Olivia Rodrigo has announced new dates for her rescheduled Manchester shows, and they’re just after Glastonbury 2025.
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The singer has announced that she’ll be playing Manchester’s Co-op Live arena on June 30 and July 1 next year, and tickets purchased for the original shows will be transferred to the new dates automatically.
Glastonbury is set to run from June 25 to 29, meaning that Rodrigo’s Manchester shows will begin a day after the festival ends.
Though none of the headliners for next year’s festival have been revealed yet, Rodrigo is one of the favourites. She made her Glasto debut in 2022, pulling a huge crowd to her set on The Other Stage and bringing out Lily Allen to perform Allen’s 2009 single ‘Fuck You’, dedicating it to the Supreme Court justices in the US who formed the majority to overturn Roe v. Wade.
At the time, NME called her set “a career and festival defining moment,” and said, “While you could argue it’s too early to suggest Rodrigo could make the same leap to the Pyramid top spot, if you passed on her Saturday Glasto show, you’d missed out on a pretty compelling case for it.”
Among the other favourites are Sam Fender, The Rolling Stones, Green Day, AC/DC and Harry Styles. At the time of this year’s festival, co-organiser Emily Eavis revealed that she was “already in talks” with some artists for 2025.
Rodrigo was meant to play Manchester on May 3 and 4 this year as part of her ‘Guts’ world tour, but they were postponed by the venue a couple of days before due to a “venue-related technical issue”. On her Instagram Stories, she expressed her disappointment, saying, “I’ve been having such a great time in Europe so far and I’m sooooo disappointed that we’re unable to perform in Manchester due to “ongoing venue-related technical issues.”
The gigs were just two of a number of shows that were postponed amid issues with Co-op Live. The venue was scheduled to open with performances from Peter Kay on April 23 and 24, which were postponed first by a week and then a month, while shows from A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie, The Black Keys and Keane were also postponed. The venue finally opened on May 14 with a homecoming show from Elbow.
Meanwhile, Rodrigo’s ‘Guts’ tour will be coming to Netflix later this month – her concert special, filmed at the Intuit Dome in Los Angeles, will be available to stream on October 9.
The tour was in support of the star’s second album of the same name, which was released in September last year. NME gave ‘Guts’ five stars, saying, “The 20-year-old’s self-assured second album documents her hopes, fears and trauma with thrilling emotional candour,” and, “‘Guts’ doesn’t just feel transitional in a musical sense. It marks the end of Rodrigo’s teenage years, a moment that has gravity given that she recently said in a statement that she felt like she grew ‘10 years’ between the ages of 18 and 20.
“Here, she offers blunt self-analysis while reflecting on wider cultural ideas of performance and swallowing anger in order to comply with the wants and needs of others. It works as a display of real power, range and versatility – all of which Rodrigo possesses in abundance.”