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Manchester Punk Festival 2020 lineup

Posted by Loren on December 29, 2019

Manchester Punk Festival 2020 lineup
Manchester Punk Festival 2020 lineup

Scheduled for April 24-26, 2020, Manchester Punk Festival has announced an updated list of performers for the sixth annual punk festival in Manchester, UK.

The lineup in 2020 will include Red City Radio, Shai Hulud, The Flatliners, Discharge, Broadway Calls, Oi Polloi, Jaya The Cat, Signals Midwest, Crutches, Ancest, Drunktank, The Dauntless Elite, and more (full listing of the current lineup below).

In addition to regular sets from dozens of bands, the festival will include comedy, poetry, acoustic music, plus vegan food options.

Announced bands so far:

The Flatliners / Shai Hulud / Belvedere / Red City Radio / Random Hand / Discharge / The Decline / Jaya The Cat / Broadway Calls / Roughneck Riot / Oi Polloi / Chewing on Tinfoil / Popes of Chillitown / ONSIND / Fresh / Pizzatramp / Hard Skin / Decent Criminal / Proper. / Crutches / The JB Conspiracy / Signals Midwest / Neck / X Ray Cat Trio / Accidente / Drones / Ducking Punches / Ancst / Witch Fever / Pendleton / The Menstrual Cramps / China Shop Bull / The Dauntless Elite / Brassick / Follow Your Dreams / Natterers / Dead Neck / PMX / The Foamers / Shames / Stone Leek / Aerial Salad / Haest / CF98 / Triple Sundae / Kaddish / Cultdreams / Lande Hekt / Chas Palmer-Williams / Forever Unclean / Daves / Eastfield / Byenary / Dangers of Love / Burnout / The Deadites / Knife Club / Grafteoke / Warwound / Bootscraper / Holding Patterns / Dad / Lyoness / Somnia / Chuck SJ / Snakerattlers / Karl Phillips & The Rejects / Luvdump / Pacer / Monolithian / Pat Butcher / Christmas / Drunktank / No More Idols / NANA / Gibberish / Misfortune Cookie / Smoking Gives You Big Tits / Don Blake / Me Rex / Hell's Ditch / Chloe Glover / Mollusca / The Lab Rats / Molisma / Warshy / Plot 32

Pictured: The Flatliners

Manchester Punk Festival 2020 lineup
Manchester Punk Festival 2020 lineup

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