Charli XCX to headline Parklife 2025

Charli XCX will headline Greater Manchester's Parklife festival next summer.

The singer will take to the stage in Heaton Park, Manchester, as part of the two-day music event between 14-15 June 2025.

She joins a swathe of other artists including Confidence Man, DJ Heartstring, Salute presents True Vision, and Interplanetary Criminal.

The full line-up will be unveiled in January, with more than 80,000 people expected to attend across the weekend.

Charli XCX's sixth album, Brat, was released in June, becoming a critical hit worldwide, while a recent remix album topped the UK charts in October.

The album's minimalistic album art - with the word Brat stylised in a low-resolution Arial font on a lime-green background - became a template for a spate of memes, with individuals and businesses jumping on the brat summer trend.

The idea of 'brat' was adopted by some fans as a rejection of the "clean girl" aesthetic, popularised on TikTok.

Brat was also chosen as Collins Dictionary word of the year.

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