{"id":334514,"date":"2026-03-07T23:09:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T23:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/334514\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T23:09:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T23:09:07","slug":"harry-styles-concert-in-manchester-was-a-blowout-dance-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/334514\/","title":{"rendered":"Harry Styles’ Concert in Manchester Was a Blowout Dance Party"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tMoments before Harry Styles<\/a> arrived onstage, Elvis Presley\u2019s thunderous cover of \u201cBridge Over Troubled Water\u201d blasted over speakers to the 23,500 people gathered in Manchester\u2019s Co-Op Live arena. It would be amiss to compare the 32-year-old to the King himself, but the genuinely ear-splitting screams that greet his arrival shortly after 9 p.m. certainly rival those of pop\u2019s all time greats.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe reason is simple: This \u201cOne Night Only,\u201d \u00a320-a-ticket concert show was the true launch party for his fourth album Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally<\/a>, released earlier in the day, and the world\u2019s most in-demand pop star is here to play it in full. Over the 90 minutes that follow, Styles kicked off this intriguing new era in a way that makes perfect sense.<\/p>\n

\n\tThings began with the booming house of \u201cAperture<\/a>,\u201d the track that birthed Harry\u2019s new era and saw some scratching their heads after it became clear that he had, well, made a dance track. When played live, however, it became clear that this is one of the greatest things he\u2019s ever done. <\/p>\n

\n\tStyles largely let the music do the talking for the rest of the show, but repeatedly made it clear how much the occasion means to him. \u201cI rediscovered what a privilege it is to be in people\u2019s lives through music,\u201d he stressed at one point. That feeling was further cemented tonight, no doubt, when his fans seemingly knew every lyric of an album that was less than 24 hours old. The weepy \u201cComing Up Roses<\/a>,\u201d is a particularly touching moment, while new banger \u201cDance No More\u201d saw his fans screaming the apparently nonsensical lyric of \u201cRESPECT YOUR MOTHER!\u201d back to Styles. In fact, while the quality of the lyrics on Harry\u2019s latest have been criticized, it certainly didn\u2019t matter last night, when every song was treated like a new friend.<\/p>\n

\n\tOnce Styles finished the album and returned for a flawless run of older bangers \u2014 \u201cFrom The Dining Table,\u201d \u201c\u2018Golden,\u201d \u201cWatermelon Sugar,\u201d and \u201cAs It Was\u201d \u2014 you found yourself realizing that he might just be pop\u2019s modern ultimate showman. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIn a world we have today that feels so chaotic, it\u2019s easy to become hopeless,\u201d he said, in a heartfelt speech before a closing rendition of \u201cSign Of The Times.\u201d \u201cI encourage you to keep being the change in the world you want to see.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\n\tFew could argue with that statement about the state of the world, but it\u2019s testament to Styles\u2019 music and magnetic performance that, for 90 minutes at least, you feel like you\u2019d been transported to one of the wildest dance parties on the planet. When Wembley Stadium beckons in the summer, it will feel out of this world.<\/p>\n

\n\tThis story was originally published on Rolling Stone UK<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Moments before Harry Styles arrived onstage, Elvis Presley\u2019s thunderous cover of \u201cBridge Over Troubled Water\u201d blasted over speakers…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":334515,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[93,6437,61,60,278],"class_list":{"0":"post-334514","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-harry-styles","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}