Blossoms announce Manchester residency for November 2024

16 September 2024, 18:49 | Updated: 17 September 2024, 08:17

Blossoms press photo 2024 — Blossoms have announced hometown dates for winter 2024. Picture: Press

By Jenny Mensah

The Stockport band will cap off the year with five dates in their hometown this November.

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Blossoms have announced five nights in Manchester for November 2024.

The Stockport five-piece - comprised of Tom Ogden, Charlie Salt, Josh Dewhurst, Joe Donovan and Myles Kellock - will play a short residency in their hometown, which kicks off at Manchester Academy 1 on Tuesday 19th November and culminates in a show at Manchester O2 Apollo on 23rd November.

They'll be joined on the special dates by the likes of Scottish indie rockers Neon Waltz, Merseyside outfit The Ks and fellow Mancunians Lottery Winners, with more acts to be announced.

Unsurprisingly, the band have shared the news with a humorous new promo clip, which sees them all arrive at different Manchester venues before deciding to play "all of them".

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Tickets go on general sale from this Friday 20th September (the same day their Gary album is release) at 9.30am. See below for the full dates and details on how to buy tickets.

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Speaking about the residency, Blossoms say: "We wanted to do something special with the Manchester shows for this run of gigs. We played each one of these venues on our way up, so it’s great after our Wythenshawe Park show to go and do these venues and remember where everything started for us. It’s a love letter of shows to the city! We can’t wait x."

Blossoms' 2024 Manchester dates:

Tue 19 Nov 2024 Manchester Academy 1 – special guests TBA
Wed 20 Nov 2024 Manchester O2 Ritz – Plus special guests Neon Waltz
Thu 21 Nov 2024 Manchester Albert Hall – special guests TBA
Fri 22 Nov 2024 Manchester O2 Victoria Warehouse – Plus special guests The Ks
Sat 23 Nov 2024 Manchester O2 Apollo – plus special guests Lottery Winners

How to buy tickets:

Tickets for Blossoms' Manchester residency go on general sale here from Friday 20th September at 9.30am BST.

See Blossoms' previously announced October and November dates below:

17th October - Newcastle - O2 City Hall - SOLD OUT
18th October - Leeds - O2 Academy - SOLD OUT
19th October - Glasgow - O2 Academy - SOLD OUT
21st October - Sheffield - Octagon - SOLD OUT
22nd October - Hull - City Hall
23rd October - Nottingham - Rock City - SOLD OUT
25th October - Liverpool University - The Mountford Hall - SOLD OUT
26th October - Halifax - Victoria Theatre - SOLD OUT
28th October - Stoke-On-Trent - Victoria Hall - SOLD OUT
29th October - Lincoln - Engine Shed
30th October - Bristol - O2 Academy 1 - SOLD OUT
1st November - Birmingham - O2 Academy 1
2nd November - London - Eventim Apollo
4th November - Norwich - UEA - SOLD OUT
5th November - Brighton - Dome
7th November - Portsmouth - Guildhall
8th November - Bournemouth - O2 Academy
9th November - Cardiff University - Great Hall - SOLD OUT
13th November - Belfast - Limelight 1
15th November - Dublin - Academy - EXTRA DATE DUE TO DEMAND
16th November - Dublin - Academy - SOLD OUT
19th November - Manchester - Academy - NEW DATE
20th November - Manchester - O2 Ritz - NEW DATE
21st November - Manchester - Albert Hall - NEW DATE
22nd November - Manchester - O2 Victoria Warehouse - NEW DATE
23rd November - Manchester - O2 Apollo - NEW DATE

The news comes after Blossoms played a milestone homecoming gig at Wythenshawe Park last month, which saw them perform to a 30,000- strong crowd and tease the Oasis reunion announcement on screens ahead of their set.

The band’s previously announced UK tour dates for October and November are also nearly sold out, with only a few tickets left at a handful of the shows, below.

Blossoms Gary artwork — Blossoms' Gary album artwork. Picture: Press

Blossoms fifth studio album, Gary, is released on 20th September and its preceded by the singles, What Can I Say, After I'm Sorry?, Perfect Me and of course the album's title track, which was inspired by a huge fibre-glass gorilla statue being stolen from a Lanarkshire garden centre in March last year.

Blossoms - Gary

Blossoms - Gary album tracklisting:

Big Star
What Can I Say After I'm Sorry?
Gary
I Like Your Look
Nightclub
Perfect Me
Mothers
Cinnamon
Slow Down
Why Do I Give You The Worst Of Me?

Gary, which is available to pre-order here, is produced by the band's longtime collaborator James Skelly (The Coral) alongside Jungle’s Josh-Lloyd Watson, who produced What Can I Say After I’m Sorry? And Nightclub.

CMAT has also co-written two tracks, I Like Your Look and Why Do I Give You The Worst Of Me? on the album.

The album comes after the band's 2016 self-titled debut, Cool Like You (2018), Foolish Loving Spaces (2020) and Ribbon Around the Bomb (2022).