Neighbourhood Festival organisers announce Weekender off-shoot

Organisers of the Neighbourhood festival have unveiled details of a Weekender off-shoot which will be held at Victoria Park in Warrington between May 26th-27th.

The first names will be confirmed later this month after Blossoms, Declan McKenna, Peace, Rat Boy, Idles, The Amazons, The Strypes, Estrons and plenty more kept the original event’s early fortunes going strong in Manchester’s city centre last month.

Idles were there with their essential 2017 debut album Brutalism, of which we said:

“In this climate, it’s almost gauche to pick ‘favourites’, as if Brutalism’s sum is somehow less than its parts, but this convention leads us to stumble over choosing the almost nauseous scree of Well Done.”

“A song so jacked up on satire it almost combusts with pithy self loathing, versus the eventual booby prize winner 1049 Gotho, as close as Idles get to the normal musically, but as full of Munch-poetry as the rest of this compacted, suffocating, brilliant mess.”