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Unveiling Manchester Punk Festival 2023

Posted by Loren on August 20, 2022

Unveiling Manchester Punk Festival 2023
photo by Loren Green

The seventh Manchester Punk Festival has announced more than 60 bands that will play at the independent, multi-venue festival taking place April 7-9. In total the event will feature 130 bands playing punk, hardcore, and ska.

The new wave of artists includes Off With Their Heads, Wonk Unit, Direct Hit!, Big D & The Kids Table, Death By Stereo, and many more.

Learn more via the event website.

Here is a full list of the bands announced so far:

Off With Their Heads, Big D & The Kids Table, Wonk Unit, Death By Stereo, Lightyear, Catbite, Direct Hit!, After The Fall, Faintest Idea, SNIFF, Youth Avoiders, Millie Manders & The Shut Up, Mobina Galore, Call Me Malcolm, Wadeye, Knife Club, ALLDEEPENDS, Casual Nausea, Batwolf, The Sewer Cats, Comeback Clit, Zero Again, Electric Press, The Domestics, Bossmags, Spillage, The Red Stains, Syd.31, Jason Stirling, Kaddish, For I Am, Phinius Gage, Lazlo Baby, Heathcliff, Going Off, Krupskaya, Laughing In The Face Of, The Crippens, The Peterlees, Murder Club, Subordinate, The Human Project ,Sarah Carey, Stone Leek, Death Trails, Dead Objectives, The Lab Rats, Distral, Green Eyed Monster, Epic Problem, Phantom Bay, Plastics, High Praise, Binboy, The Deadites, A Great Notion, Shooting Daggers, Stay Put, Cherym, Honey Joy, Fortitude Valley, Rat Cage, Clayface, Consolation and Cheerbleederz. Many more to come…

Pictured: Off With Their Heads at Darkness Day 2018

Unveiling Manchester Punk Festival 2023
photo by Loren Green

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