SUPERSONIC FESTIVAL WELCOMES THE FOLLOWING ADDITIONS TO THE 2025 EDITION; ABDULLAH MINIAWY, AYA, BIG SPECIAL, JACKIE-O MOTHERFUCKER, PENELOPE TRAPPES, RÚN, SKLOSS, SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE
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As well as General Weekend tickets we are including a payment plan option this year to help spread the cost, these must be purchased by the end of April. Plus we have Solidarity Tickets for those who can afford to pay more to help us subsidise a % of tickets for those on low incomes or unemployed.
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Supersonic will return to Digbeth, Birmingham on the 29th-31st August 2025, making space for moments of collective joyful communion and true escapism against a backdrop of a world in turmoil. Says artistic director Lisa Meyer, “We are living in abhorrent times, so now more than ever we must cherish our creative spaces. I am so grateful that our audiences and artists trust in us. This is what keeps pushing the festival forward.”
The Supersonic line-up is as follows:
ABDULLAH MINIAWY | AUNTY RAYZOR | AYA | BACKXWASH | BIG SPECIAL | BRIDGET HAYDEN AND THE APPARITIONS | BUÑUEL | CINDER WELL | DEATH GOALS | DIVIDE AND DISSOLVE | HEDGLING | HIRS COLLECTIVE | JACKIE-O MOTHERFUCKER | MARIA W HORN & SARA PARKMAN present FUNERAL FOLK | MEATDRIPPER | MERMAID CHUNKY | MOIN | OMO |
PENELOPE TRAPPES | POOR CREATURE | RICH(ARD) DAWSON | RÚN | SKLOSS |
SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE | WATER DAMAGE | WITCH CLUB SATAN | ZU
Aya Photo by Dee Iskrzynska
New names have also been added to the lineup, including Aya, notorious for her raw energy, humour, and unpredictability. Combining high-concept ideas with DIY aesthetics, Aya uses voice, electronics, and razor-sharp wit to blur the boundaries between performance art, rave, and stand-up comedy. Her shows can feel like a shared exorcism—funny, chaotic, sweaty, and emotionally charged.
Abdullah Miniawy photo by Danio Holtz
Egyptian born Abdullah Miniawy merges the spiritual intensity of Sufi chants with the improvisational freedom of jazz. Accompanied by trombonists Robinson Khoury (2024 Django Reinhardt Prize from the Academy of Jazz) and Jules Boittin, Miniawy’s sound is one of resistance, ritual, and reimagining—music that doesn’t just cross cultures, but reshapes them.
Penelope Trappes
Penelope Trappes creates immersive, emotionally resonant soundscapes that blend ambient, shoegaze, and experimental electronics. Her music is intimate and atmospheric, with reverb-drenched vocals and minimalist textures that evoke a haunting, dreamlike world. Jackie-O Motherfucker, the experimental collective founded in Portland, Oregon, in 1994, will bring their dynamic fusion of free jazz, psychedelic folk, drone, and space rock, renowned for their unpredictable live shows.
Six Organs of Admittance photo by Kami Chasny
Supersonic is excited to welcome back Six Organs of Admittance, who present an ever-evolving blend of ecstatic melody, acoustic intricacy and spiritual noise. Skloss, the Austin-by-way-of-Glasgow duo of Karen Skloss and Sandy Carson will bring heavy psychedelia, post-metal drones, meditative rhythms, and raw distorted riffs. Rocket Recordings latest signing Rún, an Irish band whose sound is rooted in folk tradition but deeply exploratory and atmospheric (channeling influences from Coil to Pauline Oliveros), will also be welcomed to the Supersonic stage. And Black Country duo Big Special will fuse the grit and spirit of their industrial roots into a raw, urgent and evocative sound that blends the personal with the political.
Big Special Photo by Isaac Watson
“We’re buzzing to be on this year’s Supersonic line up. To get the nod from our hometown’s top alt festival for outside the box artists is a proper sense of pride. It’s always been the festival that showcases the most interesting experimental genres, and some of the best up and comers from scenes you never knew existed… it’s a festival that helps cement Brum as the cultural hub it is.”
– Big Special
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