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Co-op Live is running a limited two-for-one offer on gig tickets
Daisy Jackson
Co-op Live has announced a limited run of two-for-one gig tickets ahead of one of this month’s biggest shows at the huge venue.
The massive arena has launched a range of buy-one-get-one-free tickets ahead of the upcoming Sugababes gig.
Full price Sugababes tickets are currently coming in at £70.50, but with these special tickets you can nab one for just £36.95.
Co-op Live has said it wants to ‘give fans a very special offer’ with the huge pop concert just around the corner.
Sugababes are one of the UK’s best-loved girl bands, now back with their original line-up and going from strength to strength.
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Last year it was a major appearance at Parklife’s main stage, now they’re on to the biggest of Manchester venues with a gig at Co-op Live on Friday 11 April.
Mutya Buena, Keisha Buchanan, and Siobhán Donaghy will be performing hits from their impressive 27 year career.
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That’ll include hits like Round Round, Too Lost In You, About You Now, Freak Like Me and Overload.
In a message shared to fans, Co-op Live said: “With the Sugababes tour just around the corner, we’re giving fans a very special offer.
“Grab your friends and grab our 2-4-1 ticket discount to see Sugababes live in Manchester this April!
“There are a limited number of offer tickets available, so do not miss your chance and make sure you grab yours before they are gone!”
The two-for-one Sugababes tickets for their Co-op Live gig are available HERE until the day of the gig, or until they sell out.
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Beloved plant-based independent street food business Herbivorous is set to close imminently
Danny Jones
We hate writing this, but we have news of yet another local hospitality closure as beloved Manchester-born and pioneering plant-based brand Herbivorous has confirmed they’ll soon be calling it a day.
If you can hear us sighing through the screen, apologies – we’re just getting really fed up of saying farewell to our favourites, so god knows how rubbish those involved feel.
This comes in the same week that fellow animal-free food vendors and Manc icons Desert Island Dumplings announced they will also be saying goodbye in a matter of months.
Unfortunately, in the case of Herbivorous, we’ve got mere weeks before their sites across the North shut for good. Just gutting.
As you can see, the team behind the multi-location vegan street food specialists began by writing: “It’s a long one so stay with me… It seems you can’t open social media at the moment without reading about another hospitality business closing down.
“Throughout 8 years of Herbivorous years we’ve come up against many challenges from Covid 5 years ago to watching all the big vegan brands from London and beyond come to Manchester and largely disappear again to the closure of Hatch our busiest site, but with continually increasing costs its becoming really difficult to maintain a thriving business.”
Herbivorous started out life back in 2016 as a cult hit at the old outdoor food, drink and entertainment hub centring around a ‘container village’, the first of its kind in the city and soon to reopen under new owners and a new name.
Since then, co-founders Robyn and Damian have gone on to expand not just to one permanent site over in Withington but with outposts in Sheffield and York, having gained a strong reputation with stalls and pop-ups all over.
Their hospitality story might not have the ending we personally would hope for, but it’s been a brilliant one for so many foodie fans – us lot included.
Nevertheless, they go on to add in the emotional statement that external pressures such as a recent bereavement and their own ever-growing family have also contributed to the decision which, despite being an understandably hard one, “feel like the right time.”
“We are so incredibly proud of how far we’ve come from spending long days slinging duck wraps from our green vintage horse box at festivals to three Herbi locations across the North of England”, they continue, “and with that we’ve also met so many fantastic people!”
“Whether you worked for us at a few festivals over [the] summer or for years at our restaurant, we just wanted to say and massive thank you! The memories will stay with us forever and, of course, how can we not mention our fabulous customers!
“Thank you all so much for choosing Herbivorous over the years. Those of you who had our food at Festivals and then found us at one of our permanent locations, those of you who came back week after week to Hatch, Spark, Withington and beyond.”
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They signed off by detailing their final business days, with their Sheffield Kommune spot having already shut for refurbishment; meanwhile, their spot in SPARK York will be wrapping up on Saturday, 19 April.
As for their flagship brick-and-mortar venue here in Greater Manchester, Herbivorous Withington will be shutting on Friday, 25 April.
Once again, there’s nothing we can say other than thank you for years of delicious food, that we’re guttted to see you go, and that everyone at The Manc Group wishes you the best whatever comes next.
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