Parklife: Reducing ticket prices will improve accessibility, festival says

Organisers said they expected about 160,000 music fans to attend the festival in 2024

Parklife has announced it will reduce ticket prices for 2024 in a bid to make the festival "accessible to all".

The event, billed as the "ultimate UK festival of modern youth culture", takes place in Manchester next June, with the price of entry reduced by almost £5 on the previous year.

Organisers said the reduction was an "industry first", as the majority of major festival put up prices annually.

A representative said it hoped the drop would be "music to everyone's ears".

Standard entry to the two-day festival in Heaton Park in 2023 cost £129.50, a price which has been reduced to £125 for the next event on 8 and 9 June 2024.

In comparison, the cost of a Glastonbury ticket rose by £20 to £360, while Creamfields North, which, like Parklife, brings dance music fans to the North West, has increased the cost of a standard three-day camping ticket by £10 to £250.

Fisher, who played the 2023 event, will return with a "mammoth" show, organisers said

Parklife's organisers also announced the "first big news" about next year's line-up, revealing that "trailblazing house superstars" Fisher and Chris Lake would be bringing their "mammoth" Under Construction show to the event's Hanger stage.

The representative said it would be the "very first time" the show had been staged outside of the US and it was "sure to be one of the most talked about electronic performances of the year".

They said the full line-up would be unveiled in January, but tickets for the event would go on sale on Friday.

They added that Parklife was expected to welcome more than 160,000 music fans to Manchester over the weekend and was "once again primed to be one of the most in-demand festivals of the summer".

The 2023 event at Heaton Park saw revellers from all over the UK enjoy two days of live performances, DJ sets and high spirits, which even a storm-induced pause in proceedings could not dampen.