Club NME: all the action from Blossoms’ big night in Manchester

13 February, 2024

Club NME headed to Manchester this past weekend (February 10) to bring big bands in intimate settings: this time, Blossoms in the Club Academy on a Saturday, with special guest DJ sets by Radio X’s Sunta Templeton and The Lottery Winners. Here’s what went down…

Club NME in Manchester

Punters queued down the street to guarantee entry to the Club Academy in Manchester on Saturday night.

Club NME in Manchester

The stage is set: NME brought a banging line-up into an intimate venue for an evening of live music, indie disco classics and good vibes.

Sunta Templeton playing Club NME in Manchester

The Radio X DJ kicked off the night with a set of indie disco classics including Oasis and Catfish and The Bottlemen to warm the crowd up.

Blossoms at Club NME in Manchester

Speaking to NME prior to the show, the band said that ‘Your Girlfriend’ was a set highlight for them and that The Clash’s ‘Rock The Casbah’ was the indie disco banger they always wanted to hear.

Blossoms at Club NME in Manchester

Later this summer, the band will play a huge 30,000-capacity show at Manchester’s Wythenshawe Park alongside Inhaler and more.

Blossoms performing at Club NME in Manchester

The Stockport lads kicked off the show with ‘To Do List (After The Breakup)’, a recently-released collaboration with Findlay.

Blossoms performing at Club NME in Manchester

Punters on the front row got an intimate showing of 2016 debut album songs like ‘Honey Sweet’ and ‘Getaway’.

Blossoms performing at Club NME in Manchester

The band first played the venue on their way up in 2015 and resurrected a song from that era in ‘You Pulled A Gun On Me’. It was the first time they’d performed it live since 2018.

Blossoms performing at Club NME in Manchester

The big hits were scattered throughout the show, but a closing duo of ‘There’s A Reason Why (I Never Returned Your Calls)’ and ‘Charlemagne’ drew the biggest reactions.