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The £365 million venue will open its doors this April

Manchester’s new Co-op Live is set to be Britain’s biggest indoor arena, and it’s got a pretty star-studded line-up for this summer, including Liam Gallagher, Olivia Rodrigo, and, best of all, Peter Kay. More than £356 million has been put into building the venue, and none other than Harry Styles is its ambassador. He is, after all, from sort-of-near Manchester.
Appropriately, the first act to perform at Co-op Live will be Kay – a Mancunian though, admittedly, one not from the city proper but from Bolton, Greater Manchester. Kay will undoubtedly be a perfect welcome for the Co-Op, being both a local and still able to be funny without targeting one or all minorities. Here’s how you can secure tickets to the big night.
The gig is on Tuesday, April 23. Tickets go on sale this Friday (23 Feb), unless you are a Co-op member. Members will have access to a pre-sale from today (21 Feb) until Friday.
Depending on where you want to sit, tickets range from £41.50 (right at the back) to £151 for a VIP package which includes a ‘limited edition Peter Kay gift’. Sounds, erm, interesting.
Unsurprisingly considering the whole ‘UK’s biggest indoor venue’ thing, the Co-op Live has bags of space. With a capacity of 23,500, getting your hands on tickets might not be a complete bloodbath.
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