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Parklife 2024 announces first headliner – and cheaper tickets

It's the first festival to REDUCE ticket prices.

Daisy Jackson Daisy Jackson - 5th December 2023

Parklife has announced an industry-first ticket price reduction for its 2024 festival, along with its first headliner.

The much-loved Manchester music festival will be back in the fields of Heaton Park between 8 and 9 June, bringing tens of thousands of fans to the biggest party of the year.

And Parklife has just revealed its first headliner for its next instalment, with a European exclusive performance from trailblazing house superstars Fisher and Chris Lake.

They’ll be bringing their mammoth Under Construction show, which first debuted at Coachella in 2023 to a 50,000-strong audience, to Heaton Park for the first time outside of America.

Fisher and Chris Lake will be performing at the new-and-improved Hangar stage at Parklife 2024.

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The festival has also revealed that ticket prices will be reduced in 2024 – the first festival to announce such a move.

Parklife organisers say they’re determined to make the event, which attracts 160,000 fans across the weekend, more accessible to generations of music fans.

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Aitch performing at Parklife 2023. Credit: Sam Neill
Aitch performing at Parklife 2023. Credit: Sam Neill
The Parklife 2024 announcement poster as ticket prices are announced
The Parklife 2024 announcement poster as ticket prices are announced. Credit: Supplied

Weekend tickets for Parklife 2024 will start from just £125, down from last year’s price of £129.50 (meanwhile Glastonbury hiked its price from £335 to £355…)

Day tickets will cost £69.50, available from parklife.uk.com.

Tickets will go on sale this week, with a presale from 10am on Wednesday 6 December, followed by general sale from 10am on Friday 8 December.

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Payment plans are available, with a £50 deposit.

The full programme for Parklife 2024 will be revealed in January 2024.

How much are Parklife 2024 tickets?

  • Weekend tickets start from £125 (plus booking fees)
  • Day tickets start from £69.50 (plus booking fees)

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Grammy-winning disco legend Purple Disco Machine is heading to Manchester for a huge gig

Daisy Jackson Daisy Jackson Grammy-winning disco legend Purple Disco Machine is heading to Manchester for a huge gig

Legendary German nu-disco and house producer Purple Disco Machine has a huge Manchester gig on the horizon, hot off the back of the release of his Paradise album. 

The Grammy Award-winning artist’s latest release is packed with collaborations from some of the biggest names in music, including Nile Rodgers, Metronomy, Jake Shears, Duke Dumont, Sophie and the Giants, Nothing But Thieves and more.

And now he’s bringing his unforgettable disco vibes to a dance floor on our home turf, with a massive gig lined up at O2 Victoria Warehouse. 

Set to take place on Friday 7 March, Purple Disco Machine will promise an incredible night of sizzling dance and house music, with support from Dan Shake, Oden & Fatzo Live!, and Urbi. 

His irresistible sound includes hits like Hypnotised, Dished (Male Stripper) and, never one to miss a trend, an addictive remix of I’m Just Ken from the Barbie soundtrack. 

His other remixes have included tracks for Dua Lipa, Sir Elton John, Mark Ronson, Calvin Harris, Fatboy Slim and Britney Spears. 

And of course there’s that Grammy win for his remix of Lizzo’s About Damn Time.

On Paradise, he’s released tonnes more addictive disco beats, notably Substitution with Julian Perretta, and Honey Boy with Nile Rodgers. 

And live, Purple Disco Machine has cut his teeth on the British festival circuit, including recently joining Fisher at his headline Gunnersbury Park show in London. 

Now a multi-platinum-selling artist, with more than two billion streams worldwide, the Paradise tour is set to take Manchester by storm. 

Purple Disco Machine will be at the O2 Victoria Warehouse in Manchester on Friday 7 March – you can get tickets HERE. 

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A club night dedicated to the emo anthems of your youth is heading to Manchester

Daisy Jackson Daisy Jackson Black Parade, a club night dedicated to 00s emo music, is heading back to Manchester

Manchester, prepare to dust off your stompers and dig out your fingerless gloves, and get ready to party to the biggest emo anthems into the early hours. 

A club night dedicated to 00s Emo Anthems is heading back to one of the city’s most iconic venues this spring. 

Black Parade will be taking over the O2 Ritz Manchester for a night of pure noughties punk, running all the way from 9pm until 1am. 

That’s four hours packed with party anthems from the likes of My Chemical Romance, Paramore, Fall Out Boy, Blink-182 and loads more. 

On Friday 11 April, Black Parade will promise a playlist that’s filled with hits from the biggest names in emo. 

That list also includes Taking Back Sunday, Bring Me The Horizon, Panic! At The Disco, The Used, All American Rejects, Jimmy Eat World, Linkin Park, Enter Shikari, You Me At Six, Pierce The Veil and loads more.

Black Parade has been running for eight years in venues all over the UK, even featuring at the mighty Download Festival for all that time, taking the prime spot in The Doghouse.

Black Parade, a club night dedicated to 00s emo music, is heading back to Manchester
Black Parade, a club night dedicated to 00s emo music, is heading back to Manchester

And now it’s Manchester’s turn to rock out like it’s 2005 again. 

I can’t be the only one who still remembers all the words to I Write Sins Not Tragedies, surely…

If you spent your teenage years sleeping beneath a poster of Gerard Way and scouring the shops for that perfect checkerboard belt for your skinny jeans, or if you just developed a love for this elite genre of music at any stage of life, this is the club night for you. 

Maybe just step away from the boxed black hair dye this time around… 

Black Parade – 00s Emo Anthems will take place at the O2 Ritz Manchester on Friday 11 April, from 9pm to 1am. 

Tickets are on sale now HERE. 

You can also follow Black Parade on Instagram HERE.

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