NB: Remember all times are subject to change
On the A4 printout not all the acts have specific times by their names, so I guess they could be performing any time within the 30 minute timeslot… best to get there early if it’s a band you really want to see
Here’s a summary of the main acts playing and their approximate times
Main Stage (in association with Hooch)
21:30 – Aim
20:20 – The Longcut
19:10 – The Young Knives
18:30 – Polytechnic
15:30 – Jenna G
15:00 – Daywalkers
14:00 – Alterkicks
13:30 – Cherry Ghost
12:30 – This Is Seb Clarke
Kenworthy Stage
Blowout presents
18:30 – The Whip
17:30 – Dirty Circus
17:00 – Wax Planet
16:30 – Pink Fruity
16:00 – Keith
15:30 – Black Wasps
15:00 – Jayne Compton
14:30 – The Sugars
14:00 – The Nightjars
13:10 – Omerta
12:30 – Snowfight In The City Centre
The Roman Garden
The roots of music (12.00pm – 8.00pm)
19:45 – Folks
19:00 – Field Music
18:20 – Stoney
17:45 – KT Forrester
17:25 – Tsana
17:00 – Daniel Kakonge
16:30 – Liam Fray
16:00 – The Loungs
15:25 – The Final Tribe
14:50 – The Waverton Collective
14:15 – Eugene McGuinness
13:45 – Super Group
13:10 – Gideon Conn
12:35 – The Pedestrians
12:00 – Orphan Boy
Manchester DPercussion festival takes place tomorrow in Castlefield Basin, from 12 midday to 10:30pm. There’s 60 bands performing across 8 stages, and an expected attendance of 50,000 people
Here’s the line-up below from three of the stages we’ll try to feature on this blog. Hopefully we’ll have plenty of photos for you if you check back on Sunday and Monday:
Update1:
full runtimes are being published later this afternoon
I’m delighted therefore that Midlake are set to play the Manchester Academy 2/3 on Wednesday 1st November. Tickets for this show go onsale this morning at 9am (Friday 4th August 2006)
Update1: SeeTickets already have this Manchester show onsale NOW (priced £7.50 plus bf), along with Midlake shows in Nottingham, BIrmingham and London:
Update2: Ticketmaster have a show in Glasgow and one in Dublin listed on their site
Whilst looking around on Ticketline’s new events files I discovered a charity concert/festival for Kosovo (Cohesion Live) taking place in Manchester’s Platt Fields in September featuring an excellent line-up :: The Longcut, Graham Coxon, BDB and more!
Tickets go onsale tomorrow (Fri 4th Aug) at 9am via Ticketline
Cohesion Live is raising money to complete the Manchester Peace Park Project in Kosovo. For more information about this project and all the other fantastic work carried out by Manchester Aid to Kosovo please have a look at their website – Makonlkine.org
Here’s the details:
Cohesion Live
Manchester Platt Fields Park
Saturday 23rd September 2006
Manchester Aid To Kosovo
Event Times
Door open at 12 noon, 23rd September 2006
First band onstage 2pm, Curfew 9.30pm
Line-up – Main Stage:
- Elbow
- Badly Drawn Boy
- Graham Coxon
- Andy Rourke and friends
- Lou Rhodes
- Toolshed
- The Durutti Column
- I Am Kloot
- (DJ sets from Doves and The Unabombers)
Line-up Stage 2:
- The Longcut
- KBC
- The Sunshine Underground
- Komakino
- Roland Shanks
I missed these guys when they played at the Dry Bar in Manchester a couple of months ago, but since then they’ve become a bit of an obsession for me
I’ve just noticed Camera Obscura have announced a date at Manchester Jabez Clegg on Tuesday 17th October. Tickets are priced at £7.50 (plus bf) and are onsale now!
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