Thank you for a real one!
Published: 12/08/25
At the time of posting, it is around one week since the frighteningly beautiful clientele of Supernormal 2025 saddled up and left the Braziers Park site. We did not accost them at the exit gate and demand their opinion on what they’d just been part of*… but plenty of them have let us know anyway, and there’s no call for false modesty here because the post-fest vibes all seem EXTREMELY POSITIVE. That was the vibe when everyone was onsite and having it, as well, so good to know these things match up.
Supernormal is a DIY festival that everyone involved does in their spare time and for the love of the game, which means that piecing ‘em together two years in a row is a major commitment. It’s made a lot easier by the knowledge that out there is a great and considerate community of would-be attendees who are bang up for going each year and like what we do as much as we do. But there is still the worry, each time and before it all coalesces, that we’ve bitten off more than we can chew. Here is a list that can never convey all the gratitude we have but is hopefully both informative and sincere.
To Supernormal’s first, last and only home, @brazierspark and its residents for being principled and accommodating hosts! Our beautiful and wonderful volunteers – including those who build the site’s various structures in the days before the festival and pack them up in the days after – the various sound/light engineers and electricians who get the whole thing cranking, and a man named Jed and his forklift, without whom SN would be a logistical impossibility! Newcastle’s brilliant @thelubberfiend who ran the bars like hoppy clockwork! This year’s crop of excellent food vendors, and indeed SN’s own catering legends Mother May I! The security and medical team who absolutely ‘get’ this festival while doing their job with unflappable diligence! The 2025 programme partners, namely @braziers_int_artists_workshop @gutlevelsheffield @heartnsoulart @iamfyamusic @nat__sharp and @shitepop for adding at least five new dimensions to the lineup!
Everyone who performed as part of that very lineup for inducing a panoply of ecstatic reactions in a crowd as up for it as any that’s ever been at Supernormal… and each member of that crowd, for giving the aforementioned cause to do the aforementioned.
So what’s next? We’re going to keep counting our blessings, sifting through all the quality photos that got taken like the ones we’re showing you here, and figure out when we can next update you with Supernormal news and what that news will contain. Back in a tick!
*if you attended Supernormal 2025 we are in fact going to solicit your views, via email, pretty soon, so look out for that if you fancy telling us anything...X
At the time of posting, it is around one week since the frighteningly beautiful clientele of Supernormal 2025 saddled up and left the Braziers Park site. We did not accost them at the exit gate and demand their opinion on what they’d just been part of*… but plenty of them have let us know anyway, and there’s no call for false modesty here because the post-fest vibes all seem EXTREMELY POSITIVE. That was the vibe when everyone was onsite and having it, as well, so good to know these things match up.
Supernormal is a DIY festival that everyone involved does in their spare time and for the love of the game, which means that piecing ‘em together two years in a row is a major commitment. It’s made a lot easier by the knowledge that out there is a great and considerate community of would-be attendees who are bang up for going each year and like what we do as much as we do. But there is still the worry, each time and before it all coalesces, that we’ve bitten off more than we can chew. Here is a list that can never convey all the gratitude we have but is hopefully both informative and sincere.
To Supernormal’s first, last and only home, @brazierspark and its residents for being principled and accommodating hosts! Our beautiful and wonderful volunteers – including those who build the site’s various structures in the days before the festival and pack them up in the days after – the various sound/light engineers and electricians who get the whole thing cranking, and a man named Jed and his forklift, without whom SN would be a logistical impossibility! Newcastle’s brilliant @thelubberfiend who ran the bars like hoppy clockwork! This year’s crop of excellent food vendors, and indeed SN’s own catering legends Mother May I! The security and medical team who absolutely ‘get’ this festival while doing their job with unflappable diligence! The 2025 programme partners, namely @braziers_int_artists_workshop @gutlevelsheffield @heartnsoulart @iamfyamusic @nat__sharp and @shitepop for adding at least five new dimensions to the lineup!
Everyone who performed as part of that very lineup for inducing a panoply of ecstatic reactions in a crowd as up for it as any that’s ever been at Supernormal… and each member of that crowd, for giving the aforementioned cause to do the aforementioned.
So what’s next? We’re going to keep counting our blessings, sifting through all the quality photos that got taken like the ones we’re showing you here, and figure out when we can next update you with Supernormal news and what that news will contain. Back in a tick!
*if you attended Supernormal 2025 we are in fact going to solicit your views, via email, pretty soon, so look out for that if you fancy telling us anything...X
