Ogden joins Horan for Charlemagne at Co-op Live

On 25 September at Co-op Live in Manchester, the crowd were treated to an unexpected Stockport chorus. Clips spread quickly on TikTok; no further joint dates have been announced.

Tom Ogden stepped onto the Co-op Live stage on 25 September as a surprise guest at Niall Horan’s Dinner Party show. Horan introduced the Blossoms frontman to the crowd and they performed Charlemagne, the Blossoms' hit, dancing and singing together. Fan videos of the moment spread quickly on TikTok.

The night put two familiar names from the British and Irish pop and rock circuit on the same stage for a single song. Ogden is from Stockport, a short distance from the venue. Horan, the Irish singer-songwriter who first came to wide notice with One Direction, was headlining one of Manchester’s larger rooms and made room for a guest from just down the road.

Stockport’s run, from the debut to the wedding cake

Blossoms formed in Stockport, Greater Manchester, in 2013. The line-up has remained Tom Ogden, Charlie Salt, Josh Dewhurst, Joe Donovan and Myles Kellock. Early singles — Blow, You Pulled a Gun on Me, Cut Me and I’ll Bleed — led into the self-titled debut album in 2016 and its extended edition the same year. Cool Like You followed in 2018, with How Long Will This Last? among the singles around that record.

The band have kept a steady release pace since. Gary arrived in 2024, followed by Gary’s Covers and the single What Can I Say After I’m Sorry? later that year. 2025 brought The Honeymoon. In 2026 they have issued Joke About Divorce and the album Songs From The Wedding Cake. Charlemagne sits among the songs that first carried them beyond Greater Manchester. Hearing it delivered with Horan at Co-op Live brought that early material before a mixed audience who may have come for the headliner and left with a Stockport chorus in their heads.

Horan’s solo catalogue and a shared chorus

Horan’s path from One Direction to solo work is well marked in the catalogue. The group, formed in 2010 on The X Factor, released five albums and became one of the best-selling boy bands of their time. His own singles began with This Town in 2016, first in a live one-mic take and then as a studio release, ahead of the album Flicker in 2017. Slow Hands and Too Much To Ask belonged to that first wave.

The Show, released in 2023, extended the solo catalogue, with The Show: The Encore the same year and live sets — The Show: Live From Madison Square Garden and The Show: Live On Tour — in 2024. A five-year anniversary edition of Heartbreak Weather followed in 2025, alongside a feature on Old Tricks. Drive Safe is among his 2026 singles. The Dinner Party framing of the Co-op Live date suits a solo career that has moved from the scale of the early arenas towards a stage presence open enough to make room for a guest from the indie circuit next door.

The two men shared the song and the dance. Phones across the floor caught the exchange and pushed it out on TikTok within hours. Both artists already sit on the Eirewave playlist, so the crossover will have pleased regular listeners rather than startled them. A Blossoms staple landing inside a Horan set is the kind of unforced meeting this station’s audience lives with every day — records, voices and a live moment that does not need a press campaign to travel.

No further dates for similar collaborations have been announced. Whether the night remains a one-off or seeds another shared stage remains open. For now it stands as a Friday in Manchester when a Stockport hit found a second voice under the Co-op Live lights, and when two careers that usually run on parallel tracks briefly occupied the same chorus.