Elbow opened the troubled £365m Co-op Live arena in Manchester on Tuesday, 14 May.The new venue's first performance had been postponed three times after part of its ventilation and air conditioning system fell to the ground from the ceiling during a soundcheck in early May.Source: PA
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00:00 It's dying, it's dying!
00:02 This is stupid.
00:06 I have a screen.
00:26 Yeah? Yay!
00:28 Yay!
00:30 He booked it.
00:46 I booked it, so yeah, we've had the tickets for a while now, haven't we?
00:50 Yeah, you booked it because you wanted to come to the arena, didn't you?
00:52 Yeah.
00:54 You couldn't see him in Newcastle, but you wanted to come to the arena, so that's what happened, isn't it?
00:58 Yeah.
01:00 We're starting to get a little bit...
01:02 Worried.
01:04 He's been sending me WhatsApps constantly about whether it was going to be on or not.
01:08 And to think that a Manchester band, which Elbow are, are kind of the first band to open their arena.
01:15 It's amazing, isn't it?
01:17 To think of all these others, like Peter K, take that and all them, but a Manchester band opened it up.
01:20 Brilliant.
01:22 What have you been thinking these last few weeks, then, kind of watching it all unfold?
01:25 Worried. It's going to cancel, it's going to cancel, it's not going to happen.
01:28 Yeah, it would be...
01:29 Or we're going to get moved to the other arena in Manchester, which is a big aircraft hangar, really.