Three walked away from it and two of them stayed and are still involved with Parklife today.” “There were originally five people involved with Mad Ferret. “We didn’t have any involvement in Mad Ferret, but we did approach them afterwards and suggested that together we could build a proper infrastructure, book bigger acts and make a proper business from it. They were definitely onto something, though. The concept was quite good but the infrastructure, unfortunately, wasn’t so great. “It was held in Platt Fields Park over near Fallowfield. “Mad Ferret festival was an end of year party, run by students, for students,” Sacha and his business partner Sam tell us. The students urgently needed a large investment, for acts, security and everything in between, and eventually the founders had no choice but to walk away from it. However things seemed to escalate out of control for Mad Ferret and financially they just couldn’t keep up. Despite having a fairly low budget, they still managed to attract some great acts such as Finley Quaye and The Streets and it pulled in over 10,000 students. How did it all start? Well, back in 2007 a group of students created a mini festival in a field, aptly named Mad Ferret Festival. Almost 25 years ago, Sacha Lord put on his first club night at Manchester’s famous Hacienda nightclub – a decision that eventually lead him on to being the co-founder of one of Manchester’s most successful club nights, The Warehouse Project and then onto creating one of the biggest festivals in the north, Parklife.
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