{"id":25867,"date":"2025-07-27T21:26:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T21:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/25867\/"},"modified":"2025-07-27T21:26:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T21:26:07","slug":"drake-cancels-manchester-gig-over-travel-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/25867\/","title":{"rendered":"Drake cancels Manchester gig over ‘travel issues’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rapper Drake has cancelled his concert in Manchester on Monday due to “travel logistics”, according to a statement issued by the Co-op Live arena.<\/p>\n

The Canadian musician has rescheduled the performance at the venue for 5 August and organisers said “all tickets remain valid for the new date”.<\/p>\n

He had already performed two gigs in the the city on Friday and Saturday as part of a global tour and is due to stage another concert at Co-op Live on 4 August.<\/p>\n

A statement on the arena’s website said: “Due to unforeseen ferry schedule and travel logistics, tomorrow’s performance in Manchester on July 28th has been rescheduled.”<\/p>\n

It added: “The good news is that Drake will now perform in Manchester on Tuesday, August 5th, and it’s set to be an unforgettable night.”<\/p>\n

However, many fans with tickets for Monday remained unimpressed, with some describing the short notice cancellation as a “joke”.<\/p>\n

A man wrote: “Extended my unpaid leave in Dubai to stay in Manchester so I could see Drake on 28th July just for him to cancel last minute.”<\/p>\n

Another woman said she felt it was a “lame excuse of travel logistics”.<\/p>\n

One of the most-streamed artists in the world, Drake released his new single<\/a> with UK rapper Central Cee \u2013 called Which One – last Thursday during an episode of his Iceman stream, which was filmed around the city including at Manchester Piccadilly railway station and Victoria Baths.<\/p>\n

He has been performing across the UK this summer as part of his first tour in Europe in six years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rapper Drake has cancelled his concert in Manchester on Monday due to “travel logistics”, according to a statement…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25868,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[64,63,134,136],"class_list":["post-25867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}