Pangaea Festival

Official University of Manchester Freshers Week 2019 Wristbands are flying out fast! Get yours here bit.ly/mcrsuwelcome and then redeem your ticket at Owens Park, Whitworth Park, Hulme Hall or the Students' Union.

Our official freshers wristbands are flying out! If you and your new mates want to join us for 4 epic nights out at 10 cool Manchester venues - buy yours today! Either head to one of our ticket collection points at Owens Park, Whitworth Park, Hulme Hall, Dalton Ellis or in our foyer in the Union building. Or grab one online here http://bit.ly/mcrsuwelcome We can't wait for the fun to begin!

🚨LABYRINTH FESTIVAL🚨
Join us as we welcome you to Labyrinth Festival, a brand new festival coming to Manchester for 2019! Expect a huge line up along with our maze of warrens, each with their own mix of music & theme. Headlining the Festival will be global superstar Example, with much more to be announced!
🎟TICKETS🎟
Sign up for exclusive pre sale via Skiddle to purchase a cheaper ticket! Tickets go on sale Thursday 15th August, general sale Friday 16th August!
PRE SALE SIGN UP | skiddle.com/e/13606457

🚨LABYRINTH FESTIVAL🚨
Join us as we welcome you to Labyrinth Festival, a brand new festival coming to Manchester for 2019! Expect a huge line up along with our maze of warrens, each with their own mix of music & theme. Headlining the Festival will be global superstar Example, with much more to be announced!
🎟TICKETS🎟
Sign up for exclusive pre sale via Skiddle to purchase a cheaper ticket! Tickets go on sale Thursday 15th August
PRE SALE SIGN UP | skiddle.com/e/13606457

We've been reminiscing some of our favourite Pangaeas! Comment below with your favourite Pangaea Festival and why, and we'll try and make it happen again next June 📣

Thanks to everyone who came along to the Team Pangaea meeting yesterday! If you couldn't make it, here's a little summary of what went down. Join the FB Group and sign up here to stay in the loop and be a part of the team: https://manchesterstudentsunion.com/groups/team-pangaea

We're going back to the start. Pangaea is a festival FOR students, BY students. Join Team Pangaea to get involved.

Join our new group Team Pangaea to Make Pangaea Great Again. Whether it’s Bookings, Promotions, Décor or Theme, there’s a way for everyone to get involved. Come along to the meeting on 6th December in the Theatre Lounge of the SU from 4-6pm.

Pangaea Festival updated their website address.

The Pangaea Photos are live! Hope you had a good one. Hasta luego 😎🎉

Thank you Pangaea!

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Here's the Official Freshers Night: Pangaea Presents The Big One schedule! Are you ready? 😎

Info for Fifth & Factory if you're going tonight! It's now SOLD OUT :O

INFO FOR TONIGHT
Fifth & Factory Takeover is now SOLD OUT. There will be no tickets available on the door.

Doors open at 10pm and last entry will be 11:30pm. The event is 18+ so please bring valid photo ID that displays your date of birth (alongside your student ID).

If you are a ticket holder, you will need to exchange your ticket for a paper wristband. You can do this on the door at the venue or at the Students’ Union today before 4pm. If you have the Official Freshers Wristband, your fabric wristband will grant you entry into the venue.

Fifth nightclub and Factory nightclub are both located on Princess Street in central Manchester and are a short 1 minute walk from each other. Princess Street is a short walk from Oxford Road which is served by most major bus routes. You are free to move between venues all night but entry is dependent on venue capacity.

Student Finance money come through? 💵💷💴 Get your tickets soon before they're all gone! http://bit.ly/OFNPangaea

If you get a ticket online, your e-ticket will grant you entry into Manchester Academy. If you have the Official Freshers Wristband, your fabric wristband will grant you entry too. Tickets can also be purchased at the following places on campus!

Pangaea costumes are a thing of legend, we've had everything from Jeremy Corbyn to W***y Wonka. For Official Freshers Night: Pangaea Presents The Big One, we want you to go as big and bold as possible... Get thinking!

Introducing our third and final Headline act, the beautiful Boston Bun!

Bio: Making big changes can be a liberating experience. For Boston Bun, taking a musical leap of faith has resulted in a remarkable transformation. The French DJ and producer, real name Thibaud Noyer, has found a renewed zest and vigour for his music after relocating from Paris to London, leading to the release of new single ‘Spread Love (Paddington)’ through Atlantic Records. The track has racked up over 6 million streams in a month alone and has earned support from key tastemakers like BBC R1’s Annie Mac, Pete Tong and 1Xtra’s MistaJam in the process, earmarking it as a record with the potential to dominate the summer of 2018.

In his new home of London, Noyer has found a city full of both musical and cultural influences. A fan of UK music since he was a child, he was introduced to groups like Basement Jaxx and The Chemical Brothers by his uncle, an occasional DJ who was more like an older brother to him. His uncle would travel back and forth to the UK while Noyer was growing up, bringing back new music with him and educating young Thibaud on the freshest electronic releases.

Inspired, Noyer would go on to first make waves with the release of his debut EP, ‘Housecall’, back in 2012. Full of retro-leaning, lo-fi influences, it demonstrated his ability to produce music that straddled the line between leftfield and accessible. It was an instant hit and he was quickly signed to Ed Banger Records – the vastly influential dance label behind Justice, Mr Oizo and Uffie. In the years that followed he would release several EPs, each one working through a variety of styles, moving from straight up dance floor cuts to the deeper side of house and more mainstream-influenced productions, including ‘Flasher’ (2013) and ‘We Got Soul’ (2014). Records which are still getting played today by the likes of Mall Grab and Dennis Sulta.

2017 was the year that proved the turning point for Noyer. After deciding to leave Ed Banger, he set up his own label, Circa ’99, and released the anthemic ‘Missing You’ – his most successful and defining single to date. Premiered on BBC R1 as Annie Mac’s ‘Hottest Record In The World’, ‘Missing You’ has since gone to amass well over 6 million streams and earn support from world-leading DJs like Diplo, Oliver Heldens and DJ Snake, cementing his reputation as one of Europe’s most exciting and inventive dance producers.

Having decided to strip back his studio equipment and make music exclusively on his laptop, Noyer had also started to invite friends and collaborators to work with him on his music during this period – a subtle creative switch up that resulted in a bountiful stream of new music, including new single, ‘Spread Love (Paddington)’.

Written in just two hours, Noyer felt that the original instrumental needed a vocal, so contacted his friend and regular Justice collaborator, DVNO, who would lay down his vocals over the phone. Inspired by one of his mother’s paintings of Paddington Bear hung on his childhood bedroom wall, DVNO’s infectious, memorable hook was born – and Noyer knew he’d landed on the track that would change his life.

We've made a playlist so you can do all the prep for Official Freshers Night: Pangaea Presents The Big One. Get those headphones on and start listening!

PANGAEA presents THE BIG ONE, a playlist by pangaeafestival on Spotify A playlist featuring Sister Sledge, Nightcrawlers, Big Narstie, and others

The incredible Sister Sledge are performing at this year's Official Freshers Night: Pangaea Presents The Big One. Check out their 1979 performance of "We Are Family"!

Reacquaint yourself with the first of our three headliners this September, the incredible, remarkable Sister Sledge! Facebook Event: goo.gl/YB88XY

Sister Sledge are undisputedly one of the most iconic female groups of all time. As the pages of the Chicago Tribune have asserted, Sister Sledge “has the stuff legends are made of.”

Sisters, Debbie, Joni, and Kim (sister Kathy stepped away from the ensemble in 1989), are daughters of entrepreneur/actress Florez Sledge and acclaimed Broadway performer Edwin Sledge. Their grandmother, Viola Beatrix Hairston Williams, an accomplished lyric-opera soprano, provided unique vocal training to the siblings early on. Arranging for her granddaughters to perform at church events and community functions, the quartet were first introduced to the world as "Mrs. Williams Granddaughters.” Before long, they formed a band and with Debbie serving as vocal arranger, Joni as artistic director and Mom, Florez as manager, Sister Sledge was born.

Performing jazz, soul, gospel, disco, and R&B, the multi-lead vocal group flourished both in-studio and onstage. The sisters built a formidable reputation, dazzling audiences and impressing critics. They also made certain to complete academic studies, each of them earning a Temple University college degree.

Achieving success across borders, the group enjoyed huge popularity in Africa, performing at the “Rumble in the Jungle” Ali-Foreman heavyweight-boxing match, in Japan where they won the prestigious Tokyo Music Festival Silver Prize, and across Europe. In the U.S.A they became a household name with the blockbuster release of the iconic We Are Family album, produced by Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards. Following “He’s The Greatest Dancer,” came the albums seminal title track, “We Are Family” which skyrocketed the group in to the musical stratosphere. “We Are Family” became the theme song for the World Champion Pittsburgh. The hit songs “Lost in music,” “Thinking of You” and “All American Girls” followed.

After remaining at number one for over 4 weeks in the UK with the certified Gold single “Frankie,” Sister Sledge went on to collaborate with Incognito’s Bluey on the song “World Wise and Shine” which shot to number 1 in Italy and resulted in the now-trio starring in their very own TV show. In 1997 Joni Sledge produced the group’s 9th studio album, African Eyes, which was nominated for a Grammy as Best Produced CD, and remains one of their finest artistic achievements.

In December 2000, Sister Sledge performed at The White House for the President and First Lady at the final Christmas party of the Clinton Administration. The sisters continued to tour and in 2005 performed on the famous pyramid stage at the Glastonbury Music Festival in the UK.

In 2014 the group headlined at the Tramlines festival in Leeds, UK and worked with Scottish electronic producer The Revenge, on the track Stay A While, in London. In 2015, Sister Sledge were honoured to be invited to perform for Pope Francis at the world Festival of Families in Philadelphia, PA, along with Andrea Bocelli and Aretha Franklin. Debbie, Joni and Kim soon thereafter launched the brand concept and blog www.nothingisgreaterthanlove.org.

Over the years, the group has amassed a string of Gold and Platinum records, accumulating total sales of over 15,000,000 worldwide. Garnering along the way additional Grammy Nominations for Record of the Year and Best R&B Duo or group, Sister Sledge has earned over 100 awards and commendations.

Official Freshers Night: Pangaea Presents The Big One Pangaea event and tickets are live now! Incredible line up to be announced soon 😎https://www.facebook.com/events/975801595945278/

We’d like to warn all partygoers of the dangers of taking unknown substances this week.

There have been some tragic recent incidents in the South particularly surrounding some batches of very strong pills and we urge everyone to take care and look after each other.

Whilst we don’t condone the use of illegal substances and run a strict anti-drugs policy we want to make sure all partygoers stay safe. So please, act responsibly and don’t let anything ruin what is sure to be a great night.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/music-festivals-warn-over-very-12614633

Music festivals warn over 'very strong' blue 'Punisher' ecstasy pills Parklife Festival and Love Saves the Day both issued warnings after tragic Georgia Jones and Tommy Cowan died at Mutiny Festival in Portsmouth

🐝 Save on your costumes for Thursday 🐝

Duty Free Manchester are giving 15% off all purchases instore when you mention 'Pangaea' 🎉

Get your glitter, facepaints and accessories all in your student budget ready for the best end of exams party Manchester has to offer

Last tickets available here 🎟: http://bit.ly/pangaeamcr

We've teamed up with some of our Mancunion friends to help you pick out your costumes. 🐝

🐝Afflecks Palace🐝
Afflecks is a totem of Indie Commerce in the Northern Quarter. No matter what you're looking for, whether it's tattoos, costumes, piercings, shoes, books, bags, vinyls, or jewellery, this is your place.
Afflecks is located on 52 Church St, Manchester M4 1PW

🐝Duty Free Manchester🐝
Duty Free is a haven for indy attitude, full of the glitz and glamour that so characterised the 80s' party spirit. Cosmetics, hair extensions and dye, body jewellery, rave paint and all the party gear you could ever need or want is all there.
Duty Free is located on the first floor of Manchester Arndale.

🎟️You can also buy our tickets for a discounted price from these outlets🎟️

🐝Luvyababes🐝
Luvyababes are THE destination for party goods and fancy dress. They have a wide variety of themed costumes for every occasion, including stock brands such as Smiffys, Wicked Costumes, Rubies Masquerade, Funshack, Henbrandt and Widman!
Luvyababes is located on the first floor of Manchester Arndale.

🐝Hidden Corner🐝
Hidden Corner were the first independent fancy dress shop to be established in Manchester Arndale. They specialise in fancy dress, party wear, tights and accessories for a wide range of events.
Hidden Corner is located on the first floor of Manchester Arndale.

We are so excited to welcome back the D&B legends that are S.P.Y + LowQui Mc to Pangaea after their amazing set at Pangaea: Down The Rabbit Hole 🌀🎉

Be quick and get yourself a ticket to THE end of exams party, there's less than one week left 🎟: bit.ly/pangaeamcr

Since 1995 Funkademia have been throwing some of the best parties in Manchester. Being the cities longest running club night we are honoured to have them come and play next week. 🎶

David Dunne recently did this radio show documenting the history of Manchester's club scene from the Twisted Wheel to Pips to Paradise & much more. Its the perfect aural homage to the rainy city's musical heritage. 🐝

Tickets 🎟: bit.ly/pangaeamcr

The Manchester club scene (28/05/2018), David Dunne - BBC Radio Manchester David looks back at the Manchester club scene from the 60s to today.

With just a WEEK to go until the doors of Pangaea: Made In Manchester open, we thought it was about bloody time we announced our incredible student line up 🔥... We are absolutely buzzing to be able to bring so many talented local students from across Manchester down to this year's festival 🎪.

Final 1st release tickets 🎟: bit.ly/pangaeamcr

Keep an eye out all round campus for one of these very special £5 off flyers to the best end of year party 🐝 🎉 💃🏼

ONE WEEK TO GO 😎

Bee-rilliant 🐝

A colony of bees has set up home in one of Manchester's Trees of Hope In a poignant symbol following the anniversary of the Arena bombing, a swarm has descended on one of the trees close to the National Football Museum

Tomorrow between the hours of 3 and 5pm Team Pangaea will be taking a trip over to Old Granada Studios to soundtrack your Sunny Saturday with some of their favourite tunes and showcasing the best of the artists due to play in a few weeks.

Tune into the mighty Reform Radio via the link below...

Reform Radio | The Takeover w/ Pangea Festival 26th May 2018 Pangaea Festival is the largest student led festival in Europe, transforming The University of Manchester Students Union and Manchester Academies into a world of musical madness. The upcoming edition on the 7th of June is themed around our home, Manchester. Bringing the best of Manchester’s musica...