⚡ ESSENTIAL LISTENING ⚡ Our artistic director/co founder, Lisa curated last night’s FREAK ZONE playlist on BBC Radio 6 Music, with a preview of our announced 2026 acts. The full playlist is now available to stream - www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... 🎧

DEADLINE TOMORROW! Apply do host a workshop at Supersonic Festival (25 - 26 April). Successful applicants get a fee PLUS 2x Weekend Tickets The workshops are for our festival audience (18+).

TICKETS ON SALE NOW! We’re overjoyed to announce the first names for Supersonic Festival 2026, returning to Digbeth, Birmingham on 25-26 April 2026 for a special limited edition. ØXN | AMERETAT | BONG II | DJ HARAM | GREET | MICROPLASTICS | MILKWEED | MMM | PROSTITUTE | TRAIDORA + MORE TBA

SUPERSONIC 2026 LINEUP ANNOUNCEMENT AND TICKETS ON SALE - THURS 29 JAN AT 12:00‼💥 The time is nearly upon us. This Thursday at 12:00, we will be announcing the Supersonic Festival 2026 lineup. At the same time, all remaining tickets for this year’s festival will be released via our website!

Supersonic in conversation with Colin Stetson‼💥 We dropped Colin Stetson a few questions over email ahead of his performance at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire on Tuesday 14th April! Get your tickets while you still can - supersonicfestival.com/product/coli... ✨🎟 📸 snaprockandpop

On Tuesday 21st April 2026 we host Orcutt Shelley Miller at the Castle & Falcon💥 Get your tickets now! 🎟️ Available from www.supersonicfestival.com

SUPERSONIC PLAYLIST! DECEMBER: UPCOMING IN 2026 Delve into this playlist & get ready for our live shows from SUMAC (Old Man Gloom, ISIS), Colin Stetson (grammy-award winning saxophonist and composer), Orcutt Shelley Miller (Sonic Youth, Harry Pussy) and The Ex. Listen here: tinyurl.com/297wys9j

WORKSHOP CALL OUT! 🚨 We are on the lookout for some wonderfully creative minds to bring us unusual, imaginative and engaging new workshops that will take place as part of the festival weekend. To apply + more info click here: shorturl.at/Th1bg Deadline: 6PM, 4 February 2026.

Supersonic in conversation with Ethan Miller of Orcutt Shelley Miller‼💥 We caught up with Ethan Miller over email to ask him a few questions ahead of Orcutt Shelley Miller’s show at The Castle & Falcon on Tuesday 21st April! Tickets - supersonicfestival.com/pro.../orcut... 🎟

We’re very excited to host the experimental sludge metal force SUMAC at The Castle & Falcon on Wednesday 8th April 2026!💥 🎟️ Tickets are on sale now! - supersonicfestival.com/product/suma...

2026 is already shaping up to be a busy but brilliant year at Capsule HQ, and while we’ve got more announcements on the way, don’t forget we’ll be welcoming Orcutt Shelley Miller to The Castle & Falcon on Tuesday 21 April 2026!💥 🎟️ Available from supersonicfestival.com/pro.../orcut... 📸 Sheva Kafai

Still got tons of Christmas shopping to do? ✨ We’ve got a wide selection of bespoke t-shirts, tote bags, vinyl, cassette, print, tea towels and more on our online shop. And we’re throwing in a FREE pack of Supersonic stickers with all orders over £20. Supersonicfestival.com/shop

We’re very excited to welcome the ever-innovative underground experimentalists The Ex back to Birmingham on Thursday 21st May at The Castle & Falcon!💥 Tickets are on sale now - supersonicfestival.com/product/the-... 🎟

EARLYBIRD TICKETS HAVE NOW SOLD OUT! Thank you to everyone who bought one - standard weekend tickets go on sale with our lineup announcement in January! There are still a handful of payment plan tickets available here - www.skiddle.com/whats-on/Bir...

EARLYBIRD TICKETS NOW ON SALE‼ Our first wave of tickets includes... ✨ Early Bird Tickets ✨ Solidarity Tickets ✨ Payment Plan 🎟 Get them here!! - bit.ly/supersonic20... 📸 by snaprockandpop

FIRST BAND ANNOUNCED FOR SUPERSONIC 2026!💥 We can’t wait to welcome Detroit based experimental post punk and Arab rock band - Prostitute! This is a taster for what is to come with more being revealed in early January. Earlybird, Solidarity and Payment Plan tickets go on sale tomorrow at 11am!🎟️

Supersonic Festival returns 25–26 April 2026 across two stages at The Crossing‼ First wave of tickets released this Thursday at 11AM including… ✨ Early Bird Tickets ✨ Solidarity Tickets ✨ Payment Plan Tickets will be available here – bit.ly/supersonic20...

Supersonic Festival 2026 – An Important Update We’re delighted to let you know that we’ve now confirmed dates of 25-26 April for our 2026 Festival. Read our full statement here - supersonicfestival.com/2025/11/27/s...

Our incredible audience, we want to hear from YOU!💥 We know you're a knowledgeable bunch, so we wanted to take this opportunity to ask you, our loyal audience, who you want to see at our next edition. Who do you want to see on our Supersonic stage? Let us know in the comments👇 📸 by snaprockandpop

We're very excited to host a collaboration of underground legends, in the form of Orcutt Shelley Miller at The Castle & Falcon on Tuesday 21 April 2026!💥 Tickets on sale now! 🎟️ Available here - supersonicfestival.com/pro.../orcut...

SUPERSONIC PLAYLIST: NOVEMBER ON REPEAT!💥 This month’s playlist is dedicated to songs, old and new, that our team have found themselves listening to ‘On Repeat’ Listen now - supersonicfestival.com/2025/11/07/s...

Dawn Terry live at Supersonic Festival 2025💥 You can now watch Dawn Terry's incredibly powerful live performance at Supersonic 2025! Watch here - youtu.be/wHMxvvxqTbM

‼JOIN OUR MAILING LIST‼ You can sign up here - bit.ly/supersonicma... 📸 by Titouan Massé

big love to Eleanor of ØXN for the shoutout on RTE Culture alongside Rún, Witch Club Satan, @mariawhorn.bsky.social & a few others she witnessed @supersonicfest.bsky.social ...here's to "shivering everyone's timbers" 🖤 www.rte.ie/culture/2025... @rte.ie @rocketrecordings.bsky.social

BLUE RUTH MERCH - KAI'S TOP SURGERY 🎆💜 Kai (Blue Ruth) is a trans, non-binary musician from Birmingham, a much-loved force within our community. We’ll be donating all profits from Blue Ruth merch to support Kai's top surgery. Shop here - supersonicfestival.com/.../mausoleu...

Set times for our Halloween Party are here! Tomorrow we welcome the mighty Les Savy Fav, alongside Sunshine Frisbee Laserbeam, Not Soup, and Monoxide Brothers DJs, for the Halloween party of the year!🎃✨ 🎟 - bit.ly/lessavyfavbi... And remember - we have prizes for the best fancy dress! 👻

We are thrilled to welcome the extraordinary Colin Stetson to Birmingham for a spellbinding performance at the prestigious Bradshaw Hall, Royal Birmingham Conservatoire on Tuesday 14 April 2026!💥 Tickets on sale Friday 17 October at 10am 🎟️ Available from www.supersonicfestival.com

Three weeks today! 🎃 Les Savy Fav bring the Halloween chaos to The Castle & Falcon on Thurs 30 Oct 👻 With Not Soup + Sunshine Frisbee Laserbeam on support, and Monoxide Brothers spinning spooky tunes — don’t miss it! 🎟 Tickets - bit.ly/lessavyfavbi...

ONE MONTH TO GO!! Expect chaos and costumes – with a fancy dress competition and a prize for the best outfit!🎃 Don’t miss out – grab your tickets here bit.ly/lessavyfavbi... 🎟

‼SUPERSONIC 2025 SURVEY- LAST CHANCE‼ Your feedback will help us with future fundraising and making the festival more sustainable. We really value your input, and today is the last chance to let us know what you think! Survey - www.surveymonkey.com/r/C9G32DV

‼SUPPORT ANNOUNCEMENT‼ We’re buzzing to announce that neurotic noise-pop greats Sunshine Frisbee Laserbeam will be joining us for the Les Savy Fav Halloween party at The Castle & Falcon!🎃 This is set to be a chaotic Halloween party you won’t want to miss, tickets - bit.ly/lessavyfavbi... 🎟

Supersonic Audience x Black Lodge Press Poster💥 Born from collective creativity at this years festival, it stands proudly for music, for art, for life, for the death of fascism! Download your free high-quality PDF version here - bit.ly/blpxss25audi...

★★★★★ SUPERSONIC FESTIVAL @supersonicfest.bsky.social 2025 #Birmingham - Festival season comes to an end with a celebration of the freakiest of the musical underground - Guy Oddy takes a deep dive into the spectacularly weird and very wonderful www.theartsdesk.com/new-music/su...

I had the absolute best day at @supersonicfest.bsky.social on Sunday. So many really great acts crammed into 12 hours. Wrote about it for @klofmag.com if anyone wants to know why I think it’s the best festival in the UK. klofmag.com/2025/09/live...

Have a listen to the @supersonicfest.bsky.social special on Stuart Maconie's FREAK ZONE show on @bbcradio6musicbot.bsky.social this Sunday to hear an interview with Dan Foggin from Smote: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

one week ago…. ✨🖤✨ still coming down from a magical weekend in Birmingham performing @supersonicfest.bsky.social

Had a wee chat with BBC6 'Freakzone' inbetween playing and watching @supersonicfest.bsky.social ... Thanks @stuartmaconie.bsky.social for including 'Home' in the latest #Freakzone 🫶 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

I had a wonderful chat with Lisa Meyer, CEO & Artistic Director of @supersonicfest.bsky.social, a few weeks ago! We talked about defining heavy music, the festival's inception, the challenges they've faced & the resilient spirit of #Supersonic One of my fave interviews to date. 🖤

FESTIVAL UPDATE Sadly, OMO can no longer perform on Saturday due to a family emergency. We wish them all well!❤ We're thrilled that Smote x One Leg One Eye will now play on the Institute stage, and excited to welcome Soborgnost to the rooftop! Amended timetable here - bit.ly/4lTb9Qf

Championing alternative music and celebrating experimental art-forms is the lifeblood of Birmingham’s #SupersonicFestival (@supersonicfest.bsky.social) We caught up with CEO & Artistic Director Lisa Meyer to talk all about this idiosyncratic event! 🖤 Read here: getinherears.com/2025/08/26/i...

I’m stepping out from behind the drums and on to the decks at Birmingham’s @supersonicfest.bsky.social this weekend. This year I’m on the roof spinning a selection filled with eerie atmospheres and haunted psychedelia. A MIGHTY line up & it’s here, in Brum! Last tickets supersonicfestival.com

Lovely Echoes & Dust preview @supersonicfest.bsky.social "Supersonic is a beacon of oppositional culture offering a sense of underground community & a brief glimpse of a better way to do things. A notably supportive space for all involved."

‼️SUPERSONIC 2025 TIMETABLE IS HERE‼️

GUEST DJS ANNOUNCED‼️ Get ready for an eclectic journey through disco, desi beats, post-punk, outré electronica, and everything in between. Our guest DJs will be spinning all weekend long – creating a killer vibe. More info & tickets - www.supersonicfestival.com

‼MARKETPLACE ANNOUNCEMENT‼ Supersonic Festival’s much-loved Market Place is back - and it’s bigger, bolder, and FREE all weekend! Join us at Zellig on Sat 30 + Sun 31 August for a two-day celebration of underground culture!

We’re thrilled to unveil a brand-new commissioned design for Supersonic Festival 2025 by the brilliant artist Bunny Bissoux, a playful, punk-infused celebration of our weird and wonderful world! The design will be on a ltd edition T and tote as well as a super limited edition poster.✨

looking forward to being joined onstage with Klara Schuman @supersonicfest.bsky.social on August 30th. photo by @agneshaus.bsky.social ... AH will also be with us providing live visuals 🖤🖤

Jackie-O Motherfucker coming to U.K./Ireland this week & performing at @endoftheroadfestival.com + @supersonicfest.bsky.social Booked by me & Sparrow @babayagashut.bsky.social 🙃🎩 🎟️ jackieom.lnk.to/UKIETour

Looking forward to playing on the rooftop stage at XOYO on the Saturday at this years @supersonicfest.bsky.social 29-31st August tickets/info here: supersonicfestival.com/product-cate...

Smote and One Leg One Eye are joining forces for a very special performance at this year's @supersonicfest.bsky.social: supersonicfestival.com/product-cate... And don't forget, the mighty Rún are playing their first show on these shores at the festival as well!