With anticipation reaching its peak for Manchester’s newest venue Co-op Live Arena to open, the announcements continue to come in thick and fast. A really exciting performance to be confirmed is Glass Animals, who will be playing Co-op Live on Saturday 2 November this year.
The indie rock band rose to fame in the mid-2010s, becoming the apple of many a young person’s eye (in our experience) with tunes including Gooey, Life Itself and Heat Waves. The band will fit in their Manchester date at Co-op Live between visiting Glasgow and Nottingham, after having toured Europe and America.
In the build-up to the band’s newest album I Love You So F***ing Much announcement, cryptic flyposters, graffiti and billboards of the album’s title have been popping up globally since Valentine’s Day, with the band officially revealing the first visual taste of the album on socials earlier this month.
Wanting to bring fans into the sci-fi-inspired world of their new album I Love You So F***ing Much early, Glass Animals set up a landing page that simply read “Panic. Answer the Question please” (a nod to Douglas Adams’ infamous Hitchhiker’s Guide to The Galaxy).
With 15,000 questions posed to the band within the first couple of days, they set about trawling through them: What’s going on (existentially)? Will Glass Animals perform in Space? Are we hitchhiking the universe? What is the meaning of life?
To Dave, it’s a continuation of the Open Source website the band started in the pandemic. A site where fans could download jpegs and mp3s from the band, share them and create their own artwork and tunes. Engaging with each other and Glass Animals in a deeper way, this modernist iteration of “Ask Me Anything” sparked a conversation around the power of love in a-what-can-sometimes-feel-like-a cold and loveless world.
The UK and Ireland dates are as follows:
- 30 October – Dublin – 3Arena
- 1 November – Glasgow – OVO Hydro
- 2 November – Manchester – Co-op Live
- 3 November – Nottingham – Motorpoint Arena
- 5 November – Cardiff – Utilita Arena
- 7 November – London – The O2 Arena
🎟️ Tickets for Glass Animals at Co-op Live Arena will be available here from 10am on 11 April.