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Bugzy Malone announces 2021 UK tour

He’ll be playing a homecoming gig this December.

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Self-titled King of the North, Bugzy Malone, has just revealed the dates for his upcoming tour at the end of the year – and there’ll be a special hometown show at Manchester’s AO Arena.  

To mark the release of his latest album ‘The Resurrection’ which is out now, the Manchester rapper has announced a headline tour spanning eight dates from late November to early December 2021. 

He’ll be kicking things off in Bristol on November 22 and will be visiting Birmingham, Newcastle and London, before finishing up in Manchester on Saturday 4 December.

It’ll be his first ever headline show at the arena.  

Much of Bugzy’s new album is based around Bugzy’s near-fatal crash early last year – from which he has come back fighting.  

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‘The Resurrection’ features singles such as ‘Salvador’, ‘Welcome to the Hood’ ft. Emeli Sande, ‘Notorious’ ft. Chip plus ‘M.E.N III’ which charted at number 18, giving him his highest single chart position to date. 

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Bugzy is known for his powerful and personal wordplay and has fast become one of the most exciting artists in the rap and grime scene right now. 

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But it’s not just music that he’s dabbling in.

This year started off well for the rapper, as he began the year shooting a second film with Guy Ritchie, alongside co-stars Jason Statham and Aubrey Plaza. And with the launch of his B Malone clothing line too, he’s been a busy man.

Tickets for the tour go on sale at 9am on Friday 4 June and can be found here.  

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Wet Leg are BACK and coming to Manchester very soon

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One of the best up-and-coming indie bands around is returning after what feels like forever, but it’s actually only been a few years; either way, Wet Leg are back and coming to Manchester.

Their self-titled debut dropped back in 2022 and was met with an overwhelming reaction, picking up three Grammy Awards at a BRIT for Best British Group at the first time of asking.

It did slap, to be fair.

More importantly, fast forward three years and they’re back with a release date for their sophomore record, moisturizer, a brand new single by the name of ‘catch these fists’, as well as a small handful of new tour dates – including a gig at a brilliant Manchester music venue, of course.

The Isle of Wight-founded five-piece, fronted by charismatic duo Rhian Teasdale and Hester Chambers, will be heading out on a couple dozen live shows across Europe and the festival season circuit, as well as a one-off gig (for now) in the US at The River in LA.

However, just five of those are domestic headline dates, with the gang preparing to delight crowds in London, Birmingham and our friends over in Leeds.

Guess we’ll just have to go to both.

Here in Manchester, Wet Leg will be playing the cult favourite venue, O2 Victoria Warehouse, which just wrapped up this year’s BBC Radio 6 Music Festival programme.

As for the new album, moisturizer is due to release on 11 July, and from the small teaser we’ve been given courtesy of their new single, it sounds like there’s been some experimentation; the guitars and attitude are being dialled up even further, and they’re just as confident as ever.

An absolute jam, as expected.

Best of all, you don’t have to wait long to see them live again, as they’ll be heading out across the country just next month and are scheduled to arrive in Old Trafford on Thursday, 29 May.

Tickets for the Manchester gig and all other Wet Leg UK tour this May will be available for early access to those who pre-order the album online from 10 am local time on Wednesday, 9 April.

General sale goes live at the same time on Friday, 11 April. You can get ready to grab yours HERE.

You will absolutely be seeing us there.

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Hilarious study names Manchester as one of the UK’s most hungover cities

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Manchester has been named one of the UK’s most hungover cities, according to a hilarious new study.

Let’s be honest, we’ve all had one of those mornings – or a lot more than one, for many of us.

The kind where you wake up regretting ordering that last pint, or your decision to mix your drinks, questioning every life choice while desperately Googling ‘hangover cures that actually work’… but it turns out that some UK cities are way more prone to struggling with hangovers than others, and Manchester is one of them.

In a bid to uncover where in the country people are searching for hangover cures the most, alcohol-free beer brand Mash Gang has crunched the numbers and analysed more than 5.5 million Google searches across every city.

Manchester has been named one of the UK’s most hungover cities / Credit: Kraken Images (via Unsplash)

We always knew Manchester would be close to the top, but in this instance, we’ve actually just missed out on the number one spot, as our city has officially been ranked the second most hungover in the UK, just behind the ‘undisputed hungover capital’ itself, which is Birmingham.

According to the study, whether it’s the legendary Northern Quater or the city’s famous Gay Village, us Mancs are waking up with sore heads a lot more than anywhere else in the North.

While the North can often be underrepresented in top 10 lists, this doesn’t seem to be the case here, as other major cities such as Liverpool, Leeds, and Sheffield have all earned their place.

UK’s top 10 most hungover cities

  1. Birmingham
  2. Manchester
  3. Liverpool
  4. Bristol
  5. Leeds
  6. Newcastle
  7. Sheffield
  8. Plymouth
  9. Coventry
  10. Wolverhampton 
It’s all according to a new survey finding the city with the most sore heads in the country / Credit: Mylo Kaye (via Unsplash)

On the other end of the scale, Ripon has emerged as the UK’s least hungover city, closely followed by Carlisle, which means that if you’re looking for a place to escape temptation, or to just find people who actually get up early on weekends, then you know where to head to.

As well as the top 10 list, Mash Gang’s analysis data also showed just how much people are looking for hangover solutions, as in just the past month alone, there have been 178,000 searches for “hair of the dog,” and the search term “hangover food” has been looked up 72,000 times in the same period.

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On top of this, searches for ‘zebra striping’ – which is a method where people alternate alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks to lessen the impact of drinking – have also increased by 424% in the past quarter.

Featured Image – Malachi Cowie (via Unsplash)

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