It was a balmy evening last night and it was nice to see so many people came down to Festival Square to enjoy the warm weather.
Many attendees of last night’s Goldfrapp concert visited after the show to sit down with a glass of wine and one of our special Heathcote’s gourmet burgers. Among them was Craig Potter, keyboard player in the Mercury award-winning rock band Elbow.
The cast and crew of The Machine also visited. The Machine is a play about chess legend Gary Kasparov’s 1997 defeat to the IBM supercomputer Deep Blue, and it premiered at Manchester International Festival earlier this month. You can read more about it here. They were enjoying glasses of rose whilst dancing away to Rob Da Bank’s DJ set.
Other festival-goers last night included a smattering of students who have just graduated from University in Manchester. They seemed to be having a great time!
Over the past three weeks we’ve had great support from our brewery, Thwaites, who delivered some wonderful cask ales including the specially brewed Festival Ale that we’ve tapped and vented ready for tomorrow – our last evening on the square.
It’s been a fantastic festival. Check our what’s been happening on the MIF programme here.
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-Paul
