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Don't Take Poppers... And Other Things We Learned at Parklife Festival

A waster's festival photo diary.

Parklife, or "p.life" as it's known to the sportswear clad crustaceans who frequent the festival each year, is a Mecca for Manchester's finest. From Cheshire to Cheetham Hill, hundreds of people head down to the baby festival each year, drawn in by A) the value of the event - £56 gets you into the VIP area, Wireless suckers! - and B) the line-up, which this year consisted of Disclosure, FKA Twigs, Novelist, Earl Sweatshirt, Mac DeMarco, and a buttload more.

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We went down this year to photograph a bunch of people, and here's some top tips we learnt along the way.

Don't take poppers! Just don't.

Everyone is on a mad one!

Rides do not stimulate the effects of drugs!

Pre-drink. A lot.

Always protect your scorpion tattoo

Bring a Mask: You never know what you might catch

All photos by Christopher McCory