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Megan Thee Stallion wowed crowds with thot-friendly hits such as WAP phones lit up to capture footage as her twerking bum cheeks troubled the Richter scale.
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The self-styled African Giant performed in a Manchester United shirt and even brought out Paul Pogba, who was surely still knackered from the 4-1 win against Newcastle a few hours earlier. Saturday gifted the crowd with sunny spells and pleasant temperatures as Burna Boy’s Afro-fusion sound lifted spirits further. And as an elated boy turned to me during Bicep’s set to hoarsely tell me “I feel so happy even though I sound like Shrek”, in between sniffs from an emptying baggy, I was clearly witnessing a delayed rite of passage. Sartorially the festival is somewhere between a bucket hat convention and the “ avant basic” aesthetic that now dominates Gen Z. Parklife is therefore a cathartic release for a city’s youth who have been robbed of the chance to gather and revel in their thousands. The nation watched as Andy Burnham passionately battled for more money as the city bore the brunt of the Covid-19 tier system disgruntled Mancunians spent more of the last 18 months living under restrictions than London, prompting graffiti around the city declaring: “The North is not a petri dish.”ĭave performing at Parklife. The prospect of being sandwiched between hordes of drug-enhanced teenagers could have been enough to trigger an existential crisis, but while even 27-year-olds could feel like fossils here, the bracing euphoria of Manchester’s premier music event returning after a year away is palpable. The lifeblood of the festival, though, is arguably dance music, with the BPM of stages including The Valley – which has excellent production values, modelled like a block of flats with a fake ad billboard for dystopian food gels declaring “food is boring” – or The Temple soaring throughout each of the two days for a baby-faced, happy crowd. This year’s edition boasts one of the UK’s most ambitious lineups, mixing blockbuster international acts such as Burna Boy and Megan Thee Stallion with domestic talent in the form of Dave, the soulful sounds of Celeste, on-the-rise acts such as Shygirl and pop favourites Mabel. Details of Afterlife are usually revealed closer to the festival.H osting 80,000 rain-resistant punters each day, Parklife festival encapsulates the energy of Manchester as an enclave of rave.
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It is now curated by a number of the UK's foremost dance brands, including fellow Manchester event series The Warehouse Project and has gone onto welcome some of music's biggest artists over the past decade, such as Liam Gallagher, Foals, Disclosure, The Chemical Brothers and The 1975.Īnd once the main festival has finished, festival-goers have historically had a number of after parties to choose from – named Afterlife – which have featured a selection of artists that performed during the main festival (as well as others) in venues across Manchester. Having started out back in 2010 as the curiously named Mad Ferret Festival in Rusholme's Platt Fields Park, the festival rebranded to Parklife and moved to its current home in Heaton Park in 2012. Now a UK festival favourite, Parklife will once again curate a top-tier lineup across eight stages, including its prestigious main stage which will welcome headliners 50 Cent, Tyler, the Creator, and Megan Thee Stallion.īut beyond the main stage is where Parklife really comes alive, with seven stages consistently showcasing house, techno, garage, drum and bass galore, seeing the likes of Chase & Status, Bicep, Four Tet, Peggy Gou, Camelphat, Carl Cox and more perform across 11-12th June 2022.
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Parklife 2022 sees the Manchester festival return to the city's Heaton Park in summer 2022 or a weekend alongside some of dance and alternative music's foremost names.