Charli XCX is touching down in Manchester this week for the first night of her long-awaited BRAT tour.
The massive tour follows a huge summer for the British artist, where tracks from her sixth studio album – including Apple, Guess, and 360 – dominated festival circuits and dancefloors across the globe.
The 32-year-old star then took things a step further with her remix album, Brat and It’s Completely Different but Also Still Brat.
Her latest album was shortlisted for the Mercury Music Prize, and it’s up for seven Grammy Awards early next year.
Charli XCX has even performed a huge surprise free gig at Times Square in New York City, no less, just last week.
This massive new tour will bring her back to the UK for just a handful of arena shows, including a gig at the Co-op Live in Manchester.
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Here’s everything you need to know.
Charli XCX 2024 UK tour dates
Wed 27 November – Manchester, UK – Co-op Live Arena
Thu 28 November – London, UK – The O2
Fri 29 November – Birmingham, UK – Resorts World Arena
Mon 02 December – Glasgow, UK – OVO Hydro Arena
Charli XCX has announced details of a huge UK tour. Credit: Hayley Weir
Charli XCX tickets for Manchester Co-op Live gig
No, you’re too late.
After such a hugely popular summer, Charli XCX has driven HUGE demand and her massive arena shows are totally sold out.
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Your only chance of getting tickets now is to check fan-to-fan resale sites like Twickets.
Who’s supporting Charli XCX?
Charli XCX is being supported by singer and DJ Shygirl on all her UK dates.
The British singer, rapper, songwriter and DJ, who also founded record label Nuxxe, is famed for her blend of dance, hip-hop, experimental pop, grime and deconstructed club music.
Her big hits include Cleo, encore, Mr useless, Nasty and BB.
What are the stage times for Charli XCX in Manchester?
These haven’t been announced yet by Co-op Live but we do know that doors to the venue will open at 6.30pm.
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The venue has said that there’ll be an 8pm start, which will presumably be when Shygirl takes to the stage.
Then Charli XCX herself should be on somewhere between 9pm and 9.30pm before a gig curfew of 11pm.
Once the venue shares official stage times we’ll be sure to update this article.
Expected setlist
Well, this is an unusual one – as Manchester gets the BRAT tour before anyone else, we actually have no clue what the setlist will look like.
There are sure to be plenty of club bangers and dance floor fillers from Charli XCX’s latest album as well as her earlier work.
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She recently held a joint tour with Troye Sivan in the states, so we’ve picked out her parts of the setlist there below to give you a rough idea.
365 360 Von dutch Club classics Unlock It Sympathy is a knife Guess Spring breakers Girl, so confusing Everything is romantic Speed Drive Apple Vroom Vroom 1999 Track 10 I Love It Talk talk
Sankeys shares sneak peek at new venue as legendary Manchester nightclub gears up for return
Daisy Jackson
Sankeys has given Mancs a glimpse inside its new venue as the legendary nightclub gears up for its return.
The club was one of Manchester’s top nightlife spots for years, before shutting down seemingly for good almost a decade ago.
Set within Beehive Mill in Ancoats, Sankeys was a true icon of Manchester’s global nightlife scene.
And while the old Sankeys Soap nightlife space is now full of co-working spaces, the spirit of Sankeys is about to be reborn.
The exact location of the new club is still being kept under wraps ahead of its reopening at the end of January, but new renderings have been released to give us a glimpse of how it will look.
Sankeys is promising ‘A reimagined space. New energy. Same legendary nights’.
The new Sankeys Manchester will be a 500-capacity venue, designed to ‘capture the raw underground energy that made Sankeys one of the most iconic club brands in the world’.
It will feature an LED matrix grid installation that will immerse clubbers in ‘light, sound and atmosphere’.
Sankeys Manchester officially opens on 30 January – you can see a glimpse of how it will look below and grab tickets HERE.
The most annoying songs of 2025 according to ‘science’ have been revealed
Emily Sergeant
A list of the most annoying songs of 2025 according to ‘science’ has been published.
Music fans have already been sifting through their Spotify Wrapped, which came out earlier this month, with searches for it surging an astonishing 5,000% in recent weeks, proving that 2025 has been a memorable year for music.
We’ve had record-breaking releases, viral TikTok hits, and artists pushing creative boundaries across genres.
Despite the hits though, some tracks have sparked debates over how irritating they are – from repetitiveness to ‘harmonic dullness’.
Interested to discover the most annoying song releases of 2025, the experts at SeatPick analysed the most popular songs of 2025 according to official top charts, then measured their repetition, shrillness, harmonic dullness, and filler lyrics to calculate the percentage chance that listeners would find the song to be so-called ‘annoying’.
The most annoying songs of 2025 have been revealed according to ‘science’ / Credit: Jonas Leupe | Ketut Subiyanto (via Unsplash and Pexels)
Unfortunately for one artist – one very popular artist, it has to be said – they have claimed both the top and second spot, and that artist is pop royalty Sabrina Carpenter.
SeatPick’s findings revealed that Sabrina Carpenter’s ‘Sugar Talking’ and ‘Tears’, which were both featured on her latest album Man’s Best Friend, are the most annoying songs released in 2025, as the data metrics indicated that nearly half of listeners (46%) are likely to find these songs irritating due to they’re repetitiveness.
Lady Gaga’s ‘The Dead Dance’ ranks as the third most annoying track of the year, scoring high on the ‘annoyingness index,’ with repetition, brightness, and lyrical filler contributing to an overall 45.8% likelihood that listeners would find it irritating.
Rounding off the top four most irritating songs of 2025 is ‘Who’ by BTS member, Jimin, with there being a 45.5% chance that listeners would find his song irritating due to its repetitive hooks and bright, high pitched tones.
When it comes to the list of most irritating TikTok trending songs of 2025, that title went to ‘Dame Un Grrr’ by Fantomel and Kate Linn, with a 45.7% likelihood of being found irritating by listeners, closely followed by ‘She Twerkin’ by Ca$h Out in second, with a 44.1% likelihood of being found annoying by listeners.
One song we’re sure many of you won’t be surprised to find on the most irritating list is ‘Hold My Hand’ by Jess Glynne, which, of course, initially gained popularity through its use in a Jet2Holiday advertisement, and then later became widely featured in more than 3.4 million TikTok videos.
So, what do you make of these results then? Do you agree? What do you think the most annoying song that came out in 2025 is?
Daisy Jackson -
26th November 2024 
