Manchester Punk Festival 2025 – Day 3

As a band said last year, “Sunday, bloody hell, we’ll get through this together”, we’re clinging onto reality by our fingernails by this point but we are of course heading into town for one last hurrah. Spring has finally arrived, which will make things a bit sweatier, but after a hair of the dog and catching up with a few jaded faces we’re vaguely ready to go again. Today we’re kicking off with the welcome return of Belgium’s For I Am to Manchester Punk Festival. They of course a bring a frantic hit of anthemic melodic punk rock to an absolutely rammed Pink Room in Yes. It might be the last day but if people are feeling as jaded as I am, which they probably are, it’s not obvious. Although it turned out the reason for not feeling like my usual self wasn’t necessarily down to yest...

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