Running Order

Friday

  • Shed Stage

    • 15:30 45 day-friday location-shed-stage

      Water

    • 17:00 45 day-friday location-shed-stage

      Yama Warashi (山童).

    • 18:30 45 day-friday location-shed-stage

      Housewives

    • 20:00 45 day-friday location-shed-stage

      Knifeworld

    • 21:30 45 day-friday location-shed-stage

      Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs

    • 22:45 60 day-friday location-shed-stage

      MDC

  • Red Kite Stage

    • 16:15 45 day-friday location-red-kite-stage

      Graham Dunning - Mechanical Techno

    • 17:45 45 day-friday location-red-kite-stage

      Christos Fanaras

    • 19:15 45 day-friday location-red-kite-stage

      Cavalier Song

    • 20:45 45 day-friday location-red-kite-stage

      Dwellings

    • 22:15 45 day-friday location-red-kite-stage

      Girl Sweat

    • 23:00 180 day-friday location-red-kite-stage

      DJ iPhone (Chris Dwellings)

  • The Vortex

    • 17:00 45 day-friday location-the-vortex

      MELANIE CLIFFORD - VERY SHORT FILM SHOW

    • 18:30 45 day-friday location-the-vortex

      Sam Belinfante and Mark Sanders

    • 20:00 45 day-friday location-the-vortex

      MERZMONGO and 16mm Solar Spell (Film Material)

    • 21:30 45 day-friday location-the-vortex

      Urthona

    • 23:00 45 day-friday location-the-vortex

      Mothwasp

    • 00:00 120 day-friday location-the-vortex

      The Irrational Film Jam

  • The Barn

    • 19:00 120 day-friday location-the-barn

      Vibracathedral Orchestra

    • 22:15 45 day-friday location-the-barn

      Ian William Craig

  • Shed Stage

    • 15:30 45 day-friday location-shed-stage

      Water

      A heady mix of artists, poets, musicians and performers who've come together to create ritualistic encounters which engulf the senses.

    • 17:00 45 day-friday location-shed-stage

      Yama Warashi (山童).

      Formerly of Bristol-based outfit Zun Zun Egui, Yoshino Shigihara hereby embarks on Yama Warashi (山童). a solo project, inspired by Japanese folk dance music, Bon Odori(盆踊り), free jazz and African music with electric psychedelia. Yoshino sings partially in her mother tongue about mycelium, nuclear power and broken O.

    • 18:30 45 day-friday location-shed-stage

      Housewives

      Inhabiting a monochrome liminal zone where nihilistic No-Wave geometry locks horns with kinetic rhythmic drive, Housewives' mighty clangour will relight you ire.

    • 20:00 45 day-friday location-shed-stage

      Knifeworld

      Marrying progressive whimsy with pure pop radiance, and delivering a tapestry of melody and abandon that defies description, Knifeworld - led by mercurial journeyman Kavus Torabi (Cardiacs/Gong/Guapo/Chrome Hoof and many more) deliver gloriously otherworldly and outré vibrations from the ether and the everyday.

    • 21:30 45 day-friday location-shed-stage

      Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs

      These psychic omnivores will consume a total of seven times almost anything you put them into contact with.

    • 22:45 60 day-friday location-shed-stage

      MDC

      Texan-via-San Francisco punk legends, active since the early '80s and eternally a towering beacon of ornery and idealistic attitude, and a thorn in the side of the self-righteous

  • Red Kite Stage

    • 16:15 45 day-friday location-red-kite-stage

      Graham Dunning - Mechanical Techno

      Uniting the technological and the primitive, magus of the lo-fi Dunning creates an apparatus to reap repetition through nuts and bolts in sweet harmony.

    • 17:45 45 day-friday location-red-kite-stage

      Christos Fanaras

      London-based electronic artist Christos Fanaras draws a line between kosmische exploration, wry surrealism, unforgivingly bleak ambience and all points in between.

    • 19:15 45 day-friday location-red-kite-stage

      Cavalier Song

      Cavalier Song's cinematic brand of exploratory sonic adventure is uncategorisable save for the primal charge of their onslaught - stormclouds of atmosphere and intensity collide in a haunting and powerful brand of symphonic power and elemental abstraction.

    • 20:45 45 day-friday location-red-kite-stage

      Dwellings

      The techno-driven, binary-babylon-resident alter ego of Gnod's Chris Haslam, Dwellings turns out dystopian and hypnotic beat-driven soundscapes that combine monochrome discord with a twisted heart and soul.

    • 22:15 45 day-friday location-red-kite-stage

      Girl Sweat

      Russell Gray's one-man garage-party extravaganza hammers out the jams like some nightmarish collision of Coachwhips, John Shuttleworth and John Maus, or like The Sonics stranded on Mars with only a Casio keyboard for company.

    • 23:00 180 day-friday location-red-kite-stage

      DJ iPhone (Chris Dwellings)

  • The Vortex

    • 17:00 45 day-friday location-the-vortex

      MELANIE CLIFFORD - VERY SHORT FILM SHOW

      New work produced at SN2016 Art & Music Residency: an intimate, one-off live performance of moving image and hand-turned dubplates, high frequency glimpses, rhythm, crackle and hiss.

    • 18:30 45 day-friday location-the-vortex

      Sam Belinfante and Mark Sanders

      Artist Sam Belinfante and acclaimed percussionist Mark Sanders present a collaborative performance exploring the voluntary and involuntary movements between sound, music and gesture.

    • 20:00 45 day-friday location-the-vortex

      MERZMONGO and 16mm Solar Spell (Film Material)

      A live performance by Lord Mongo and Nick Jordan, with an improvised electronic and vocal score to the expanded version of their film MERZMONGO. Then Toots & Purrs: 16mm Solar Spell - scorched and solarised 16mm film with optical sound and live lens interventions.

    • 21:30 45 day-friday location-the-vortex

      Urthona

      Drone meditations and Blakeian revelations from the tor tops courtesy of the West Country’s foremost exponents of tectonic vibrations made manifest across the ether.

    • 23:00 45 day-friday location-the-vortex

      Mothwasp

      A visual and sonic maelstrom of analogue semi-improvised cinematic sound.

    • 00:00 120 day-friday location-the-vortex

      The Irrational Film Jam

      Late night cinematic marvels in the Vortex after midnight each night as we present a selection of the bizarre, occult and mysterious films for your delectation etc.. and anyone who fancies making some sound to ramp up the suspense should turn up with instruments or percussion (acoustic only!) at midnight sharp.

  • The Barn

    • 19:00 120 day-friday location-the-barn

      Vibracathedral Orchestra

      Legends of string-driven psychedelia where overwhelming orchestral splendour meets gritty punk rock spirit. Playing live infrequently these days, their Supernormal set will be a rare chance to catch them in their full-blown long-ass natural glory.

    • 22:15 45 day-friday location-the-barn

      Ian William Craig

      We're delighted to welcome this startling experimental vocal artist, making his first ever appearance in Europe, and bringing his unique blend of celestial ambience and fractured abstraction to bewitch the countryside

  • Activity Tent

    • 17:00 60 day-friday location-activity-tent

      SURREAL SKIN DECORATOR

      This is not face painting as you know it. There will be no butterflies, tigers or ‘pretty’ there is no time frame just the twilight zone of 4 dimensional skin art. Surreal disco skin decorator Natalie Sharp invites you to spin the wheel of (mis)fortune to discover your antipodean character.

    • 21:30 45 day-friday location-activity-tent

      Nightfall Storytime

      Narrative, visual and audio experience for kids (and adults) at nightfall.

  • Around Site

    • 22:00 45 day-friday location-around-site

      Light Field

      Light Field is an off-grid, kinetically-powered participatory installation by sound artist Bill Thompson and choreographer Saffy Setohy; Made of, and activated by light, people and the sound of light taking place in the woods.

Saturday

  • Shed Stage

    • 11:00 30 day-saturday location-shed-stage

      Black Metal High Impact Aerobics

    • 12:30 45 day-saturday location-shed-stage

      Guttersnipe

    • 14:00 45 day-saturday location-shed-stage

      Tut Vu Vu

    • 15:30 45 day-saturday location-shed-stage

      The Early Years

    • 17:00 45 day-saturday location-shed-stage

      Flowers Must Die

    • 18:30 45 day-saturday location-shed-stage

      Heather Leigh

    • 20:00 45 day-saturday location-shed-stage

      Gum Takes Tooth

    • 21:30 45 day-saturday location-shed-stage

      Giant Swan

    • 22:45 60 day-saturday location-shed-stage

      The Ex

  • Red Kite Stage

    • 13:15 45 day-saturday location-red-kite-stage

      Casual Nun

    • 14:45 45 day-saturday location-red-kite-stage

      NEIL CAMPBELL AND MICHAEL FLOWER

    • 16:15 45 day-saturday location-red-kite-stage

      BAS JAN

    • 17:00 90 day-saturday location-red-kite-stage

      Bowie vs. Prince Karaoke

    • 19:15 45 day-saturday location-red-kite-stage

      Turtle Yama

    • 20:45 45 day-saturday location-red-kite-stage

      Helm & Valentina Magaletti

    • 22:15 45 day-saturday location-red-kite-stage

      Apostille

    • 00:00 120 day-saturday location-red-kite-stage

      DJ Shitmat

  • The Vortex

    • 10:00 120 day-saturday location-the-vortex

      TRANSparent KINOmar

    • 12:00 60 day-saturday location-the-vortex

      The Quietus in Conversation: On Collaboration

    • 13:00 45 day-saturday location-the-vortex

      Open Music Archive

    • 14:00 60 day-saturday location-the-vortex

      Babaloose

    • 15:30 45 day-saturday location-the-vortex

      Halftone

    • 17:00 45 day-saturday location-the-vortex

      Sophie Cooper & Delphine Dora

    • 20:00 45 day-saturday location-the-vortex

      Mary Stark: Film as Fabric (Film Material)

    • 21:30 45 day-saturday location-the-vortex

      Herb Diamante

    • 23:00 45 day-saturday location-the-vortex

      MOONSEER

    • 00:00 120 day-saturday location-the-vortex

      The Irrational Film Jam

  • The Barn

    • 10:30 60 day-saturday location-the-barn

      Morning Life Drawing

    • 12:00 120 day-saturday location-the-barn

      Noize Choir Workshop

    • 14:45 45 day-saturday location-the-barn

      Tasos Stamou

    • 16:15 45 day-saturday location-the-barn

      Angela Rawlings

    • 17:45 45 day-saturday location-the-barn

      Charles Hayward - Zigzag + Swirl

    • 19:15 45 day-saturday location-the-barn

      Asiq Nargile

    • 21:30 90 day-saturday location-the-barn

      Sam Weaver & Rachel Goodyear

  • Shed Stage

    • 11:00 30 day-saturday location-shed-stage

      Black Metal High Impact Aerobics

      Early morning black metal aerobic exercise session with mandatory corpse paint for all. Drop and gimme six hundred and sixty six!!!!

    • 12:30 45 day-saturday location-shed-stage

      Guttersnipe

      This Leeds two-piece dive straight into a cauldron of hellish improv-skronk, paint-stripping abstract noise and nightmarishly deconstructed sonic catharsis - Guttersnipe don't blow away your Saturday morning cobwebs, nothing will.

    • 14:00 45 day-saturday location-shed-stage

      Tut Vu Vu

      Drawing on a wide range of influences and defying easy categorisation, Tut Vu Vu have incorrectly been referred to as: ‘musique concrète’, ‘arguably the best band in Glasgow’,‘vaguely jazz based rhythm with a wayward electronic disposition’ or ‘the love child of David Lynch and Anaïs Nin’…

    • 15:30 45 day-saturday location-shed-stage

      The Early Years

      Mavens of motorik magnificence, The Early Years have returned from the wilderness, fit to re-establish themselves as prime purveyors of repetitious rapture and heavy-lidded cool.

    • 17:00 45 day-saturday location-shed-stage

      Flowers Must Die

      A fearsome blend of psychotropic extrapolations and balls-out abandon

    • 18:30 45 day-saturday location-shed-stage

      Heather Leigh

      Utilising the pedal steel and her voice, Heather Leigh mainlines a psychic force that's at once primal, ethereal and otherworldly, her psychedelic hymnals uniting the West Virginia and Texas of her origins, the Glaswegian underground where she made her name, and an unheimlich spirit at the heart of the human condition.

    • 20:00 45 day-saturday location-shed-stage

      Gum Takes Tooth

      Binary bedlam and percussive tumult from one of London and the UK's most square-peg and building-levelling duos, guaranteed to bring both party and apocalypse in short order

    • 21:30 45 day-saturday location-shed-stage

      Giant Swan

      Mercurial electronic trash-trawlers uniting the hypnotic glow of effects pedal lights with the glow of dancefloor strobes, Giant Swan are masters of binary hedonism and anarchic abandon.

    • 22:45 60 day-saturday location-shed-stage

      The Ex

      The Ex are a band forged from punk rock, yet existing outside of any convenient pigeonholing, their minimal approach, no-barriers unorthodoxy and DIY ethos standing as an endless wellspring of inspiration

  • Red Kite Stage

    • 13:15 45 day-saturday location-red-kite-stage

      Casual Nun

      A dizzying torrent of righteous repetition and acid-fried guitar overload, Casual Nun are a perfect excuse to get back in the habit

    • 14:45 45 day-saturday location-red-kite-stage

      NEIL CAMPBELL AND MICHAEL FLOWER

      Two of the founding members of Vibracathedral Orchestra, moonlighting as a guitar/casio apocalypse party duet. Sublime sounds, ridiculous sounds.

    • 16:15 45 day-saturday location-red-kite-stage

      BAS JAN

      The three-piece line-up of Serafina Steer, Jenny Moore and Sarah Anderson deal out a vibrant, insouciant and defiantly uncategorisable brand of experimental pop, as punk rock in spirit as it is poetic.

    • 17:00 90 day-saturday location-red-kite-stage

      Bowie vs. Prince Karaoke

      With this year seeing the uber sad and untimely passing of two absolute musical legends, the resident Supernormal karaoke session just had to be a homage to these two beyond-comparison geniuses. Come sing your heart and lungs out to your favourites. Hosted in-style by performers from from Beacons, Icons and Dykons: Tom Marshman as Bowie with his side-kick Amanda Radix as Prince.

    • 19:15 45 day-saturday location-red-kite-stage

      Turtle Yama

      Turtle Yama combine electronica, tape loops and improvised keyboard work weaving incongruous stories together to surprise and intrigue. This performance is supported by Sasakawa Foundation.

    • 20:45 45 day-saturday location-red-kite-stage

      Helm & Valentina Magaletti

      Collaborative performance between experimental sound artist Helm AKA Luke Younger joining forces with visionary percussionist Valentina Magalett to create a new work that appears destined to explore not only new hinterlands between acoustic and electronic, but a world where the tactile and alluring meets the willfully abrasive.

    • 22:15 45 day-saturday location-red-kite-stage

      Apostille

      Apostille is the alias of Glasgow-based Michael Kasparis. 'Using sweat-stained, decaying machinery to create denigrated pop music injected with a poison, Apostille is the last resort of a man with too few problems, but blown out of all proportion. Living in the moment, trying to get out'.

    • 00:00 120 day-saturday location-red-kite-stage

      DJ Shitmat

      Shitmat. Messing things up since the 00's. After a bit of a hiatus while his real-life name-sake Henry Collins explored other musical journeys, Shitmat returns for a rare appearance at Supernormal.

  • The Vortex

    • 10:00 120 day-saturday location-the-vortex

      TRANSparent KINOmar

      How does film help restore some goodwill? Can Kids Kino Project make cultural exchanges when people are fighting to surivive? Why do kids worldwide love 'The Red Ballon'....and how do you make a cinema? Over a series of playful sessions KKP explores what the hell we can do together as we look under the cine-skin.

    • 12:00 60 day-saturday location-the-vortex

      The Quietus in Conversation: On Collaboration

      Panel discussion exploring what it means to collaborate, chaired by Robert Barry from the Quietus. Panel artists are: Sam Underwood & Sam Cook, Sophie Cooper & Delphine Dora and Sam Belifante who will all be presenting collaborative performances at the festival.

    • 13:00 45 day-saturday location-the-vortex

      Open Music Archive

      Artists Eileen Simpson and Ben White work at the intersection of art, music and information networks. Open Music Archive is their ongoing project to distribute out-of-copyright archive material and to spark collaborative activity through exhibitions, films and live events. Join them in the Vortex to learn more about their recent projects. Open Music Archive has been selected by Modern Art Oxford as part of the City Partners Programme 2016-17.

    • 14:00 60 day-saturday location-the-vortex

      Babaloose

      Babaloose is about the politics of performing, and the power of an audience as a self-organising creative community. Following the workshop to build the set, this event will bring people together to share their practice in a space they have created. So, if you have never performed before or shared your writing, Babaloose is the perfect place to start out. Everyone is invited to join in, turn up with something to read, sing, communicate and we will listen, applaud and have merriment!

    • 15:30 45 day-saturday location-the-vortex

      Halftone

      Musicians Tina Hitchens (Flute), Yvonna Magda (Violin) and Caitlin Alais Callahan (double bass) play part-composed music; being interested in the conscious or unconscious improvisatory responses generated by musical, and extra-musical, prompts and restraints. The performance is a collaborative project with Ben Owen who has generated a new visual landscape related to the history of Braziers Park to provoke musical responses from the trio.

    • 17:00 45 day-saturday location-the-vortex

      Sophie Cooper & Delphine Dora

      France’s Delphine Dora and Yorkshire's Sophie Cooper have both been making music individually over the past decade and have come together for this unique collaboration using piano, trombone and wordless vocals.

    • 20:00 45 day-saturday location-the-vortex

      Mary Stark: Film as Fabric (Film Material)

      Film as Fabric is an expanded film performance with optical sound summoning obsolete industries through 16mm film projection, shadow play, mechanical noise and sounds associated with the production of cloth.

    • 21:30 45 day-saturday location-the-vortex

      Herb Diamante

      Herb Diamate is a self-styled 'elegant post-apocalyptick drunken scarecrow who thinks he knows all the secrets of the unverse. He loves glamour, alcohol and pataphysics'

    • 23:00 45 day-saturday location-the-vortex

      MOONSEER

      MOONSEER is a live visual and music performance composed by artist and illustrator Connie Prantera as part of her MOON series which includes MOON RA and MOON ROSE. Uniting a group of musicians with her seductive and disquiet visuals the performance tells tales of earthly wonder and ethereal relics to an ecstatic ritualistic climax within the wink of a third eye.

    • 00:00 120 day-saturday location-the-vortex

      The Irrational Film Jam

      Late night cinematic marvels in the Vortex after midnight each night as we present a selection of the bizarre, occult and mysterious films for your delectation etc.. and anyone who fancies making some sound to ramp up the suspense should turn up with instruments or percussion (acoustic only!) at midnight sharp.

  • The Barn

    • 10:30 60 day-saturday location-the-barn

      Morning Life Drawing

      Fancy a creative and relaxing way to start the day? Held in the barn on Saturday and Sunday mornings with live acoustic musical accompaniment, Supernormal Nude Life Drawing sessions are for all ages and all abilities and all materials are provided.

    • 12:00 120 day-saturday location-the-barn

      Noize Choir Workshop

      Join this collective of noise enthusiasts who have a common desire to use the human voice free of the traditional restraints of typical choral settings. Join them at Supernormal for a choir session with resulting performance.

    • 14:45 45 day-saturday location-the-barn

      Tasos Stamou

      Long, continuous pieces crafted live on stage from a formidable arsenal of zither, reeds, recorders, modular synthesizers, loopers, handmade electronics and more.

    • 16:15 45 day-saturday location-the-barn

      Angela Rawlings

      Angela Rawlings is an interdisciplinary artist who champions environmental stewardship through acoustic ecology, counter-mapping, and geopoetics. As a writer-activist, her literary output includes Wide slumber for lepidopterists (2006) and o w n (2015). Her music group Moss Moss Not Moss (with Rebecca Bruton) made its debut at the 2016 Glasgow Tectonics Music Festival. For Supernormal, Angela will perform from echolology, a sound-poetry score. Angela has been selected by Counterflows (Glasgow) as part of the City Partners Programme 2016-17.

    • 17:45 45 day-saturday location-the-barn

      Charles Hayward - Zigzag + Swirl

      Charles Hayward needs no introduction, and he returns to Braziers to perform a solo set in the Zig-Zag + Swirl formation - this comprises a performance in which technology is used to open uncertainty in songs that surf his muse's trademark combination of a psychedelic continuum and the startling other.

    • 19:15 45 day-saturday location-the-barn

      Asiq Nargile

      This Tblisi-hailing solo performer and saz (long-necked lute) virtuoso maintains a fearless exploration of her native music and traditions, and her vocal recital of epic folk poetry is by turns ecstatic and deeply expressive

    • 21:30 90 day-saturday location-the-barn

      Sam Weaver & Rachel Goodyear

      A collaborative installation performance between electroacoustic musician Sam Weaver and visual artist Rachel Goodyear who will undertake a new live music and visual art experience with invited artists including Kelly Jayne Jones, Daniel Weaver, Otto Wilberg, Ecka Mordecai, Greta Buitkute and other special guests.

  • Activity Tent

    • 10:00 60 day-saturday location-activity-tent

      Morning Yoga

      Yoga guru Moses of Chelsea returns via California to get you high by stretching. So let’s get high together.

    • 11:00 120 day-saturday location-activity-tent

      Babaloose: set design workshop

      Join Babaloose for a workshop that explores the basics of theatrical set design, childhood den building and Arte Povera sculpture-making to create an ideal portable performance space for an open platform Babaloose event in the Vortex.

    • 13:00 120 day-saturday location-activity-tent

      Hat Making Kids Workshop with The Hat Lady

      Craft, create and decorate your own outlandish festival head-piece that lights up and take part in a procession through the festival after dark.

    • 15:00 150 day-saturday location-activity-tent

      CHAMP: Meet the Puppets

      Participatory puppet and noise-making workshop with resulting festival procession where festival goers are invited to join CHAMP at 5.30pm as they lead a procession around the site with a motley crew of collected musicians and noise-makers.

    • 21:30 45 day-saturday location-activity-tent

      Nightfall Storytime

      Narrative, visual and audio experience for kids (and adults) at nightfall.

  • Braziers House

    • 12:00 120 day-saturday location-braziers-house

      Jack Catling: Threshold Connection

      Performative intervention drawing invisible ghosts from in and around Braziers House as discovered on the Braziers Residency.

    • 13:00 45 day-saturday location-braziers-house

      The SamSam Big Band

      Sam Underwood and Sam Cook have been working together following the residency to build a selection of weird and wonderful musical instruments that will tour the festival site with a series of impromptu performances. This staged performance will see them bring together musicians and other vagabonds recruited over the course of the weekend, so let's see what transpires!

    • 15:00 30 day-saturday location-braziers-house

      Aine O'Dwyer

      Áine O Dwyer’s performances are cross-disciplinary, shifting between the roles of vocalist, soloist, accompanist, musician, improviser, composer, performer and visual artist. Aine will perform an acoustic harp set in the lounge at Braziers House.

    • 17:00 20 day-saturday location-braziers-house

      Serena Korda: The Jug Choir: Ectoplasmic Variations

      Serena Korda's Jug Choir: Ectoplasmic Variations explores the materiality of object and sound drawing on a rich history of jugs being used as musical instruments. The Jug Choir is an exhibit and unfolding sonic experiment with new sets of singers who play their part in bringing the jugs to life to mark the end of the afternoon. See Braziers House programme for more information on the work and artist Serena Korda.

  • Around Site

    • 11:00 120 day-saturday location-around-site

      Cyanotype Workshop

      Cyanotype workshop for all ages and artistic abilities. Come along and create your own Supernormal blueprint.

    • 13:00 45 day-saturday location-around-site

      Pester and Rossi: costume making workshop

      Find Pester and Rossi's shed and get involved with making outlandish DIY costumes and props with the duo, which may result in potential collective conga around the site...

    • 22:00 45 day-saturday location-around-site

      Nathaniel Mann: The Gloaming

      Sound artist and performer Nathaniel Mann offers songs and sounds of and for the forest. Look out for field recordings, deconstructed folk and torchlight in the woods at night. Find him in a glade, at the gloaming. Nathaniel has been selected by Oxford Contemporary Music as part of the City Partners Programme 2016-17.

Sunday

  • Shed Stage

    • 11:00 25 day-sunday location-shed-stage

      The SamSam Big Band

    • 12:00 45 day-sunday location-shed-stage

      Big Joanie

    • 13:30 45 day-sunday location-shed-stage

      Casual Sect

    • 15:00 45 day-sunday location-shed-stage

      The Cush

    • 16:30 45 day-sunday location-shed-stage

      Ashtray Navigations

    • 18:00 45 day-sunday location-shed-stage

      Mums

    • 19:30 45 day-sunday location-shed-stage

      Tomaga

    • 21:00 45 day-sunday location-shed-stage

      JK Flesh

    • 22:30 45 day-sunday location-shed-stage

      Melting Hand

  • Red Kite Stage

    • 14:15 45 day-sunday location-red-kite-stage

      Goodiepal & Pals

    • 15:45 45 day-sunday location-red-kite-stage

      City Hands

    • 17:15 45 day-sunday location-red-kite-stage

      Normil Hawaiians

    • 18:45 45 day-sunday location-red-kite-stage

      Rattle

    • 20:15 45 day-sunday location-red-kite-stage

      The Lowest Form

    • 21:45 45 day-sunday location-red-kite-stage

      Wytch Hazel

    • 22:50 30 day-sunday location-red-kite-stage

      THE PERFECT PRESCRIPTION

    • 23:30 150 day-sunday location-red-kite-stage

      Silent Disco

  • The Vortex

    • 10:30 75 day-sunday location-the-vortex

      SSSSS Film Screenings

    • 12:00 60 day-sunday location-the-vortex

      Christopher Josiffe: Talk

    • 13:30 60 day-sunday location-the-vortex

      Speak Your Brains

    • 15:00 25 day-sunday location-the-vortex

      Medea

    • 15:45 90 day-sunday location-the-vortex

      LUX & CLUB DES FEMMES PRESENT THIS IS NOW: FILM AND VIDEO AFTER PUNK: THROUGH A GLASS, DARKLY

    • 18:00 45 day-sunday location-the-vortex

      Adrena Adrena

    • 19:30 30 day-sunday location-the-vortex

      Bridget Hayden & Claire Potter

    • 21:00 45 day-sunday location-the-vortex

      David Chatton Barker & Sam Mcloughlin (Film Material)

    • 22:30 45 day-sunday location-the-vortex

      Turtle Yama Warashi

    • 23:30 150 day-sunday location-the-vortex

      The Irrational Film Jam

  • The Barn

    • 10:30 60 day-sunday location-the-barn

      Morning Life Drawing

    • 12:00 45 day-sunday location-the-barn

      Sophie Cooper & Julian Bradley

    • 13:00 150 day-sunday location-the-barn

      Safehouse Open Improv

    • 16:00 45 day-sunday location-the-barn

      Charles Hayward: The Bell Agency

    • 17:15 45 day-sunday location-the-barn

      Arvind Ganga

    • 18:45 45 day-sunday location-the-barn

      Cup

    • 20:15 45 day-sunday location-the-barn

      Lina Lapelyte, Angharad Davies, Graham Dunning

    • 21:45 45 day-sunday location-the-barn

      The Rebel

  • Shed Stage

    • 11:00 25 day-sunday location-shed-stage

      The SamSam Big Band

      Sam Underwood and Sam Cook have been working together following the residency to build a selection of weird and wonderful musical instruments that will tour the festival site with a series of impromptu performances. This staged performance will see them bring together musicians and other vagabonds recruited over the course of the weekend, so let's see what transpires!

    • 12:00 45 day-sunday location-shed-stage

      Big Joanie

      Big Joanie are a black feminist punk band based in London. They formed to make powerful music, but also to create a continuum for black punks by presenting a strong vision of black womanhood and to inspire more young black punks to start the bands they have always wanted to hear.

    • 13:30 45 day-sunday location-shed-stage

      Casual Sect

      Surfing a grindcore-poisoned wave from the spirit of John Peel to the apocalypse, these Icke-obsessed miscreants are our fave harbingers of doom

    • 15:00 45 day-sunday location-shed-stage

      The Cush

      Hailing from Forth Worth Texas, The Cush are exponents of a widescreen sweep of sound that alternately offers succour to the weary and haunts the dreams.

    • 16:30 45 day-sunday location-shed-stage

      Ashtray Navigations

      We're beyond delighted to welcome this psychedelic institution to Braziers - put simply, there's no racket quite so tumultuous and transcendent as that made by Ashtray Navigations, whose sound unites past and present, chaos and cosmos, and has charted a path from the Leeds underground to the stars.

    • 18:00 45 day-sunday location-shed-stage

      Mums

      The most intimidating and feral amplified force ever to hail from Widnes, Mums deal in a fearsome demolition derby of Melvins-style riff worship, shit-kicking rock ballast and an absurdist sense of humour.

    • 19:30 45 day-sunday location-shed-stage

      Tomaga

      In an era in which all too many contemporary combos seem to equate a krautrock influence with yet another trip down the motorik Tomaga are possessed of a sonic brinksmanship and questing nature far closer to West Berlin's original spirit.

    • 21:00 45 day-sunday location-shed-stage

      JK Flesh

      Justin Broadrick's beat-driven dystopia - just the latest chapter in the artistic life of the UK's most iconoclastic and innovative extreme musician

    • 22:30 45 day-sunday location-shed-stage

      Melting Hand

      Comprising journeyman six-string-sorcerer Mike Vest alongside Terminal Cheesecake's Gordon Watson and Russ Smith and Gum Takes Tooth's Tom Fug, these vortex-voyagers take demented riff science and a skyward disposition and use 'em to lose it in a blizzard of third-eye-massaging mania.

  • Red Kite Stage

    • 14:15 45 day-sunday location-red-kite-stage

      Goodiepal & Pals

      As enthralling as it is unclassifiable, Goodiepal draws on electronic music, computer technology, spoken word and broader cultural theory. Goodiepal brings his pals along for the ride, so expect the unexpected.

    • 15:45 45 day-sunday location-red-kite-stage

      City Hands

      Manuel Padding, aka City Hands, is renowned for installation work at festivals like Kraak fest, AFMS weekend, and his work at Helbaard. City Hands is his project dealing in maximal and lo-fi electronic abandon.

    • 17:15 45 day-sunday location-red-kite-stage

      Normil Hawaiians

      With vast clouds of atmosphere, tape loops, found percussion, exalted synths and walls of guitar ambience, Normil Hawaiians have always operated as a collective of musicians rather than a band. They have been selected by Upset The Rhythm (London) as part of the City Partners Programme 2016-17.

    • 18:45 45 day-sunday location-red-kite-stage

      Rattle

      Rattle focus almost exclusively on drums and more drums, beneath a delicate overlay of vocal harmonies and percussive effects. Their music weaves and intertwines post-punk, minimalism and experimental rock, through off-kilter rhythms, patterns and counter melodies. Rattle have been selected by Upset The Rhythm (London) as part of the City Partners Programme 2016-17.

    • 20:15 45 day-sunday location-red-kite-stage

      The Lowest Form

      Gnarled, kaleidoscopic and confrontational hardcore miscreants, including Michael Kasparis of Apostille and Luke Younger of Helm, who have been described as "an aural obstacle course of thuggish pounding and piercing feedback wash"

    • 21:45 45 day-sunday location-red-kite-stage

      Wytch Hazel

      A heroic combination of folk-tinged heraldry, twin-guitar harmony magic and NWOBHM-inspired exuberance, Wytch Hazel inhabit a mystical realm entirely of their own creation.

    • 22:50 30 day-sunday location-red-kite-stage

      THE PERFECT PRESCRIPTION

      From Hell via Rugby - three chords and the sound of confusion in tribute to you know who

    • 23:30 150 day-sunday location-red-kite-stage

      Silent Disco

      Dance like no one's watching, even though they definitely will be

  • The Vortex

    • 10:30 75 day-sunday location-the-vortex

      SSSSS Film Screenings

      An SSSSS programme of selected films, additions and extracts from artists taking part in, and ideas stemming from the weekend's Woodhenge activites.

    • 12:00 60 day-sunday location-the-vortex

      Christopher Josiffe: Talk

      Strange Attractor presents Christopher Josiffe presenting a talk on Gef the talking mongoose.

    • 13:30 60 day-sunday location-the-vortex

      Speak Your Brains

      Are you interesting? Are you interested in something? Would you like to spend 10 minutes telling Supernormal something interesting? Then come along and share your knowledge, or simply listen to those who are interesting.

    • 15:00 25 day-sunday location-the-vortex

      Medea

      First performed at South Manchester Synagogue as part of the Wonder Women - Written In The Margins event, Medea is a soap OPERA performed by Serafina Steer and Natalie Sharp (AKA The Lone Taxidermist) based on the Greek tragedy, and bringing every part of drama and denouement that such an endeavour should demand.

    • 15:45 90 day-sunday location-the-vortex

      LUX & CLUB DES FEMMES PRESENT THIS IS NOW: FILM AND VIDEO AFTER PUNK: THROUGH A GLASS, DARKLY

      LUX & CLUB DES FEMMES PRESENT THIS IS NOW: FILM AND VIDEO AFTER PUNK: THROUGH A GLASS, DARKLY. A series of eight moving image works by post punk’s most provocative female filmmakers will be introduced by Selina Robertson and Sarah Wood, founders of Club de Femmes, and Will Fowler, curator of THIS IS NOW.

    • 18:00 45 day-sunday location-the-vortex

      Adrena Adrena

      A collaboration between drummer E-Da Kazuhisa and visual artist Daisy Dickinson, ‘Adrena Adrena’ cuts a raw blend of drums, noise and organic visual work.

    • 19:30 30 day-sunday location-the-vortex

      Bridget Hayden & Claire Potter

      Collaborative performance between guitarist Bridget Hayden and poet Claire Potter who make vocally charged sound works, rooted in the affective nature of trauma.

    • 21:00 45 day-sunday location-the-vortex

      David Chatton Barker & Sam Mcloughlin (Film Material)

      Cognitive liberation happenings and ritual instruments.....

    • 22:30 45 day-sunday location-the-vortex

      Turtle Yama Warashi

      A new collaborative performance for the festival from Yoshino Shigihara (Yama Warashi) and Turtle Yama who will weave Japanese folklore and musical traditions through a colourful exploratory spectacle of sound, visuals, dance and costume.

    • 23:30 150 day-sunday location-the-vortex

      The Irrational Film Jam

      Late night cinematic marvels in the Vortex after midnight each night as we present a selection of the bizarre, occult and mysterious films for your delectation etc.. and anyone who fancies making some sound to ramp up the suspense should turn up with instruments or percussion (acoustic only!) at midnight sharp.

  • The Barn

    • 10:30 60 day-sunday location-the-barn

      Morning Life Drawing

      Fancy a creative and relaxing way to start the day? Held in the barn on Saturday and Sunday mornings with live acoustic musical accompaniment, Supernormal Nude Life Drawing sessions are for all ages and all abilities and all materials are provided.

    • 12:00 45 day-sunday location-the-barn

      Sophie Cooper & Julian Bradley

      A new distance duo, pairing Julian Bradley of Vibracathedral Orchestra with the drones, weird noises and alternative vocal approach of Sophie Cooper. The pair have been developing work in the months leading up to the festival for their first performance together.

    • 13:00 150 day-sunday location-the-barn

      Safehouse Open Improv

      Names are drawn from a hat and a ten minute-or-so improvisation ensues. All players welcome! Percussion, drum kit, amps and electronics provided but do bring along your own instruments if you can - the more variety of sounds the better.

    • 16:00 45 day-sunday location-the-barn

      Charles Hayward: The Bell Agency

      This workshop comprises a simple game structure for 3 or more players opening out into a mesmerising slow motion sound world. Somewhere between performance and unfolding, it depends on cluster maths, hive mind and the unique details to be witnessed. Open to all those aged from 5 to 6 onwards and willing to participate in this zen, engaging and startlingly educational audial activity.

    • 17:15 45 day-sunday location-the-barn

      Arvind Ganga

      Arvind Ganga takes a physical approach to guitar playing, employing objects and extended techniques to explore new sonic possibilities. Ethereal noise with a punk-improv attitude

    • 18:45 45 day-sunday location-the-barn

      Cup

      The improvisatory trio of Verity Susman, Matt Sims and Lucy Jamieson traverse an improvisatory trajectory of motorik, psychedelia and free jazz with abandon and intrigue to spare.

    • 20:15 45 day-sunday location-the-barn

      Lina Lapelyte, Angharad Davies, Graham Dunning

      Angharad Davies is a violinist specialising in the art of the prepared violin, Lina Lapelyte is a multi-disciplinary artist and musician classically trained in the violin, Graham Dunning experiments with the imperfection of electronic sounds. We are very much intrigued to discover what they produce.

    • 21:45 45 day-sunday location-the-barn

      The Rebel

      The Rebel is an artist, musician and poet based in London, whose unique performances draw on his incredible talent for humorous, meaningful and provocative wordplay. He has cranked out albums since 1989 and has worked in many guises including the frontman for the Country Teasers, a Scottish art punk band formed in 1993. This will be a memorable performance on no uncertain terms.

  • Activity Tent

    • 10:00 60 day-sunday location-activity-tent

      Baby Bolide Sonic Crèche

      Workshop for kids up to 5 yrs and their families to engage in freeform improvisation, exploring the joys of making a racket.

    • 11:00 90 day-sunday location-activity-tent

      'Be A Beast' Mask Making

      Animal mask making workshop using artist's paintings as inspiration.

    • 13:00 150 day-sunday location-activity-tent

      Sound Hoppers

      Sound Hoppers is a deep-listening sound exploration playgroup for kids aged 3 -11.

    • 16:00 45 day-sunday location-activity-tent

      Angela Rawlings: EAR KNOWS THROAT

      Join artist Angela Rawlings for a sound and writing workshop to explore how what you hear impacts your writing. Will you flow with it, tune it out, incorporate it into your text, or struggle upstream against the soundscape? Everyone is invited to bring their favourite writing material - paper, journal, pen, pencil, crayons, lipstick, markers, mobile phone etc…

  • Braziers House

    • 13:00 45 day-sunday location-braziers-house

      Cath and Phil Tyler

      Traditional narrative song, full voiced sacred harp singing and sparse mountain banjo

    • 15:00 30 day-sunday location-braziers-house

      Brigitte Hart (A Capella)

      Brigitte Hart presents an a capella performance of 5-6 'folk' songs from around the world all with their own story of lament.

    • 17:00 20 day-sunday location-braziers-house

      Serena Korda: The Jug Choir: Ectoplasmic Variations

      Serena Korda's Jug Choir: Ectoplasmic Variations explores the materiality of object and sound drawing on a rich history of jugs being used as musical instruments. The Jug Choir is an exhibit and unfolding sonic experiment with new sets of singers who play their part in bringing the jugs to life to mark the end of the afternoon. See Braziers House programme for more information on the work and artist Serena Korda.

  • Around Site

    • 11:30 90 day-sunday location-around-site

      PunkSeq10

      PunkSeq10 combining a 10 step sequencer and an Atari Punk Console for glitchy grooves. Great project for those with previous soldering experience. This consists of a distorted-noise machine - being driven by a step-sequencer - allowing either 4, 8 or 10 steps - build it, stick the battery in for industrial techno-fun ...

    • 14:00 120 day-sunday location-around-site

      This Place I Found

      This Place I Found, a workshop about mindful, observational and non-judgemental writing.

    • 18:00 45 day-sunday location-around-site

      The Neighbours are Bats

      The Neighbours are Bats uses recordings made using a bat detector to imagine a 'bat band', in which five common British bat species become five band members. With guidance from resident bats, audiences are invited to don a bat costume and join in a jam session.

Throughout The Weekend

  • Nothing Is DJs

    Nothing Is DJs

  • Long Swords DJs

  • IMPATV

    Filming at Supernormal throughout the weekend, Islington Mill Public Access TV are born from a love of 80’s & 90’s alternative music shows as a conduit for the experimental, weird and wonderful.

  • KIDS ADVENTURE WOODLAND PLAYGROUND

    Lose your kids for hours as they play among the trees in Braziers magical woodland adventure playground.

  • Wild Bunch DJ's

    Wild Bunch is a clubnight run by people with learning difficulties for everyone, who return to play a high jinx set of bangers at Supernormal.

  • Bare Plume Cafe Bar

    After a vibrant debut last year, the Bare Plume Cafe Bar returns for Supernormal 2016 to bring you pick-me-up cocktails, ethical-but-not-boring food, tropical vibes, performances and all round fun. Come enjoy an espresso martini whilst listening to specially curated playlists from artists taking part in the festival.

  • Talkaoke

    A spontaneous, pop-up talk-show engaging people in an interactive participant-led discussion to find out what’s on your minds - big or small. Come along and join-in the discussion.

  • Martin Nutt

    Installation informed by present or absent sonic phenomena - this work is the realization of a text score, written in response to the study in Braziers House. Martin is an artist concerned with reflection, repetition, categorization and perception and is a member of Braziers community.

  • Film Material

    Film Material will be 'in residence' in the all new Vortex space, presenting expanded filmic performances, screenings and projections to activate and punctuate the space throughout the weekend.

  • Young Women's Music Project

    The Young Women's Music Project (YWMP) is an educational charity that offers free music workshops for women to make music together, learn new skills, express themselves, and grow in confidence. YWMP will respond to Supernormal and draw on their own personal experiences to create a wall of images inspired by the festival around them.

  • Film House Hats

    Roaming walk-about hat-based installations. Stop and say hi and marvel at their wonderful creations!

  • Next Doör

    A series of landworks, or contemporary, ephemeral Geoglyphs - designs, shapes and sigils resulting from air/sunlight deprivation to photosynthesis set upon the landscape reflecting aspects of the founding tenets of Braziers Park: creativity, community and radical education.

  • GirlFrenzy to CroneFrenzy

    Expanded exhibition celebrating the anarcha-feminist fanzine GirlFrenzy through spoken word, performance, music, readings, games and drawing comics. The project is hosted by some of the original contributors to GirlFrenzy including Erica Smith, Rachael House and Liz Wakfield with contributions from fellow fans. See blackboard for more details on what's happening when over the weekend.

  • Here to Help (can't you see the signs)

    Keep an eye out for helpful looking folks with tabards and lollipop signs - stop them and ask for help we dare you!

  • Night Improvisations

    Battery powered, pop-up, improvisatory, sound and light show taking place after dark around the festival site.

  • Let's… Play… Darts

    A pop-up, interactive installation at Bare Plume, celebrating the art of the dart.

  • [Super] Common Press

    An open in-situ printing press dedicated to producing music ephemera and printed matter for the festival and beyond. See blackboard by the Pink Milk Float for daily programme.

  • Georgia Horgan: Phlaag Pole Commission

    For the annual Phlaag Pole commission, Georgia Horgan has produced a new textile work that explores her interests in craft, the mechanisation of the textile industry and the production of history tapestries from the beginning of several medieval women’s communes.

  • The Pink Shed Take Over: Eastville Project Space

    Eastville Project Space take over the Pink Shed and turn it into an active project space throughout the weekend. Featuring: 'How We Communicate’ - an installation by Owl Project's Simon Blackmore, Tim Hill's anti-lecture 'The Island of Noise' as well as workshops, collbaorative performances, film and more. See the blackboard outside the Pink Shed for more info.

  • Bristol Experimental Expanded Film (BEEF): Cephalopod

    Cephalopod is a collaborative film-based hub taking residence deep in the woods for the weekend. Their mollusc-inspired shed will host a selection of events from BEEF members, friends & guests including; a 16mm film drop in workshop as the cephalopod transforms into a darkroom, film screenings, sound explorations, experimental live soundscape excursions.

  • WARP / G39 - In Response

    WARP members Neasa Terry, Sam Perry and Yvonne Lake have been selected to attend Supernormal to collectively and individually respond to the arts, projects and activities programme through a variety of textual mediums. Wales Artist Resource Programme (WARP) is based in G39 art space in Cardiff and provides professional development resources, mentoring and guidance for artists.

  • Georgia Horgan

    Georgia Horgan is interested how social and political histories are represented and the mechanics of alternative ways of teaching and learning. For her shed commission, Georgia has made a reading resource that traces this history from medieval Beguines communities to Braziers Park School of Integrative Social Research. Alongside the reading material is a series of textile works based on the cloth used for 'samarras' - the ceremonial robes heretics were forced to wear during trials. Whilst providing a place to read and reflect on the context of Supernormal, these textile works consider the connections between heretic movements and modern communes.

  • Spike Associates: The Do Nothing Club

    Spike Associate members Alessio Mazzaro and Fiona Winning create a space in the woods where people can join them to become somebody else and gain superpowers to do nothing as an antidote to hyper productivity.

  • Matt Copson

    Following on from 'A Woodland Truce', a play (of sorts) at Serpentine Sackler Gallery, London, in February, artist Matt Copson will be transforming a shed in to a theatrical installation at Supernormal, which may or may not include: staving off mortality, polluting the national discourse, replenishing electrolytes, inner conflict on a public scale, animals (rats, birds etc), red, green and blue.

  • Pester and Rossi

    Performative, fun and provoking artist duo Pester and Rossi will be taking over a shed to grace you with their outlandish DIY costumes, props and wearable sculpture. Be sure to visit the shed on Saturday from 12 noon - 3pm to take part in the fun and get involved in making costumes. Strut your stuff down the catwalk on Saturday night from 8 - 10pm when the shed will reopen to host performances with special guests Fallopé & the Tubes.

  • Melanie Clifford: i/ii/iii

    Melanie will present a work in three parts featuring observations, research and ideas formed during the artist residency and her experience working at previous Supernormals.

  • Lucy Woodhouse: Speaker Space

    Lucy has created a new open-ended structure as a space and place of exchange. Drawing on your input, the space will be self-governing for people to use it as they wish. Come find it and join-in!

  • Eastville Project Space: Sound Workshops

    Yeovil based Eastville Project Space and Farmer Glitch will be providing an array of specialist sound workshops over the festival weekend from the Pink Shed HQ.

  • Second Supernormal Super Sensory Summer School [SSSSSS] WOODHENGE

    Supernormal Super Sensory Summer School make a typically awe-inspiring return in what can only be described as a ‘Woodhenge’ structure, with everything from ‘post-human’ discourses to Kibbo Kift inspired ceremonial design and craft on offer to get involved in. See blackboard by the henge for daily programme.

  • Rebecca Lennon

    The Greenhouse, Sat & Sun 12-5pm. During the Supernormal residency Rebecca Lennon conducted a number of interviews with community members at Braziers Park, including Fede who looks after the beehives. Rebecca now presents a new video inspired by the 'waggle dance', the democratic communication of a beehive. Weaving together footage of her time at Braziers: the movement of bees, conversations, gestures and architecture into a rhythmical assemblage, the video is a geometric portrait of a community, and a study of the waggle dance as a choreography.