Mystery faces beamed onto Manchester Cathedral and Deansgate explained

If you’ve spotted the massive projections in Manchester city centre, here’s the reason why they were there.
Jenny Simpson
By Jenny Simpson
Published 2nd Sep 2022, 10:12 GMT
The Courteeners Heaton Park gig is being promoted by giant lit up signs in Manchester city centreThe Courteeners Heaton Park gig is being promoted by giant lit up signs in Manchester city centre
The Courteeners Heaton Park gig is being promoted by giant lit up signs in Manchester city centre

Manchester band The Courteeners lit up parts of the city centre with giant billboards promoting their homecoming gig.

The projections started popping up in the city centre on Wednesday night, ahead of tickets being released on pre-sale yesterday and general sale today (2 September).

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The billboards appeared Manchester Cathedral, the Apollo, Deansgate, St Phillips Church, the Warwick Building in Middleton and the entrance to Heaton Park.

The Courteeners Heaton Park tickets are out now; the bllboard at the ApolloThe Courteeners Heaton Park tickets are out now; the bllboard at the Apollo
The Courteeners Heaton Park tickets are out now; the bllboard at the Apollo

The Middleton-formed band projected the cover of their iconic albukm St Jude which is being re-released in January to mark its 15th anniversary.

They will play the record in full at a huge homecoming concert in Heaton Park on 9 June next year.

Tickets for the gig are out now: for full details see here.

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