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The Cribs To Headline Manchester’s Friends Of Mine Festival
Bad Lieutenant and The Charlatans are headlining the other two days.

The Cribs have joined the line up for Manchester’s Friends Of Mine Festival as one of the headliners.
The two other acts playing the top spot at the event, which will take place from 20th - 22nd May at Capethorne Hall, are Bad Lieutenant and The Charlatans.
Elsewhere on the bill, you can find the likes of Yuck, Badly Drawn Boy, Young Knives, Toro Y Moi, The Whip and The Wedding Present.
Bisit Fomfest.com for more information.
Here’s the full list of bands playing so far:
The Cribs
A Certain Ratio
Allez-Allez
Bad Lieutenant
Badly Drawn Boy
Beats & Pieces Big Band
Black Daniel
Black Lips
Buzzcocks
Chapter Sweetheart
Cherry Ghost
City Culture & Blackout Ja
Danny Drive
David McAlmont
Detroit Social Club
Disco Mums
Dutch Uncles
Emmy the Great
Factory Floor
Fiction
Flats
Frazer King
Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly
Girl Peculiar
Goldblade
Golden Glow
Good Vibrations
Hackney Colliery Band
Hatcham Social
Hidden Orchestra
HoneyFeet
Horace Andy
Howls
Illum Sphere
Janice Graham Band
Jim Noir
John Mackie Band ft Bonehead
John Maus
Joseph Coward
King Spinna
Kong
Lego & Will
Liam Frost
Lightning Seeds
Lowline
Masters in France
Mind on Fire
Mr Scruff
Mutineers
My Tiger My Timing
Mysterious Cities Of Gold
Natalie Findlay
Patterns
Renegade Brass Band
Riz MC
Same Teens
The Answering Machine
The Ariya Astrobeat Arkestra
The Buzzcocks
The Charlatans
The Cribs
The Daydream Club
The Fall
The Farm
The Gavin Watson Project
The Heartbreaks
The Longcut
The Patterns
The Phantom Band
The Rain Band
The Travelling Band
The Virgin Marys
The Watchers
The Wedding Present
The Whip
Tim Burgess
Toro Y Moi
Twisted Wheel
Unabombers
Walls
Wild Palms
Young Knives
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