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Elbow have said they are “ready” to open the new Co-Op Live arena in Manchester tonight (May 14) following weeks of chaos at the venue.Guy Garvey and co. are scheduled to perform at the 23,500-capacity arena – which is the UK’s largest indoor venue – as part of their current UK headline tour.

Troubled Co-op Live is set to finally open its doors tonight. After a number of false starts, East Manchester's new £365 million venue, set to become the biggest indoor arena in Britain, will host its first full show with local heroes Elbow the headline act.

A woman has died at a Scots music festival over the weekend.

Ministry performed a setlist of songs that haven’t been played live since the 1980s at Cruel World Festival this weekend.The US industrial metal pioneers performed at Brookside at The Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California on Saturday (May 11), where the likes of Duran Duran, Interpol, Blondie and Simple Minds were headlining.Ministry were billed on the line-up poster as performing songs from their first two albums – 1983’s ‘With Sympathy’ and 1986’s ‘Twitch’ – which meant fans were treated to a host of songs that haven’t been performed in decades.‘Work For Love’, ‘I’m Falling’ and ‘Effigy (I’m Not An)’ were all performed live for the first time since 1984, while ‘All Day’, ‘Over the Shoulder’ and ‘Just Like You’ were brought back for the first time since 1987.Also in the set was ‘We Believe’ for the first time since 2003, and ‘(Everyday Is) Halloween’, which was last played for a crowd back in 2019.Check out fan-shot footage of the show below.‘Work For Love’‘All Day’‘Over The Shoulder’‘Just Like You’‘We Believe’‘I’m Falling’‘Effigy (I’m Not An)’‘Revenge’‘(Everyday Is) Halloween’In an interview with Rolling Stone ahead of the performance, Ministry frontman Al Jourgensen explained how he came round to the idea of performing their debut live again.“The guys in the band know I don’t like this record,” he shared. “They came up with all these new versions of all the old songs and then sprung them on me one night on the bus while I was on ‘shrooms.

BAFTA TV Awards, celebrating the best in British television, are kicking off at London’s Royal Festival Hall. The final season of Netflix’s “The Crown” leads the pack this year with eight nominations, including for Dominic West, Elizabeth Debecki, Lesley Manville and Salim Daw in the performance categories. However, it missed out on an overall drama series nod.

The BAFTA TV Awards are taking place today (May 12) at the Royal Festival Hall on a hot early evening here in London, with the likes of Succession, Black Mirror and The Crown will be battling it out for gongs.

Manchester United will face title chasing Arsenal this weekend with both sides desperate for the three points.

Rudie Obias editor If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Variety may receive an affiliate commission. UFC returns after a thrilling UFC 301 with Alexandre Pantoja defeating Steve Erceg in the main event. For UFC Fight Night, American Derrick Lewis (27-12) battles Brazilian fighter Rodrigo Nascimento (11-1) as the main card’s marquee matchup.

Elbow’s upcoming show will now serve as the venue’s much-postponed opening night.Guy Garvey and co. are scheduled to play the arena, which is set to be the UK’s largest indoor venue with a capacity of 23,500, on May 14 as part of their current UK tour.The arena have had a disastrous few weeks, after a series of events prevented it from being able to open its doors on time.But the venue have now confirmed to Manchester Evening News that, “At this time, we do not expect further impact on our opening season.”The same report suggests that Co-Op Live are also still working on rescheduling Olivia Rodrigo’s postponed shows, with an announcement expected in due course.The BBC also note that the arena has completed an inspection which found that the fault that forced the A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie delay on May 1 was “isolated” and that the venue is now “satisfied” that the opening can go ahead on May 14.The inspection is said to have been carried out by the same subcontractor, SES, that was also responsible for installing the arena’s air handling units.

Pat Saperstein Deputy Editor The Jim Henson Company‘s live-action monster tale “Grendel” has rounded out its cast with Jeff Bridges in the role of Grendel, as well as Dave Bautista as Beowulf and Bryan Cranston as King Hrothgar. Also joining the cast are Thomasin McKenzie as Queen Wealhtheow, Aidan Turner as Unferth and, as the Shaper, T Bone Burnett, who will also provide original songs for the film. Robert D.

Jeff Bridges (Crazy Heart) will play the title role in Grendel, a live-action monster flick from The Jim Henson Company, for which Palisades Park Pictures is launching international sales ahead of Cannes.

Keane have announced plans to return to Manchester following the cancellation of a recent gig that was scheduled to take place at Co-op Live.

Controversial plans to remove services from Bell’s Sports Centre are set to go ahead in the summer.

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent Kinology (“Dracula, a Love Story”) has boarded international sales to “The Big War,” an epic €30-million live action-CGI characters hybrid movie which will mark the directorial comeback of “La Haine” filmmaker Mathieu Kassovitz. The ambitious feature is adapted from “La Bête Est Morte,” an iconic two-part graphic novel illustrated by Edmond Calvo during War World 2 in Nazi-Occupied France and published after the country was liberated.

Taylor Swift has kicked off the European leg of her career-spanning ‘Eras’ tour, where she performed an entirely new section that included numerous live debuts – see what she performed below.Last night (May 9), Swift performed her first ‘Eras’ show since releasing her latest album, ‘The Tortured Poets Department’. As such, it also marked her first show to feature a section honouring the album, which consisted of nine tracks from the record that have never been performed live before.For her first-ever ‘Tortured Poets Department’ segment, she performed a combination of ‘But Daddy I Love Him’ and ‘So High School’, followed by ‘Who’s Afraid Of Little Old Me?’ – which is Lana Del Rey’s favourite track off the album – and ‘Down Bad’.

Twenty One Pilots have debuted an unreleased song, ‘The Craving’, while performing in London – watch footage of the performance below.Last night, Twenty One Pilots – the duo of Tyler Joseph and Josh Dun – performed at the Electric Ballroom in Camden, London. During the set, the pair treated fans in attendance to an unreleased track, ‘The Craving’, which is due to feature on their upcoming album ‘Clancy’.Titled ‘The Craving (Jenna’s Version)’, the song was written for singer Tyler Joseph’s wife.

Chris Pine is looking as cozy as possible while rolling in to the El Capitan Entertainment Centre to film an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Thursday (May 9) in Hollywood, Calif.

Chrissy Teigen, Andy Cohen, the cast of The Valley and numerous Real Housewives will be celebrating today after Bravo unveiled its latest programming slate.

Ellise Shafer Eras Tour attendees, welcome to “The Tortured Poets Department.” At Taylor Swift‘s Paris concert on Thursday night — the European kickoff of the record-breaking tour and her first show since the album’s release — the pop icon debuted several of the new songs live at La Défense Arena, starting with “But Daddy I Love Him.” Swift kicked off the show with her usual opener, “Miss Americana & the Heartbreak Prince,” playing songs from both her “Lover” and “Fearless” eras. Then she switched up the set order, performing tracks from “Red,” “Speak Now” and “Reputation,” instead of transitioning to “Evermore,” as she had during the previous leg of the tour.

Scots woman Fiona Harvey will go head to head with Piers Morgan in an explosive TV clash on his YouTube channel which airs tonight. They will discuss the "true story" behind smash hit Netflix show Baby Reindeer, which features lead character 'Martha', said to be based on Harvey.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor They’re not dead yet: Most of Vice Media Group‘s digital brands — including Vice.com — will be relaunched under a new joint venture formed by the struggling media company. But the future of Vice News remains uncertain. In February, Vice Media had announced that it would stop publishing content on consumer-facing digital outlets and the Brooklyn-based company laid off several hundred employees.