Welcome to the Neighbourhood
MANCHESTER’S biggest multi-venue music festival has added a number of new names to its lineup ahead of its return this October.
The Neighbourhood Festival returns on Saturday, October 1, with a wide variety of indie favourites and emerging musical talent, who will perform at venues across the city.
Joining headliners The Snuts, Everything Everything and alternative quartet Sundara Karma are local acts Afflecks Palace and Stanleys, plus live favourites Far Caspian. Newcomers include Cian Ducrot, Gracey and Pastel, plus many more.
The second wave announcement adds to an already impressive lineup of emerging musical talent, including Alfie Templeman, Dylan, The Royston Club, and Stone.
Since launching in 2016, the festival has become a key highlight on Manchester’s music calendar and has previously featured the likes of BRIT award winner Sam Fender, Mabel and Holly Humberstone, alongside Declan McKenna, Inhaler, and The Lathums.
More than 100 acts will appear at the festival including Baby Queen, Lauran Hibberd, Rachel Chinnouriri and Sir Chloe. The Goa Express, The Skinner Brothers, Blondes, Brooke Combe, Ten Tonnes and Grace Barr will also be performing in the city centre as part of the festival.
As has become customary, gig goers will be able to enjoy the day-long festival with one wristband that allows them entry into all participating venues. This year’s Neighbourhood Festival will return to the Albert Hall , Gorilla, O2 Ritz and a number of other venues, including Bunny Jackson’s for the first time.
Neighbourhood is the latest in an exciting line-up of events scheduled to take place across the city this year, with The Warehouse Project recently announcing the headliners who will be appearing at its 2022 opening night in August as well.
Other events recently announced also include a 10-week summer line-up at Joshua Brooks , which will feature the likes of Goldie and Horse Meat Disco, and the Manchester Food and Drink Festival, which returns for its 25th anniversary in September.
★THIS weekend will see the grand re-opening of one of Withington’s grandest landmarks, but not as you may know it.
The Old District Bank has been lovingly restored as an all-day restaurant, bar and music venue, underpinned by a strong community ethos.
Brought to life by the folks behind Cottonopolis in Manchester’s Northern Quarter and The Edinburgh Castle in Ancoats, the Grade II-listed venue has been sympathetically restored to highlight the building’s original features from the finely carved frieze and balustrade parapet at roof level, to the marble pillars and stripped back walls.
Boasting a rustic decor, and a relaxing forest green colour palette, the space is split across a number of areas, with several nooks for a quiet drink, and an open main room ideal for socialising and listening to live music.
Spanning everything from small plates and brunches to homely Sunday roasts, there will be a strong focus on live-fire
cooking, using charcoal and wood to show the very best of the produce being employed. Smaller dishes will include charred broccoli with garlic and lemon butter, and smoked Jersey Royals, while mackerel and pork belly will be chargrilled and smoked.
The Saturday brunch menu is also extensive and spans the Doorstep Sando - smoked pork belly, rashers, duck egg and rose harissa ketchup - alongside
shakshuka, nduja on sourdough and hot smoked salmon and scrambled egg.
Their Sunday roasts meanwhile are serious business, with Hereford sirloin of beef, brined half chicken with bread sauce and roasted harissa cauliflower all on offer, and served with beef dripping roast potatoes, honey glazed carrots, savoy cabbage and Yorkshire pudding.
● Wilmslow Road, Withington