Parklife Festival
Couple Receives Free Honeymoon, Lifetime Festival Passes After Getting Trolled for Engagement at Parklife
The 2022 edition of Parklife was a festival this couple will always remember. Myles Goodfellow and Indy Geraghty got engaged during this year’s Parklife Festival. Goodfellow, a 25-year-old business owner, reached out to the festival’s organizers to see if they would help him propose to his girlfriend of seven years. They happily agreed. Goodfellow reportedly got the idea shortly after Geraghty surprised him with tickets to Parklife two months prior. He told ITV that he “always knew she would say ‘yes,'” but said he was nervous as the moment drew closer. “But as soon as I walked on stage,” Goodfellow continued, “I was pretty confident. I knew I was going to make Indy happy, and that’s all I was thinking about at...
Less Than a Quarter of UK Music Festival Performers Identify as Women, Study Shows
If there’s one term at the top of a list of music industry buzzwords, it’s “inclusivity.” However, recent research suggests that making lasting change is easier said than done. Despite strides toward 50/50 gender representation at major festivals in the UK, less than a quarter of the country’s music festival performers this year identify as women. That’s according to a new study from Protectivity Insurance, which provides large-scale event coverage in the UK. For festivals like Isle of Wight, TRNSMT and Wireless, that tally dips even lower, with the number of female-identifying artists barely hitting 15% of their lineups. Manchester-based Parklife, on the other hand, hits a higher clip of 44%, with Peggy Gou, Annie Mac, Honey Dijon and Ja...
Carl Cox, Kaytranada, Honey Dijon, More to Perform Manchester’s Parklife Festival 2021
The music festival announcements continue to roll in with Manchester’s beloved Parklife Festival next on the docket. After taking 2020 off in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, the fest is set to return bigger than ever at Heaton Park on September 11th and 12, 2021. The lineup for this year’s festivities is stacked, featuring the biggest names in hip-hop and electronic music. Carl Cox, Honey Dijon, CamelPhat, Peggy Gou, Adam Beyer, Disclosure, Four Tet, Jamie xx, Kaytranada, Annie Mac, The Blessed Madonna, and more have all been confirmed to perform at the two-day festival. They’ll join Megan Thee Stallion, Skepta, DaBaby, Young Thug, and Earl Sweatshirt, among many others, for a weekend that will be one for the books. After organizers release...
