Macclesfield in May

Choose Macc will be back May 23rd for the second ever Macclesfield in May, Macclesfield’s biggest original live music festival and biggest free music event taking place at Market Place from 11am to 10.30pm.With acts including chart topping Boo Radleys, Fever Dream, Naomi Kalu, The 99 Degree, all the way from Memphis USA David Brookings and the Average Looking, WeatheredMan & the Noise, Lazy Bones and Locus from Falibroom Academy.

The newly announced festival headliner is previous Party in the Pews headliner Bolton-born singer/songwriter Badly Drawn Boy aka Damon Gough, best recognised by his signature tea cosy hats, who began his career after meeting DJ Andy Votel, launching the independent record label Twisted Nerve and releasing a number of well-received EPs in the late 1990s. Gough would follow these up with a debut album in 2000 titled "The Hour of Bewilderbeast" which won the Mercury Music Prize. Off the back of this success, he recorded the soundtrack for the 2002 hit film "About a Boy", starring Hugh Grant. Gough kept adding to his eclectic discography, with subsequent albums being released over the span of the next two decades including "Have You Fed The Fish?", "One Plus One Is One", "Born In The U.K", "Is There Nothing We Could Do?" and his recent project, the critically acclaimed "Banana Skin Shoes".

The festival will again be using reusable cups which can be purchased at the pop up bars in Market Place by RedWillow Brewery and Bollington Brewery and new addition Maccs very own brewed cider SiDa. Organiser Jo Lowes had this to say about the festival.

The festival also has a pre party taking place at MASH Friday May 22nd with David Brookings supporting Mora and the Fabulous Wonderfuls featuring the legendary George Borowski.Straight after the festival there will be a VIP after party of Madchester hits with Inspiral Carpets keyboard player and DJ Clint Boon at Cinemac.

Tickets here https://www.cinemaclive.co.uk/shop/live-music/5

And to finish off the bank holiday in style there will be Choose Macc DJs outside RedWillow and The Fountain Park Green on Sunday May 24th from 2pm.