Yorkshire high-flyers and Mercury Prize-winners, English Teacher, are embarking on a UK tour with a date set for Manchester at the end of the year.
It has been quite a whirlwind experience for this four-piece from Leeds recently and now they’re taking their hits on the road to play across the UK.
In September last year, they bagged the 2024 Mercury Music Prize for their landmark first album This Could Be Texas, beating the likes of Charli XCX’s Brat and Early Twenties by Cat Burns, as well as a big nod at the inaugural Northern Music Awards.
They kicked off 2025 with a bang too getting a spot on BBC Radio 1’s Sounds of 2025 list, ranking at number five and performing a rousing rendition of their track ‘Nearly Daffodils’.
The indie rockers have also managed to use their Northern charm enough to bag a support act slot for Franz Ferdinand, joining them for a one-off gig in Glasgow this August.
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And finally, the band are nominated for ‘Best Newcomers’ at this year’s BRIT Awards, they’re quite literally making history.
It’s fair to say English Teacher have already left an impression on music critics but now they’re continuing to put themselves out there to the UK public who are already becoming firm fans.
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This won’t be their first time educating a Manchester audience either, as the band brought their unique energy backed up by some Lancashire roots to Gorilla back in May last year.
English Teacher’s 2025 UK tour sees them travelling all around the country with stops at Nottingham, London, Newcastle and obviously Manchester.
Set to play songs from last year’s debut ubiquitous LP, expect to hear favourites such as’R&B’, title track ‘This Could Be Texas’ and, of course, hit single ‘The World’s Biggest Paving Slab’
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If the Manchester date isn’t the one, you still have another chance to catch them as they’re playing just over the hill in their hometown of Leeds two days after.
You just know that’s going to be a belter of a show.
English Teacher are coming to Albert Hall in Manchester on 20 November with pre-sale tickets live on 26 February and general on sale from 10 am on 28 February HERE.
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Legendary pop duo Erasure announces huge Manchester arena gig on 2027 UK tour
Emily Sergeant
Legendary pop duo Erasure have announced a UK arena tour next spring, and they’re set to stop off in Manchester.
Andy Bell and Vince Clarke – better known by their duo name, Erasure – have announced details of their long-awaited upcoming 20th studio album today, titled Radio!! Radio!!, alongside details of an arena tour in spring 2027 across the UK and Europe.
Described as a ‘deeply personal’ project, the BRIT and Ivor Novello award-winning duo’s first new studio album in six years sees Bell and Clarke continue to refine and deepen the pop catalogue they’ve been building over the past 40 years.
The album will be comprised of a set of songs about love, loss, and injustice that they hope speaks to our ’empathy-starved times’.
Erasure will take to the road in 2027 for an arena tour that kicks off at Cardiff’s Utilita Arena on 25 April before travelling throughout the UK, including a stop in Manchester at the AO Arena on 1 May, before finishing off in London and heading over to Europe, with more dates to follow.
Vince Clarke will be Musical Director for the tour, but will not be appearing onstage alongside Andy Bell, it has been revealed.
Bell says: “I’m so pleased that we were able to find a way for the tour to work for Vince. He’s always too modest but he’s so much more than the Musical Director, Vince is one of the great loves of my life and everything we do as Erasure we decide together.”
Erasure will be performing at the AO Arena in Manchester on 1 May 2027, and tickets go on presale this Thursday 1 October at 10am, before general sale begins a day later (2 October) also at 10am.
Strictly Come Dancing Live to return to Manchester as part of 2027 UK tour
Emily Sergeant
Strictly Come Dancing Live is set to return in 2027 for a spectacular new UK arena tour.
Hot on the heels of last weekend’s dazzling launch show for the 2026 BBC series, audiences are invited to get their dancing shoes on and their ’10’ paddles at the ready, as a new lineup of celebrities and professionals will be taking to the dancefloor for 29 shows across the country – including three shows in Manchester.
Head judge Shirley Ballas will be hitting the road, alongside fellow judges Anton Du Beke and Craig Revel Horwood, with Janette Manrara also presenting.
Directed by Craig Revel Horwood himself, Strictly Come Dancing Live takes the magic of the BBC TV show and turns it up to another level.
Expect jaw-dropping group dances, breathtaking routines, stunning costumes, and live music from the legendary Strictly band and singers, all brought together in a first-class arena production.
As always with the Strictly Live Tour, there is one very important decision to be made at every show – which couple will lift the Glitterball Trophy?
And that decision is not in the hands of the judges. The judges are there to critique and provide their invaluable opinions on each dance routine, but they do not hold the power, as this lies with the audience instead, who can vote using their mobile phones to decide who is the winner.
Strictly Come Dancing Live is returning to Manchester as part of its 2027 UK tour / Credit: Supplied
The tour kicks off at Birmingham’s Utilita Arena on 22 January for the first of five shows, and will then cha-cha-cha its way across the UK, visiting other major northern cities like Sheffield, Newcastle, Liverpool, and Leeds, before arriving in Manchester at the start of February.
Strictly Come Dancing Live will take to the AO Arena stage on Saturday 6 and Sunday 7 February 2027, with two shows happening on the Saturday.
Tickets officially go on sale this week, with venue pre-sales beginning at 10am on Thursday 24 September, before general sale starts on Friday (25 September), also at 10am.
Thomas Melia -
26th February 2025 
