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The Parklife Weekender
Parklife is a music festival owned by the music conglomerate Live Nation Entertainment held annually in Manchester, England. It started life as Mad Ferret Festival in Platt Fields Park, Rusholme, before moving to Heaton Park in north Manchester in 2013 in order to accommodate the increased numbers attending. It is jointly organised by a number of groups, including The Warehouse Project and Live Nation. It is a two-day non-camping festival. The festival is said to accommodate 82,500 people per day. Line-ups 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 The line-up for 2014 included Snoop Dogg, Foals, Rudimental, Disclosure and London Grammar. 2015 2015's event was headlined by Disclosure and Rudimental, and had performances from Nas, Caribou, Fatboy Slim and Jamie Jones. 2016 2017 2018 In 2018, the festival was headlined by the xx and Liam Gallagher. 2019 2020 On 27 March 2020, the organisers announced that Parklife 2020 had been cancelled because the COVID-19 pandemic. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heaton Park
Heaton Park is a public park in Manchester, England, covering an area of over . The park includes the grounds of a Grade I listed, neoclassical 18th century country house, Heaton Hall. The hall, remodelled by James Wyatt in 1772, is now only open to the public on an occasional basis as a museum and events venue. Heaton Park was sold to Manchester City Council in 1902 by the Earl of Wilton. It has one of the United Kingdom's few concrete towers, the Heaton Park BT Tower. The park was renovated as part of a millennium project partnership between the Heritage Lottery Fund and Manchester City Council at a cost of over £10 million. It contains an 18-hole golf course, a boating lake, an animal farm, a pitch and putt course, a golf driving range, woodlands, ornamental gardens, an observatory, an adventure playground, a Papal monument and a volunteer-run tram system and museum, and is listed Grade II by Historic England. It has the only flat green bowling greens in Manchester, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
