OXN by Robert Barrett
We are once again completely heart warmed by the incredible press, artist and audience response from this year’s festival. A huge thank you to all that joined us in creating joyous memories together. The festival wouldn’t be what it is without the support from our wonderful audience.
“it feels like something wider can be said about Supersonic 2026, as a whole; that stripped-back doesn’t have to mean weakened, that short doesn’t have to mean limited.” The Quietus
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“we just want to reiterate how much we appreciate the effort, care and dedication that goes into planning a unique event like Supersonic, right down to the amazing festival-inspired nail art that one of the bar staff had! Get In Her Ears are a small DIY community based in London and we value connection and resistance through music, coming together to experience these things in a room with other like-minded people; something that Supersonic achieves on a scale that is deeply inspiring to us. We can’t wait to return to the festival again next year to have our minds blown by another immense array of experimental music (and to eat more samosas…)” Get In Her Ears
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“It is almost without fail that Birmingham’s Supersonic Festival is guaranteed to be one of my annual musical highlights – and despite it still only being April, I suspect that it will be the same again this year. As is usually the case, the line-up of this celebration of the weird and distinctly wonderful was one where only the most musically literate would be aware of more than a handful of the performers. However, it was again a set-up where most would have gone home having discovered a new favourite band.” The Arts Desk
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“The action and production which once took place in those spaces has been replaced by businesses that only deal in consumption, but at night you can occasionally feel the echoes of past creation. In a landscape that has grown increasingly comfortable with unthinking passivity, Supersonic yet again proves itself to be a vital space for creative and cultural action.” God is in the TV Zine
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BBC 6 Music Freak Zone Supersonic 2026 Special
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Prostitute by Sam Frank Wood
“Supersonic Festival is therefore both a meditation on and an escape from a hostile planet. It remains one of the only true independent festivals… one leaves with more hope than when they arrived.” Punktastic
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“Prostitute have grooves; not only can you dance to it, it hits you in the body so that you can hardly help it. It feels like a perfect end to the weekend, the madness of the world is burning ever hotter but we can still dance. The dull forces of capital are looking to mulch culture into profitably beige AI slop. We can’t be having that. Supersonic is not in the business of making its promoters wealthy, it’s about the life-enriching power of art and music. It gets ever more difficult to make events like these happen but they are not going to lay down, once again delivering an amazing weekend, a victory in the face of adversity.” Echoes And Dust
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