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Sugababes announce massive UK arena tour including huge gig at Co-op Live

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Clementine Hall Clementine Hall - 22nd October 2024
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Sugababes fans rejoice, because the iconic girl group have just announced they’re coming to Manchester on their next arena tour.

Set to play a series of massive arena dates all over the UK, the queens of pop will be performing at the Co-op Live next spring, and we’re already excited.

With six number-one singles and millions of global sales, the iconic trio of Siobhan Donaghy, Mutya Buena and Keisha Buchanan are returning bigger and better ever before, continuing their triumphant comeback with a tour the biggest of their career.

Since reuniting in 2019, the pop group have solidified their place in girl band history as one of the most influential vocal groups of the 2000s.

Since their return, they’ve performed to thousands of adoring fans at Glastonbury festival, sold out the O2 and we’re sure this tour is going to be no different.

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Sugababes have announced a massive UK arena tour including a huge gig at Co-op Live / Credit: Supplied

The tour will kick off at Leeds’ First Direct Arena on Tuesday 8 April before coming to us here in Manchester on Friday 11 April, they’ll then close the UK leg of the tour in Glasgow.

Sugababes said: “We are so excited to announce our biggest ever UK tour. The last few years have been an absolute blast, and we can’t wait to hit the road together next spring.

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“Wait until you see what we’ve got up our sleeve. See you in April.”

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Tickets go on sale this Friday 25 October, and you can grab yours here.

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So if you fancy a night fuelled with incredible vocals and nostalgia, it’s time to Push The Button and get yourself a ticket.

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Blossoms set to headline big summer festival set in Delamere Forest

Thomas Melia Thomas Melia
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Stockport five-piece Blossoms are set to perform at a festival set within a forest not too far from Manchester next year in line with the rollout of their latest album, Gary.

Yes, after announcing their tour dates throughout the month of September, Blossoms are also playing a special festival in none other than Delamere Forest in addition to their fantastic five-night run at five different Manchester venues.

The newest announcement sees the cheeky chappies/stylish Stopfordians set to headline Forest Live 2025 set in Delamere, Northwich, which has been running since 2001.

Blossoms are the newest addition to the concert series as both The Script, music legend Sting and Manchester’s very own Elbow are headlining various dates in other green spaces. The local lads have also announced a number of other open-air gigs along with their Forest Live date.

This marks the second year that Live Nation has partnered with Cuffe and Taylor to deliver the forest-bound festival. Other Forestry England locations taking part include Cannock Chase, High Lodge, Thetford and Westonbirt Arboretum.

Last year, Forestry England – who is hosting the event as the organisation that looks after Delamere Forest and the surrounding areas – planted 7.4 million trees and welcomed 285 million visits throughout the 2023/24 season, as every person in England lives within an hour of one of their forests.

As for the local band themselves, Blossoms have gained a huge cult following since releasing breakout hit ‘Charlemagne’ back in 2015, amassing hundreds of millions of streams following their debut.

Lead vocalist Tom Ogden, drummer Joe Donovan, lead guitarist Josh Dewhurst, keyboardist Myles Kellock and bassist Charlie Salt have had an unreal year, with their biggest-ever gig at Wythenshawe Park and their brand new number-one album.

Inspired by an eight-foot gorilla of the same name that was stolen from a Lanarkshire garden centre in 2023, Gary has been an instant critical and commercial success.

Come on, how stunning a setting is that? (Credit: Supplied)

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80s pop sensation Rick Astley has even performed with the band this year as they returned to BBC Radio 1’s Live Lounge to play a special rendition of ‘360’ by Charli XCX.

Support will be provided by up-and-coming Oldham act Seb Lowe and another North West breakthrough, The Guest List.

Blossoms are set to play Forest Live 2025 in Delamere Forest on Saturday, 21 June 2025 and tickets will be available from 9am on Friday, 25 October.

Prices for the festival pass start from £61.50 and you can get ready to grab yours HERE.

Blossoms playing Castlefield Bowl for Sounds of the City 2023.
Tom and Gary at Wythy Park this past summer.
We’ve had very good fun watching these lads over the past few years – don’t miss out on this one.

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Rizzle Kicks are back and they’re playing Manchester on their 2025 UK reunion tour

Emily Sergeant Emily Sergeant
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One of the best-loved musical duos of the last decade are back and hitting the road for special reunion tour next year.

And they’ll be coming to visit us in Manchester.

It’s been nearly eight years since Jordan Stephens and Harley Sulé, otherwise known as iconic British duo Rizzle Kicks, released music together and played to audiences of adoring fans nationwide, instead favouring acting and other solo projects in the meantime – but now, the pair is drawing their indefinite hiatus to a close and heading out on a UK tour in 2025.

The duo, which has sold more than one million singles and 600,000 albums in the UK, is set to peform their first headline show in nearly a decade at London’s iconic KOKO in Camden next month, before they hit the road.

The highly sought-after London show sold out in less than a minute, so it’s expected that eager Greater Manchester fans will also quickly snap up tickets to see the duo’s first tour when they go on sale later this week.

Rizzle Kicks will be arriving in Manchester and taking to the beloved O2 Ritz stage in March 2025, as well as headlining other major cities like Birmingham and Brighton.

Rizzle Kicks – UK Tour Dates 2025

  • Wednesday 19 March – O2 Ritz, Manchester
  • Friday 21 March – O2 Institute, Birmingham
  • Saturday 22 March – O2 Forum Kentish Town, London
  • Friday 16 May – Brighton Dome

The pair returned in style with comeback single ‘Javelin’ being released this past summer, and have now followed on with this continuation of their mature and evolved sound with new track ‘Gumdrops’ – which offers a nuanced discussion about masculinity and lad culture.

Both singles are taken from a forthcoming, as-yet-untitled, project that sees Rizzle Kicks return to the pop music space sober, in love, and equipped with life lessons, self awareness, and a maturity they’ve built on separately, while still retaining their sense of humour and humanity that sets them apart from other artists.

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Rizzle Kicks will perform take to the O2 Ritz stage in Manchester on Wednesday 19 March 2025, and tickets will go on general sale from this Thursday (10 October) at 10am.

Grab tickets when they go live here.

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