'An absolute last resort' - Greater Manchester music festival postponed as organisers issue update

A family-friendly festival dedicated to the music of the 90s will no longer go ahead this weekend. Loaded Festival was due to take place in Bury this bank holiday weekend but has been postponed by organisers due to ‘logistics, staffing and recent unpredictable weather conditions’.

The event was due to host a varied line-up of tribute bands covering hits from the likes of the Happy Mondays, Oasis, The Prodigy and Daft Punk, amongst others. A number of local singers, DJs and even former Inspiral frontman Tom Hingley were set to perform at the event on May 4.

It was scheduled to take place at Sedgley Park in Whitefield and had been organised by the team behind the popular Glaston-BURY event, which takes place across the borough with numerous stages and venues. The festival has also raised more than £250,000 for Bury Hospice.

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Issuing an update on Loaded Festival earlier today, the team posted on the Glaston-BURY page: “For those who are still unsure of the Loaded event that was scheduled for this Saturday, the event has been postponed. We are working hard and should have the rescheduled date confirmed this week.

“We are sorry for any inconvenience but it is important to get this right so that we can move forward with the bigger emergency services event next year. We have experienced some difficulties with the Skiddle page but this should now have been rectified and all ticket buyers should now have an email update.”

In an earlier update shared last week, the team said it was ‘an absolute last resort’ but they didn’t want to proceed with the event knowing that they couldn’t ‘have put matters right’ by May 4 and make it the ‘awesome’ event