For One Weekend Only, The Warehouse Project Moves to this Eerie Location

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For One Weekend Only, The Warehouse Project Moves to this Eerie Location

For a set of one-off events, the Manchester organisers have found a ghostly new home.

It might be summer right now, but all good things must come to end, and sometimes even better things take their place. The best excuse to get excited for autumn since crunchy leaves, Manchester's Warehouse Project will be whirring into life once more in September, inspiring long rainy, rattling magic bus journeys and a roster of DJs big enough to have Ibiza shaking in its boots. The even better news is, the party gets started even earlier than that. As part of Manchester's International Festival, WHP will be hosted two one off events with the likes of Four Tet, Koreless, Carl Craig & Mike Banks, Joy Orbison, Jacques Greene and Midland.

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The 10x10 events will be taking place in July, and in the post-industrial spirit of the project, they've found a pretty amazing location for these nights of electronic excellence. WHP have generously sent us these pictures of their next hideout in the Mayfield Depot. The ghostly, abandoned location is set to be knocked down later this year, meaning the two events will be the first and only Warehouse Projects to take place there. Scroll down to enjoy a look at the barren shell that will be, in a matter of weeks, filled with by those incredibly promisin lineups. Warehouse Project head honcho Sam Kandel even took some time to send us his thoughts on the venue. This one should be special.

"We were looking at this space for a long time, and were in talks about making it a permanent home for WHP that all ultimately fell by the wayside but it's amazing to be collaborating with MIF for these two special nights. The whole site is earmarked for major redevelopment so there are absolutely no plans for any further WHP action here. We will be setting up camp in familiar surroundings just around the corner later this year, which we are really looking forward to." - Sam Kandel.

"'It's one of those classic undisturbed industrial spaces, and couldn't be more central in the city. There's something magical about temporarily transforming a vast space like that, which has been left untouched for decades. When you stand inside the Mayfield building the atmosphere is totally ethereal. You can smell Manchester's industrial past in there." - SK

"The spate of closures up and down the country is absolutely terrible for the whole scene. We are lucky to base ourselves in a progressive and forward thinking city where the value of these venues and events is engrained in the culture. It feels like elsewhere in the country similar operators can be given a hard time despite a professional approach." - SK