Warrington’s Neighbourhood Weekender has revealed the dates and lineup for next May.
The weekender will take over Victoria Park again on Saturday 28 and Sunday 29 May 2022, marking the start of the summer.
Manchester’s own Courteeners and Blossoms will be heading up the bill, as well as DMA’S and Becky Hill and Tom Grennan.
On the Saturday, the Courteeners appearance will be the band’s first since they headlined the first Neighbourhood event back in 2018.
Across the two days, there will also be sets from the likes The Lathums, Sports Team and Inhaler – all of whom will make their return following their stellar performances in this year’s event.
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Kasabian will have the job of bringing the weekender to a close, too. This will follow a highly anticipated sold-out tour of intimate venues coming this autumn.
Neighbourhood Weekender will be back on 28 and 29 May 2022. Credit: Anthony Mooney
As well as the all the big names, you’ll find plenty of up-and-coming talent from across the UK, including Pixey, Kynsy and Wet Leg. So, there’ll be plenty of new music to discover across the two-dayer.
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And if you love a bit of The Beatles, the ‘world’s premier Beatles band’ The Bootleg Beatles will also bring the iconic Beatles catalogue to life.
The full first wave of artists just announced includes:
Saturday 28 May 2022
Courteeners
DMA’S
Becky Hill
The Lathums
The Fratellis
Example
Jamie Webster
The Snuts
Wet Leg
Brooke Combe
Kynsy
Tommy Lefroy
Sunday 29 May 2022
Kasabian
Blossoms
Tom Grennan
Pale Waves
Inhaler
The Amazons
Cast
Starsailor
The Bootleg Beatles
Pixey
Whilst this year’s edition had to be pushed back to September due to COVID-19 restrictions earlier in the year. But the festival will resume its usual May-time dates for 2022 with loads more artists yet to be announced.
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Olly Murs ‘gutted’ after walking off stage just six songs into a huge arena show
Daisy Jackson
Olly Murs has shared a video update after walking off stage just six songs into a huge arena gig.
The Heart Skips a Beat star had been performing in Glasgow last night when he abruptly stopped the show, apologised to fans, and left the stage.
The gig was cancelled around 20 minutes into his show, which is part of a huge UK arena tour that’s meant to be heading to Manchester tonight.
A tearful Olly said that he was seeing a doctor last night and would update fans of the rest of his shows ‘as soon as I know anything’.
He hasn’t yet said whether his concert at the AO Arena in Manchester will be going ahead as planned tonight (Friday 23 May).
Olly Murs said: “Firstly I’m so sorry. I’m so sorry I had to walk off after six songs and cancel the show. I’ve never done this in 15 years.
“Most of the time as singers you can kind of get through it if your voice isn’t 100% – I walked out tonight thinking my voice was great, I maybe felt a little bit run down but I didn’t think I couldn’t do the show. I wouldn’t have come out there otherwise.
“So to walk off after six songs, as I said, I’m so sorry. As you can probably hear from my voice, I just sounded rubbish and it’s unfair for you guys that spent all that money to come and see me. You deserve the best show and me being at my best, and I’m so sorry from the bottom of my heart.
“Hopefully I can recover from this.
“I’m actually going to see a doctor tonight which is great, so I’ll give you guys an update as soon as I know anything. Obviously I wanna try my absolute best to make these shows possible at the weekend.
“So yeah, so sorry for everyone tonight, apologies from the bottom of my heart. Gutted.”
Major star pulls out of Parklife festival due to ‘scheduling conflict’
Daisy Jackson
One of the biggest attractions of this year’s Parklife festival line-up has pulled out just weeks before the event.
Rising star and TikTok sensation Lola Young will no longer be performing at the huge Manchester festival.
She’s the voice behind ‘Messy’, that song you can’t get out of your head (or off your For You Page), and has already earned herself two BRIT Award nominations.
Lola Young was one of the biggest names announced on this year’s Parklife line-up, which has headline slots from Charli XCX, 50 Cent, Jorja Smith and Peggy Gou.
She was set to perform on the Saturday of the festival, taking place on 14 and 15 June.
But Parklife has now confirmed that Lola Young has dropped out of the lineup owing to a ‘scheduling conflict’.
In a post on Instagram they wrote: “Due to an unavoidable scheduling conflict Lola Young will not be performing at Parklife 2025.
“We would like to apologise for any disappointment.
“Full set times will be published at 5pm Tuesday 20th May on the PL25 App where we will also be announcing some surprise additions to the weekend in the run up to the festival.”
Parklife will be taking place next month in Manchester – you can keep up with the latest HERE and grab final tickets HERE.
Hannah Starkie -
23rd September 2021 
