Join an orchestra of kazoos led by artist Agnès Pe to open this year’s Counterflows festival. Woodside Hall Thursday 9 April. Sign up -> musicspace.uk/update/music...

Tonight's Yan Jun and Sue Tompkins show is sold out. Early show! 6.30pm doors and 7.15pm start. We'll be done by 8.30pm. It's a dry event: free tea provided. It's the final event at the brilliant Listen Gallery. Let's give the space the send-off it deserves! <3

Calling people of all ages! We're looking to build a kazoo orchestra for Agnes Pe's piece at Counterflows Festival this year. No musical experience required. If you fancy joining here are some details. Spread the word! musicspace.uk/update/music...

Another generous review of my Annea Lockwood album - this one from Five Lines in New Zealand by Elizabeth Kerr. I look forward to presenting Annea’s work at @counterflows.bsky.social and @musicintheround.bsky.social this spring! www.fivelines.nz/articles/ul6...

The full Counterflows Festival 2026 programme is now live! Come join us in Glasgow on the 9-12 April. Limited individual tickets are now live for events on the Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings for the festival. If you missed out on festival passes you can come join us. www.counterflows.com

A bit of news! After a bit of demand we've decided to do some one-off events that'll take place outside Counterflows Festival in April. The 1st of these welcomes 2 legends we love: Beijing's Yan Jun and Glasgow's Sue Tompkins on the 4th of March at Listen Gallery. counterflows.com/event/yan-ju...

“Counterflows 2026 volunteer recruitment is now live! Shifts are short and in return for your time you will receive a full festival pass. If you think you’d like to get involved, drop us an email at [email protected] 📷 by Brian Hartley

It gives us great pleasure to reveal the full artist line-up for Counterflows Festival, 9-12th April 2026 in Glasgow ❤️ The final allocation of festival passes are now on sale www.counterflows.com

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...

Diaries out! We're pleased to say we'll be returning on the 9-12 of April 2026 for another edition of Counterflows Festival in Glasgow ❤️ Festival passes and further information will be revealed in early November. 📸 by Brian Hartley

Open Call: Scottish Sculpture Workshop x Counterflows Caregivers Residency 2025 marks the 5th year of the collaboration between SSW and Counterflows Festival offering vital residency opportunities to Scotland based artists who are also caregivers. Info & how to apply: ssw.org.uk/open-call-ss...

Check out this really nice interview and feature on Counterflows Festival. Thanks to The Bell and Henry Ivry! www.glasgowbell.co.uk/the-uks-most...

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!

"It's a festival that understands that the self-seriousness and solemnity that so often fill the world are irrelevant – it’s the giddy opportunity of the unknown that defines it..." @counterflows.bsky.social review:

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

Another belter @counterflows.bsky.social, fave moments were screw-facing at The Handover, a man in a cardigan shrieking John fuckin Wall, Ash Reid’s lament for the taste of British Apples, Yan Jun’s duets with baby / hoverfly / chiff-chaff and Amina Claudine Myers blowing the cobwebs off that organ

A heartfelt thank you to everyone who joined us under the Glasgow sun's warm glow for 4 days of music, discussion, hanging out and partying 🥰 This was one of our favourite editions of the festival yet. Pictures courtesy of Brian Hartley. Plenty more to come! BIG LOVE X

Pleased to announce that you (probably) won't get too soggy moving between each venue at Counterflows this year 😎

The time is here! Counterflows 2025 kicks off tomorrow 😮 Below in the slides we've included some key information for everyone attending. Have a read over and we look forward to seeing you all soon ❤️

Fresh from the printers …a peak inside COUNTERFLOWS ON PAPER 2025 Pick up a copy from Thursday at the festival! Edited by Joel White, Helen Charman & Emmie McLuskey Printed by Sunday's Print Service Illustrations by Project Ability Design by Oliver Pitt

We have a handful of festival pass returns here if anyone wants to join us next week! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/counterflo...

Oh heck, Counterflows Festival 2025 is just a week away now! 😮 Ticket update: we've still got a small handful of tickets to the opening night and the Art School clubnight on the 5th. We also just had a small amount of festival passes returned. www.counterflows.com

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...

It's just over 3 weeks now until Counterflows Festival kicks off! For the opening of the festival on the 3rd of April at the beautiful Woodside Halls The Handover, Ailbhe Nic Oireachtaigh & Weston Olencki and Laura Cocks. Still some tickets left: counterflows.com/event/the-ha...

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...

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

We're delighted to unveil the full detailed day-by-day programme for Counterflows Festival 2025, taking place across various venues in Glasgow on the 3-6 of April. Tickets for individual events and Friday/Saturday Day Passes are now on sale 🚀 www.counterflows.com

This Thursday we'll be announcing the full detailed programme for Counterflows, as well as individual event tickets and some more artists. Hold tight 🤠

I wish I had the time, energy & money to go up to Glasgow for one of these nights. But attention all @synthsky.bsky.social ppl who haven't seen this mini-doc on the New Glasgow Synth Scene. youtu.be/K74MeBN5FQQ?...

Big news! We are really pleased to announce that AC Projects (Counterflows & Music Space) are a new recipient of Creative Scotland's Multi-Year Funding Programme, which will enable us to sustain and develop the work we do over the next 3 years (1/3)

Super happy to reveal the full artist line-up for Counterflows Festival 2025, 3-6 April in Glasgow ❤️‍🔥 Festival passes are on-sale, including pay-what-you-can option. www.counterflows.com

We finalised the artist line-up for Counterflows Festival 2025 last week. After a year of over-thinking it all we're stoked how its turned out. Look out for full details arriving early next month 👀 Have a great time over the festive season and see you all next year! 🎉

A huge congratulations to our friends [Ahmed], who hit the number 1 spot in @thewiremagazine.bsky.social Best Albums of the Year with 'Giant Beauty'. 'Wood Blues', recorded at their show at Counterflows Festival 2022 (📷 by Dawid Laskowski) made it into the top 50 albums in @pitchfork.com too. 🎉

Some photos from our event in collaboration with Arika a few weeks back at the Tramway, with Chuquimamani-Condori, Rashad Becker, Sunik Kim & Nat Raha/Ailie Ormston. Thanks to everyone who joined us for the intense sonic vibrations ❤️‍🔥 📷 = Alex Woodward

Great finish to the event last night from Chuquimamani-Condori! Thanks to all who attended or watched online, and also to the entire Arika and Counterflows teams. See event page for Bandcamp links to all the artists performing: counterflows.com/event/arika-...

The most sophisticated synthetic music around is made by a Syrian Communist living in Berlin, who is perhaps better thought of as a fiction writer. Rashad Becker writes narratives and then sonifies them into non-linear compositions that unpick causality in music. Live streaming now at arika.org.uk

Live streaming now at arika.org.uk Counterflows collaboration, with Chuquimamani-Condori, Rashad Becker, Sunik Kim, Nat Raha & Ailie Ormston. #arika #episode11

A reminder that Arika Episode 11 “To End The World As We Know It’ is on just now in Glasgow. Counterflows has a collaboration event on Sunday with performances from Chuquimamani-Condori, Rashad Becker, Sunik Kim and a new collaboration with Nat Raha & Ailie Ormston. counterflows.com/wp-content/u...

Counterflows 2025 is on! The first tranche of festival passes has sold out. More to be released in the new year along with the full artist line up. Links in bio #experimental #music #festival #scotland