The Cheeky Girls are set to perform in Manchester this weekend, taking over Bingo Balls in the Printworks.
The nostalgic, adults-only 90s-inspired bar features a huge ball pit and is famed for its fun events, from bingo to drag brunches.
And this weekend it will provide the perfect setting for the return of the iconic noughties cheesy pop duo, twin sisters Gabriela and Monica Irimia, aka The Cheeky Girls.
The ‘Cheeky Song (Touch My Bum)’ singers are on the Bingo Balls line-up for this weekend, as it gears up for a busy Easter bank holiday weekend of events.
There’ll be everything from bottomless brunch to cocktail masterclasses to live entertainment.
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Bingo Balls in the Printworks. Credit: SuppliedThe Cheeky Girls at Bingo Balls. Credit: SuppliedBingo Balls in the Printworks. Credit: Supplied
The Printworks bar will kick things off with Sandi Ego’s House Party on Thursday, encouraging people to let out their inner child at the start of the four-day weekend.
Then on Friday, it’s Music Bingo with Chris Dresden, with a playlist of ‘strictly party bangers’ ranging from HipHop to R&B to chart-toppers.
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On Saturday, DJ Danny Sense will be on the decks all night for Bingo Balls’s Starstruck Saturdays event.
And finally, Sunday night will see the arrival of the Cheeky Girls, with a Cheeky Easter Bingo and a live performance.
Bingo Balls opened inside the Printworks last summer, showing off a cocktail bar interior filled with a selfie station, a Mean Girls-inspired ‘Burn Book’, and, of course, a gigantic adults-only ball pit.
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Entry for their Easter weekend parties starts from £5, with tickets on sale now through Fatsoma.
VIP table packages are also available, perfect for birthdays, hen and stag parties, and other special occasions.
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.
Daisy Jackson -
5th April 2023 
