[Event Preview] Parklife Festival

This weekend the iconic setting of Heaton Park, Manchester will be taken over by tens of thousands of eager music lovers for the biggest dance music festival on the UK circuit, Parklife Festival.

With incredible main stage lineups and arenas hosted by the likes of Crosstown Rebels, The Warehouse Project, Hot Natured, Hospitality, Circoloco, Metropolis, Now Wave, Heidi's Jackathon, Ape, David Rodigan and many more, the wide array of genres caters for everyone from die hard Circoloco house heads to drum and bass fanatics to Rita Ora fanzies. The full lineup for the Parklife Weekender 2013 can be found below.

The Parklife team have been on site at Heaton Park for a while and things are really starting to take shape. Check out the pictures below for taster of what to expect! Unfortunately we don't have any pictures of the log flume as of yet...

Tickets

As expected, tickets for Parklife Festival have been incredibly popular and in the final few days before the festival the following tickets have sold out...

Standard Weekend Tickets SOLD OUT
Standard Saturday Tickets SOLD OUT
VIP Weekend Tickets SOLD OUT
Standard Saturday Tickets + Programme SOLD OUT
The following tickets are still available!
Standard Sunday Tickets ON SALE
VIP Saturday Tickets ON SALE
VIP Sunday Tickets ON SALE
Standard Sunday Tickets + Programme ON SALE
Saturday, Sunday and Weekend VIP Upgrades ON SALE

Car park tickets and Parklife Express tickets are also still available.

After Parties

With the main festival closing down at 11pm each night it is no surprise that a whole range of official after parties will be going on into the early hours on both Sunday and Monday morning. The likes of Drop The Mustard, Zutekh, Hoya:Hoya, Content, Idiosync, Juicy, Gold Teeth, Kaluki, Ape, Metropolis and more are all involved with DJs such as Andy C, George Fitzgerald, Jackmaster, Scuba, Dyed Soundorom, Damian Lazarus, The Horrors and more all playing.

Tickets are sold out for lots of the after parties already, so be sure to head over to the official Afterlife website here to grab your tickets before they're ALL gone!

There have recently been a few alterations to the weekend's lineup so please check below for the updating listings.

LINEUP

SATURDAY:

MAIN STAGE in association with i, the concise quality newspaper
PLAN B / THE MACCABEES / JESSIE WARE / DELPHIC / RUDIMENTAL (LIVE) / CRAZY P / QUADRON / TROJAN SOUND SYSTEM / WILL TRAMP / Plus Special Guests: THE TEMPER TRAP

WHP & Now Wave present SOUNDS OF THE NEAR FUTURE in association with FACT
DISCLOSURE (LIVE) / FOUR TET (LIVE) / ALUNA GEORGE / BAAUER / DAPHNI / JOHN TALABOT / KRYSTAL KLEAR / CYRIL HAHN / LAPALUX / NOW WAVE DJS

PARADISE presents HOT NATURED
HOT NATURED (LIVE) / JAMIE JONES / LEE FOSS / DYED SOUNDOROM / RICHY AHMED / ROB JAMES / WAFF

HOSPITALITY
NETSKY (LIVE) / HIGH CONTRAST / CAMO AND KROOKED / DANNY BYRD / LONDON ELEKTRICITY / S.P.Y / FABIO / NU:LOGIC / FRED V & GRAFFIX / METRIK / MCs: WREC, DYNAMITE, LOWQUI, TEXAS, YOUTHSTAR, FELON

CIRCO LOCO
MACEO PLEX / KERRI CHANDLER / DAVIDE SQUILLACE / TALE OF US / SHAUN REEVES / CIRILLO

HEIDI PRESENTS THE JACKATHON VS KALUKI
MAYA JANE COLES / HEIDI / BICEP / CASSY / GEORGE FITZGERALD / ELLESSE / PETE ZORBA / Plus very special guest: DERRICK CARTER

10 YEARS OF METROPOLIS
SUB FOCUS (DJ SET) & ID / BENGA / JAGUAR SKILLS / FRICTION / MISTAJAM / HYPE / FOREIGN BEGGERS / RONI SIZE (FULL CYCLE SET) / GOLDIE / ROCKWELL / DISMANTIE / NORTH BASE / MCs: DYNAMITE, IC3, GQ & TONN PIPER

TERRACE - DROP THE MUSTARD
MADEON / JAMES ZABIELA / FAKE BLOOD / REDLIGHT / PEARSON SOUND / BEN UFO / BONDAX / DUSKY / HUXLEY / MARIBOU STATE

SUNDAY:

MAIN STAGE in association with The i
EXAMPLE / RITA ORA / WRETCH 32 / THE TODDLA T SOUND / IGGY AZALEA / RIOT JAZZ (LIVE) / JUICY DJS / JOHNNY DUB / Plus very special guest: JURASSIC 5

BIG TOP
TOTALLY ENORMOUS EXTINCT DINOSAURS (LIVE) / SIMIAN MOBILE DISCO (LIVE) / TODD TERJE & LINDSTROM (LIVE) / PLUS SPECIAL GUESTS TBA / PLUS DJS / BOYS NOIZE / EROL ALKAN / MAX COOPER / WILL TRAMP

NOW WAVE in association with CLASH
THE HORRORS / EVERYTHING EVERYTHING / TOY / LIARS / SAVAGES / KIN' G KRULE / TORO Y MOI / POST WAR YEARS / NOW WAVE (DJS) / Plus very special guestJOHNNY MARR

WHP PRESENTS
JULIO BASHMORE / EATS EVERYTHING & JUSTIN MARTIN / SCUBA (LIVE) / TIGO
BENOIT & SERGIO (LIVE) / TOTALLY ENORMOUS EXTINCT DINOSAURS (DJ SET) / BODDIKA / LONE / ALEXIS RAPHAEL / KRYSKO / GREG LORD

THE APE PARKLIFE BEATDOWN
DJ FRESH LIVE / MARK RONSON B2B A-TRAK / JOEY BADA$$ / ANDY C / BENGA / BREAKAGE / JOKER / ROSES GABOR / BROKEN N ENGLISH / RICH REASON / MCS: GQ, LX ONE, MAJESTIC

HUDMO PRESENTS
TNGHT (LIVE) / ACTION BRONSON / ZEBRA KATZ BREAKBOT / HUDSON MOHAWKE (DJ SET) / JACKMASTER / REDINHO (LIVE) / DANNY BROWN / SPENCER / ECLAIR FIFI

CROSSTOWN REBELS
DAMIAN LAZARUS / ART DEPARTMENT / SUBB-AN / SHAUN REEVES / ROB JAMES / FRANCESCA LOMBARDO

DAVID RODIGAN MBE PRESENTS RAMJAM
DAVID RODIGAN / SHY FX & STAMINA MC / ZINC / / DJ EZ / THE BUG feat. FLOWDAN, DADDY FREDDY AND MISS REDZ / DUB PHIZIX & STRATEGY / MELE / VENOM SOUND SYSTEM