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Benefit Concert To Reopen Manchester Arena
Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds is confirmed to headline the We Are Manchester benefit concert Sept. 9 in remembrance of the May 22 attack on
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Shaky Knees Music Festival, Central Park, Atlanta, Ga.
“All profits from the concert will raise money for the Manchester Memorial Fund, a charitable trust overseen by the Lord Mayor of Manchester which will go towards establishing a permanent memorial for the May 22 attack,” Manchester Evening News reports.
The concert marks the official reopening of the 21,000-capacity venue. Support acts include Courteeners, Blossoms, Rick Astley, Tony Walsh and
More acts are to be announced.
Tickets are sold via Eventim and Ticketmaster and are priced £25-£30. They went on sale Aug. 17 at 9 a.m. – no direct box office and no pre-sale.
A maximum of four tickets can be purchased per person, and concertgoers are required to enter their names. Increased security checks will be in place, with no bags larger than 35cm x 40cm x 19cm allowed.
No bag storage space will be provided. A suicide bomber killed 22 people outside the main area of Manchester Arena on May 22.
The damage meant that all events until mid-September were either canceled or rescheduled.