Clowns and crowdsurfers: Manchester Punk festival 2024 – in pictures
MPF is a progressive punk festival that plays to a younger crowd. It promotes startup/DIY bands led by women, people of colour and LGBTQ+ people by putting them on the same stage as more established acts
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Fans achieve a three-tier human pyramid while watching The Hives cover band at Rebellion
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Punks (including a clown) in the crowd at The Bread Shed
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Bizarrely, there were a lot of clowns this year at festival.
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The saxophonist from the Manchester punk band Blagged
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Catbite take to the stage at Gorilla
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A fan crowdsurfs during Catbite’s performance
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A punk throws her arms in the air in jubilation during Corrupt Vision’s set at The Bread Shed
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Fans take in Corrupt Vision’s performance
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Punks in the crowd at The Bread Shed.
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Security at Gorilla have a joke about a suited punk’s quiff
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Punks enjoying the festival.
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The Irish artist Meryl Streek performs the last few songs of this set in the middle of the crowd, lighting himself up with a torch
Photograph: Chris Bethell/The Guardian
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Chaotic scene as someone crowdsurfs during a set by Popes of Chillitown.
Photograph: Chris Bethell/The Guardian
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A wide shot of the crowd at the Union during a Cheekface performance
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Festival-goers watch Cheekface at the Union
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A fan crowdsurfs during Catbite’s performance at Gorilla
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Punks enjoy the hardcore band Spaced at The Bread Shed
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Punks in the pit for Popes of Chillitown at Gorilla
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Festivalgoers go full tilt at the Union while Cheekface perform.
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A crowdsurfer makes their way towards the stage during Catbite’s performance at Gorilla
Photograph: Chris Bethell/The Guardian
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Catbite’s leader singer, Brittany Luna, and their guitarist Tim Hildebrand kiss after their show
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Fans raise their hands in jubilation during a Cheekface set
Photograph: Chris Bethell/The Guardian
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Punks in the crowd at The Bread Shed
Photograph: Chris Bethell/The Guardian
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Two people hug in the pit during a performance by Popes of Chillitown at Gorilla. The woman in the photo later told me she’d never met this guy before
Photograph: Chris Bethell/The Guardian
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