Blossoms have announced an ultra-intimate gig in Manchester next month to celebrate their upcoming new album.
The indie rockers will be launching their fourth studio album with a show at the recently reopened Band on the Wall.
Ribbon Around The Bomb is set to be released on 29 April, and the five-piece will head straight out to perform tracks.
Tickets for the intimate gig on 30 April will be extremely limited.
Blossoms’ new album revolves around a central character, ‘The Writer’, with tracks including Ode to NYC, which is described by lead singer Tom Ogden as ‘a love letter to my favourite city, as well as my wife’.
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Blossoms have announced an intimate gig in Manchester. Credit: Supplied
Tom also said of album track Visions, which contains the lyrics ‘Was I complete at 23′: “At 23 I had just had a number 1 album and begun my relationship with my now wife Katie.
“Reflecting on what I’d achieved at such a young age left me wondering, what now?”
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Blossoms will be popping up on the UK’s festival circuit this summer, with appearances at Glastonbury, Y Not? and Truck Festival.
They’ll also be supporting The Killers on their massive stadium tour this summer.
Originally from Stockport, Blossoms topped the UK album chart for a fortnight with their self-titled debut album, which went on to earn them BRIT Award and Mercury Prize nominations.
The band now have four top five albums in the UK, and massive singles including I Can’t Stand It, There’s A Reason Why (I Never Returned Your Calls) and Charlemagne.
Tickets for Blosssoms’ gig at Band On The Wall will go on sale at 10am on Tuesday 22 March at gigst.rs/BlossomsBOTW.
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Inspiring new 360° immersive David Bowie experience to open in Manchester
Emily Sergeant
Music lovers will get a glimpse inside the mind of a creative genius when a new immersive experience opens later this year.
Factory International has this week announced its programme of events for the upcoming autumn-winter season, and by far one of the stand-outs on the list has to be the return of Lightroom for a new 360° experience called David Bowie: You’re Not Alone – which is set to immerse audiences in the iconic performances and creative mind of one of the world’s most visionary and influential artists.
Bringing together a wealth of visual material from a wide range of sources, the experience combines rare performance footage, photography, drawings, lyrics, personal notes, and audio recordings from the late Bowie himself.
You’re Not Alone will showcase some of Bowie’s landmark performances that redefined popular culture, using a mix of iconic, rarely seen, and even never-before-exhibited material.
Selected from thousands of hours of film in the vaults of the David Bowie Archive in New York, you can expect to see everything from Space Oddity and Diamond Dogs, through to Heroes, Black Star, and more.
Each track has been newly reconfigured by multiple Olivier and Tony award-winning sound designer, Gareth Fry, to utilise Lightroom’s specialised spatial audio system.
The 360° experience is set to be both a multimedia spectacle and an intimate self-portrait in one, giving audiences a unique insight into Bowie’s perspective on the subjects that were most important to him, like theatricality, spirituality, songwriting, and the transformative power of creativity.
David Bowie: You’re Not Alone is being made in close collaboration with, and has been authorised by, the David Bowie Estate.
It’ll run at Aviva Studios from 8 December 2026 through to 10 January 2027.
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Parklife has quietly added a major DJ set from Happy Mondays’ Bez
Daisy Jackson
Parklife has quietly added a DJ set from Bez this afternoon, joining an already stacked festival line-up.
Eagle-eyed users of the Parklife app (aka, us) have spotted that as the big weekend nears, a few new stages have popped up on the plans.
And that’s included a new Beatbox Stage, which on Saturday will host a mega set from the icon that is Bez, from Happy Mondays.
Bez isn’t the only nostalgic name who’s been added to the line-up for Saturday – the Beatbox Stage will also host a set from Artful Dodger.
The 2000s garage icons will be taking to the stage at 3pm for a set that will hopefully include their massive hits like Moving Too Fast, Re-Rewind (with Craig David), and Woman Trouble.
On Sunday, the newly-added Beatbox Stage will be hosting DJ Fat Tony, who you might know for getting stuck into the middle of the Beckham family feud – but he’s also one of the most in-demand A-list DJs, having spun for icons like Madonna, Prince, and Elton John.
Parklife has also quietly added a few secret sets to the bill, which we’ll be keeping a close eye on.
They join existing Parklife headliners including Calvin Harris, Zara Larsson, Chris Stussy, Sammy Virji, Skepta, and East End Dubs.
On Saturday 20 and Sunday 21 June, thousands of music-lovers will be flocking to the fields of Heaton Park ready for this year’s instalment of Parklife.
Daisy Jackson -
22nd March 2022 
