What do you eat before a game?
There’s all these burger vans outside of Old Trafford, and there’s this one place that does a double chicken burger with a hash brown on the top with cheese, and it’s banging. I get that every time I go to a game – it’s proper football food.
After a game, where's best place to go for dance music in Manchester?
It’s got to be the Warehouse Project. It’s a real northern institution for dance music. They really changed the game in terms of how people go clubbing in the UK. They’re offering a festival size line-up at a kind of clubbing ticket price. As a clubber myself, I started going there back when it was at Boddingtons Brewery in 2006; it’s just got better every year since. I recently played a headline show there, which was a special moment – going there as a clubber for so many years, I never dreamed that I’d be able to sell out my own headline show there.
If you were to design your ideal night out in Manchester, what would it look like?
It would probably be a few pre-drinks at a house – or your hotel! – first. Then I’d head over to the Northern Quarter. Weather dependent obviously, but it’d be nice to be in some beer gardens and listen to some live music. Then I’d head over to the Warehouse Project at Piccadilly Station and just dance the night away until it closes – get that real traditional warehouse clubbing experience. Then back to someone’s kitchen for a little bit of an afterparty!
Best place for breakfast with a hangover?
Obviously, it has to be a fry-up at a greasy spoon [cafe]. But, honestly, if you want a true UK experience, go to a Wetherspoons for breakfast – I guarantee someone will be having a pint at nine o’clock in the morning.
