Taylor Swift has finally confirmed dates on her Eras Tour across Europe, including several shows here in the UK.
The superstar has been selling out stadiums across the USA all summer, leaving fans here on home turf desperate for tour dates.
Gigs on The Eras Tour so far have been 44-song, three-hour marathons of a live show, powering through Taylor Swift’s lengthy back catalogue of pop hits.
The 12-time Grammy Award-winner has a whopping 10 studio albums to her name, which dictate the ‘eras’ of the tour.
From the bubblegum pink of Lover to the whimsical forest of Folklore, it’s a massive production that’s had the internet in a spin.
And now, finally, Taylor Swift has announced some dates here in the UK and elsewhere in Europe.
Sadly, she’ll be skipping Manchester – but there are plenty of shows nearby that you can try and get tickets for.
Fans will need to register to buy tickets, with all shows likely to sell out in rapid time.
There are already huge virtual queues to even register for Taylor Swift’s UK tour dates.
Posting on Instagram, she wrote: “EXCUSE ME HI I HAVE SOMETHING TO SAY.
“I can’t wait to see so many of you on The Eras Tour next year at these new international dates!
“Visit TaylorSwift.com/tour for more information on your registrations, pre-sales and on-sales!!”
Taylor Swift 2024 UK and Europe tour dates in full
9 May – Paris La Défense Arena 10 May – Paris La Défense Arena 17 May – Friends Arena, Stockholm 24 May – Estádio Da Luz, Lisbon 30 May – Estadio Santiago Bernabéu, Madrid 2 June – Groupama Stadium, Lyon 7 June – BT Murrayfield Stadium, Edinburgh 8 June – BT Murrayfield Stadium, Edinburgh 14 June – Anfield Stadium, Liverpool 15 June – Anfield Stadium, Liverpool 18 June – Principality Stadium, Cardiff 21 June – Wembley Stadium, London 22 June – Wembley Stadium, London 28 June – Aviva Stadium, Dublin 29 June – Aviva Stadium, Dublin 5 July – Johan Cruijff Arena, Amsterdam 6 July – Johan Cruijff Arena, Amsterdam 9 July – Stadion Letzigrund Zürich 13 July – San Siro Stadium, Milan 18 July – Veltins-arena, Gelsenkirchen 23 July – Volksparkstadion, Hamburg 27 July – Olympiastadion, Munich 2 August – Pge Narodowy, Warsaw 9 August – Ernst-happel-stadion, Vienna 16 August – Wembley Stadium, London 17 August – Wembley Stadium, London
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My Chemical Romance fans are losing it as emo favourites appear to tease UK tour
Danny Jones
American alt-rock and emo favourites My Chemical Romance aren’t just back for one last Black Parade; it looks like they might be heading to the UK for more tour dates.
Not just a phase, never was.
My Chemical Romance (an entirely different kind of MCR) made yet another mighty return to the fore earlier this year, nearly two whole decades on from the release of the seminal album, which dropped in 2006 and has now been toured live again by the New Jersey band.
Playing the album IN FULL for the first time in years, they’ve been busy in North America delighting die-hard crowds, but now a recent teaser has got My Chem fans gearing up for UK and Ireland shows.
As you can see, MCR released the somewhat cryptic comedy sketch above, in which they seem to spoof a gameshow centred around a robot named ‘Quizzo’.
The host of this fictional programme goes on to explain that the result will determine “who will be the next lucky country to win the grand prize of one nuclear winter.”
It might only last for a few seconds, but the main takeaway is that the ‘who’ selected as the recipient of this upcoming prize is none other than the United Kingdom.
Combine that with a simple caption that reads, “Let’s show them what they’ve won”, it’d be hard not to jump to the conclusion that we Brits are about to pretend we’re ‘Teenagers’ again and chant ‘Na Na Na’ until our lungs give out.
In the time since the post went live, fans on this side of the pond have understandably started getting very excited…
My Chemical Romance are coming back to the UK… For the 1st time since 2022 when we all thought it would be the last hurrah…#MCRpic.twitter.com/vHWO5mK89j
At first, some were wondering whether this year’s revival might have also seen the resurrection of their much-mythologised but ultimately scrapped 2019 record, The Paper Kingdom, but it seems pretty much nailed on that their transatlantic followers are about to get some gigs.
It remains unclear whether these still TBC dates will be an extension of the current ‘Long Live The Black Parade‘ tour, which began on 11 July, or something new entirely.
Either way, with this current run of shows due to end in September and hints at a ‘nuclear winter’, it’s a fair assumption to guess that My Chemical Romance will be coming to the UK either later this year or early 2026 – and you bank on a big Manchester booking to be thrown in there too.
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Adidas drop Liam and Noel Gallagher SPZL trainers
Daisy Jackson
Liam and Noel Gallagher have teamed up with adidas once again to create their very own SPZL trainers.
The sportswear giant has today dropped the designs for the adidas LG Achille SPZL and the adidas NG Marathon SPZL.
The sure-to-sell-out trainers will officially hit shelves in the new Manchester adidas store, and other stockists, next weekend.
The footwear drop coincides with the ongoing Oasis reunion tour, which attracted hundreds of thousands of people to the city when they played five nights in Heaton Park.
Liam and Noel themselves have maintained a close relationship with Gary Aspden, curator of the adidas SPZL range, for more than two decades.
They’re often seen sporting the iconic trainers and creating product collaborations, and now they’re back with a new Three Stripes partnership and their very own new adidas SPZL trainers.
Up first is Liam Gallaghers’s adidas SPZL, with the Oasis frontman asking to bring back a revised version of an archival runner, the adidas Achille.
The LG Achille SPZL features a khaki mesh base, chocolate brown stripes, a beige suede T-toe overlay, and a sand outside, with a motif of Liam on the tongue of the shoe.
Noel Gallagher’s NG Marathon SPZLs are his first collaborations with the brand since his immediate sell-out shoes back in 2017.
His are a new hybrid inspired by the adidas Marathon 85 silhouette, keeping the suede upper and rubber outsole of the Marathon 85 but with a deep navy/sky blue palette with a reworked toe box and midsole, as well as details like the Eco-Tex tongue and tonal eyelets.
Both shoes feature a portrait of their namesakes on the tongue, as well as spare laces, co-branded sock liners, and commemorative packaging.
The adidas LG Achille SPZL and the adidas NG Marathon SPZL are set to launch via adidas SPZL stockists and the adidas Carnaby and MCR retail stores on 16 August.
Daisy Jackson -
20th June 2023 
