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Posted by: Jade 23rd June 2019, 08:33 PM

I thought this deserved its own thread away from the 'Sweetener / Thank U, Next' tour as it's a pretty big deal in itself!

It's a little over 2 months now until Ariana Grande will be performing for Manchester again, this time in the name of Pride as a headliner.

Are you planning to go? Do you support this move from her? What do you want her to perform?

Here is the full line-up:

Saturday 24th August
Years & Years
Kim Petras
Louisa
Lady Leshurr
Youngr
Gok Wan
Basement Jaxx [DJ set]
HEDKANDI 20th Anniversary Tour
Freemasons w/ Katherine Ellis
Jodie Harsh
K-Klass Live
Sink the Pink DJs
Rhythm of the 90s

Sunday 25th August
Ariana Grande
Bananarama
Pixie Lott
Nicky Siano's: Hallelujah Disco
Becky Hill
Four of Diamonds
Chelcee Grimes
Faithless [DJ Set]
Hercules and Love Affair
Bongos Bingo
We Love Pop

Posted by: Jade 23rd June 2019, 08:38 PM

I'm personally not going (I've been interested in going to some kind of pride event for years as an ally with my LGBTQ+ friends though) but that line-up does look pretty amazing - Ariana, Basement Jaxx, Faithless etc *.* There was some backlash about the announcement but Ari is a well documented LGBTQ+ ally so I think it feels appropriate for her to be headlining, especially considering the location. It would be amazing to see her singing 'no tears left to cry' just because that song is so full of hope. I think 'Break Your Heart Right Back' would also be an inspired setlist inclusion (in the sense that it's a pretty old song in her repertoire) for the 'I'm Coming Out' sample and subject matter.

(I do hope that Manchester fans get at least one more event though as previously mentioned in the other tour thread)

Posted by: Jack 23rd June 2019, 09:01 PM

I would go but it's crazy expensive and I'm already seeing Ari in Sheffield & Birmingham .

Posted by: LewisGT 24th June 2019, 05:14 PM

While Manchester is so much easier for me to get to than Birmingham, I couldn't justify going to this as I wouldn't go usually and I feel it would be wrong and against the spirit of the event to do so just to see her.


I remember she did mention of twitter a few months ago that she was going to announce something else during pride. I don't know whether that's still happening or not. She did recently announce new US shows so hopefully she might do one in Manchester.

Posted by: Jack 23rd August 2019, 01:12 PM

It seems like she's only doing HALF AN HOUR for Manchester Pride! Really gutted!!

Posted by: Monica Lottinsky 23rd August 2019, 01:28 PM

No way?!?!?!

Posted by: Jack 23rd August 2019, 01:43 PM

I don't know if people are trolling or not, but it's what I've seen on Twitter .

Posted by: kye 23rd August 2019, 01:48 PM

i saw a few days ago that she was apparently doing 7 songs but i thought they were trolling!!

Posted by: Jordan Lee 23rd August 2019, 03:38 PM

I’d have thought 30/45 minutes seemed quite normal tbh because of how many acts are on the bill.

I wasn’t expecting it to be length of the arena shows.

So wish I was there though

Posted by: Juliano 23rd August 2019, 04:31 PM

That line up is crazy good, I can only dream of going though!

Posted by: Jack 23rd August 2019, 05:25 PM

Mostly here for Four Of Diamonds behind Ariana and I'm not ashamed to say it.

Posted by: Jade 23rd August 2019, 06:28 PM

Mural in Manchester ahead of pride https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/whats-on/arts-culture-news/ariana-grande-street-art-manchester-16804698

Posted by: Wall 23rd August 2019, 06:47 PM

Ariana set is being cut short due to the demand of a longer Pixie set

Posted by: Jade 24th August 2019, 11:00 PM

Hope everyone seeing her today has the best time

Posted by: Jack 26th August 2019, 12:49 AM

She was absolutely incredible, she was so overwhelmed it seemed but she put on such a good show! Highlights being 'One Last Time' and '7 Rings'!

Also, Cheryl f***ing KILLED IT and I'm not even a fan! I was so shocked! Bananarama bored the life out of me and Tulisa/Becky Hill were really good too - especially the N-Dubz medley - iconic!

Posted by: kye 26th August 2019, 01:06 AM

i’m so glad she did one last time

Posted by: Wall 26th August 2019, 07:16 AM

How was Pixie?

Manchester Pride looked like a mess, the amount of complaints I’m seeing on twitter etc is unreal

Posted by: jakewild 26th August 2019, 07:29 AM

ari was incredible. so glad she did brought one last time back, was such a moment. the whole set just gave me such feeing of togetherness and like we're all in this together which i think is gonna be the case any time she plays in mcr now. no word on if she's coming back for any other mcr dates i thought she was meant to be announcing something @ pride..?

lol it was a running joke all day between my mates that cheryl was playing and then she did the girls aloud medley and we all lost our SHIT

Posted by: Jade 26th August 2019, 02:50 PM

Glad you guys had such a good experience of seeing her <3 to add on to what Lee said above, I saw on Twitter that admission to the area where Ariana was singing at closed at 7pm or something, for security reasons, so some people who paid for tickets didn't even get to see her?! Oh nooo

The 'One Last Time' clips that are floating around are stunning

Cheryl doing GA songs and Tulisa N-Dubz ones omg what kind of paradise

Posted by: Jack 26th August 2019, 05:01 PM

The people complaining about the 7pm restriction are doing the MOST. They advertised as clearly as they could everywhere that they wouldn't let anyone in past 7pm, so I don't get why they're moaning?!

It was organised really well and it's just the GP moaning for the sake of moaning yet again.

Posted by: jakewild 26th August 2019, 05:12 PM

@jack ( the quoting thing hasf***ed up for some reason)

also, c'mon, if you're gonna be there for ariana, who is not only the main act but also the one you'd get in there for to have a few bevvies and scout the area out a bit and find a spot, surely you're gonna get there by 7 anyway. these ppl complaining about coming from like glasgow... if you were that dedicated to get a tick and train you'd surely wanna be there early anyway??

Posted by: Jade 26th August 2019, 05:16 PM

Thanks guys for clearing that up!

I kept seeing tweets like "the security was sooo bad" and people had "no way of knowing" about the 7pm thing so it's clearly just people being salty and exaggerating.

Posted by: jakewild 26th August 2019, 05:48 PM

the security was weird. to get into the main 'space' you only had to show your wristband... then after like a 10 min walk inside to the stages you'd get searched (your clear bag and patted down) but they didn't really search my bag at all really. i had a clear bum bag and he just looks at each side and went ok ur good go in. i coulda had anything in there tbh. also my mate got busted by a bloody sniffer dog so wish they'd spent more money on searching bags than takin hiring dogs to sniff her socks lol

Posted by: jakewild 26th August 2019, 05:49 PM

and yeh, i feel like the 7pm thing was just known... like it wasn't on the ticket but i don't really look @ social media and i somehow knew so yer

Posted by: LMLou 26th August 2019, 06:37 PM

Regarding the folk complaining about not getting in after 7: it’s their own bloody fault for not having the correct appreciation for the legendary Pixie Lott and amazing Becky Hill tbh

Posted by: Jordan Lee 26th August 2019, 07:30 PM

You’d be there on time anyways though wouldn’t you?

It’s rare you’d go to all day event what you’ve paid for like more than half way through the beginning of it.

I wish I was there but I’m hopeful I will eventually see her. I’d already seen Cheryl and Pixie live before but with Ariana I’d much rather have went to one of her tour dates rather than pride just to get the whole experience.