Parklife 2025 lineup, tickets, stage splits and everything else you need to know
Parklife 2025 boasts Charli xcx, 50 Cent and Jorja Smith as headliners who will play for over 100,000 music fans
We’re now less than two weeks away from Parklife 2025, which returns to Heaton Park to officially kick off the summer festival season.
Taking place on the weekend of June 14 and 15, the Greater Manchester park will be transformed as hundreds of thousands of music lovers pour into the venue to enjoy the sounds of some of the industry’s biggest acts.
One of the country’s biggest music events, it regularly draws in more than 80,000 people over the weekend and this year marks 15 years since it was first founded.
At the end of last year, festival bosses unveiled Charli xcx, who made waves with her BRAT album, as the first confirmed headliner for the 2025 event. She’ll be joined by The In Da Club rapper 50 Cent, who will be returning for a second time after his packed out set in 2022.
R&B singer Jorja Smith, who has previously been named British Female Solo Artist at the Brit Awards, will also be performing at the festival alongside the likes of Confidence Man and Manchester’s own Antony Szmierek.
Others confirmed to be performing at Parklife 2025 include Peggy Gou, Rudimental, Pawsa, Armand Van Helden, Bicep presents Chroma and Brit Rising Star 2023 winners Flo.
Ahead of the two-day festival, Parklife bosses have also revealed the stage splits for Saturday and Sunday, with sets times due shortly as well.
Over the weekend, we’ll be keeping up to date with the latest information from how to travel to and from Heaton Park, what you can take into the festival, start and finish times, and how much you expect to pay for food and drink in the venue.
When is Parklife 2025 and when does it start and finish?
This year Parklife 2025 takes place on June 14 and 15 at Heaton Park on the edge of Manchester. The huge park - Greater Manchester’s biggest - is just three miles north of Manchester city centre and is accessible by car and public transport.
On Saturday, June 14 gates open at 12pm and it’s 1pm on Sunday. The last entry to the festival is 5pm, and festival goers are advised to arrive in good time. The festival finishes at 11pm on both nights.
Who is headlining Parklife 2025?
This year’s big headliner and a major coup for the festival is Charli xcx, who fans will be hoping can reignite BRAT summer with her hit album that took over the airwaves last year. Also confirmed to be headlining, American rapper 50 Cent and R&B star Jorja Smith.
They’ll be joined by festival favourites Peggy Gou, Pawsa, Bicep and Rudimental alongside the likes of Confidence Man, Overmono, Steve Angello and Chris Stussy.
Stage splits
In a break with tradition, the stage splits for this year’s festival have been revealed a little earlier than usual. Set times will be released closer to the start time.
Saturday, 14 June
The Valley
50 Cent Jorja Smith Rudimental Flo Antony Szmierek JD CliffeRich Reason Yami
Hangar Pawsa Mochakk Max DeanRossiObskurNauticaJoella Jackson Matinee - XXLAlex Farell Faster HorsesInterplanary Criminal KI/KILeaha MalugiPartiboi69Simone Magic SkySteve AngelloMorgan Seatree Kyle StarkeyPrep Inafekt Beccs Vernon Niamh
YES Presents…Big TopSkream & Benga Joy Orbison Salute presents True Vision 4am kru Notion YUQTChampion Saint LudoSurusinghe Hold Tight G Stage Chaos in the CBDPumpEnzo Burning L.P. Rhythm Luuk Van Dijk Murphy’s Law OBP Jelsen B2B Stocked Up B2B SimmoPaige Tomlinson Sally C
Sunday, 15 June
The Valley Charli xcxPeggy GouConfidence Man Marc Rebillet Girls Don’t Sync Jodie Harsh Gina BreezeNicola Bear HangarBicepOvermonoEwan McvicarDJ Heartstring DJ Gigola Aletha Kyrsko Matinee Chris Stussy Josh Baker Prospa Chloe Cailet Mella Dee Pach Magic SkyWorried About Henry A-ZA Little Sound Andy C Basslayerz BouHarriet Jaxxon Hedex Hybrid Minds K Motionz Mark XTC North Base SOTA MC’SBig TopArmand Van Helden D.O.DFish56OctagonMau P Mix-StressPaul Wooldford Urbi Sam Divine G Stage Bakey Club Angel Conducta Ghoulish Larishka B2B ButchaboiMiley Serious Oppidan Rich Reason Shuffa Different Todd Edwards
Are Parklife tickets still available?
Parklife tickets for Saturday and Sunday general admission, plus full weekend general admission and VIP are all still available, though some are in the final wave release.General admission for the weekend, covering both Saturday and Sunday is priced at £166.95 including fees, and you can upgrade to Weekend VIP for £72.80. Weekend VIP is available for £221.40 including booking fees.
Meanwhile, Saturday General Admission and Sunday General Admission is priced at £97.70 plus booking fee, with prices frozen from 2023 and you can upgrade to a single day VIP for £44.80. VIP access for either Saturday or Sunday is priced at £144 including fees.
What does a VIP ticket include?
As you might expect, there's plenty of perks to boost The Parklife festival experience, and this year's VIP area promises many.There’s fast track, express entry, plus access to an exclusive VIP area with luxury loos, charging points, and a street food market and VIP cocktail bar.
VIP ticket-holders also have access to their own DJS and special guests playing on the VIP stage, which is separate from the rest of the festival.
How do you get to Parklife?
Tram:
Trams will operate every six minutes from Victoria to Heaton Park during the day. For entry to the event you will need to use the Heaton Park stop, located close to the West Gate entrance.
After the event, returning trams will run from Bowker Vale stop to the city centre until 1.30am, with Heaton Park stop closing at 9pm. Last services from Bowker Vale to Bury will run at 00.46am on Saturday and 00.44am on Sunday.
No trams are running from Piccadilly Station to city centre stops due to tram improvement works.
Bus
Parklife shuttle buses will run from Lever Street in the Northern Quarter from mid-morning to last bus at 4.30pm, with drop off right inside the festival site.
Journeys take around 30 minutes with drop-off right inside the festival site.
On Saturday the first bus will depart at 10am with the last bus departing at 4.30pm.
On Sunday the first bus will depart at 11am with the last bus departing at 4.30pm.
Journeys take around 30 minutes with drop-off right inside the festival site.
Return shuttle buses to Manchester will run from inside the park in a temporary bus station, until the site is clear.
The easiest way to pay for travel is to pre-purchase the Parklife travel ticket now on the Bee Network app: covering travel on any Greater Manchester Bee Network tram, bus and Parklife shuttlebus services with just one mobile ticket (Saturday only: £8, Sunday only: £8, weekend ticket £14.95).
No other tickets will be accepted on shuttle bus services.
Car Parking and drop-off
Car parking information for Saturday and Sunday can be found on Parklife’s Ticketmaster page.
In order to facilitate this year’s Parklife event there are a number of roads closed at the end of the event and roads with traffic orders in place around Heaton Park.
If you are being picked up or are picking up a relative or friend, there is a nominated pick up point at Sainsbury’s Superstore car park off Middleton Road, M9 0QS. this will be open from 10pm and you can wait here safely to be collected or to collect people.
There is no on-street parking around the event site, and there will be a number of roads closed around Heaton Park. Traffic wardens will be patrolling the area around the site and your car will be towed and impounded by the wardens. If you are driving to Parklife, please use the official event car park. Junction 19 of the M60 will be closed from 7pm on both nights.
Bike or on foot
Parklife encourages the use of bicycles, and there will be a bike rack in the car park.
Organisers anticipate that there will be long queues for bus services post-event, so you may find it quicker to walk.
Heaton Park is around a one hour walk from Manchester City Centre.
There is a clear walking route along Bury Old Road which will be signposted to and from Manchester City Centre to Parklife.
The quickest route for walking begins by leaving through the East Gate and turning right. Always make sure to walk in a group and let people know where you are if walking from the event.
Taxi
There will be a Manchester Hackney Carriage Taxi Rank in Blackley New Road and a Bury Hackney Carriage Taxi Rank outside the Woodthorpe pub on Bury Old Road.
Please be aware of unlicensed taxis. These are unregulated and could be unsafe.
Customers booking their own private hire vehicles need to to direct them to the pick up point at Heaton Park Sainsbury’s.
Private cars:
There will be increased congestion and various road closures in place around the festival site over the weekend.
Roads will be busiest as fans make their way to the site from 10:30am to 4:30pm and after the end of the event from 10:30pm to 00:30am on both days.
If you are getting home by car, there is a designated pick-up point at Sainsbury’s on Heaton Park Road, which will also be signposted. If you are driving to and from the designated pick-up point, please be aware that Junction 19 of the M60 will be closed from 19:00 on both nights. Access to the pick-up point will be via Victoria Avenue and Middleton Road.
Parklife Travel Pass information:
The shuttle bus leaves from Lever Street in the Northern Quarter and takes around 30 minutes on the bus with drop off right outside the festival site. Metrolink journeys from Victoria by tram take approximately 15 minutes with drop off near the West entry gate.Buses will operate back into Manchester from the early evening, until the site is clear, and fans should use the North Exit of the site for the bus departure point.