Ahead of the performance, fans said they were ‘apprehensive’.
Live music has finally got under way at the troubled Co-op Live arena as British band Elbow opened the new venue in Manchester.
“There was already electricity in the air before you lot got in here and now it’s fully amped up. I hope you can feel it,” he said. The venue then planned for US rapper A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie to open the arena on May 1, but it was called off just over an hour before his performance and after doors had opened to fans – due to the ventilation system becoming detached.
Mr Lawson, who was wearing an Elbow T-shirt from a concert he attended 21 years ago, said: “We’ve had the tickets for a while, we didn’t think it was going to come off actually. He told BBC News he was confident it was “the safest building in the world”, adding there had been “no way” operators could have known the ventilation was not installed correctly.Concert goers arriving at the Co-op Live arena
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