Stevie Nicks has just announced a massive gig in Manchester at the brand-new Co-op Live arena.
The rock legend, famed for her work with Fleetwood Mac as well as her impressive solo career, will be in town in summer.
The news follows her being announced as one of the headline acts at this year’s British Summer Time Hyde Park concert series.
These will Stevie Nicks’ first UK shows in almost seven years, and she’ll be one of the first rock acts to perform at Manchester’s shiny new Co-op Live arena.
The iconic singer, songwriter and storyteller is set to perform on Tuesday 9 July 2024, with tickets on sale today.
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Tickets are not cheap (unsurprisingly) – you’re looking at £132.50 for the rear blocks, and around £233.50 for closer seats.
Stevie Nicks launched into the music industry as a duo with her then-boyfriend Lindsey Buckingham, who later went on to join Fleetwood Mac.
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Her distinctive voice helped to make the group one of the most successful rock bands of all time.
She is also the first woman to have been inducted twice into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: first as a member of Fleetwood Mac and then as a solo artist in 2019, where she was inducted by Harry Styles.
Stevie Nicks has been named one of the greatest songwriters and singers of all time by Rolling Stone, who have also placed four of her songs into the list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time (Landslide, Rhiannon, Dreams, and Edge of Seventeen).
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Fans are, understandably, very excited to have a performance from Stevie Nicks on the way to Manchester.
One person wrote, in a series of posts on X: “NOW I DONT HAVE TO TREK TO LONDON IM SO HAPPY. OH MY F*CKING GOD THANK YOU STEVIE.”
She’s also announced a gig in Glasgow for this summer.
Co-op Live has recently announced a partnership with Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM) that will offer free tram and bus travel to and from the new area for all event ticket holders.
The groundbreaking initiative is the first of its kind in the UK, and will give all ticket-holders to events in the venue’s opening season from 20 April to 30 June 2024 free travel on Metrolink and new city centre shuttle buses.
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Stevie Nicks will perform at the Co-op Live in Manchester on Tuesday 9 July 2024.
Tickets will be available through Co-op Member presale from 12pm on Wednesday 20 March 2024, and on general sale from 12pm on Friday 22 March 2024.
Oasis and adidas drop yet more new merch in the Live ’25 collection
Danny Jones
The Oasis and adidas love affair isn’t over just yet; it isn’t going anywhere, as the legendary Manc band group and global sports apparel franchise are releasing another batch of merch as part of the smash-hit Live ’25 collection.
After shirts, shoes, jackets and bucket hats galore sold out all over the world, adidas is now toasting not only the end of the reunion world tour but “the year that was Oasis” with a second drop in the already iconic crossover.
If you passed through Manchester at all during their Heaton Park homecoming run, you will have no doubt seen countless examples of the ‘adidas Originals x Oasis’ football shirt collaboration alone, not to mention several other bits of fashion in the official Live ’25 fashion line.
Now, just in time for Christmas, there’s a whole new set being introduced into the range of casual wear.
Simply titled ‘Oasis Live ‘25 Drop 2’, the latest additions to the adidas Originals collection are releasing next month and, obviously, will be sold in stores and online.
While the pop-up stores that opened up here in the city centre all over have now shut up shop, Greater Manchester’s adidas locations on Market Street – which turned into an Oasis fan paradise this past summer – and Pear Mill in Stockport will still be stocking the various bits of Britpop clobber.
Although the most recent items will be exclusively available domestically for now, they will be rolled out overseas in 2026.
Considering how quickly most of it sold out last time, you can guarantee most of the options to fly off the shelves just as fast here in the UK.
Honestly, we’ve only just managed to get our hands on the standard black ‘jacquard jersey’.
As you can see, a good chunk of the second drop is that same footy shirt in different colours and other tees in different lengths/variations.
Scheduled to launch on Friday, 12 December, the ‘Oasis x adidas Originals Live ‘25 Drop 2’ will go on sale at 9am sharpish, so you’d best get ready for a scrap in that digital queue.
Naturally, fans, fashionistas and collectors can expect virtually identical costs for the majority of pieces (and buying in-person will obviously help keep the cost down), though it does look like some price points have been adjusted.
As for the Live ’25 tour itself, now that the dust has settled on the ‘Oasis Mania‘ take two, Liam himself has taken to social media to express his gratitude in the most Gallagher way possible…
Lily Allen adds another massive Manchester arena show to West End Girl tour
Daisy Jackson
Lily Allen has just announced an extra show here in Manchester, after her previously announced dates in theatres across the UK drove phenomenal demand.
The much-loved British singer sold out some of the nation’s finest theatres in just minutes with her West End Girl tour.
Since then, the star has announced her biggest-ever headline tour, with a run of arena shows coming next summer.
Lily Allen is now set to visit the AO Arena in Manchester not just once but twice, as well as playing other big cities including Leeds, Nottingham, Birmingham and London.
West End Girl was released less than a month ago and has received critical acclaim across the board, amassing 150 million streams and sticking near the top of the UK Albums Chart.
The bear-all, scathing, deeply personal record has catapulted Lily Allen back into the spotlight, and now she’s got the arena tour she deserves.
The show – ‘Lily Allen Performs West End Girl‘ – will see the singer/songwriter play her brand-new album in its entirety, in the order the songs appear on the record.
She had already announced two nights at Aviva Studios in Manchester next March, which sold out almost instantly.
Before this era, Lily was famed for her big hits like ‘Smile’, ‘The Fear’, and ‘F*ck You’. It’s fair to say she’s now riding one of the biggest waves of popularity in her career thus far.
Lily Allen is set to play at the AO Arena in Manchester on Friday 19 June 2026, with tickets on sale from 10am on Thursday 27 November.
You can get your tickets right HERE, but we’d be quick about it…
Daisy Jackson -
18th March 2024 
