![]() ![]() ![]() The album’s promotional cycle is about to wrap up, but you suspect it’ll be hugely important to the still-fledgling New Zealander for years to come. On closer inspection, they’re little paper stars inscribed with ‘Melodrama Forever’. ‘The Louvre’ details young love and hazy summer nights, and ‘Supercut’ likewise towards the end of the set, meanwhile, the record’s glorious bookends - ‘Green Light’ and ‘Perfect Places’, inspire full-throated singalongs, with the former closing the set to showers of confetti. There’s room, too, for her forgotten collaboration with Parklife favourites Disclosure, ‘Magnets’, as well as a string of Melodrama tracks that feel as if they were written for this time of year and this sort of weather. As with Ware, she’s stripped away the ambitious stage show that she took to arenas across North America earlier this year that said, her slot still involves a team of dancers, a full band and a setlist that leans heavily on album number two. Anybody who caught Ware’s headline tour earlier in the year will notice that the multi-act theming built around the Edward Thomas poem ‘I Built Myself a House of Glass’ has been largely eschewed in favour of a more traditional festival set that includes all the big hitters - ‘Champagne Kisses’, ‘Say You Love Me’ and ‘Wildest Moments’ all among them.Īlso up on the Saturday main stage is Lorde, who’s about to bring more than a year of touring behind her imperious sophomore record Melodrama to a close. co-hosts, and she can be spotted side of stage singing along, as well-versed in the cuts from last year’s sparkling third LP Glasshouse as the older tracks. The Londoner’s Mancunian mum is now a minor celebrity herself due to the success of Ware’s Table Manners food podcast, which Ware Sr. ![]() This time out, she’s in Manchester for the weekend an ardent Manchester United supporter, she’d make an appearance as a pundit at Old Trafford as part of the charity match Soccer Aid the following day. The Saturday’s main stage lineup is particularly star-studded, and it’s a sign of the increasing sense that Parklife is now an established festival with its own history that Jessie Ware, playing a mid-afternoon slot to a sun-drenched main arena, repeatedly hammers home to the crowd that she can trace the course of her own career by her appearances both here and at Parklife’s original home of Platt Fields Park on the other side of town, where she made her debut in 2012. ![]() Whether seeking gifts or an atypical souvenir, you’ll find something to covet at this neighborhood hub of art and inspiration.Now in its ninth year, Manchester’s Parklife Festival returned to Heaton Park with arguably its most ambitious lineup yet and one that catered, as usual, both for the dance fans that have been here from the start and the followers of indie rock and electro that the weekender has increasingly focused on recently. Like nearby Green Apple Books, Park Life carries its share of San Francisco-inflected merchandise, from California-shaped pendants to Tucker Nichols’ spare drawings of fog and city landmarks. The limited edition framed prints, jewelry and stationery always revive my creative aspirations, and items like minimalist clocks, experimental magazines and conversation pieces such as David Shrigley’s salt and pepper shakers (labeled “Cocaine” and “Heroin”) beckon for permanent homes. A long table showcases the art and design books du jour, where you’ll find the likes of Yoshitomo Nara, Marcel Dzama and Ryan McGinley, while a parallel display presents T-shirts emblazoned with everything from an artful ampersand to a sea otter holding a Rubik’s cube. An indie mart of sorts, Park Life is a carefully-curated retail and gallery space situated on a booming stretch of Clement Street in the Inner Richmond. If you love museum gift shops, street art and clever product design, you’ll be charmed and overwhelmed by the selection of art, books, housewares and knickknacks at Park Life. ![]()
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