Seasons greetings from Counterflows HQ! 🎄 We'll be launching the full artist line-up for Counterflows Festival 2026 in early January. Get early access to it and the final allocation of full festival passes by joining our mailing list: counterflows.com/newsletter/

Scotland’s longest running festival of experimental and marginal music is back. We return on the 9 - 12 of April 2026 in Glasgow ♥️ Full Festival passes are now on sale in standard, solidarity and pay what you want tiers: counterflows.com/festival/cou...

The first festival we're doing as full timers. No pressure! Been working on this for a while now and look forward to seeing you there 🙃

Many of you have been asking about how to help our dear pal Keith, aka JD Twitch (Optimo) who has in-operable aggressive brain cancer - here's the crowdfunder ❤️ This man has done so much for music, music careers, and his charity work has been relentless ❤️ Thanks so much friends❤️ tinyurl.com/y9vtc7pj

The bold yin is back with the most fucked & difficult & beautiful shit in the game. 2 hours of temporal shapeshifting and Nancarrow worship to (re)imagine musical, political and queer horizons. An electric shock in a sea of tasteful gibberish. Do it: sunikkim.bandcamp.com/album/formen...

Heading down to London now to work my last 2 weeks at OTO. The final farewell to the place, and the city. A very strange feeling!

Adam Curtis did an Adam Curtis on OTO 😂

Was interviewed as part of this feature in @thequietus.com on the Music Venue Trust and Save Our Scene's £1 ticket levy scheme. thequietus.com/opinion-and-...

A message from legendary music writer Louise Gray. www.justgiving.com/page/louise-...

Incoming! 4 nights with one of the best live bands in the world, أحمد [Ahmed], at OTO on the 12/13/14/15 of November. Highest possible recommendation! On sale now for OTO members & publicly on Wednesday.

An urgent message from The Wire magazine Running an independent music magazine is becoming increasingly difficult. We need your support www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/e...

Thanks so much to @thewiremagazine.bsky.social & Claire Biddles for the lovely review of Counterflows Festival this year 🥂✨ Here's the first bit of it: read the full thing in the current issue!

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Arming Israel. Bombing Yemen. Cutting aid. This government’s obsession with militarism is out of control — and it is the poorest people in the world paying the price. We are all human beings on one planet. Surely that is a good enough reason to try and build a world of peace.

I'm listening to the new Rashad Becker album and i'm very happy rashadbecker.bandcamp.com/album/the-in...

Welcome, friends! Come learn about our book and sign up for some exerpts, interviews and fun extras in the run up to its release: friendsincommon.substack.com/p/welcome-fr...

My fave place in the world turned 17 today. Here's Habib's billboard artwork for the occasion. Gentrification, rising rent & costs is squeezing us harder than ever, so if you want us to keep going & remain independent grab a membership: www.cafeoto.co.uk/membership/

New episode of Edward George’s peerless The Strangeness of Dub has just dropped. Essential listening! morleyradio.co.uk/programmes/t...

Thanks to @theskinnymag.bsky.social for this glowing review of Counterflows Festival last weekend. www.theskinny.co.uk/music/live-m...

Yan Jun and Liene Rozite awkwardly communing with the birds, bees and M8 motorway at Civic House this Sunday. www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7mR...

So the reason we did this is to push our membership scheme. Basically at this point it keeps us alive and we want to remain fully independent. Rent/overheads are crazy and it is always touch and go, despite being busier than ever. Sign up here: cafeoto.co.uk/membership/

What an absolute joy that was. Thanks so much, everyone.

super pleased how these have turned out!

"Curating" a space 7 days a week means the overall quality and my own interest in the programme dips a lot, but I think this April is packed with good shows. Come see some stuff!

Ahead of their show Counterflows festival, Jennifer Lucy Allan speaks to Tori Kudo (Maher Shalal Hash Baz) in @thequietus.com to offer 10 points of musical entry to his extensive back catalogue 💗 thequietus.com/interviews/s...

On NTS again playing some of Amina's amazing solo catalogue and work with Lester Bowie, Henry Threadgill, Wadada Leo Smith, Muhal Richard Abrahms & more.

Wire mix: Ciaran Mackle To accompany his interview in The Wire 494, London based experimental musician @ciaranmackle.bsky.social compiles an exclusive Wire mix. Listen here: thewire.co.uk/audio/tracks/wire-mix-ciaran-mackle

Rhodri Davies' residency has been a blast, with packed rooms most of the nights. Tonight is the final night, seeing him perform his 2012 classic Wound Response on electric harp, & an improvisation. Here's us talking about the residency & harps on NTS: www.nts.live/shows/guests...

tune in now! www.nts.live/2

"Guitar is OVER, everything has been DONE!" Shut the fuck up, here's Kieran Daly for a full hour: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqpW...

Welsh harpist Rhodri Davies kicks off a 4 day solo run at OTO tonight. Can't recommend this enough: Rhodri has a stalwart of the underground & experimental scene(s) for 4 decades now. He's got 6 harps in toe with him. Time to go deep with those strings. www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/rhodr...

If you want to write to your MP about Labour's proposed disability cuts this template by Sense Charity is helpful: action.sense.org.uk/page/167765/...

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When I went to EXIT in Glasgow last year I felt totally invigorated: Brilliant space, brilliant PA & lovely staff, with a proper DIY ethos at its heart. They're at threat with planning redevelopment, so if you have a spare 2 mins fill this out in support: www.surveymonkey.com/r/NYSTMVK

Recommended in Glasgow tonight! Ailie Ormston launches their wicked new album on Akashic Records. Also on the bill: Kieran Daly, one of the most interesting and bizarre new guitarists on the block, & our dear friend on drums, Laurie Pitt. www.theoldhairdressers.com?events=ailie...

This is out today. A truly cinematic piece of work in the way it pieces its material from snapshots in time, rendering the place & people in it so elegantly & strangely. A bit like watching a Les Blank film or reading a Carson McCullers book. Fantastic. erstwhilerecords.bandcamp.com/album/pictur...

A quick ticket update: 20 tickets left for Klein & others at The Ferry on 5 April Still a decent amount of tickets left for the Thursday opening event & Saturday club at The Art School Available at: counterflows.com All other shows as part of the festival are sold out

Quite wild really, well in Daniel

Siblings paying respect to #daddy

Yes please do tell me more about war-mongering psychopath Alastair Campbell's "sensible" opinions about other imperialist psychopaths.

Revision by Fred Moten & Brandon López (Tao Forms 2025) taoforms.bandcamp.com/album/revision

3 years with this total dafty ❤️

So way too many people chatted through Autechre's Manchester show at the weekend and kinda ruined it in bits. I've got a simple solution for them to this problem: play a month long residency in Cafe OTO and we'll shush anyone the tries to go there. C'mon lads.

It really takes some doing for the anger, disgust, and exhusation at these continued austerity pledges to be actually surpassed by sheer brutal embarrassment. But here we are.

Next Weds & Thurs it gives me great pleasure to welcome Sachiko M for a residency at OTO. I first heard Sachiko's sampler sine waves on Otomo Yoshihide's take on Out to Lunch, & have been fascinated by her since. Expect solos, collabs w/Pat Thomas, Li Song, & more! www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/sachi...

Sonic Bothy & John Wall complete the Counterflows 2025 line-up. Full day-by-day programme, individual passes & day passes are now on sale. See you all in April!

Fare thee well Scottish percussion legend Jamie Muir. Here's him talking about percussion and rubbish in Microphone Magazine 1972. Check it out and listen to Dart Drug and Larks' Tongues in Aspic today.

There's a new Taku Sugimoto album just out. This is him playing to his strengths I think: using space, timbre and resonance in way that holds form but doesn't overly pronounce and exaggerate the time between each gesture. takusugimoto.bandcamp.com/album/go-ove...

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