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The problem-plagued Co-op Live arena finally launches with Elbow gig after being forced to call off three concerts at the last minute. The £365m Manchester venue is opening tonight with rock band Elbow, after an inspection gave the arena the all-clear, with boss Tim Leiweke adding he is confident it is now 'the safest building in the world.' This comes after the arena, which boasts being the largest in the UK, was forced to postpone opening shows three times because of concerning structural issues with the building, including parts from the ventilation falling from the ceiling. The band boosted fans confidence that the night will go ahead as planned after posting a photo of their stage set up in the arena saying 'ready'.

Fans of rock band Elbow have admitted feeling 'apprehensive' ahead of tonight's Co-op Live arena opening gig which follows a series of issues at the venue. The £365 million arena in Manchester has postponed three opening shows, most recently after part of the ventilation system fell to the ground from the ceiling during a soundcheck on May 1. Playing their hometown, Elbow are now set to open the venue after it announced it was 'satisfied' the issue was an 'isolated manufacturing default' following inspection. Samantha, 51, from Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, said she had booked tickets to see the band to celebrate her birthday on Tuesday. 'I'm hoping to go tonight, it all seems to be going ahead but I won't feel fully sure until I'm standing there and actually watching the gig,' she said.

Manchester's troubled Co-op Live arena is finally set to open with hometown band Elbow tonight after over a month of setbacks. Hometown band Elbow will play the first event in the £365million arena built to compete with London 's O2 to host the UK's biggest musical shows. The Co-op Live is now the country's biggest indoor arena, with a 23,500 capacity, but postponed its opening show three times - most recently after part of its ventilation and air conditioning system fell to the ground from the ceiling as fans queued outside. Rock band Elbow, who hail from Greater Manchester, are now set to open the venue on Tuesday after it announced it was 'satisfied' the issue was an 'isolated manufacturing default' following an inspection.

Travis Scott has announced a 2024 summer UK and European tour of twelve arena and stadium shows - one of which will be at Manchester's under-fire Co-op Arena.  The new venue has been hit by a wave of cancelled shows, including by Peter Kay, amid a chaotic opening as general manager Gary Roden quit just 12 months into the job after criticising smaller grassroots venues.  The US rapper, 33, announced on Tuesday he is bringing his Utopia: Circus Maximus tour to the other side of the pond after a successful sold-out run in North America last year.

Speaking on the condition of anonymity to the BBC, the workers revealed how construction staff at the venue warned back in February that works were 35 weeks behind schedule. In the leadup to the grand opening, the arena had been billed as the greatest indoor arena for music, comedy and sport ever built outside the United States. Costing £365million, it is the most expensive and largest purpose-built concert venue in Britain and the jewel in the crown for an American-based firm that owns 300 venues around the world. But promises soon began to unravel, with the venue forced to cancel the debut performance by A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie just over an hour before he was due to begin on Wednesday. Many fans had already arrived at the venue and were left puzzled at what had gone wrong.

Fans of Take That and alternative rock outfit Keane have slammed the venue for its 'embarrassing' launch, which has seen three opening gigs featuring Peter Kay and Olivia Rodrigo delayed amid a flurry of technical and safety issues. Last night, the venue confirmed Take That's shows had been shifted to the rival AO Arena - which Co-op Live CEO Gary Roden, who quit his job last month, previously slated as an 'arena that is 30 years old'. While many fans have turned their ire to bosses at the venue and onto the Co-op itself - which is equally furious with the delays - some have tried to see the funny side by creating and sharing brutally funny memes about the snowballing disaster.

The former Oasis frontman is scheduled to perform on his Definitely Maybe anniversary tour at the troubled Manchester venue in June. But after the venue experienced 'technical issues' and axed a series of gigs, including those by comedian Peter Kay and American singer Olivia Rodrigo, Gallagher joked that he would play at Lidl instead.

US rapper A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie (right) has moved his cancelled show for this Saturday at the crisis-hit Manchester Co-op Live (left) to the city's rival AO Arena. The opening of the 'Co-Flop' as the UK's biggest indoor arena has been dogged with technical issues and the postponement of huge shows - but ordinary fans are paying the true price for bosses' failures to get teething issues under control. Manchester's landmark £365million venue has stoked fury among fans of Olivia Rodrigo after her two dates this weekend were postponed - while American rapper A Boogie Wit da Hoodie's show was cancelled while punters queued outside.

Manchester's landmark £365million venue has stoked fury among fans of Olivia Rodrigo (top right) after her two dates this weekend were postponed - while American rapper A Boogie Wit da Hoodie's show was cancelled while punters queued outside. To add insult to injury, the arena has sent out automated emails to those who had queued for Wednesday's concert to ask them about their 'world-leading fan experience' (bottom right). The cancellation of triple-Grammy winner Olivia's Friday and Saturday shows, meanwhile, has left children in tears - with parents angrily berating arena bosses for letting them book expensive travel and accommodation unlikely to be refunded (inset).

The 21-year-old Good 4 U singer (left) was due to perform at the new venue on Friday and Saturday before management at the beleaguered concert hall pulled the plug because of last-minute 'venue-related technical issues'. Triple Grammy winner Olivia says her team is 'doing our best to reschedule the show', part of the Guts World Tour. It comes after A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie's show was cancelled yesterday as fans queued to get in. The American rapper, full name Artist Julius Dubose (right), said it was 'crazy' that his Co-op show was cancelled with no notice whatsoever - prompting fury from fans, some of whom had spent hundreds of pounds on travel and accommodation.

The Co-op Live Arena citied 'ongoing venue-related technical issues' for postponing the Obsessed star's shows on Friday and Saturday which were part of her Guts World Tour. Bosses said the concerts would be rescheduled and fans could either hang onto their tickets or claim refunds. It comes amid a night of turmoil for the arena with it having to axe US rapper A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie's show. The gig had already been postponed twice this week but it was pulled again at the last minute due to a 'ventilation defect'. Hundreds of fans looked in disbelief as they made a quick exit after being told the gig would not be going ahead. Co-op Live had hours earlier published instructions of how to get the arena in an attempt to reassure fans after Peter Kay was last week forced to cancel yet another show at the plush arena.

The Bolton-born comedian, 50, shared a post to Instagram updating his fans, who have been left devastated by the cancellations, on the new show dates.

Peter Kay fans have slammed Manchester's new £350million Co-op Live Arena after two of the comedian's show's at the venue were postponed for a second time . Rather than taking aim at the comic, the arena has been labelled 'a mess', 'shambolic' and 'farcical'. Revealing the news, Peter explained that the arena 'still isn't ready and so, as yet, remains untested for a large-scale audience'.

Peter Kay has been forced to cancel yet another show at Manchester's new £350m arena amid the ongoing chaos.  Announcing the news in an update on Friday, the comedian confirmed: My apologies once again but unfortunately the Co-op Live still isn't ready and so, as yet, remains untested for a large-scale audience.  'Consequently, they are having to reschedule my two shows yet again (I know I can't believe it either).'

Gary Roden, general manager of the £365m Co-op Live Arena in Manchester (pictured centre) resigned on Thursday, after a slew of issues led to a delay in opening in the venue. It comes after Bolton comedian Peter Kay 's opening shows at the 23,500-seat venue were cancelled. Mr Roden also resigned shortly after backlash to a claim he made that grassroots music venues were often 'poorly run'.

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Peter Kay's huge gig at Manchester's brand new Co-op Live arena has been cancelled, just hours before the comedian was due to take to the stage. The comedian's second show at the venue on Wednesday evening has also been cancelled. The highly-anticipated show was due to go ahead on Tuesday at the 23,500-capacity venue, and would have been the showpiece opening for the city's flagship new venue, the largest in the UK.

Some faithful listeners have erupted in the wake of Paddy McGuiness's controversial departure from the BBC, but it comes after the comedian demonstrated extraordinary loyalty to the BBC in the aftermath of Top Gear's demise.

Christine McGuinness's marriage to her husband, TV presenter, and comedian Paddy fell apart two years ago. However, their three young children are still completely unaware of this. Not that Christine is deliberately avoiding the split, as they are autistic, the children are difficult to grasp the concept of marriage, so they may not understand'.

As rail lines announce new strikes, fed-up passengers have expressed their dissatisfaction with yet another wave of industrial protests, at the same time as the London Underground's walkout, saying that the disruption is 'too much.' When rail drivers at 16 rail companies around the country go on strike for the next month in a long-running fight over pay, commuters will be faced with travel chaos. Members of Aslef will hold a rolling calendar of one-day walkouts between April 5 and 8, as well as a six-day ban on overtime. The announcement came just as word broke of tube drivers' plans to walk out on the London Underground, as well as on Saturday, May 4.

commuters around the globe are facing new travel chaos as train operators announce strike action just minutes after the London Underground workers declared two 24-hour walkouts. A new wave of strikes is set by 16 rail companies in a long-running fight over compensation, threatening more travel disruption for travelers around the world. Members of Aslef will go on a one-day walkout campaign from April 5 to 8, as well as a six-day ban on overtime.

Two 24-hour strikes in a long-running fight over terms and conditions are expected in London Underground. Members of Aslef will walk out on April 8 and May 4, threatening travel troubles throughout the capital. Finn Brennan, the union's organiser, said the company had failed to give promises that terms and conditions could not be changed without agreement.

Blackpool captured the very essence of the British seaside with seven miles of sand, piers, awesing parade, theatres, and the iconic tower as a backdrop. However, it has now become yet another struggling coastal area. According to alarming new data, northern regions and coastal areas of England are experiencing a higher risk of death from alcohol, heroin, and suicide, which can be described as 'deaths of despair.' Blackpool has the highest death rate among 100,000 residents, at 83.8 per 100,000 people.

Today, a fierce debate about whether audience toilet breaks should be outlawed at comedy shows broke out on Good Morning Britain. Kane Brown (left), a comedian from London, said getting up to use the toilet distracts others. However, broadcaster Anna May Mangan argued that comedians could do more to capture people's interest, and that comedians should not perform Hamlet and should not take it seriously.