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Parklife 2025 line-up and how to get there

Lauren Hirst
BBC News, Manchester
Reuters Charli XCX, with long black hair and wearing a black leather jacket, looks up and holds her hands up in front a red backgroundReuters
Charli XCX headlines the festival on Sunday

Tens of thousands of music lovers are expected to flood into Heaton Park this weekend for the return of Parklife festival.

About 80,000 people are expected for the two-day event in Manchester on Saturday and Sunday, where rapper 50 Cent and singer Charli XCX will headline.

Other big names in the line-up include R&B singer Jorja Smith, a UK festival debut from chart-topper Lola Young and DJ Peggy Gou.

Here is everything you need to know ahead of Parklife.

When does it start and can I still get tickets?

Parklife A teeming crowd of thousands holding up smartphones towards a stage lit up with yellow lights and covered with dry ice. A line of trees can be seen in darkness as the sun sets.Parklife
Manchester's biggest music festival Parklife returns on Saturday and Sunday

Tickets are still available including day, weekend and VIP packages.

Gates open on Saturday from 12:00 until 23:00 BST, with festivalgoers welcomed in an hour later on Sunday from 13:00 to 23:00.

Last entry into the Parklife on both days is 17:00 and you cannot go back in after is leaving the festival site.

Organisers have said no one under the age of 17 is permitted to attend, and 17-year-old's that do go must be accompanied by a responsible guardian aged 18 or over.

Who will be performing?

More than 100 performers will taking to the stage at this year's Parklife festival including the return on Saturday night of rap superstar 50 Cent, who last performed at Heaton Park in 2022.

British singer Charli XCX will headline on Sunday, with Bicep, Confidence Man and Rudimental are among the other big acts performing across the weekend.

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Full details of the festival's eight stages are available via Parklife's website, but the main Valley stage will see the following performances:

Saturday

12:00-14:15 - Rich Reason & Yami

14:15-14:45 - JD Cliffe

15:15-16:00 - Antony Szmierek

16:30-17:00 - Flo

17:45-18:45 - Rudimental

19:45-20:30 - Jorja Smith

21:30-22:45 - 50 Cent

Sunday

13:00-14:00 - Gina Breeze

14:00-15:00 - Jodie Harsh

15:30-16:15 - Marc Rebillet

16:30-17:30 - Girls Don't Sync

18:00-18:45 - Confidence Man

19:15-20:45 - Peggy Gou

21:30-22:45 - Charli XCX

How do I get there?

People have been warned to plan how they are going to get to the festival in advance on what is expected to be a busy weekend, and with no trams operating from Manchester Piccadilly.

Trams from Manchester Victoria to Heaton Park will be running across the weekend on the line to Bury, with the journey taking about 15 minutes.

They will run every six minutes, with the Heaton Park stop close to the West Gate entrance.

There is no on-street parking around the event site.

The official Parklife car parking is situated on Sheepfoot Lane and tickets can be purchased in advance for Saturday and Sunday.

Reuters 50 Cent is pictured smiling and looking off camera. He is wearing a black baseball hat, a black T-shirt and diamond-encrusted silver chain with the numbers "50" hanging down. Reuters
50 Cent is set to headline the festival on the Saturday

Is there a travel ?

Transport for Greater Manchester is offering a travel ticket that will work on the trams and shuttle buses to and from the festival site from Lever Street in the Northern Quarter.

It costs £8 for Saturday or Sunday, or £14.95 for the weekend, and you can buy them via the Bee Network app.

The shuttle buses, which will take half an hour, start ferrying people on Saturday from 10:30 with the last bus at 16:30, while on Sunday they start at 11:30 and end at 16:30.

Return services from Heaton Park begin at 18:30, and will continue until the site is clear, organisers said.

For those travelling from cities and towns outside Manchester, the Big Green Coach service, the official travel partner for the event, is offering transport.

Will roads close?

Several local bus services will be diverted from the area while the festival is taking place, while a number of roads will shut around Heaton Park from Saturday evening until the early hours of Monday morning.

A number of roads in the Northern Quarter around Lever Street will be shut on Saturday for the shuttle buses to operate.

Manchester City Council said festivalgoers will queue along Spear Street and Faraday Street, which will be closed.

Meanwhile at Heaton Park, all exit slip roads at junction 19 of the M60 will closed between 19:00 and 02:00 on Saturday and Sunday.

Middleton Road will close around the site from at the same times, while other adjacent lines will also shut in a staggered manner until 01:00, with a one-way system in place.

Transport for Greater Manchester has set up a dedicated website with a full list of closure and travel information ahead of the event.

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