Counterflows Festival
@counterflows.bsky.social
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...
Full Festival passes are now on sale in standard, solidarity and pay what you want tiers:
counterflows.com/festival/cou...
November 5, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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...
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
Festival passes and further information will be revealed in early November.
📸 by Brian Hartley
September 30, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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
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...
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...
September 12, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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...
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...
www.glasgowbell.co.uk/the-uks-most...
The UK's most important avant-garde music festival is in a Maryhill community hall
A rabid audience and absolutely no plans to scale up: Counterflows is a true Glasgow curio
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May 12, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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...
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!
Here's the first bit of it: read the full thing in the current issue!
May 7, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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!
Here's the first bit of it: read the full thing in the current issue!
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"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:
@counterflows.bsky.social review:
Counterflows 2025: The Report - The Skinny
Counterflows returns to Glasgow, and remains one of the finest festivals the UK has to offer.
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April 14, 2025 at 12:34 PM
"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:
@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...
www.theskinny.co.uk/music/live-m...
Counterflows 2025: The Report - The Skinny
Counterflows returns to Glasgow, and remains one of the finest festivals the UK has to offer.
www.theskinny.co.uk
April 12, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Thanks to @theskinnymag.bsky.social for this glowing review of Counterflows Festival last weekend.
www.theskinny.co.uk/music/live-m...
www.theskinny.co.uk/music/live-m...
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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
April 8, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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
This was one of our favourite editions of the festival yet.
Pictures courtesy of Brian Hartley. Plenty more to come!
BIG LOVE X
April 8, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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
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 😎
April 2, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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 ❤️
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 ❤️
April 2, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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 ❤️
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
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
April 1, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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
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...
Counterflows Festival 2025
3-6 April 2025. Various Venues, Glasgow, UK. More details to be announced
www.eventbrite.co.uk
March 28, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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
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
March 27, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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
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...
thequietus.com/interviews/s...
The Strange World Of... Maher Shalal Hash Baz | The Quietus
Jennifer Lucy Allan attempts the impossible: offering a gateway into the colossal artistic practice of Tori Kudo
thequietus.com
March 25, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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...
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...
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...
March 11, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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...
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...
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...
March 9, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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...
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
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
March 4, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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
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
Tickets for individual events and Friday/Saturday Day Passes are now on sale 🚀
www.counterflows.com
February 20, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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
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 🤠
February 16, 2025 at 11:41 AM
This Thursday we'll be announcing the full detailed programme for Counterflows, as well as individual event tickets and some more artists. Hold tight 🤠
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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?...
youtu.be/K74MeBN5FQQ?...
The New Glasgow Synth Scene // Attack Release Mini-Documentary
YouTube video by Stephen McLeod
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February 5, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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?...
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)
January 31, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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
Festival passes are on-sale, including pay-what-you-can option. www.counterflows.com
January 14, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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
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! 🎉
Have a great time over the festive season and see you all next year! 🎉
December 9, 2024 at 12:15 PM
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! 🎉
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.
🎉
'Wood Blues', recorded at their show at Counterflows Festival 2022 (📷 by Dawid Laskowski) made it into the top 50 albums in @pitchfork.com too.
🎉
December 4, 2024 at 1:09 PM
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.
🎉
'Wood Blues', recorded at their show at Counterflows Festival 2022 (📷 by Dawid Laskowski) made it into the top 50 albums in @pitchfork.com too.
🎉