The week that was supposed to be all about fine tuning Thursday’s tour announcement and gently showcasing new single Wall of Glass to the media took a different turn however, after the Manchester Arena bomb attack on Monday night.

It adds extra weight to Liam’s first ever solo show, at the O2 Ritz on Tuesday night. He has already decided to donate all profits from the show ot the M.E.N’s victim support appeal.

“Yeah, it changes things,” he says. “Some of the songs on the night are going to take on a different meaning. You do fall into the trap of getting up every night on tour and just doing it. But songs like Live Forever are going to be tough ones to sing on Tuesday.

“It’s going to be sad, but at the end of the day we have to keep moving. We need to enjoy life and we can’t let some evil **** take that away. We’ll be trying to lift people. Otherwise the poor kids who died at the gig have died in vain.”