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Changes to Printed Programme


  • Timings of The Badness Centre schedule for HOOF on Sunday are different to the printed programme, please use the online schedule and keep an eye on chalk board outside the HOOF tent
  • Black Peppa will not be performing their solo show on Friday. They will be part of the Cabaret on Saturday.
  • Leo Hermitt is no longer able to perform this weekend. We'll invite them next SN!
  • Zoh Amba has moved from the Barn to the Shed stage and will be performer at the earlier time of 16:45.
  • Rory Salter will be performing later, at 17:45 in The Barn. 
  • Deepfake Drag / Queering AI talk will not be happening.
  • Widget and ZD Grafters have switched round on Shed on Saturday.
  • Brian Inglis & Lizzie Knatt will likely perform for about 40-45 mins instead of 30 mins. 
  • Braziers House events: Afternoon tea in Braziers Tea Room: Saturday and Sunday 2-4pm/ Braziers House Tour: Saturday 2-3pm/ Braziers Garden Tour: Sunday 2-3pm. 
  • Programme Partner Heart N Soul acts Sebastian, Dean Rodney and DJ Castro can no longer make it to the festival. Heart N Soul artwork will be exhibited on site, D.M.S.'s film will still be shown and Ono's talk will still take place in The Vortex. 
  • Rian Treanor & Mun Sing have been added to the programme and will now be DJ'ing b2b 14:00-15:30 in the Red Kite on Sunday.
  • Debut collaboration between Pat Thomas & Dan Johnson replaces Sebastian in the Barn on Sunday at 13:45.
  • Robin Foster's rummaging group performance to happen outside the Vortex at 18:00 on Sunday.


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.

17:45 - Karaoke

19:45 - 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.

21:45 - 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.

Thicket

14:00 - Welcome to Open conversation and conviviality in The Thicket

Sometimes the work is not where you think it is. Communication networks generated from sitting around a fire, 22 dancing with artists whose countries you have never visited, exchanging – that’s where you find the work. Down these pathways of exchange the certainties
of artistic practice erodes and defences evaporate. There too is where you find the work.” – Jordan McKenzie, BIAW artist and coordinator

16:00 - Reading of Phyllida Barlow text followed by conversation

In memory of teacher, artist and sculptor Phyllida Barlow there will be a reading of a timeless piece she wrote after visiting the first BIAW Workshop in 1995. Artists and members of Braziers community will then discuss the relationships with artists who have visited Braizers over the years and their work. 

19:00 - Max Mason and Mandy Worster: DJ sets

Max, a visual artist, first DJed at BIAW in 2001; this year’s return will traverse indietronica, deep and lo-fi house, melodic techno and quirky disco, with a few BIAW classics. Artist and DJ Mandy will play several sets over the weekend showcasing folklore and outernational sounds,
celebrating uprising and community spirit.

21:15 - Short Films: Short films made by BIAW artists at Braziers + Archival Sigma Meeting Film

Marietta Davis - Girl (2005) 3 mins
A violent beauty, isolation of adolescence, defacement for splendour, an ache for prettiness and reflections of mutilations. 

Larissa Sansour - Sbara (8 mins) ‘Sbara’ 8’ Made during 2008 BIAW by Larissa Sansour, Palestinian filmmaker. Referencing the 1980 cult classic The Shining by Stanley Kubrick, Sbara explores the castigation of Arabs in contemporary Western dialogue.

Alexandre Arrechea - The Object as Protagonist (9 mins)
This video work tells the story of a volleyball travelling through created situations, followed by the camera in different scenarios. It is a piece based on my reflections towards the object as capable of influencing the space, at the same time as this space also has an important influence on the object.

Rafael Sanchez - Wuthering Heights (10 mins) 
 Loosely based on Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte, Cuban born performance and multi-media artist Rafael Sanchez’s Super 8mm Film made in the house and grounds of Braziers, enlisted all of the artists attending the workshop in 1999 as cast and featured actor Laurence R. Harvey (later to star in controversial body horror film The Human Centipede 2 (Full Sequence)).

Sigma Film (10 mins)
Silent and in black and white, the Sigma film is a record of a meeting in July 1964 at Braziers Park. Conceived as a ‘cultural jam session’ by the English situationist Alexander Trocchi, it was hoped it would serve as a prototype for a ‘spontaneous university’. Also participating in the weekend were countercultural psychiatrist R D Laing, polymath Jeff Nuttall, Conceptual artist John Latham and poet Bob Cobbing. Sigma had big ambitions for “A supranational revolution, both creative and peaceful, that would fundamentally alter the way that human beings related to each other” The event culminated in an artwork  by John Latham of a book (possibly Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus) spray-painted with black aerosol and glued with Polyfilla to one of the drawing room’s walls, an intervention that was questioned by the then resident community beginning the dialogue between experimental art and the Braziers community. 

Shed

15:00 - 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.

16:45 - Zoh Amba

Aged just 25, Tennessee-born, New York-based free jazz saxophonist Zoh Amba has recorded with revered names from William Parker to Bill Orcutt since debuting three years ago. New album ‘Sun’ includes a rare showcase of her abstract folk guitar playing. At Supernormal, we’ll get a half-and-half solo set of sax and guitar, with a delicious bonus segment featuring special guest drummer and all-round champion Dan Johnson.

18:45 - 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.

Activity Tent

15:00 - 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!

17:00 - 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.

19:00 - Breaking The Ice: A Titanic-themed speed-meet

Are you looking to make some new festival pals, or embark on a passionate romance? The maiden voyage of Supernormal’s speed-meet event is here to help you meet your fellow passengers through some chats and activities, all loosely referencing James Cameron’s 1997 classic 'Titanic'. NB you do not need to have watched or enjoyed 'Titanic' to attend. Life jackets optional.

Vortex

15:30 - 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?”

16:45 - Teodora Kosanović presents Unseen Avant Gardes

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.

18:45 - 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.

19:45 - 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.

21:10 - 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.

22:15 - 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.

23:00 - april forrest lin 林森

Revolutionary Desires is a late-night NSFW screening of experimental films, teasing at the political potential of experiencing sex collectively, through the filmic screen. Seedy, sweaty and sticky, these moving images push beyond the scripts of what we are told we are allowed to want. Contains depictions of explicit nudity, unsimulated sex, BDSM, and urination.

HOOF

15:30 - Aftercare

Aftercare is the collaborative project of transformative vocalist ãssia and producer DJ Anja Ngozi. Together, they will transport you into a dreamspace where sound becomes sensation and boundaries dissolve.

17:00 - Naycha Somko

Naycha Somko, artist, made in Birms raised by Wolves. Electronic sythesizer punk music for the soft boys, lover girls and dey/dems.

18:00 - VASCHA

A rising force in future-pop, Brighton-based VASCHA released her debut full-length last year, featuring 11 songs that span a multitude of dance genres, drenched in shimmering synths, spellbinding harmonies. VASCHA isn't just in the current wave of electronic pop – she's shaping what comes after.

19:00 - Cikara

Cikara is a South Asian experimentalist from the Midlands. Their evasive sonics meld dirt, South Asian folk, dancefloor technicity and the wyrd; assuredly earthy lowend, negative space and gravity.

20:00 - Lashimba

Hailing from Manchester, Lashimba is a singer and producer who navigates diverse sonic landscapes, finding solace in the depths of alternative r'n'b, trip-hop and electronic music. Ethereal yet raw, her sound blends emotion, atmosphere and rhythm to create something uniquely immersive.

21:00 - TaliaBle

TaliaBle (TAL-ee-ah-bull) is a rising Tottenham-born punk rapper and visual artist who is prized as thee go-to underground circus to experience a world full of surplus WONDER, surrealism and raw stories. Carving a dysfunctional yellow brick road through the underground scene, proving her intention of "utilising music as a soundscape catalyst for imaginary world building", her music is a place.

22:00 - I Am Fya b2b Cikara

House / Actual Woods

17:00 - 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.

17:45 - 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.

Barn

17:45 - 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.

19:45 - 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.

Saturday

Barn

09:00 - Yoga with Jessie Brown

Jessi’s classes use an imaginative merging of many different soothing rhythms that she has followed and become curious about in her own practice.
A long time student of dance, Feldenkrais technique, and other somatically based movement enquiries, she offers a potent combination of invitations to drop you deeply into the felt experience, weaving alignment focused positions with more non linear explorations, her method of welcoming and directing the body in space is unique and expansive.

10:30 - Morning Life Drawing

Supernormal's life drawing sessions are a beautiful and relaxing way to start the day. Materials provided; children are welcome. No photography allowed with the express consent of the models.

12:30 - Sonic Skin

A noise massage experience by Old Bort With the help of contact mics, touch reactive midi hardware, and a bit of incense, experienced massage therapist and experimental musician Old Bort (one half of Supernormal alumni Monoxide Brothers) presents an immersive biosonification experience for feelers and listeners.

14:00 - 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.

15:15 - 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.

16:30 - Bruk Up Dance taster workshop

18:15 - 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. Lizzie will perform Brian's Études de concert for recorder, recently released on the KAIROS label.

20:00 - 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.

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.

Shed

10:00 - 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.

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 - 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’.

15:00 - 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.

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 - 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 Panthère (Cuntroaches), and Bobby Glew (Guttersnipe, Nape Neck).

20:30 - 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

10:00 - 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.

11:30 - Art walk & talk

Grab your morning coffees and join us on an art walk and talk between three worlds of artists exploring similar themes in vastly different ways. Starting at Seema Mattu in the Vortex, we will then explore across site to find BORA in the woods, finishing at Braziers House with Aliyah Hussain. All three artists will be there at their artworks along the way to offer intimate insight into their practice.

13:00 - Lesvia

Since the 1970s, lesbians from around the world have been drawn to the island of Lesvos, birthplace of the ancient Greek poet Sappho. Tzeli Hadjidimitriou's film Lesvia chronicles 40+ years of lesbian identity and conflict between the locals of a small village on Lesvos and lesbians who arrived searching for love, freedom and community.

14:30 - 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?

17:00 - 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.

19:00 - 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.

House / Actual Woods

10:00 - Put A Cork In It!

An engaging, visually spectacular participatory art experience/awakening that delves into the whimsical nature of inflatable sculptures. Simultaneously evoking the lightheartedness of funfairs and the bleakness of highway car dealerships, paradoxical inflatables provide an absurdist inlet to explore feelings of despair and doomedness.

12:00 - 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.

12:30 - Jal Tarang bowl making workshop

Join Aliyah Hussain for a clay workshop based on her sculptural interpretation of a Jal Tarang: a classical Indian instrument comprised of ceramic bowls filled with water. Carve, scratch, beat, bash and shape a lump of clay into a textured bowl using wooden tools and any emotions you want to release – 12 people maximum, suited to adults. Sign up at the village green.

14:30 - 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.

16:00 - 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.

Red Kite

11:00 - TALK: The Weird will save the World

A discussion about the political power of artistic experimentalism in the context of the polycrisis we're living with now and how interventions from the niche/alternative/experimental can have a systemic impact. Disrupting the formal talk scenario, Amber Massie-Blomfield hosts a long table session with a host of artists from our programme, that seeks to recognise the power and expertise of everyone in the space.

12:30 - 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.

14:00 - 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.

16:00 - 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.

17:30 - Bands Boycott Barclays

As well as performing in the Supernormal Cabaret later on, Liv Wynter is here to talk to us about their work within the Bands Boycott Barclays collective. An informative teaching aimed at empowering audiences around where we buy our tickets.

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.

19:45 - 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.

20:30 - 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.

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

As we spiral toward the witching hours and the queers rise from their glitter-drenched slumber, the Supernormal Cabaret awakens — a late night playground where desire takes centre stage and nothing is quite what it seems. Come worship at the altar of the absurd, lust over our creatures, witches, punks and queens. Performances from Boukhalfa Ayoub - Ella the Great - Ellen Dergenerate - Liv Wynter - Tyskie Blaque - Wet Mess - Hosted by Ginny Lemon

23:30 - Danyo

Glasgow DJ and founder of club night Dan'sfloor, with a passion for genres from high-energy synth-based trance and house to heavier, bass-focused techno and hardstyle. Danyo is also known for infectious Soundcloud pop remixes that will be sure to have you moving all night.

00:15 - Luckybabe

Born of Guyanese and Irish roots in the Scottish Highlands, LuckyBabe is a DJ whose sets blend deep feeling with high-impact energy. A resident of PonyBoy and Kin.x, and co-founder of Gully Gully, Glasgow’s night spotlighting Black music in all its forms, she brings together boldness, emotion, and sonic precision on every dancefloor.

01:00 - Babyjaii

Covering genres like baile funk, pop edits, gqom, Afrobeats, donk and bass, Babyjaii's sound is uplifting, versatile and always fun and high-energy. They've established themselves on the Glasgow scene as Shitepop founder, Ponyboy resident DJ and co-producer of Kin.x, and they're curating the Hoof stage on Saturday alongside Shrek666.

Thicket

11:00 - Open Conversation: History of BIAW

Join the Open Conversation about the History of BIAW – why and how it started, stories of the artists who came, what happened and how it became Supernormal.

14:30 - Cave to Cave: Petra Johnson:

Performative presentation where images and words roam across time – from cave drawings in Northern Norway via the English South Coast to a cave by the Yangtze River. Followed by Q&A.

15:15 - Manal Massalha

Presentation by Palestinian photographer Manal Massalha, who will talk about their projects 'Standing Tall: Palestinian Herders At Risk Of Ethnic Cleansing' and 'Marching For Humanity & Hope'. Followed by a Q&A.

16:15 - Poetry Performance: Stuart McKenzie

Spoken word set includes poems from his forthcoming collection The Dead Weight of Beauty, set against a backdrop of 808’s and 909’s played out on a SP404.
www.instagram.com/stuart__mckenzie/

17:30 - Nameless Portrait Studio

5 minute portraits by "professional" artists.

19:00 - Generation Section 28: Alice Gale-Feeny

Working across different registers: reading x homage x show and tell x chant x lecture, Gale-Feeny’s performance is informed by research at the Women’s Art Library, Goldsmiths... highlighting art and writing protesting Section 28.

19:30 - Max Mason and Mandy Worster: DJ sets

Max, a visual artist, first DJed at BIAW in 2001; this year’s return will traverse indietronica, deep and lo-fi house, melodic techno and quirky disco, with a few BIAW classics. Artist and DJ Mandy will play several sets over the weekend showcasing folklore and outernational sounds,
celebrating uprising and community spirit.

Activity Tent

12:30 - 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+.

15:00 - 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.

21:00 - The Microscopic Chill-Out Drawing Party

Join Hipkiss & Graney for a life-drawing workshop that celebrates the invisible life all around us. Nematodes! Nauplius! Protozoa! Pediastrum! Together we'll try to capture the sublime beauty of the most crucial lifeforms on the planet that we never see. Drawing materials provided.

HOOF

13:00 - The Silver Field

A real glowing gem when it comes to electronically treated psychedelic folk thud, there’s a new Silver Field album due in 2025, and it’s a fair bet you’ll get treated to some of it here as the Derbyshire-originated Coral Rose Kindred-Boothby gets busy with modular synth, homemade contraptions and her gripping vocal offerings.

13:45 - Babyjaii

Covering genres like baile funk, pop edits, gqom, Afrobeats, donk and bass, Babyjaii's sound is uplifting, versatile and always fun and high-energy. They've established themselves on the Glasgow scene as Shitepop founder, Ponyboy resident DJ and co-producer of Kin.x, and they're curating the Hoof stage on Saturday alongside Shrek666.

14:45 - Shrek 666

Multidisciplinary diva and sonic troublemaker Shrek 666 is one of Scotland’s most innovative queer artists. Last year, they brought the house down closing the Vortex stage on Sunday night at Supernormal. This year, get ready for Fun and Games, Shenanigans, Conflama and Drama as they join forces with Babyjaii to co-curate an ALL-DAY Hoof stage takeover on Saturday.

15:45 - Danyo

Glasgow DJ and founder of club night Dan'sfloor, with a passion for genres from high-energy synth-based trance and house to heavier, bass-focused techno and hardstyle. Danyo is also known for infectious Soundcloud pop remixes that will be sure to have you moving all night.

16:45 - Adéráyọ̀

Adéráyọ̀ is a queer artist whose life and art are inseparable – each breath, each step, each note shaped by a deep devotion to truth and feeling. Their performances are offerings of catharsis, where voice and movement blur the line between raw emotion and performance.

17:30 - Luckybabe

Born of Guyanese and Irish roots in the Scottish Highlands, LuckyBabe is a DJ whose sets blend deep feeling with high-impact energy. A resident of PonyBoy and Kin.x, and co-founder of Gully Gully, Glasgow’s night spotlighting Black music in all its forms, she brings together boldness, emotion, and sonic precision on every dancefloor.

18:30 - whoisdelroy

whoisdelroy is a rapper and singer from Birmingham, carving a path with raw ambition and talent. Still growing and evolving with every beat and bar, he believes in the power of music to make a mark — and knows one day, that mark will be undeniable.

19:15 - Elle N. Degenerate

A Glasgow-based Scottish Sri Lankan non-binary drag artist whose practice – influenced by club and ballroom culture, eroticism and critical theory – seeks to topple convention through absurdity. Whether their performance interrogates the mundane or the surreal, Elle invites audiences to join them in viewing silliness as a mode of empowerment.

20:15 - Shrek 666

Multidisciplinary diva and sonic troublemaker Shrek 666 is one of Scotland’s most innovative queer artists. Last year, they brought the house down closing the Vortex stage on Sunday night at Supernormal. This year, get ready for Fun and Games, Shenanigans, Conflama and Drama as they join forces with Babyjaii to co-curate an ALL-DAY Hoof stage takeover on Saturday.

21:30 - Eyve

Eyve's music embodies her takes on Afrofuturism with a contemporary edge, creating a sonic identity that champions empowerment and self-expression. The Zimbabwean-born, Scotland-based artist embodies a fearless fusion of Afropop, rap, jazz, electronic and ballroom influences, pulsing with urgency and originality.

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.

12:15 - 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.

14:00 - 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.

16:30 - 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.

17:00 - D.M.S.: Dancing With The Fortunes film

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.

18:00 - Rummaging 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.

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.

19:35 - Keira Greene

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.

20:00 - 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.

20:30 - 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.

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.

15:00 - Rian Treanor & Mun Sing (DJ Set)

Rian Treanor and Harry Wright (aka Mun Sing) are big fans of Supernormal and the feeling is very much mutual, not least because the (respectively) Sheffield and Bristol rhythm alchemists have jointly stepped in, at the lastest of minutes, to do a Sunday afternoon b2b DJ set for us!

17:15 - Big Farmer

Damaged punk music from Glasgow town played by fellows with big calloused hands but also hearts overflowing with kindness and compassion, and a 2024 debut tape titled ‘Bin Fire’ . Featuring longstanding members of Supernormal’s build crew!

19:30 - 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.

21:20 - 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.

23:00 - Silent Disco

Barn

10:00 - Morning Life Drawing

Supernormal's life drawing sessions are a beautiful and relaxing way to start the day. Materials provided; children are welcome. No photography allowed with the express consent of the models.

11:45 - 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.

13:45 - Pat Thomas & Dan Johnson

Giant of modern British improvisation and jazz's outer limits Pat Thomas will precede his Sunday 4pm Supernormal piano performance earlier that afternoon with an electronics set, where he'll joined on drums by Dan Johnson, an equally masterful Bristol-based percussionist.

15:30 - 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.

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

10:30 - Jal Tarang bowl making workshop

Join Aliyah Hussain for a clay workshop based on her sculptural interpretation of a Jal Tarang: a classical Indian instrument comprised of ceramic bowls filled with water. Carve, scratch, beat, bash and shape a lump of clay into a textured bowl using wooden tools and any emotions you want to release – 12 people maximum, suited to adults. Sign up at the village green.

13:00 - 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.

15:30 - 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!

21:00 - The Microscopic Chill-Out Drawing Party

Join Hipkiss & Graney for a life-drawing workshop that celebrates the invisible life all around us. Nematodes! Nauplius! Protozoa! Pediastrum! Together we'll try to capture the sublime beauty of the most crucial lifeforms on the planet that we never see. Drawing materials provided.

Thicket

11:00 - Open Conversation: Talking Out of Our Hat

BIAW invites festival goers to suggest topics for discussion to be pulled out of a hat as and when, and take the opportunity to soak tired feet in a soothing magnesium salt bath while you’re at it.

14:00 - A Field with a View

Meet at Thicket and join us for a walk up to the top field behind the camping area as part of BIAW art trail and to enjoy a different view of Braziers.

15:00 - Nameless Portrait Studio

5 minute portraits by "professional" artists.

16:00 - (Carl) Andre3000 - 15 Metres of Fame

Enjoy your 15 metres of fame, strutting the Thicket catwalk. Dressing up is not required but costumes and wigs are welcome if you have them!

17:30 - Max Mason and Mandy Worster: DJ sets

Max, a visual artist, first DJed at BIAW in 2001; this year’s return will traverse indietronica, deep and lo-fi house, melodic techno and quirky disco, with a few BIAW classics. Artist and DJ Mandy will play several sets over the weekend showcasing folklore and outernational sounds,
celebrating uprising and community spirit.

20:00 - 1000 Pounds to Survive Us

Artist/poet buitumelo kotekwa, aka B.U.I, and interdisciplinary artist Ayesha Hameed will be joined by Kareem Samara – an improviser and composer combining the oud, Arabic percussion,
loopers and samplers, also performing under his own name this weekend – for a special collaboration. This London trio are part of a larger group of poets and musicians who came together to perform a fundraiser for the Gaza Sunbirds at Cafe Oto earlier this year.

House / Actual Woods

12:00 - 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.

12:15 - 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.

14:15 - 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.

16:00 - 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.

Shed

12:30 - Loré Lixenberg: PANIC ROOM

Loré Lixenberg is a British mezzo-soprano who most often employs her craft in avant-garde realms, vocally interpreting scores/recordings by composers such as Ligeti, Stockhausen and Cage. This will be a solo performance, for voice and nothing but, and is certain to be enthralling.

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.

20:20 - 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.

22:00 - Authentically Plastic

‘Raw Space’, the debut album from aka Tayo Alemi aka Authentically Plastic, is a futureworld of sleek pummelling industrial polyrhythms that pull strands from all Earth’s continents. Expect their Supernormal set to intensify that in much the same way Alemi is committed to “intensifying queerness” in Kampala, their home city.

HOOF

13:00 - Opening up the glory hole!

Opening ceremony of the BADNESS CENTRE curation in HOOF space Sunday. That's all you need to know.

13:15 - Cherry Velour

Cherry Velour is the alias of artist Hana Noelle. Hana (she/her), also known as Cherry Velour, is a queer Palestinian-American performance artist based in Leeds, UK. Her work sits at the intersection of BDSM, neurodivergence, and emotionally radical care - using kink as a framework to explore intimacy, identity, and transformation.

14:00 - Buoys Buoys Buoys

tbc

14:30 - Body Builders & Human Centipede

15:30 - F L Mads

F L Mads is a pole dancer and Geordie princess from the toon, here to bring you some ooey-gooey flow with a sprinkle of dynamic trickery

16:00 - Mohammed Rowe

Mohammed Rowe, a London-born artist, intricately weaves the tapestry of sound to articulate his expressions and foster communication. Rooted in the urban pulse of his upbringing, his compositions resonate with the essence of found sounds, experimental compositions, and spontaneous musical explorations.

17:00 - Eco Sex Funhouse

Natalie Sharp is a British artist, musician, and radical body activist, known for her boundary-pushing work that challenges societal norms and explores the possibilities of the human body. With a background in fashion design and art, Natalie has spent over 15 years developing her multidisciplinary practice, which encompasses performance art, music, sculpture, and costume design.

19:00 - Carbonara

life! death! prizes! cardboard! CARBONARA can probably be described as "a drag show". A performance group and/or group therapy collective producing incisive work at the intersection of rage fuelled fortified wine bender and papier maché in Sheffield (a small city on the outskirts of Todmorden).

20:00 - W.H.Y.

W.H.Y. is an experimental archival project celebrating activists, political figures, theorists, and those that continue to prop up community and social movements, from Black, queer, feminist activists, psychogeography, witches and folklore storytelling, to overlooked working class histories and popular culture. Utilising analogue synthesizers, W.H.Y. translates this practice and research into a somatic and intra-spatial experience for the audience.

21:00 - Nat Sharps Sega Afro sounds of Indian Ocean

Unscheduled / Around Site

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.

Hat Lady

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

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...

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Martha McGuinn

Le bain laüstic, 2025, Laser cut and hydro formed steel Nightingales were common in medieval Britain but are now rare due to a loss of habitat. Here is a place for them to bathe and sing through the night under the stars.

Yoga

Rummaging 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.

In The Thick of it with BIAW

To mark 30 years since their first workshop, BIAW invites you to its takeover of The Thicket for the 2025 edition of Supernormal Festival. With invited contributions from previous participants and collaborators, Thicket will provide a flavour of the synergy enjoyed by the artists who attended the workshop over 15 years. We welcome you to an informal space for conversation, communal activity, film, interventions, music and fun where anything can happen. BIAW will also present selected images of work made by BIAW artists in the places where they were made to illustrate the surprising and unexpected ways in which artists responded to the unique environment of Braziers Park, its community and ethos.

Cnidaria

Cnidaria lives quietly in Braziers Park — a nocturnal colony in slow, continuous exchange with its surroundings. If you encounter this quiet anomaly in the undergrowth, you are invited to pause, observe, rest. Cnidaria occupies a liminal space — alive with light, shifting colour, and the sense of something sentient, waiting to be found. Created by Beth Bellis and Brid Rose.

Life in Matter: Supernormal Mural

Foraged botanical matter will be the basis of the Supernormal festival mural. Using various native plants, Abi Hubbard will create inks which will be available at the mural sign. Like a large-scale collaborative colouring book there will be a chance for all to fill in and add to the mural over the weekend.

Shitepop

One of Glasgow’s favourite queer parties, Shitepop blast high-energy and sweaty hot mixes covering genres such as baile funk, afrobeats, donk, bass, techno and pop edits. This unmissable lineup of Scottish talent is co-curated by Babyjaii and Shrek666 for an all-day takeover of HOOF (FKA Queef).

Arboria Radio & Soundart Radio

Arboria Radio (formerly Repeater Radio) & Soundart Radio are returning to the Supernormal field in 2025. Soundart Radio is an independent, non-commercial, licensed community radio station both online, or on 102.5 FM in the Totnes area of Devon. Their approach to creating radio is a belief that anyone who asks to get involved is an artist, and they are more interested in process than product. With an aim to create genuinely experimental radio, at Supernormal Arboria Radio will be out on the main field broadcasting live 24/7 throughout the entire duration of the festival. There will be live performances, DJ’s, show hosts. If you do want to be involved then go and say hi at the shed and they WILL put you on air. If you’ve got music or sound you want to play, bring it with you – if they can get it onto a laptop in any way or plug you into our mixer, then it can be played. If you want to read poetry, shout slogans or expound your philosophy for a new future, then Arboria Radio will give you a microphone! Don’t hold back!

a.a.x't - First Anicae.

A believer's hymnal was once branded onto a cunning tTrans projectile, promised to land in the images of angels. Now protruding from the ground after being interred by their impacts, they stand, loudly to be found. Wooden sigil works across the supernormal site.

Tysie Blaque

Tysie Blaque is the mother of House Of Blaque. Hailing from the gritty glamour of the North, this ghettofabulous drag monster brings Manchester's attitude to Supernormal with unmatched charisma, creativity and a touch of chaos.

Liv Wynter

Liv Wynter is a trans and working class organiser, writer, activist and performer. Liv uses creative practice to politically engage and inspire within their community and is the host and curator of anarchist cabaret and community project How To Catch A Pig.

Ella the Great

EIIa The Great: internationally acclaimed clown and drag artist based in London. Specialising in playful subversive acts, celebrating the craft of clown from the heart and inviting audiences into a world of wonder where no two encounters are the same.

Gut Level

DIY Venue, community project & hungry bottom looking for fun in Sheffield: Likes: Electronic music & cigs in the garden. GSOH. S1 2PD, can accom, but willing to travel for a good time. On all fours with our toenails clipped at Supernormal this year!

The Badness Centre

A mission realised by resident Supernormal-er, Nat Sharp, Badness Centre is a rebellion against the Wellness industry's capture by the sterile hand of consumerism. Its creation rooted in a conviction that all physical beings are connected, this sacred space unleashes a full-throttle gesamtkunstwerk, taking place at Hoof on the Sunday of Supernormal. A true celebration of the chaotic-erotic, it’s a playground of delicious sensual experience.

MC Chyna Lake

Chyna Lake is a very famous Brighton influencer who runs the Spidered News podcast. Chyna is an offstring yoyo player, occult researcher, a stupid baby and an enormously powerful witch.

Kiya Major

Kiya is a multidisciplinary artist working across rug-making, comics, animation, events organiser, DJing and Drag. Blending humour, queerness, working class culture, and erotic themes.

Freya Wysocki

Freya’s practice playfully constructs camp, queer and energetic worlds through textiles and sculpture. Their work emanates joy, connecting with the viewer through a tender, silly and sensual tactility. For SN they are bringing work created for Sounds from the Other City Festival. A series of birthday devils with debaucherous spirits. Dance with them and they will bring you queer mischief and riotous energy.

Mud Wrestling

Sign ups available with disclaimer. Hose down available afterwards. That's all you need to know.

Zaron Mizmeras

cum all ye creatures of the net, find mystical meanings within magickal media moments! When aligned correctly will satiate your exponential algorithm for many moons, but be warned not to be too warmed by its glorious glow, for the devil is in the details… For fans of shiny memories and possible futures, hidden agendas and open sutures, letters & numbers, visual vultures, xeno-phenomenology & post-eschatology. and trains, lots and lots of trains.

Afternoon tea in Braziers Tea Room

Afternoon tea in Braziers Tea Room: Saturday and Sunday 2-4pm
For tours meet at the entrance of Braziers house. 

Hidden deep in the south Oxfordshire countryside, Braziers Park is a residential college and centre for the School Of Integrative Social Research. It was founded in 1950 as an educational trust and is the longest running secular community in the UK - one that is a continuing experiment in the advantages and problems of living in a group. We recommend visiting their website if you are further interested in learning about the Braziers community.