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Supersonic Festival has confirmed the first wave of names for 2025.
The much-loved festival acts as a hub for left-field sounds, ranging from avant-folk to black metal via synth excursions. Developing a true community feeling, Supersonic overcame multiple challenges in the live music sector to deliver a fantastic weekend of music in 2024.
Returning this summer, Supersonic will be spread across August 29th – 31st, residing at its familiar base in Digbeth, Birmingham.
In an introductory note, Lisa Meyer, Artistic Director of Supersonic Festivalsaid:
Despite facing some challenges last year brought on by gentrification and a precarious festival landscape, I was truly humbled by the incredible response to the festival; it felt triumphant in the face of adversity.
We are living in abhorrent times, so now more than ever we must cherish our creative spaces. Supersonic Festival is committed to doing things differently and to putting a spotlight on lesser-known artists, to challenge the commercial logic of wider music festival culture with an alternative and more risk-taking programme and by presenting some of the most vital artists of the underground. I am so grateful that our audiences and artists trust in us. This is what keeps pushing the festival forward.
The first names on the bill include magnificent North East songwriter Rich(ard) Dawson, an old friend of the festival. Elsewhere, drone folk project Bridget Hayden and the Apparitions will appear, alongside Divide and Dissolve, Mermaid Chunky, and Meatdripper.
Zambian-Canadian producer and rapperBackxwash returns to the festival, showcasing her incoming album ‘Only Dust Remains’. She comments…
Supersonic was a great experience!! The energy from the crowd and the attention to detail from the organisers made our first UK show unforgettable. The festival has an incredibly unique curation of many talented artists and fosters a community-driven environment. I’m so grateful to be returning this year to perform my upcoming album and look forward to this year’s lineup.
Elsewhere you can find Scandinavian death metal project Witch Club Satan, To, Death Goalsand Cinder.
The initial Supersonic line-up as follows:
AUNTY RAYZOR | BACKXWASH | BRIDGET HAYDEN AND THE APPARITIONS | BUÑUEL | CINDER WELL | DEATH GOALS | DIVIDE AND DISSOLVE | HEDGLING |
HIRS COLLECTIVE | MARIA W HORN & SARA PARKMAN present FUNERAL FOLK |MEATDRIPPER | MERMAID CHUNKY | MOIN | OMO | POOR CREATURE |
RICH(ARD) DAWSON | WATER DAMAGE | WITCH CLUB SATAN | ZU
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