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Here is the lineup for Neighbourhood Weekender 2022

Courteeners, Kasabian, Blossoms and loads more are set to play Victoria Park next May.

Hannah Starkie Hannah Starkie - 23rd September 2021

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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Gary Barlow announces TWO huge gigs in Manchester next year

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Gary Barlow has announced the dates for his 2025 UK tour this morning, and it includes two Manchester shows.

If you’ve missed this boyband heartthrob in all his live show glory, then you can catch him not once but twice in this city centre local music venue.

On top of being a household name and massive eye candy for mums, the Cheshire-born singer has had impressive musical career – with 15 UK number ones, 12 of those as part of boyband Take That – as well as his first two solo singles both reaching the top spot in 1996 and 1997.

Three of his solo studio albums have also achieved pole position too, most recently in 2020.

His face may be very recognisable, but his songwriting credits are even more so.

The 53-year-old has writing titles on ‘Candy’ by fellow boyband member Robbie Williams, and even for current I’m A Celebrity campmate Tulisa and her group N-Dubz, as well as also featuring on our screens over the years, most-notably as a judge on The X Factor.

The songwriting titan has aged like a fine wine, and ironically, even has his own self-titled vino brand ‘Gary Barlow Wines’, so fans can hope there’s lots of drinks flowing at his upcoming tour dates.

His legacy has continued, although not the musical way he intended, but through his son, Daniel, whose staggering height quickly became a viral moment online.

So, whether you want to watch Barlow ‘Sing’ his hits in Manchester, or treat yourself to a nice staycation next year, then ere’s 41 UK tour dates to choose from – including some of the next closest to Manchester being Blackpool, Halifax, and Liverpool.

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Gary Barlow is bringing his ‘Songbook Tour 2025’ to O2 Apollo in Manchester on 8 and 9 May next year, with tickets going on sale this Friday (29 November) at 9:30am here.

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Posters around Manchester city centre spark serious rumours Charli XCX is set to headline Parklife 2025

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Some pretty big, green posters are popping up around town and, not to get ahead of ourselves, but it looks like they’re hinting at Charli XCX headlining Parklife 2025…

Feel free to lose your bratting minds.

A number of tall, let’s call it ‘apple’ green posters have been sighted in various places across Manchester city centre this Friday, 22 November and the last time we saw this slightly low-resolution, plain black Arial font and colour combo we got a reworked version of Charli XCX’s brat album.

Listen, all we can tell you is that this is almost exactly the same marketing and the letters on the poster simply read, “PL25”. Come on… you do the math(s).

@the.manc Posters have appeared all over Manchester and it looks like a @Charli XCX headline slot at @Parklife Festival is coming. SCREAMING. #themanc #manchester #charlixcx #parklife #mcr #brat ♬ original sound – Saturday Night Live – SNL

Spotting at least two of the posters for ourselves around both Newton and Thomas Street in and around the Northern Quarter, plenty of people have been double-taking at the simple but bold and undeniably eye-catching portrait posters.

Trust us, we weren’t the only ones stopping to take a picture and frantically send them to half of our phonebook either.

Charli herself hasn’t given us any other clues on social media thus far – to be fair, this one feels fairly obvious to us – but it’s well worth keeping your eyes peeled on her stories as she did plenty of teasing before dropping Brat and it’s completely different but also still brat.

Still can’t get over that actually being the title, by the way.

It’s also worth noting that Parklife themselves recently confirmed that festival fans can expect to find out their headliners and the full 2025 lineup very soon. Check out that colour…

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Oh, who are we kidding? That’s not apple green it’s straight-up BRAT green, b*tch. We’re fully getting carried away and you’ll just have to deal with it.

Even if it somehow turns out she’s not headlining it’s certainly looking like she’s going to be there and it wouldn’t be the first time.

Better yet, fans of the pop sensation won’t have to wait too long to see her right here in Greater Manchester because Charli is bringing her already smash-hit tour to Co-op Live next Wednesday, 27 November and in case you couldn’t tell by all the shouting in capitals, we’re very excited.

Roll on ‘PL25’. Other than Charli XCX, who else would you like to see as your Parklife headliners next summer?

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