Arcade Fire Live At Castlefield Bowl this Summer

Arcade Fire bring their breath-taking live set to Manchester International Festival this summer at the city's Castlefield Bowl, Thursday 6 July.

Arcade Fire's headline show, which is also part of Sounds of the City, is their first in Manchester for six years. 2017 marks a major live return for the band with European festival appearances this year such as Spain's Primavera and Denmark's Roskilde festival.

MIF Members get a 24-hour presale for this and all MIF17 events. Visit http://mif.co.uk/join-support-us/membership/ to find out more. The full MIF17 programme will be announced on Thursday 9 March.

Tickets available from
www.Gigsandtours.com, www.ticketmaster.co.uk, or www.ticketline.co.uk.

The Arcade Fire's seminal debut "Funeral" was released to critical acclaim and featured in numerous Album of the Decade Polls including NME, Pitchfork, Guardian, Mojo and Rolling Stone. Their 2007 follow-up "Neon Bible" debuted at #2 in the UK and also the Billboard Hot 100, Both records were nominated for Best Alternative Album at the Grammy Awards following their release. In 2011 the band won Album of the Year at the Grammy Awards for their third studio album "The Suburbs" (2010) before going on to win Best International Group and Best International Album at the 2011 BRIT Awards. "Reflektor" topped the charts upon its release in 2013, and was nominated for Best Alternative Music Album at the Grammy Awards.

Manchester International Festival (MIF) is the world's first festival of original, new work and special events, staged every two years in Manchester, UK. MIF launched in 2007 as an artist-led festival presenting new works from across the spectrum of performing arts, visual arts and popular culture. MIF has commissioned, produced and presented world premieres by artists including Björk, Steve McQueen, Robert Wilson, Wayne McGregor, Maxine Peake, The xx, Zaha Hadid Architects, Damon Albarn, Punchdrunk, Elbow and Marina Abramovi?.

MIF brings together world-renowned artists from different art forms and backgrounds to create dynamic, innovative and forward-thinking new work, staged in venues across Greater Manchester - from theatres, galleries and concert halls to railway depots, churches and car parks. MIF works closely with venues, festivals and other cultural organisations around the world, whose financial and creative input helps to make many of these projects possible. The Festival also works widely within communities around Manchester, originally with MIF Creative and now with a new initiative called My Festival.

MIF's Artistic Director and CEO is John McGrath, previously the Founding Artistic Director of National Theatre Wales. Earlier this year, MIF was confirmed as the operator of Factory, a new £110 million cultural centre in Manchester due to open in 2020.

MIF is a registered charity and company limited by guarantee.

Sounds Of The City in the past four years has become a staple part of the Manchester music scene. Along with Arcade Fire, some of the most acclaimed live artists including Richard Ashcroft, Haçienda Classical, The Levellers and The Waterboys, James, and Blossoms will all headline outdoor shows at Castlefield Bowl this summer.