It's all adding up to be quite a week in Manchester ahead for Ed Sheeran. The global guitar-playing phenomenon continues his huge Mathematics tour of the UK with four massive gigs at Manchester's Etihad Stadium starting on Thursday, June 9.
And no pressure Ed, but you're following in the footsteps of homecoming hero Liam Gallagher fresh from his stirring gig inside the Etihad to start Manchester's mad June of live gigs. The Bad Habits hitmaker has certainly had plenty of warm up for his Manchester reign at the home of the Premier League champions though.
He's played to record-breaking crowds in Wales at the Principality Stadium, then on to Sunderland's Stadium of Light - winning rave reviews for his performance in the process. And when the global guitar hero plays his four night stint in Manchester it will be to simply huge capacity crowds of 60,000 each night.