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Manic Street Preachers and Suede at Sounds of the City 2024 – tickets, stage times, setlist and more
Two legends of the game on one bill.
Danny Jones -
11th July 2024 
With the penultimate performance on the horizon and this year’s Sounds of the City festival drawing to a close, a pair of legendary British bands are set to see us out in style, as Manic Street Preachers and Suede prepare to play Castlefield Bowl this weekend.
Two of the most revered veterans of the UK’s alternative rock with careers spanning the best part of four decades, the Manics and Suede are up there with the biggest names to have ever played Manchester much loved outdoor arena, and this crowd will be full of people who’ve been there since day one.
With the former flying the flag for the Welsh and the latter keeping the glam side of the genre alive,
So, for any of you going along to see the Manic Street Preachers and Suede double bill at Sounds of the City 2024, here’s everything you need to know about the gig on Friday, 12 July.
Tickets for Suede and Manic Street Preachers in Manchester
Now, the question is are there tickets left for Manic Street Preachers and Suede? And the very simple answer is technically yes, but only a few and they are via resale.
Unfortunately, when you get two big acts with a reputation and long-lasting following as loyal as these guys command, tickets tend to sell out very quickly – that’s just the way the cookie crumbles.
If you do want to spring for the resales available on Ticketmaster, they’ll cost you £77.85 each before fees and, as always, you can also keep an eye out for spares through other trusted resellers like Twickets and TicketSwap.
Sounds of the City stage times
It looks as though Suede will play first as the two co-headliners have been taking turns when it comes to opening up for each other on this tour.
As for when you’ll see everyone taking the stage, you can expect them to take the stage around 7:25pm before Manic Street Preachers follow them at 9:15pm.
Gates to the venue itself, as they have throughout SOTC 2024, will be open from 5:30pm onwards and we all know the early birds get first crack at those seats below the canopy.
What tracks are they likely to play?
Speaking of previous performances, the last date also gives us a good idea of what we can expect from both bands on Friday night.
Trusty old Setlist.fm, aye?
Suede’s predicted Sounds of the City setlist
- Turn Off Your Brain and Yell
- Trash
- Animal Nitrate
- The Drowners
- It Starts and Ends With You
- Pantomime Horse
- To the Birds
- Filmstar
- Antidepressants
- Sometimes I Feel I’ll Float Away
- She Still Leads Me On
- Shadow Self
- Personality Disorder
- The 2 of Us
- The Wild Ones (acoustic)
- So Young
- Metal Mickey
- Beautiful Ones
Manic Street Preachers predicted setlist for Castlefield Bowl
- You Love Us
- Everything Must Go
- Motorcycle Emptiness
- Suicide Is Painless (Theme From MASH – Johnny Mandel cover)
- You Stole the Sun From My Heart
- To Repel Ghosts
- Little Baby Nothing (with The Anchoress)
- Your Love Alone Is Not Enough (with The Anchoress)
- Elvis Impersonator: Blackpool (Richey Edwards dedication)
- A Design for Life
- La tristesse durera (Scream to a Sigh)
- Walk Me to the Bridge
- Tsunami
- Orwellian
- From Despair to Where
- No Surface All Feeling
- Today (The Smashing Pumpkins cover – would this be a treat!)
- If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next
Again, we’re not soothsayers, so please take all of this with a pinch of salt and just trust we did our best to give you a rough average at the very least.
How to get to Castlefield Bowl
Castlefield Bowl (M3 4JR) is on Rice Street just down Liverpool Road which cuts off the main Deansgate strip in the city centre and you can enter Manchester’s much-loved outdoor amphitheatre via Duke or Castle Street.
It’s just a short walk from Deansgate train station or the Deansgate-Castlefield tram stop, where you’ll find regular trams running all over Greater Manchester.
If you’re driving there, Great Northern Warehouse’s (M3 4EE) car park, as well as two other NCPs near Bridgewater Hall and on Quay Street in Spinningfields.
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That should be just about all you need to know but do keep an eye out on socials for updates on the event night and we’ll do our best to keep you in the loop on our end too.
Last but not least, please feel free to read our reviews of Avril Lavigne’s opening night at Sounds of the City as well as Loyle Carner’s Castlefield Bowl chiller earlier this week.
The venue is as great as ever and we’ve been thoroughly enjoying ourselves this year:
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