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Bullet For My Valentine and Trivium announce joint Manchester gig at Co-op Live

'Get excited people'

Daisy Jackson Daisy Jackson - 22nd February 2024

Bullet For My Valentine and Trivium have just announced a huge joint arena tour, including a date in Manchester.

Both bands will be performing at the Co-op Live arena as part of The Poisoned Ascendancy UK Tour in 2025.

They’ll be playing their respective albums in full to celebrate their 20th anniversary.

Bullet For My Valentine frontman Matt Tuck said: “I honestly can’t believe it’s been 20 years since the release of The Poison, and what an incredible 20 years it’s been.

“I feel so proud of what we’ve achieved as a band in the last two decades and it all started with that debut album.

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“The Poison is such an important part of our lives musically and personally and we know the massive impact it had on the metal world on a global level.

“This tour will be made even more special as our brothers in Trivium are also joining us on the road to celebrate and play in its entirety their stunning album Ascendancy.”

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Trivium frontman Matt Heafy said: “Bullet For My Valentine’s The Poison and Trivium’s Ascendancy are two records whose influence can be heard to this day – in the DNA of modern metal.

“It’s incredible to think of the impact the albums had when they came out in 2005. They were both like bolts of lightning.

“Both bands grew up independently of each other in different countries and separately from any movement or scene but both shared a common love of melodic heavy metal at the core; and both had similar meteoric rises right out of the gate.

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“Trivium and BFMV were in such whirlwinds when our respective albums came out that we each never truly got to play together or sit back and celebrate during the maelstrom of constant touring, recording and globetrotting.

“But that’s what this anniversary tour is. It’s a celebration by the bands to the fans of an important era, and most importantly it’s an invitation to fans come and have an epic night with us and sing and rage and celebrate the awesome power of the music.”

“This is going to be the metal tour of 2025,” concludes Tuck. “Bullet For My Valentine and Trivium The Poisoned Ascendancy World Tour 2025. Celebrating the 20th anniversary of both albums and playing them in their entirety.

“Get excited people, it’s going to be special and we can’t wait to celebrate with you all.”

Bulley For My Valentine and Trivium – the Poisoned Ascendency Tour, will be at the Co-op Live on 30 January 2025.

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The tour will also visit Cardiff, Glasgow, Birmingham, and London.

Tickets go on sale Friday 1 March at 10am here.

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Thousands of gig tickets slashed to £25 in huge Live Nation Concert Week sale

Daisy Jackson Daisy Jackson

Thousands of gig tickets are on sale for only £25 this week, including some of summer’s biggest concerts.

The massive nationwide sale is part of Live Nation’s Concert Week, which has been taking place in the USA and Canada for a decade.

This is the first time Live Nation has taken the gig ticket sale global, lining up cheaper tickets for some of the UK’s most hotly-anticipated gigs.

A limited number of tickets (though there are reportedly 40,000 included in the sale) will be sold for just £25, with sales kicking off at midday each day between 6 and 12 May.

Among the names included are Doja Cat, Charli XCX, Glass Animals, Hozier, and McFly.

Iconic acts like Shania Twain at Lytham Festival, Eagles at Co-op Live, and Annie Mac at The Piece Hall in Halifax are all part of the sale.

Big local names include Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, New Order, and The Charlatans & Johnny Marr are also listed across the week.

Several of the artists involved in the Live Nation Concert Week sale have booked the country’s biggest arenas, including the Co-op Live and AO Arena here in Manchester – and we all know how expensive those arena tickets can be.

Many of the shows are also upcoming open-air summer concerts at some of the north west’s most beautiful venues.

Live Nation said of its concert sale: “Get ready! From 12pm you can get a limited number of tickets from £25 for some of the biggest shows this year, including @dojacat, @charli_xcx, Limp Bizkit and many more.”

Find out more here.

Artists included in the Live Nation Concert Week sale

  • Air
  • Avril Lavigne
  • Becky Hill
  • Bruce Dickinson
  • Bryan Adams
  • Busted
  • Cian Ducrot
  • Damian Marley
  • Deacon Blue
  • Dizzee Rascal
  • DJ Spoony
  • Doja Cat
  • Eric Prydz
  • F&S
  • Fat Freddy’s Drop
  • Future Islands
  • Giggs
  • Glass Animals
  • Grace Jones
  • Gregory Porter
  • Highways
  • Hozier
  • IDLES
  • Jack Savoretti
  • James
  • James Arthur
  • Jess Glynne
  • JLS
  • Jungle
  • Kaiser Chiefs
  • Katherine Jenkins
  • Leftfield & Orbital
  • Limp Bizkit
  • Loyle Carner
  • Madness
  • Major League DJz
  • Mana
  • Marcus King
  • McFly
  • Melanie Martinez
  • New Order
  • Nile Rodgers & CHIC
  • Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds
  • Ocean Colour Scene
  • Offset
  • Olly Murs
  • Paloma Faith
  • Paul Heaton
  • Pete Tong presents Ibiza Classics
  • Placebo
  • Popcaan
  • Raver Tots
  • Reggae Fest
  • Richard Ashcroft
  • Rick Astley
  • Roni Size
  • Rudimental
  • Scooter
  • Shania Twain
  • Simple Minds
  • Sister Sledge
  • The Black Crowes
  • The Cadillac Three
  • The Compozers
  • The Corrs
  • The House & Garage Orchestra
  • The National
  • The Roots, De La Soul, The Pharcyde
  • The Streets
  • Tiesto
  • Tom Jones
  • Trippie Redd
  • Underworld
  • Van Morrison
  • Wallows
  • Yussef Dayes
  • ZZ Top

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UK’s first music therapy project for dementia patients to roll out across Greater Manchester

Emily Sergeant Emily Sergeant

A UK-first £1 million music therapy project is being rolled out to provide a “lifeline” for people with dementia in our region.

Thanks to generous funding from a number of regional and national sources, Greater Manchester is to become the first ‘Centre of Excellence for Music and Dementia’ in the UK, and it’ll be hosted by Manchester Camerata with support from the University of Manchester (UoM) and the Alzheimer’s Society.

More than £1 million of funding has been committed by Mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham, Sir Richard Lees, who is now the Chair of the NHS Greater Manchester, and the National Academy for Social Prescribing’s ‘Power of Music Fund’.

Due to be rolled-out from October 2024, the funding will support three years of direct musical support activities across all of the region’s 10 boroughs.

For the three-year project, Manchester Camerata will work in partnership with the Alzheimer’s Society and UoM to offer “research-backed” music cafes, for both its ‘Music in Mind’ programme and the Alzheimer’s Society’s ‘Singing for the Brain’ scheme.

It’s hoped this will “help take pressure off frontline health and care staff” in the NHS.

Manchester Camerata’s internationally-renowned ‘Music in Mind’ programme – created in collaboration with UoM – uses the principles of music therapy to improve the wellbeing of people living with dementia, and was devised from the foundations of some of the world’s leading dementia experts and their research. 

The Alzheimer’s Society’s ‘Singing for the Brain’ programme is based on key music therapy principles, and has already been massively successful in bringing people living with dementia together to sing a variety of songs they know and love in a fun and friendly environment – with sessions also including vocal exercises that help improve brain activity and wellbeing.

The UK’s first music therapy project for dementia patients is being rolled out across Greater Manchester / Credit: Manchester Camerata

The sessions also create an opportunity for people living with dementia and their carers to socialise with others, and experience peer support too.

Manchester Camerata and the Alzheimer’s Society will recruit a workforce of 300 volunteers over the next three years and train them to deliver the ‘Music Cafes’, which will help support thousands of people living with dementia in Greater Manchester.

In addition to the Centre of Excellence in Greater Manchester, the National Academy for Social Prescribing’s ‘Power of Music Fund’ is also awarding small grants to 70 grassroots music and dementia projects across the UK, and this will support more than 5,500 people in total.

Mayor Andy Burnham called said the project is “fantastic news for Greater Manchester”, and called it a “reminder of the power of music to shape our lives and our communities”.

He continued: “Manchester Camerata have played a key role in our Music Commission, and I’ve seen first-hand the transformational impact of what they do in our city region, so they are the ideal partner to pioneer the UK’s first Centre of Excellence for Music and Dementia and work with the Alzheimer’s Society to unlock the potential of music as therapy.

“This project will provide life-changing support to people with dementia and their carers in our 10 boroughs.

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“It will also generate groundbreaking research that will influence health and care policy across the country while directly improving lives across Greater Manchester”.

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