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The crowd gather at Dpercussion 2005

This is D end

After a decade of partying on the day and fundraising for the rest of the year, Ear To The Ground have announced that this yearâ€™s Dpercussion will be the last.

In a statement on the eventâ€™s website, the organisers explain that even with the increased funds raised by introducing a donation system, "the economics of the festival just don't add up."

They go on to thank "all the volunteers, sponsors and partners who have stuck with us to make this event possible," and give a special mention to Manchester City Council who, they explain, "have jumped in at the last minute to guarantee that Dpercussion reaches its decade mark."

A reveller rests at Dpercussion 2004

The statement continues: "We would like to thank everyone who has helped make Dpercussion happen over the last 10 years including bands, DJs, production companies and all the lovely people who have worked at Ear to the Ground since 1997.

"We want the 4th of August to be an amazing day of celebrating what Manchester has to offer musically.Ìý It's been a great 10 years in Castlefield and we thank you for sharing it with us.

"Dpercussion is dead â€“ long live Manchester."

Dpercussion has been a bastion of new music for the last decade and has seen performances from Snow Patrol, Badly Drawn Boy and Mr Scruff amongst others. This yearâ€™s event will see thousands of revelers cram into the Castlefield site to catch sets from the likes of The Sunshine Underground, Norman Jay, Cherry Ghost, David Holmes, Polytechnic, Maps and Liz Green.

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The decision to call it a day has been met with praise for the eventâ€™s past and something of a bleak view for the future. As one poster on the Dpercussion MySpace page put it, "if this is indeed the last Dpercussion then it will be like the Manchester Music Scene having a leg cut off.... limping into the future without the best event in Manchester in spirit and soul."

There's little doubt that it will put a hole in Manchester's summer. Having got bigger each year, it's now a pivotal date in the music and arts calendar. So, while it may look inevitable, is it right to close Dpercussion down or should a way be found to keep the event going, even if it is on a smaller scale?

last updated: 01/08/07

Have Your Say

What do you think about the demise of Dpercussion?

eddie frain stretford
a sad indictement of the so called 24 hour city . many icons and future icons of our supposed great city come from this event .Why can't the elders of the town hall see we need more events like this , instead of st georges days and st paddys days , this means more to manchester and encourages intergration . not like the others which only isolate us .. a real shame !!

Mark Holt
D-percussion is one of the best days of the summer in Manchester. Everyone I know looks forward to it and is absolutly gutted it could be D end! Some of my most memorable moments was seeing Mr Scruff play under the arches with trans passing overhead and Aim last year in the main square was really speacial. I'd pay Â£10 to go and im sure more people would too. If this is the end of the D-percussion then its a very sad moment for Manchesters music scene!

Ben Jones
Why are they charging a Â£3 entrance fee if it's going to be the last one? The Â£2 "donations" they collected last year were meant to pay for this year's event. If there's not going to be an event next year why do they need more cash?

Angela
It was always pretty awful lets be honest. It was just a clique driven excercise with no thought put into who plays other than the organisers mates. It is those people who have single handedly made manchester music the Garvey, Frost Badly Drawn Boy boredom vehicle we see today. They always think its so important and it really isn't, music is dying in Manchester and hopefully dpercussion ending will spice it up again without the self perpetuating justification club of the organisers peddling their mediocre tastes.

Paul Wright
I've never missed a Dpercussion and I'm saddened that this year will be the last one. It seems to be a funding issue, which if so is sad, as something so important to the Manchester Arts calender and Manchester in general I would have thought something could be done to resolve this.

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