The Wythenshawe Park masterplan - how Noel Gallagher gig could pave the way for future of historic site
25.08.2023 - 16:23
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The final preparations are underway at historic Wythenshawe Park ready for the arrival of some 25,000 music fans to roar the return of homecoming star Noel Gallagher this weekend. It's the first time this huge Greater Manchester parkland has ever hosted a live gig on this scale - and rather fittingly it will be from a rock star who grew up just down the road in Burnage.
But this gig could also hold a more significant place in the history books.
For while Noel himself will be regaling the crowds with solo hits and Oasis classics like The Masterplan on Saturday night, behind the scenes organisers are also seeing their very own masterplan come to life. If the gig is deemed a success after this weekend, the hope, and ambition, is for gigs to return to the historic parkland next year too.
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The idea of live music events had first been mooted at Wythenshawe Park some ten years ago - when the then fledgling Parklife Festival was looking to move to a bigger site having "outgrown" Platt Fields Park. At that time, it wasn't deemed a favourable option by Manchester council - who encouraged organisers Sam Kandel and Sacha Lord to look at Heaton Park instead.
Heaton Park, of course, proved to be the perfect fit for Parklife - which has remained there ever since. But the idea of Wythenshawe Park as a gig venue was firmly planted.
And those seeds are now about to bear fruit. Perimeter fences run around the huge gig site which sits off the West Gate side of the park with the team from Live Nation and The Warehouse Project busily finishing production on the site this week.
The park on the Wythenshawe Road side of the site has remained open to
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