‘Someone’s paid a grand in cash’: fans camp out in Manchester for first Harry Styles concert since 2023

<p>Styles will perform new album in full at Co-op Live arena show, with tickets being traded for well above £20 face value</p><p>More than 20,000 fans from all over the world flocked towards the Co-op Live arena in Manchester on Friday to watch Harry Styles perform his first concert in two and a half years – some waiting 48 hours for a place down the front.</p><p>Styles will perform his new album <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/mar/04/harry-styles-kiss-all-the-time-disco-occasionally-review-nice-all-the-time-good-occasionally">Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally</a> in full, after its release earlier today. Anticipation for the show had been high since tickets went on sale for £20 in early February, which, barring a performance of the album’s lead single <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/jan/23/harry-styles-aperture-review">Aperture</a> at the Brit awards – which took place at the same arena a week earlier – will be Styles’ first time on stage since closing out a tour in Italy in July 2023. It has been marketed as a homecoming show for the pop star, who was raised outside the city in Holmes Chapel, Cheshire.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/mar/06/fans-camp-out-in-manchester-for-first-harry-styles-concert-since-2023">Continue reading...</a>

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