Velvet on Canal Street is hosting a brand-new drinking experience featuring limited-edition wines by the one and only Kylie Minogue.
The beloved hotel, bar and brasserie in the heart of Manchester’s iconic Gay Village have teamed up with the pop queen and long-standing LGBTQ+ icon to deliver a new luxury wine offering.
Positioned as the only place in Manchester where you can get your hands on a plethora of official Wines by Kylie Minogue, we just gave even more of a reason to pop into Velvet this summer – not that you needed one.
We just can’t get this out of our heads and, no, we won’t be apologising for even one pun.
Available to enjoy on the restaurant and hotel’s sun-trap terrace out on the ever-bustling Canal Street, whilst enjoying the lavish interior of the bar itself or up in your room if you just fancy sitting in bed and watching Kylie music videos, you can cheers to the pop princess however you like.
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First set up back in 2020 and having initially rolled out to the vino-loving masses over in the US, the brand has now arrived in Manchester, with a total of nine different wines as well as her brand new Brut Prosecco, of which there are only a handful available and, yes, that’s only at Velvet too.
With the stylish Manc drinking spot having sold over 10,000 bottles of her popular rosé prosecco alone and Ms Minogue shifting over three million bottles in her first two years of business alone, it’s safe to say people flock to her booze just as much they do to her gigs.
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She might be one of the best-selling artists of all time but she also happens to make a pretty bloody good glass of fizz.
You can view the full collection of wines through her online store and believe us when we say this isn’t just any old celeb putting out a run-of-the-mill product and simply slapping their name on it: we enjoyed every wine we tried.
But don’t just take our word for it, pop along to Velvet Manchester yourself and try it for yourselves – especially if the sun is out as that terrace is to die for.
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Right, somebody get ‘Spinning Around’ on the speaker, because we’re certainly about to be after a few glasses of the good stuff.
Grammy-winning disco legend Purple Disco Machine is heading to Manchester for a huge gig
Daisy Jackson
Legendary German nu-disco and house producer Purple Disco Machine has a huge Manchester gig on the horizon, hot off the back of the release of his Paradise album.
The Grammy Award-winning artist’s latest release is packed with collaborations from some of the biggest names in music, including Nile Rodgers, Metronomy, Jake Shears, Duke Dumont, Sophie and the Giants, Nothing But Thieves and more.
And now he’s bringing his unforgettable disco vibes to a dance floor on our home turf, with a massive gig lined up at O2 Victoria Warehouse.
Set to take place on Friday 7 March, Purple Disco Machine will promise an incredible night of sizzling dance and house music, with support from Dan Shake, Oden & Fatzo Live!, and Urbi.
His irresistible sound includes hits like Hypnotised, Dished (Male Stripper) and, never one to miss a trend, an addictive remix of I’m Just Ken from the Barbie soundtrack.
His other remixes have included tracks for Dua Lipa, Sir Elton John, Mark Ronson, Calvin Harris, Fatboy Slim and Britney Spears.
And of course there’s that Grammy win for his remix of Lizzo’s About Damn Time.
On Paradise, he’s released tonnes more addictive disco beats, notably Substitution with Julian Perretta, and Honey Boy with Nile Rodgers.
And live, Purple Disco Machine has cut his teeth on the British festival circuit, including recently joining Fisher at his headline Gunnersbury Park show in London.
Now a multi-platinum-selling artist, with more than two billion streams worldwide, the Paradise tour is set to take Manchester by storm.
Purple Disco Machine will be at the O2 Victoria Warehouse in Manchester on Friday 7 March – you can get tickets HERE.
A club night dedicated to the emo anthems of your youth is heading to Manchester
Daisy Jackson
Manchester, prepare to dust off your stompers and dig out your fingerless gloves, and get ready to party to the biggest emo anthems into the early hours.
A club night dedicated to 00s Emo Anthems is heading back to one of the city’s most iconic venues this spring.
Black Parade will be taking over the O2 Ritz Manchester for a night of pure noughties punk, running all the way from 9pm until 1am.
That’s four hours packed with party anthems from the likes of My Chemical Romance, Paramore, Fall Out Boy, Blink-182 and loads more.
On Friday 11 April, Black Parade will promise a playlist that’s filled with hits from the biggest names in emo.
That list also includes Taking Back Sunday, Bring Me The Horizon, Panic! At The Disco, The Used, All American Rejects, Jimmy Eat World, Linkin Park, Enter Shikari, You Me At Six, Pierce The Veil and loads more.
Black Parade has been running for eight years in venues all over the UK, even featuring at the mighty Download Festival for all that time, taking the prime spot in The Doghouse.
Black Parade, a club night dedicated to 00s emo music, is heading back to Manchester
And now it’s Manchester’s turn to rock out like it’s 2005 again.
I can’t be the only one who still remembers all the words to I Write Sins Not Tragedies, surely…
If you spent your teenage years sleeping beneath a poster of Gerard Way and scouring the shops for that perfect checkerboard belt for your skinny jeans, or if you just developed a love for this elite genre of music at any stage of life, this is the club night for you.
Maybe just step away from the boxed black hair dye this time around…
Black Parade – 00s Emo Anthems will take place at the O2 Ritz Manchester on Friday 11 April, from 9pm to 1am.
Danny Jones -
13th June 2024 
