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Lineup revealed for Moovin Festival in Stockport

Moovin will take over Whitebotham Farm August 27 - 29 - hosting a big weekend of music in the Compstall countryside.

The Manc The Manc - 11th June 2021

The lineup for Stockport’s famous Moovin Festival has officially been revealed this week.

Rap royalty Naughty By Nature will headline the Etherow Country Park event on August bank holiday – with the hip-hop trio confirmed for a rare UK appearance.

Dance titans Basement Jaxx, rap pioneer Eek A Mouse, UK favourites Asian Dub Foundation, and disco don Todd Terje are also confirmed – alongside Sugar Hill Gang, Mr Scruff, Krafty Kuts, Graeme Park, DJ Woody, Craig Charles, Stanton Warriors, K Klass and The Mouse Outfit.

An eclectic mix of support acts have also been confirmed – including Afrobeat collectives, beatboxing violinists, and the Elvis fronted Nirvana tribute band Elvana.

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Moovin will take over the eco-friendly Whitebottom Farm on August 27 – 29 for a full weekend in stunning Compstall countryside.

Situated just 30 minutes away from Manchester, the festival is described as an “adult wonderland” – featuring a Barn Stage (an open sided cow shed with bales of hay) and luxury camping options such as bell tents.

Moovin is also hosting a summer barn party in July – functioning as a warm-up for the big event one month later.

Tickets and information are available online here.

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Full list of road closures set to be in place as Manchester Day 2025 takes over the city

Emily Sergeant Emily Sergeant

Manchester Day is back for 2025 this weekend, and the full list of road closures set to be in place has been confirmed.

Now that schools are officially out across Greater Manchester, and the summer holidays are well and truly here, the hugely-popular Manchester Day is making a return once again this Saturday 26 July, and as always, it’s set to be ‘the day summer officially starts’ in the city centre – with a massive celebration of ‘all things Mancunian’ on the cards.

The theme of this year’s annual event is music, and it’s inspired by Manchester’s spectacular summer of sound, spearheaded by Oasis Live ’25 that recently concluded at Heaton Park.

The day will be packed full of free events and activities to get involved with.

Manchester Day is back with a ‘mammoth day’ of music-themed free fun / Credit: Manchester City Council

As always, activities will be taking place right across the city centre – from St Ann’s Square to Cathedral Gardens, and everywhere in between.

Organisers say there will be plenty of chances throughout the day for visitors, both young and old, to get stuck in, try their hand at making music and maybe even uncover a hidden musical talent they didn’t know they had.

But of course, in order for the all the fun to go ahead as safely as possible, and as tends to be the case for events like these, Manchester City Council says it will need to make some temporary road closures to facilitate it.

The full list of road closures has now been confirmed by the Council, and there’s some major city centre thoroughfares set to be out of action.

Here’s everything you need to know.

A number of road closures and parking suspensions will be in place / Credit: Manchester City Council

Manchester Day 2025 – Road Closures

Saturday 26 July 

From 6am to 10​pm, Manchester City Council has confirmed that the following roads will be closed:

  • Deansgate (Victoria Street to John Dalton Street)
  • St Ann Street (Deansgate to Cross Street)
  • Cross Street (Corporation Street to New Market Street)
  • St Mary’s Gate (Exchange Street to Deansgate)
  • Market Street (Cross Street to Exchange Street)
  • Exchange Street (St Mary’s Gate to St Ann’s Square)
  • Cateaton Street (Deansgate to Exchange Square)
  • Victoria Street (Deansgate to Cathedral Approach)
  • Fennel Street (Corporation Street to Cathedral Street)
  • Cathedral Street (Fennel Street to Exchange Square)

From 10am to 2pm:

  • Deansgate (John Dalton Street to St John Street)
  • Peter Street (St James Street to Deansgate)
  • Mount Street (Windmill Street to Albert Square)
  • Central Street (Southmill Street to Mount Street)
Manchester Day is back with a ‘mammoth day’ of music-themed FREE fun

All accessible bays, bus lanes, and taxi ranks within the closed areas will also be suspended during from 9pm on Friday 25 July to 9pm on Saturday 26 July.

The parking suspensions set to be in place are:

  • Deansgate (Victoria Street to St John Street) 
  • Peter Street (St James Street to Deansgate) 
  • Mount Street (Windmill Street to Albert Square)
  • Central Street (Southmill Street to Mount Street) 
  • Southmill Street (Windmill Street to Jackson’s Row)
  • Museum Street (Windmill Street to Peter Street)
  • George Street (Princess Street to Dickinson Street)
  • Victoria Street (Deansgate to Cathedral Approach)
  • St Ann Street (Deansgate to Cross Street)
  • Cross Street (Corporation Street to New Market Street)
  • Cateaton Street (Deansgate to Exchange Square)
  • Market Street (Cross Street to St Mary’s Gate)
  • St Mary’s Gate (Market Street to Deansgate)
  • John Dalton Street (Cross Street to Deansgate)
  • King Street (Cross Street to Spring Gardens)
  • St James’s Square (King Street to South King Street)
  • St Mary’s Street (Southgate to Deansgate)
  • Cathedral Street (Fennel Street to Exchange Square)
  • Fennel Street (Corporation Street to Cathedral Street)
  • Southgate (King Street West to St Mary’s Street)

On the day, full traffic diversion signage will be in place across all areas affected by road closures, and the Council says it will do its best to ‘minimise’ their duration.

Manchester Day 2025 is taking over the city centre on Saturday 26 July, and will be kicking off at midday right through to 5pm.

Read more:

Check out everything you need to know ahead of the event here.

Featured Image – Manchester City Council

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There’s a World Gravy Wrestling Championship near Greater Manchester

Thomas Melia Thomas Melia World Gravy Wrestling Championships Greater Manchester

Just on the outskirts of Greater Manchester, there’s a country pub set in a rural village that hosts a world gravy wrestling championship.

Leave it to us northerners to organise a world gravy wrestling championship because let’s face it, there’s nothing more northern than plummeting yourself into bucket loads of gravy.

It’s a well-known fact that we Brits, especially northerners, love a good splash of gravy with our meals – so much so, in fact, that according to one study, we drench meals in gravy three times a week.

At The Rose ‘N’ Bowl in the village of Stacksteads, it’s not just their meals they’re drenching in the brown nectar; they drench any willing guest in this beige saucy goodness too as part of the World Gravy Wrestling Championships.

Here’s a little taster from nearly a decade ago.

Participants are expected to wrestle in the gravy for two minutes, with the winner being judged not only on their play-fighting skills but also on their choice of fancy dress, comedy effect and entertainment.

Past wrestlers have rocked up as zebras, racehorse jockeys and famous TV characters like Ali G and Mickey Mouse.

Each wrestler is encouraged to raise money on behalf of a charity of their choice, but if you don’t have one, donations will be sent to East Lancashire Hospice, which has helped people countywide suffering from life-limiting illness for the past 30 years.

The World Gravy Wrestling Championships have been held outside this very pub for over a decade, with the first ever event taking place at a car park in Wigan before it found a permanent home outside The Rose ‘N’ Bowl.

And if swimming in a pool of gravy isn’t for you, don’t fret because there’s a handful of sauce-free activities you can get involved with spread throughout the pub’s car park.

Fret not, past events have included bouncy castles, cheerleading performances, craft beer stalls, cake and tombola stands and even a BB gun shooting range that are all completely gravy-free.

There will even be help from a local fire brigade who will be on hand to wash down wrestlers in between their gravy-filled tournament, so they can wander round all the stalls too.

Read more:

The 2025 World Gravy Wrestling Championships are coming to The Rose ‘N’ Bowl in Stacksteads on 25 August, with tickets available in person only, but plenty of information about the event HERE.

If you’re after signing up to be one of the wrestlers at this event, applications are still open and you can get stuck in with all the details you need HERE.

And if that wasn’t enough Northern food competitive action, we’ll catch you at the World Black Pudding Hurling Championships, innabit.

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