orchestra is the engine, the Nairobi Chamber Chorus is the heart. When their voices rise for The Lion King, it stops being a concert and becomes something closer to gospel.

Hans Zimmer at Co-op Live
Hans Zimmer at Co-op Live
Hans Zimmer at Co-op Live. Credit: The Manc Group

Because beneath the scale and the spectacle, there’s something more intentional at play. These pieces of music are part of people’s lives. We are talking first trips to the cinema, films watched with parents, soundtracks that got someone through a rough year.

And then there’s Interstellar. ‘No Time for Caution’ creates it own suspense. The organ churns, the tempo tightens like a ticking clock, you genuinely find yourself gripping the armrest as if you’re the one trying to dock a spinning spacecraft.

Time, from Inception, is the other side of that coin when it comes to what it emotes during the performance. It’s slow, it’s patient and it’s moving. It builds from almost nothing, layer on layer.

After all that, there’s only one way to send people home. Pirates of the Caribbean closes the night at full tilt. You think everything is drawing to end, Matt Dunkley has already guided you to the apex of nights performance, but no. Hans Zimmer flashes on to the screen one more time and alluded that’s we aren’t at the finish line just yet. Strings galloping, the whole orchestra going hell for leather. Heads nodding, feet stamping, grins everywhere.

Epic, emotional and beautifully played. This wasn’t just a concert it was a reminder: that a piece of music can take you somewhere else entirely, and that you don’t need a single lyric to make thousands of strangers feel the exact same thing at the exact same time.

Hats off to every musician on that stage. You absolutely smashed it.

Read more

Featured image: The Manc Group

More Audio

Popstars icons Hear'Say and Liberty X announce huge reunion arena tour

Audio

Popstars icons Hear’Say and Liberty X announce huge reunion arena tour

The Lathums announce five gigs at five intimate Manchester venues

Audio

Wigan band The Lathums announce five gigs at five intimate Manchester venues

Audio

Meet Larishka – the DJ making her mark on Manchester’s Garage scene

Audio

Clint Boon takes us around Manchester's iconic Deaf Institute

Eats

We go meatballs deep with Mira's traditional Neapolitan sandwiches