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Friday

Red Kite

13:00 - Shona B

Shona B’s DJ sets -– whose streams may cross from dub to dabke, coldwave to new wave – can be heard on Leeds-based committee station NARR Radio, or at Dark Stains, a clubnight she co-founded and which “celebrates all sounds brooding and synth-led” in her words.

16:00 - Meat Strap

A very hot and slippery (in a sonic sense) London-based duo of Max Weaver (guitar) and Delia Detritus (drums) who combine dazzlingly locked-in instrumental intuition with the unmoored possibilities of free improvisation and have been known to inject an element of situationist chaos into their live trigonometry.

19:45 - Karaoke

21:50 - Traidora

Having recorded Traidora’s debut EP ‘Un Cuerpo Trans Lleno De Odio’ (‘a trans body full of hate’) solo, Eva Leblanc recruited a band of D-beat and noisepunk maniacs from the London scene to play live, and the results SLAY: dentist-drill guitar tone, uncontrollable soloing and militant queerness.

23:30 - Non Paying Buyer

Non Paying Buyer is one of the heads who runs Brixton club/artspace Spanners and can be found playing rekkids in there, as well as on NTS every so often. His set will take you on a proverbial journey, shifting gear through the known universe of electronic beats.

Shed

15:15 - Distraxi

Releasing cassettes and CDRs at a rate of steady pummelling since debuting in 2021, UK power electronics queen Distraxi – aka Alina Church – aims to make sounds as abrasive and disturbing as the headspaces that inspire them, and her live performances hold nothing back.

17:00 - Leo Hermitt

Also frontperson of Mancunian postpunk band Handle, Leo Hermitt has blossomed as a solo artist, with latest EP ‘Underground Love’ delivering five tracks of home-recorded delight touching on synthpop, jungle, deep house, ambient techno and soul balladry.

19:00 - Gorgon Vomit

UK metal scene types don the spiked wristbands to do a war metal band in the classic Blasphemy style, with the brilliant USP of frontman Black Mane’s lyrics: written in Jamaican patois and whose phrasing takes no prisoners in turning textbook Rastafarian piety back on itself.

20:50 - Bégayer

Rhythm, tone, ritual and drone is conjured by the five members of France's Bégayer, who augment their Western Europe meets Middle Eastern folk tendencies with heady globs of electronics and circuit bending. As a live band, you can expect Bégayer to create a type of frazzled communal ascension.

22:30 - Slikback

Hailing from Nairobi, you might hear trap drums, jungle breaks, noise synths, dubstep bass, gabber kicks, trance melodies, metal bombast or East African polyrhythms in a set by Freddy ‘Slikback’ Njau. And it will all flow with exhilarating liquid perfection.

Vortex

17:00 - The Charmers

The Charmers are a band of time-travelling queer witches from the 17th century who manifest in 2025 as Debbie Armour, Lisa Lux, Deb Smith, Tansy Spinks and Anne Robinson; they play stirring, gothic folk-rock built from fiddle, guitar, keys, percussion and vocals.

19:00 - Dushume

Dushume is the artistic alias of Amit Dinesh Patel, who by day lectures in music at Greenwich University and by night makes radical noise music using self-built gear and improvisational techniques, aiming to bring the influence of the Asian musical underground to bear on his own compositions.

Barn

18:00 - Rory Salter

London-based Rory Salter's favoured sound tends towards murky drone, analogue crackle, manipulated field recordings and still-more-manipulated acoustic instrumentation, landing in disputed land between ambient, noise and early-era industrial.

20:00 - Milkweed

Folk from London playing folk from all over the shop, Milkweed like to maintain an air of mystery, but at Supernormal you can see their faces live and in person while absorbing their assembly of rustic balladry, primordial synth textures and rolling concepts swiped from antiquarian literature.

21:45 - Judith Hamann

Electroacoustic music structured around the cello playing of Judith Hamann, an Australian composer resident in Berlin. Working with just intonation, wordless vocals and field recordings, location is treated as crucial to the development of the resulting sound.

Activity Tent

19:00 - The Rites Of Lammas Games by Hexess

A semi-improvised procession and ritual-play that invites participants to celebrate the first fruits of the harvest season on August 1, or Lammas Day. Reviving traditional animist practices in pursuit of a revolution of everyday life, the energy of the dancers and musicians is offered to the god Lugh in gleeful resistance to the wreckage of post-industrial neoliberal Britain.

Saturday

Shed

12:00 - Rubber

Bizarro world hardcore punk shenanigans from members of Sauna Youth, Scrap Brain, Negative Space and Joy-Rides. If that clues you into Rubber's disinterest in doing genres by the book, then all is good, but the four-piece’s way with hypnotic repetition takes them to different realms.

13:15 - ZD Grafters

Beginning as a duo, with the initials referring to drummer Zac Kavanagh and his bass-playing dad Dave (both also of Haq 123), ZD Grafters have more recently enlisted saxophonist Riddell Thomas, and on their recent album ‘Three Little Birds’ they catch fire as an ear- and gut-testing action-jazz three-piece.

15:00 - Widget

A London quintet featuring members of Big Joanie (Estella Adeyeri, playing her first Supernormal set since 2016), All Cats Are Beautiful and Junodef, Widget’s 2024 EP Jenga-stacks unlikely pop culture references over grooves perhaps best described as ‘yacht postpunk’.

17:00 - Giulio Erasmus & The End Of The Worm

Giulio Erasmus’ first band Duds burned bright if brief in mid-2010s Manchester, and successors Handle were/are a treat too. Erasmus has since moved to Brussels and carried on making super-striking experimental postpunk: 2021 tape ‘Re-Adjustment’, last year’s ‘Second Attempt’ and new album ‘Hard Sell’, with five-piece band The End Of The Worm.

19:00 - Nadeem Din-Gabisi

Nadeem Din-Gabisi debuted back in 2018 on Sampa The Great’s ‘Energy’ single, but has forged his own great, idiosyncratic path of experimental and poetic Black British pop since then. 'Offshore', his second album, is set to be released on the weekend of this festival.

22:30 - Selvhenter

Reassembling rock music in their own incomparable image from their Copenhagen base, Selvhenter have been making music together for almost 20 years and, though their name quickly became a byword for polyrhythmic noiserock/postpunk/jazztechno excellence, have wilfully avoided settling on a sound over a carefully curated catalogue.

Vortex

13:00 - En Creux

The solo work of Lucia H Chung, a London-based Taiwanese artist, her command of the no-input mixer is the key to En Creux’s ever-shifting noisescapes, where form emerges from formlessness and the results can land on power electronics, minimal composition or dub techno.

15:00 - Guest

Also one third of screwed-down Bristolian soulgazers Jabu, Jasmine Butt's solo alias Guest has graced Space Afrika’s ‘Honest Labour’ album and EP/64’s epic farewell alldayer gig. At Supernormal, ecstatic/restless drone-based electronics will be paired with her distinctively edited 16mm film visuals.

20:45 - GRAIN Present

Since 2023, Caius Williams has been gathering musicians in Bermondsey, south London's Avalon Café for improv-ish nights under the GRAIN banner. This weekend, he curates two trio sets: one featuring Theodora Laird, Theo Guttenplan and Harry Murdoch, the other featuring Williams, Tara Cunningham and Rory Salter.

22:30 - The Doubtful Guest

Raised in Illinois, ending up in London and here for a rare and exciting live performance, Libby Floyd's ravetime guise The Doubtful Guest has notably yielded 2008 album ‘Acid Sauna’, splicing Hackney warehouse acid with Deathchant Records type gabber and peak-era braindance.

Barn

14:00 - Minimum Wage Immanence Unit

David Birchall, Adam Fairhall and Michael Perrett are seasoned sparring partners of British improvisation, out-jazz and other free musics, but try something new as Minimum Wage Immanence Unit: gossamer skronk and folk minimalism with Birchall on guitar and banjo, Fairhall accordion and harmonium, and Perrett bass clarinet.

16:00 - Hannah Catherine Jones

Multitude-containing multidisciplinary artist whose sonic art pieces have celebration of diasporas and clarion calls for decolonisation at their core. Her musical performances typically utilise live electronics, synth, loops and myriad sampled voices as well as that of Jones herself.

18:00 - Leucotome

Oven-fresh witch sounds outta Manchester or thereabouts by three women whose demo tape on Todmorden label Crush Zone points the way to a mystifying and unmapped musical crossroads linking goth, no wave, postpunk and first-two-albums-era PJ Harvey.

20:00 - Kalkin

As Kalkin, Kiran Bhatt (drums) and Edd Sanders (violin) make ample use of each member’s taste for improvisation and free jazz influence, though their music retains plenty of psychedelic folky beauty likely picked up from both members’ time in the band Red River Dialect.

21:30 - Harry Górski-Brown

Gaelic-language folksong and pipe music meets modern composition and digital deconstruction in the hands of Harry Górski-Brown, who lives in Glasgow. Releasing his first solo album, ‘Durt Dronemaker After Dreamboats’, on the city’s GLARC label in 2024, Harry will be playing a set in this style at Supernormal.

Red Kite

14:00 - Unmaking

Sub-basement thrash and early wave death-doom from Glaswegian metal trio Unmaking: new on the block as a band, but vocalist Kay Logan and guitarist Michael Kasparis played in Anxiety, while drummer Paul Thomson has done time in the Yummy Fur and Franz Ferdinand among others.

16:00 - Obey Cobra

A band who formed in Cardiff in the mid-2010s or so, Obey Cobra's two LPs amount to a maximalist pileup of proto-noiserock, sludged-out dreampop and industrial trip-hop. Having cycled through various lineup alterations in their time, Supernormal will find them setting up as a quintet featuring former members of Pohl and The Death Of Money.

18:00 - Sublux

This London band’s name, lyrics and ethos focus hard on disability and intersectionality, with two of the band being wheelchair users and a majority of the band also women and Asian. Their sound creepy crawls around 80s European and Japanese hardcore, heavy riffing anarcho and synthed-up deathrock.

20:00 - Laure Boer

Laure Boer’s compositions use modern electronic tech as a vehicle for acoustically derived sounds with a rustic, primal feel. The results, looped and layered, lean on ritualistic folk and drone but sometimes feel like you’ve discovered a lost civilisation who happen to record techno.

21:30 - John T. Gast

John T. Gast has largely remained an enigma since the early 2010s, even while dropping records via labels like Planet Mu, Blackest Ever Black, Apron and his own 5 Gate Temple. In the live domain, we can expect a murky, heavy session of subbass and temporal electronic tension.

22:45 - Supernormal Cabaret

Supernormal Cabaret is back....

Sunday

Vortex

10:00 - Hand Made Cinema

Make films with your hands and draw, paint and scratch our collection of ephemeral 16mm film in this creative workshop for all ages. After an hour of (re)creating these films, we'll watch a programme of colourful and imaginative experimental cinema, then project the new film you've made during the workshop through our own 16mm projector.

14:30 - DJ Castro

A prominent member of the Heart N Soul DJ crew, who host regular sessions for young people and adults in London, Castro can also be heard regularly on online station Soho Radio. At Supernormal, a strictly vinyl set of jungle, reggae, r'n'b and UK garage has been pledged.

15:50 - I Am Fya: Homeland

I Am Fya is a Manchester-born, Barbados-rooted artist whose work spans music, performance and experimental storytelling. Homeland is her debut as filmmaker, director and editor: a visual album built entirely from field recordings and footage captured in Barbados. The film fuses lo-fi textures, ritualistic movement, family encounters and layered sound design into an intimate, meditative portrait of land, lineage and presence.

17:00 - Keep Me Wet

A melodic odyssey of a woman’s descent into her own psyche, Keep Me Wet is a visceral exploration of the body and the self in free fall.

18:30 - Kareem Samara

Anglo-Palestinian Kareem Samara plays the oud first and foremost, though you might encounter guitar, percussion, electronics and samples in his compositions and live performances. Committed to platforming and expanding Middle Eastern music, over time his quest to make protest music in his own image has intensified.

22:00 - aya

London-via-Manchester disruptor Aya lit up Supernormal as recently as 2022, with a screwy Sunday evening DJ set. This year she’s going to be kicking it live, with a meticulously tweaked show that incorporates ample discursive patter amidst the bursts of soul-baring post-rave quasi-hyperpop abstraction.

Red Kite

10:00 - Isn'tses Noise Synth Building Workshop

Come build and solder your own synth from a kit with Lisa McKendrick and Tim Drage, aka Isn’tses – known for their live electronic harsh fun duo performances and synth design. Suitable for anyone, including complete beginners to electronics and soldering, all materials and equipment will be provided and you can take away the synth you build.

13:30 - Gomid

Joyously uncategorisable sounds from Manchester by Gomid, a vocals/production duo who bundle up abstract digitalisms, out-facing psychedelic sounds, frazzled found-sound ambient and Yoruba literature – to name just four things – into something Afrofuturistic and exciting.

15:30 - Dean Rodney

You may have seen London’s Dean Rodney Jr. playing with The Cowboys, or before them the Fish Police – both at past Supernormals among many other places – but since then he's continued to record music at a prolific rate, turning slices of his life into infectious servings of slinky robotic electrofunk.

17:30 - Big Farmer

Damaged punk music from Glasgow town played by fellows with big calloused hands but also hearts overflowing with kindness and compassion. Big Farmer also comprise longstanding members of Supernormal’s build crew, which means they make this festival possible, so if that means a lot to you then show ‘em love.

19:45 - Alpha Maid

Since the late 2010s south Londoner Leisha Thomas has, as Alpha Maid, been dishing up dissonant, unorthodox experimental rock that modernises the lo-fi aesthetic, with EPs issued via Curl (whose co-founder Mica Levi plays with Thomas in another band, Spresso), ATATA and c.a.n.v.a.s.

21:15 - Meatdripper

Meatdripper are a four-piece from Birmingham who played their debut gig just over one year before this, their debut Supernormal gig. They released their debut song, ‘Homegrown’, in March 2025, its followup ‘Spider’ in July, and they play slow, heavy and groovy psychedelic doom metal.

Barn

11:00 - Joe 3y3s Gong Bath

Joe 3y3s is a South London based gong practitioner, composer and sound designer whose work bridges sound healing modalities and performance art. At Supernormal, he will offer a meditative gong bath – an enveloping soundscape providing space to rest, release, and gently realign through healing vibrations of sound.

13:30 - Sebastian

South London’s Sebastian Golgiri is a bona fide pop music one-off. Claiming inspiration from David Bowie, Annie Lennox and Shakespears Sister but taking this blueprint to an indefinable location, synth-based arrangements become something dramatic and grandiose in Golgiri’s hands.

15:30 - Brian Andrew Inglis/Lizzie Knatt

Brian Andrew Inglis will perform his partly John Cage-inspired 2018 composition ‘Four Pieces For Toy Piano’ – which embraces the instrument’s inevitable imperfections while adding field recordings and spoken word – with Lizzie Knatt, a recorder player influenced by early music and modern composition alike.

17:30 - Semay Wu

A noted cellist since the late 1990s, it’s as a solo performer, composer and improvisor that the Glasgow-based Semay Wu has really dazzled in recent years, testing the limits of the instrument’s possibilities while remaining loyal to its natural resonance and the orthodox beauty that can yield.

19:30 - Rocheman

Jordan Mallory-Skinner's Rocheman alias delivers elegance in outsized quantities but with a delicate touch. Sitting somewhere in the midpoint between 80s sophistipop/soul, 90s slowcore and the perfectionism of Mark Hollis, for live performances such as this one Rocheman become a quartet.

21:15 - Jesse Darling & Gentle Stranger

Post-post-folk polyphonic trio Gentle Stranger are joined by Oxford-born, London-based artist Jesse Darling for a collaborative set of sound art and spoken word in which GS and JD will bliss out on trumpet, clarinet, dulcimer, tapes and other objects.

Activity Tent

12:30 - Unprecious Instrument

Learn how to make a rudimentary two-string musical instrument with salvaged piano parts, scrap wood and simple hand tools. Using materials sourced onsite for the body, piano wire is stretched between tuning pins. Participants will then have the chance to perform, discovering their instrument’s character through improvisation.

Shed

14:30 - Cowboy Builder

Edinburgh’s Cowboy Builder serve up a strange and crepuscular sound touched by dub, free-ranging psychedelia and the most fearless end of postpunk as led by bands like This Heat: intimate, sometimes prickly, but never unwelcoming, with rumbling low end and polyrhythmic peculiarity.

16:30 - Rainham Sheds

Featuring members of bands including Shake Chain, Current Affairs and Sassyhiya, Rainham Sheds divest themselves of all their cultivated musical and civil graces to play crude no wave with cloven hooves and lyrical themes including French philosophy and humping the furniture.

18:30 - Coffin Mulch

Glasgow death metal devil dogs Coffin Mulch truly bring it live, inspired by the early Swedish death metal scene that gave us the likes of Entombed and engaging the audience with a punk rock-like vigour. Bangovers GUARANTEED.

20:30 - Brìghde Chaimbeul

Back in plague times (2021), Scottish small pipes player Brìghde Chaimbeul did Supernormal a solid by donating a track to our charity tape comp, ‘The Life Of An Uncultured Magician’. Since then, she has gone places in every sense, getting the glorious swirling/skirling sound of her chosen instrument into unsuspecting ears and some mighty unlikely cultural spaces.

Unscheduled / Around Site

Patience

Lois McDonald, also a member of Pins and Grave Goods, unveils solo alter ego Patience: “a synthetic being brought into existence to serve but instead chooses their own path.” Manifesting as glitchy, jagged digital abstraction, this will be an AV set with two guest vocalists.

Pat Thomas

From nearby Oxford, Pat Thomas is a titan of jazz piano who seeks to test the boundaries of his chosen genre, and chosen instrument. Lately seen in quartet [Ahmed] and Black Top, his duo with Orphy Robinson, this solo performance will spotlight his virtuosic playing.

Yexxen

Transmitting from Berlin, Yexxen's deranged, freeform noisejazz tornado is created by two Argentinians – baritone saxophonist Sofia Salvo and bassist Guido Kohn – plus, on lapsteel and drums respectively, Claire Nico (Cuntroaches), and Bobby Glew (Guttersnipe, Nape Neck).

GRAIN Present

Since 2023, Caius Williams has been gathering musicians in Bermondsey, south London's Avalon Café for improv-ish nights under the GRAIN banner. This weekend, he curates two trio sets: one featuring Theodora Laird, Theo Guttenplan and Harry Murdoch, the other featuring Williams, Tara Cunningham and Rory Salter.

Nomad Tree

Stuart Chalmers' most recently minted alias Nomad Tree represents his ongoing conference with the natural world. The caves of rural England seem particularly sonically resonant, with his unsettling dark ambient folk created from frame drums, dulcimer, gongs, bells and foraged objects.

The Panama Papers

A duo of Leeds' Robin Smith and Cardiff's Xavier Boucherat, joined for this performance by Beth Greenhalgh, The Panama Papers combine luxurious sax, lugubrious vocals, glitchy electronics, PowerPoint visuals and a conceptual hook posed as a question: “which members of the UK experimental scene benefit from offshore accounting practices?”

Sue Lynch

A suitably lynchpin-like figure on the London free jazz/free improv/post-AMM scene, Sue Lynch is most often (though not always) found playing tenor saxophone and has been doing so in a wide variety of ensembles for over 40 years. At Supernormal she’ll be performing a solo sax set.

D.M.S.: Dancing With The Fortunes film screening

On Fri 1 Aug, D.M.S. aka Danielle releases ‘Dancing With The Fortunes’ – a multimedia work encompassing a 12-song album and an animated film introducing us to the 54 (!) characters on it. The film will premiere at Supernormal this weekend.

Bora

BORA is a french interdisciplinary artist exploring different mediums which together form a universe where imagination is an activism. Through digital creation, installation, sound, or performance, they explore imaginary landscapes as a means of navigating our reality through tenderness.

James Unsworth

James Unsworth makes work about fat queer bodies. They research the print history of girth and mirth organisations and early bear culture to use as compositions for drawings or raw materials for collage. They use archive materials and contemporary models to insert fat queer bodies into art history, exploring the connections/contrasts that exist between the past and present.

Jacky Cheetham

Jacky Cheetham's sculpture, video and installation works explore caricature, cartooning and character design, personifying, exhausting and evaporating the effects objects and materials can have on people and communities over time. For Supernormal, he will bring his ‘trapped in a coffin with nothing to do…' installation: a large, anthropomorphic castle-like set structure and several props and puppets, speculating on visions of future hometowns, families, loves, demons and pals.

Jake Elwes: Queering AI & Deepfake Drag

A talk by Jake Elwes, a conceptual artist, hacker, radical faerie and researcher living in London, which will discuss glitching oppressive algorithms (referencing 2016 video work 'Machine Learning Porn') and reframing AI-generated marsh birds back into nature (referencing 2019's 'CUSP'). They will challenge who builds these systems and for what purpose, and whether we as artists and queers can reclaim these technologies to build our own digital utopias.

Hat Lady

What is Supernormal without the Hat Lady? For 2025, look out for an appearance each night, with themed hat and costume.

Lantern workshop with Hat Lady

Kids, get ready to bring the light! Make and decorate a lantern using recycled materials led by bona fide Supernormal legend the Hat Lady! The workshop will take place in the daytime, then when it starts to get dark you will all meet up to have a procession around the field, showing off your new lanterns.

Jake Williams: Protest/Carnival

Jake Williams – a DJ, producer, scholar and educator whose practice explores the politics of public music-playing via an intersection of turntablism and soundscape composition – will lead a talk that will explore the role of sound systems in UK protests; draw on the history of Rock Against Racism and 1990s community sound system events; and ask what meaningful allyship in music might look like in 2025.

SOXSA Ambient and Interactive Busking

SOXSA (South Oxon Sound Archive) was founded in 1953 by Gilbert Jones, its mission to “develop and promote experimental and electronic music for the Common Good.” Joined by collaborator Manfred Vex, Gilbert Jr. is reviving his father’s radical concept of Ambient Busking: taking improvised soundscapes to the streets of Oxford and beyond. For Supernormal, this vision expands into an interactive experience, inviting everyone to become participants in the sonic experiment.

Manko

An artist based in Oxfordshire, working primarily in sculpture but with skills encompassing ceramics, design, painting and textiles, Manko's installation at Supernormal unveils her collection of vintage dolls' houses, shedding light upon her secret obsession with miniatures. Relax, zoom in and let your imagination wander in these tiny rooms...

Rabindranath X Bhose

Rabindranath X Bhose is an artist and dancer based in Glasgow and hailing from London, Scotland, France, India and Brussels. His work circles around the figure of the ‘gender fugitive’ and the queer potentials of the bog. Recently, he collaborated with boggy friends Oren Shoesmith and Belladonna Paloma on Corpores Infames: Disreputable Bodies, performed at Glasgow International 2024.

Pam Rose Cott: Bats weave, spiders fly

For Supernormal, Cardiff-based performance artist Pam will create handwoven installations across the festival site exploring how humans and animals can learn from each other's natural construction methods. Humans can create woven homes for bees known as skeps, birds weave nests and spiders weave webs – all different methods we can emulate in order to create installations across the site.

Ono: How People With A Disability Are Represented In The Media

As a proud woman of colour with a learning disability, Ono champions her community through her work at Heart n Soul, on Soho Radio, and as co-founder of Perky. At Supernormal, she'll host an engaging look at media portrayal of disability: how it can shape perceptions and empower disabled individuals. Celebrating progress while addressing ongoing challenges, Ono sparks fresh ideas for an inclusive future.

Jamal Sterrett

Nottingham-based Jamal Sterrett's performance practice bridges spiritual dance, intuitive improvisation and embodied ritual. At Supernormal he will present a solo piece, 'Gazelle', as well as responding to selected artworks onsite through spontaneous performances and leading a freeform Bruk Up dance workshop, introducing participants to his raw, expressive style.

Aliyah Hussain

Yorkshire-based British Pakistani artist Aliyah Hussain works across ceramics, sound and collage, drawing on themes such as feminist science fiction, speculative storytelling, plant thinking and ecological issues. Jal Tarang / Waves In Water is a mixed media installation based on an altered version of a classical Indian instrument: the water that sings in the bowls will become a portal for time travel between submerged ancestral landscapes and present-day flood zones.

ZINDA! by Seema Mattu

A Youteran folk-punk band visit their otherworldly cousins in Birmingham to experience the sonic wonders of a diasporic planet Earth, and knowingly bring their own darkwave~carnivalesque vibes along the way… This is the interactive screening of ZINDA!, created by Seema Mattu: a Valmiki world-building trickster whose practice is framed as a theme park known as SEEMAWORLD.

Teodora Kosanović presents Unseen Avant Gardes: Women Experimental Filmmakers In Yugoslavia 1960-90

A selection of experimental short films made by women filmmakers during a culturally significant period in Yugoslavia. The screening and accompanying performance/lecture by Teodora Kosanović will explore works that frame the radical potential of the 'amateur artist' as inextricably linked to gender, politics, nationhood, and the urban spaces around us.

Nor: Papier mache utopia

Inspired by the fantasy architecture of Braziers and a residency project developing the notion of 'wyrd vernacular', Nor – a mural artist based between Oxford and Braziers Park – imagines a dreamlike, surrealistic vision of this very estate, created with locally foraged and found materials including clay, chalk and recycled foil.

What this place is missing is a scarecrow

Have some drop-in trashy fun with artists Isabelle Sallis and Isabella Carreras to make an installation of scarecrows for the Supernormal landscape. Waste materials, lost property, second-hand clothes and natural materials from the site will bring these new beings into existence. For children/young people and their families.

Primitive Percussion Youth Orchestra

Founded by Mark S. Williamson, Primitive Percussion Youth Orchestra performs improvised and semi-improvised music using the stuff that lies around gathering dust in school music cupboards. They bring to Supernormal a workshop, aimed at ages 7-14, which will lead immediately into a performance opening one of the stages that day.

SiNG with NiCKY

JOIN US for a good ol' queer knees up around the piano. NiCKY brings the smash hit piano karaoke event "SiNG with NiCKY" from iconic West End queer venue The Retro bar to Supernormal 2025! Likened to a human jukebox, NiCKY can play almost any song on the piano, enlisting participants from an audience to have their very own chance to sing on a 'West End' stage.

Forest Of Zine

Forest Of Zine is returning to Supernormal so you can: create your own Supernormal creature using natural materials; map the site and your experience of it on a unique zine template; become a member of the library and get access to the online FoZ catalogue; look at the zine created at last year’s festival, which will launch this weekend; and hang out to read nature zines and see how all this fits on a bicycle!

DIY Temporary Tattoos

Scare your parents and impress your dates with some fresh (felt tip) ink! Design and draw your very own transfer tattoos! Been wanting to do a trial run before getting the real deal? Join us for a relaxing and low-key creative session to ease you into the afternoon. All of the badassery, none of the pain.

BE MORE RAT!

Join us for a joyous romp with the rats and their friends peddling their infectious RATIFESTO. A two-hour drop-in puppet craft activity for sleepy adults and excitable little ones, making rat puppets from reclaimed and recycled materials. Adults must stay with their younguns at all times; appropriate for age 5+.

Preemptive Listening: a film by Aura Satz

In an age of intersecting political, manmade and ecological disasters, ‘Preemptive Listening’ is an ode to the sirens that are and those that could be. Siren compositions from over 20 contemporary musicians form a resonant voice to ask: does an alarm have to be alarming?

Supernormal Quiet Space: Tuning Into Stillness

Created by Chloé Rochefort, this accessible installation is specifically designed to act as an inclusive, sensory and re-energising experience for audience members in need of a moment of peace during the festival. Playing with textiles and textures, we are crafting an environment that holds space to care for ourselves and others.

Nowelis Flood

Inspired by Geoffrey Chaucer's 'The Miller’s Tale', 'Nowelis Flood' is a new installation by artists Lewis Prosser and George Ridgway. Combining traditional craft with the language of emergency infrastructure, this work explores themes of delusion, preparedness, and the comedy of misdirected urgency.

All Power Emanates From The Land

An audiovisual music performance combining costume and animation, and expanding on the soundscape work Jessica Ashman, Tanya Auclair and sound engineer Kyle Acab created for 'Those That Do Not Smile Will Kill Me’, Ashman’s installation at Bristol Museum & Art Gallery. For Supernormal, Ashman has created an animated accompaniment to the performance, and will be joined onstage by artist and musician Richard Phoenix.

Ayoub Boukhalfa

A queer Moroccan Chaabi vocalist and performer from Cardiff, Ayoub is passionate about using his music to create a more inclusive and equitable world, and having been listed as 'one to watch' among influential LGBTQ+ people in Wales, is committed to using his platform to amplify the voices of marginalised communities. For SN 2025, Ayoub will be performing as part of the Supernormal cabaret and leading a Moroccan dance workshop.

Love Badgers

Come and find the Love Badgers, Sevonah Golabi and Poonam Maher, in their den to make badges about the things you love – an ideology, a song, a food, a person, anything really – and then rock your badge around Supernormal in a celebration of love!

Martha McGuinn

Martha McGuinn is an artist and designer whose work is currently based around exploring medieval imagery, experimental metalwork and what it is to be a woman in craft.

Wet Mess

Wet Mess is a wet mess, horny for your confusion. Let it all out and guess again at the insecure balding white man/pussy prince/alien baby. Have a lollygag, think about your fantasy flesh suits, call them sweet prince, and remember Roger in a robe. Choose to make some silly campy decisions, with all the hairy thems and dykey men.

Cabaret

Yoga

Robin Foster: Rummaging Band group performance

Workshop/performance hosted by Robin Foster, an improviser and performer from Bristol. Foster will introduce participants to the practice of Rummaging: using junk and found objects, some collected from around the festival site, explore concepts relating to the practice, scavenge for objects and materials to perform with, and work together to devise a group performance.

Keira Greene - Totally on Fire

Totally on Fire is a conversation across time that restages an exercise from the Esalen Institute, California in the grounds of the secular community Braziers Park, Oxfordshire.The film pivots around a search for something immaterial. The tension lies in the fact that the actors communicate through a silent game of volleyball, with no net and no ball. Their game is of shared perception. There is a sense of collapsed time in which they loose themselves in a group expression, underpinned by the original Esalen game.

Bridget & Kitty

A close harmony a cappella folk duo who can regularly be found performing in London at Folk Of The Round Table, the weekly nights they organise – so this is a fine setting for Bridget and Kitty Walker to venture outside the city limits following their 2024 debut release on the Betwixt & Between label.

Speeddating