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Changes to Printed Programme
Jackie and psychoSIS are missing from the printed schedule - two separate acts, performing (v briefly) at the QUEEF stage at 16:25 on the Friday.
Céline Gillain's Sunday performance will now take place at 'The Thicket' instead of the Red Kite and will start at the later time of 18:15.
We will announce what will move into the 13:30 Red Kite slot on Sunday very shortly.
Michael will be starting 15 minutes earlier (@21:15) than in the printed programme.
Friday
Red Kite
13:00 - Spiritual Advisor & Nice Strangers
16:00 - Historically Fucked
Heavily wired post-hardcore/NYC no wave/UK improv free association from Manchester, wherein David Birchall, Otto Willberg, Greta Buitkutė and Alexander Pierce sound like they’re all freaking out to their own dose, but with a recently cleaned windowpane into the other three’s minds.18:00 - Midgitte Bardot
Midgitte is a robust liability. They have a beautiful singing voice. Bardot is hilarious. They have phenomenal timing. They also do drag.19:45 - Karaoke: The Cure vs Britney
21:40 - Gimic
Having began pretty much exactly as the decade did, Gimic encapsulate just how hot Bristol's 2020s DIY punk scene is. Their songs are built from interlocking rhythms and Dischordian experimentation, flying by at lightning speed and topped by the tear-your-face-off vocal style of Harriet Elder.23:30 - Slav To The Rhythm
DJs Bunnyhausen and Sarma, aka Brighton duo Slav To The Rhythm, broadcast weekly on Repeater Radio and in the club (or pub) every so often, playing brilliant dance(able) music – rarely heard in the UK – from Central and Eastern Europe. Expect disco, synthpop, postpunk and rap from Romania, Poland, Yugoslavia, the USSR, Czechoslovakia etc.Activity Tent
14:00 - Forest of Zine
Forest of Zine is a bicycle-based pop-up zine library that showcases a selection of zines that are nature-based and/or capture journeys through the world (whether those journeys are physical, emotional or metaphysical).Shed
15:00 - YOL
Yol is the high dramatist of the no-audience underground whose recorded product most typically marries clammy field ambience or organic ultradistortion to intense vocals encompassing croaks, quacks, gurgles and outbursts of stunning lucidity on topics of heavy minutiae, delivered as if preaching the end of the world.17:00 - Maria Uzor
Formerly half of Sink Ya Teeth, Norwich’s electronic sculptress Maria Uzor's debut solo album ‘Soft Cuts’ is a patchwork of dance genres, subgenres and microgenres from acid house to footwork, Detroit techno to EBM. You’re predicted to dance, but if you don’t Maria will do your portion of dancing for you.19:00 - Machiavellian Art
Inverted hardcore and transcendental dirge from a band who perpetually ride the only known bus route between the West Midlands and space. Machiavellian Art transmit their ire at capitalism, gentrification and ruling-class managed decline through rhythmic hypnosis, boiling-over feedback and uncontrolled outbreaks of jazz.20:45 - Zohastre
Héloïse (electronics) and Olmo (drums) live in central France, where they make music as Zohastre and put some trance (as in Moroccan gnawa music, or maybe the Boredoms) in the dance (like something you might encounter in an ivy-covered courtyard on a vinous summer evening, but faster, freakier and more deeply lysergic).22:30 - Nkisi
Polyrhythmic, diasporic concrete-hard dance music with cosmic horizons and depth sonar can’t measure. Melika Ngombe Kolongo aka Nkisi is Congolese by birth, Belgian by upbringing, a Londoner by residency and renowned worldwide for some of the most forward-thinking expressions of techno artistry in the last decade.QUEEF Qult
15:00 - DJ Queef Qult
The 3 heads behind Queef saddle up and mount the decks. Your in-house cowboys here to ride you home hard Sally, yeehawwww!!!16:25 - Jackie // psychoSIS
Jackie does stupid drag.16:45 - Doggy Bag
Prancing abrasive guitar playing with physical tutelage and lashed instructions. "A butch music teacher and a rough femme. You will be watching one of our 'lessons' - F's style is strict but fair which suits A, who has always been a loyal and attentive pupil."18:00 - Porscha Present
Porscha Present is an artist, music director, drag performer and facilitator. Their art plays with the grotesque, using clowning, drag, music and character work, to push boundaries and playfully address the ego. Porscha fuels their performance holistically, with an aim to generate connectivity between performer and audience.19:15 - Third Kulture
Third Kulture, a hybrid rock-rap trio formed in Manchester, draw from all corners of their diverse cultural influence, blending mesmerising r'n'b vocals, electrifying guitar riffs, and the cutting-edge influences of grime and modern rap with flavours of UK rave music, dancehall and trip-hop.20:45 - Princess Xixi
Northwest London's Princess Xixi is a multidisciplinary artist whose artistic practice encompasses writing, performance, singing, rapping, DJs, theatre-making, music production, acting, screenwriting, curation, literary translation and creative direction. Her expansive, multi-genre DJ sets - fast, abrasive, genre-defying dancefloor witchcraft - will be sure to set the roof on fire.21:30 - TIRTA
TIRTA, a multi-genre DJ from south-east London, blends together music from East and West as they explore their mixed, British and Indonesian heritage. Their mixes focus on Indonesian producers while celebrating the diversity of sounds from East and South-East Asia and its diaspora.Vortex
15:30 - Mr AKA Amazing
The alias of Duane Warner, a Londoner who makes music both solo and with others at Shepherds Bush arts project 54 The Gate. Mr AKA Amazing's latest album ‘Am I Being Unreasonable?’ offers self-belief, vulnerability, romance and surrealism via the medium of psychedelic lo-fi rap and spoken word.17:00 - Karen Constance & Duncan Harrison
Karen Constance (Blood Stereo, Wino Lodge) and Duncan Harrison (Plurals, many cool collabs) are both up from Brighton to improvise something freaky from electronic gizmos and janky cassettes. A film created by the pair for this appearance will be screened as they meander.19:00 - Wojciech Rusin
An audiovisual set from a clandestine giant of hypermodern composition. Born in Poland and now living in London, Wojciech Rusin has most recently explored a niche of his own creation, where medieval music is reconstructed in a far-away, fully digital future based on piecemeal archaeology.20:45 - Moonface
A two-person show which treats billionaires, breadheads and colonizers of Earth with both the seriousness and mockery they deserve. Meg Hodgson outlines the story – the solar system is to be mined for resources, starting with the moon – via movement, clowning and text, while Livvy Lynch soundtracks Hodgson with a live electronic score.22:45 - David Nicolle & Marlene Ribiero
In addition to Marlene Ribiero’s solo set at SN 2024, she – in collaboration with visual artist David Nicolle – will perform an AV live set. Nicolle will paint in real time onto a projected screen while Ribiero complements this with an equally real-time electronic soundtrack.Barn
16:00 - Scops
One of the younger and more mysterious names on 2024’s Supernormal lineup, Bristol-via-Oxfordshire folk collective Scops are nevertheless a wyrd and exciting addition. Bodhran, mouth harp and guitar soundtrack taleds of “a forgotten island a thousand years ago” with the dark bucolic spirit of Comus and the Incredible String Band.18:00 - Mosquito Farm
Extraordinary mechanised industrial that sounds livestreamed from a fourth world forest floor. In fact, it comes from London art duo Maddie Banwell and Grace Black, who build their own instruments, play them with assistance from things including extraction vents, table tennis balls and powdered milk, and move around the stage with a theatrical air while performing.20:00 - Lacrima & Burning Pyre
Lacrima, the current solo incarnation of Stephen Bishop (Basic House, Drunk In Hell, the Opal Tapes label), is noise music capable of elegance and solemnity, sharing common ground with dark ambient and early wave industrial. For this performance, he's joined by Christopher Macarthur, who as Burning Pyre creates ambient music which aesthetically borders classical minimalism.21:45 - feeo
Working under the name feeo, London's Theodora Laird has released two solo EPs to date, each with the clearheaded songcraft of all manner of classic pop, soul and folk but introducing this to ambient textures and glitchy digitalisms. Light-touch music to lose yourself in completely.Thicket
20:00 - Janis and the Sonic Travellers - Quorum Sensing
Join the collective being that is Janis (channelled through multi-media artist Sarah Farmer) for a microbial-summoning, space-time-wandering, weird fiction-nodding, sci-fi folk-fiddling opening of The Thicket space with fermentation, time travel and connectivity. Get your hands messy or enjoy from the sidelines and take home your own microcosmic collective.22:00 - I've been thinking about that last spell we did all day: Sapphic women and Witchcraft
Join sapphic scholar Mara Gold on an magical journey through the ages, exploring just how spirituality and spell-casting became entrenched in sapphic culture. Whether or not you believe in the power of magic, you’re sure to discover a vital but under-researched aspect of LGBT+ history - and you're invited to participate in a ritual to honour our queer and witchy ancestors at the end.Saturday
Activity Tent
10:00 - Baby Bolide
The ever-popular Bolide infants’ improvisation session returns, now with even more shaking, jangling and clonking. Guaranteed to be the most non-idiomatic and truly freeform performance of the festival! (Children must be accompanied by an adult.)11:30 - GLARC: Supernormal Kids
Calling all weird kids! Bring your instruments, ideas, songs and noises for a drop-in workshop where we will form bands, make instruments, write music and create graphic scores for a special one off live performance on the Supernormal stage!14:30 - Get Horny with Shrek666
Transform yourself into a horned creature with this one-off prosthetic making workshop and demo, led by Glasgow based SFX and performance artist SHREK 666.Barn
10:30 - Morning Life Drawing
Supernormal's life drawing sessions are a beautiful and relaxing way to start the day. Materials provided; children are welcome. No photography allowed without the express consent of the models.12:30 - Golden Ratio Sound Yoga & Meditation
Ahrkh (Gnod/NTS Radio) and guests will soundtrack a full yoga practice using a DJ/live sound hybrid with CDJs, synthesizers, loopers, field recording, gongs, bowls and voice, creating an environment of resonating, trance-inducing sound and frequencies. Led by accredited yoga teacher, it will incorporate breath, asana and meditation, followed by a savasana gong and sound bath for deep relaxation and restoration. Accessible for all ages, bodies and levels of experience. Spaces are limited.15:30 - Wormhook
Strange and cherishable acoustic laments, sprinkled with the dust of an unearthed dub console, by Martin Steuck, an artist living in Glasgow who records as Wormhook. Second and latest album 'Workaday Strangeness: Gyrating Death Throes From a Void Axiom’ is a soulful tangle of unorthodox guitar tunings and quasi-rhythmic clutter.17:30 - Matt Davis / Rachel Musson / Mark Sanders
A first, and blessed, coming together of three musicians at the vanguard of contemporary British improvisation: Matt Davis (trumpet), Rachel Musson (saxophone) and Mark Sanders (drums). Each of the trio have played with global greats of jazz and free music: collectively, expect immensity.19:30 - Tristwch Y Fenywod
Heavy/beautiful gothic femme-folk excursions located in Leeds, where the three members of Tristwch Y Fenywod live, but with its spirit as Welsh as its tongue. Gwretsien Ferch Lisbeth (also performing this year with La Brea Pulpit) takes primary linguistic responsibility, with the trio being completed by Leila Lygad (Hawthonn) and Sidni Sarffwraig (Slaylor Moon).21:30 - Gg & Isaiah Hull
Casper Hughes, Jasper Llewellyn and Mike O’Malle, the three founding members of London band Caroline, create earthy, elastic improv on a cello and two guitars under the name Gg. On the mic is Isaiah Hull, a Mancunian performance poet who lit up the local scene as a teenager.Red Kite
11:00 - Speak Your Brains!
Festival goers are invited to talk on their given specialist or non-specialist topic: fact, fiction, weird, imagined... whatever. Test your ideas, spew your dreams and speak your brains! 5-10 minutes, no Powerpoint, no slides, no screens - DIY props, crap visual aids and interpretive dance encouraged.13:30 - NikNak
Leeds DJ/producer Nicole Raymond, or NikNak when she’s at the controls, honours the true creators of turntablism while pushing the form into 2024 and beyond. In 2020 she won the Oram Award, releasing her debut album ‘Bashi’ that same year, where her waxen dexterity was refracted through ambient, dub and sound collage stylings.15:30 - National Rails
London’s National Rails offer a window into the world of vocalist Kai, and the epic journey from being three years old to being seven years old. The band was formed in the heat of 2020’s lockdown, with Kai’s parents – Pil and Galia Kollectiv, multidisciplinary artists and seasoned faces on the UK DIY scene – seizing the opportunity to write and record songs.17:15 - Lydia Lunch
Lydia Lunch is passionate, confrontational and bold. Queen of no wave, writer, musician, poet, spoken word artist and photographer. Lydia will be bringing her spoken word performance to Supernormal, preceded by a Q&A with the Queen of Siam.18:15 - Trancey Parker
Self-describing as “an open format EDM DJ with the power of autism and neurodivergent,” Trancey Parker – the DJ alias of London’s Aaron Jackson – has been in the mix since 2020 and his sets can focus on, or flip between, house, techno, trance, UK Garage, dubstep and drum’n’bass.19:30 - Shake Chain
London’s Shake Chain evoke hysteria and flying debris, but on closer inspection each member is playing a part with practised excellence. Concrete-hard postpunk passages bleed into electronic outbursts and sardonic sound art, while Kate Mahony repaints the entire room whenever she yaks into the mic.21:15 - Michael
With names including Bad Guys, Henge and Black Shape on their musical CV, London's Michael combine hair, sweat, lyrics which will not speak to you in your darkest hour, and ripper riffs at the AC/DC/Sabbath/Shellac nexus. They also have a whole second album of songs ready to air alongside their 2020 debut ‘Tell Your Friends’.22:30 - Supernormal Cabaret
A cabaret of really Super Normal humans featuring Ginny Lemon - Ivy Profemme - Jackie - L U M E N A A T E - Midgitte Bardot - Padam Padam - Psychosis - Shrek 666 Hosted by Lionel Bitchie23:30 - The Fvck Pigs
Line up at the trough, it’s feeding time! Our 2024 Saturday night disco is bought to you by Manchester's legendary Fvck Pigs. This snoutstanding oinklusive dance troupe will help you unleash the pig within. Swine, Shine, and Dance Divine: The Fvck Pigs are party pigs from nose to tail!Shed
12:00 - Genderisthebastard
Superior frazzled cacophony from Liverpool's Danny Page, who uses this unambiguously queer and anti-macho project to weld together several different strains of their favoured extreme music: powerviolence, grindcore, power electronics, and sinus-clearing free jazz.12:45 - Jali Fily Cissokho
Impressionistic excursions into Senegalese folk drawing on ancient and rooted family traditions. Jali Fily Cissokho hangs his hat in Oxfordshire these days but tips that hat to the old country with every pluck of his 21-string kora, and the beautiful, fluid and dextrous melodies he creates.14:30 - GLARC: Supernormal Kids
Calling all weird kids! Bring your instruments, ideas, songs and noises for a drop-in workshop where we will form bands, make instruments, write music and create graphic scores for a special one off live performance on the Supernormal stage!16:30 - Electric Fire
Electric Fire (lead singer Alicia Haye, drummer Ehima Nwoko, synth player Sam Walker and producer Will King) have been writing and recording since 2018 and are part of the Heart N Soul charity’s musical collective. With eight pop/r’n’b/house earworms on debut album ‘Let’s Get Lost’, this band live up to to their name and deliver nothing but heaters.18:30 - Rojin Sharafi
From Tehran and living (and studying) in Vienna, also a member of Austrian trio Huuum, Rojin Sharafi is an electroacoustic composer and sound engineer with a dizzyingly varied approach to sonic art creation. On her three albums released to date, crisp, precise digital deconstructivity meets the resonant tones of Iranian traditional music.20:30 - Slimelord
Leeds five-piece Slimelord's doomladen death metal, first borne of improvisation and spaced-out jamming, found a higher plane with debut album ‘Chytridiomycosis Relinquished’. Listeners are transported to moor, marsh, dale, bog and swamp and left to freeze, expire and decay, soundtracked by howling winds that sound a lot like two churningly downtuned guitarists.22:30 - Smote
As Smote, Newcastle’s Daniel Foggin concocts psych, drone, folk and Kraut of the highest grade: last year’s ‘Genog’ LP is a true mindmelter influenced by Swedish psych kings Pärson Sound and Träd Gräs Och Stenar. Reshaped live as a trio, Smote take it to the next level.Thicket
12:00 - My Blood Is My Voice
A co-created vocal project seeking collective liberation, My Blood Is My Voice explores the healing work inside deeply listening to the things that tie and fragment us together. Listening to the land, blood in the soil, blood in the body and relationship to ancestries; the collective uses improvised voice as a channeling practice through the lens of queer and neuro-queer lived experiences. Saturday Workshop - Queer Vocal Healing - Guided Vocal Drone Meditation - Heal and free your voice in community! Learn how to listen deeply to one another as a route to collective vocal liberation by building soundscapes and worlds together.14:00 - Naughty Man's Plaything
Naughty Mans Plaything is just one of the many alt-names for nettles, and this hands-on nettling workshop led by artist Sam Francis explores the material, magical and medicinal qualities. Participants will gather nettles in the woods, and learn the process of making cordage out of nettle fibres whilst exploring their various properties and folklore tales - all with a lovely pot of nettle tea (bring a cup).17:30 - Chaos Musick 101
Building on the methods and art of Austin Osman Spare, as well as the late 20th/early 21st century Chaos Magick scene, Charlie (Liquid Library Records/Zero Gravity Tea Ceremony) will show you how to develop your will into musical sigils, to sneak spells and rituals into your next album, whether just for composition and experimentation or a desire to manifest reality in your own image.QUEEF Qult
12:45 - PLOP
PLOP WAS BIRTHED IN THE FIELDS OF SUPERNORMAL '22 IT IS 2 PLOP HAS NO RYTHYM PLOP DEFIES THE SCHUMANN RESONANCE WITH 5TH DIMENSIONAL VISCOSITY YOU ARE PLOP WE ARE PLOP PLOP PLOP OF TOD.15:30 - My Blood Is My Voice
A co-created vocal project seeking collective liberation, My Blood Is My Voice explores the healing work inside deeply listening to the things that tie and fragment us together. Listening to the land, blood in the soil, blood in the body and relationship to ancestries; the collective uses improvised voice as a channeling practice through the lens of queer and neuro-queer lived experiences. Saturday Workshop - Queer Vocal Healing - Guided Vocal Drone Meditation - Heal and free your voice in community! Learn how to listen deeply to one another as a route to collective vocal liberation by building soundscapes and worlds together.17:00 - Janani.fx
Janani.fx (ஜனனி.fx) is fronted by Eela Tamil creative, Janani A. As a Tamil person with roots in Jaffna, born in Germany and later living in the UK, Janani’s sense of displacement forms an integral role to the music that is produced, incorporating experimental soundscapes with gritty vocals and lyricism.18:15 - SISTER PUNCH
Incorporating and expanding the limits of techno, house, jungle, breakcore, ambient and lento violento, SISTER PUNCH presents a driving performance in between the dramatic and the clownesque which jumps from sound art, heavy rhythms and cabaret style experimental acts.19:30 - Nature Boi
Dated synthesiser music for post punk tekho queers and soft boys. Instagram: @nature.boi.beats.meat20:30 - Reptile B
The unapologetic, openly gay grime MC Reptile B, a fierce force from London’s underground, embodies dual personas: the “rap game cutie” and the intense “rap game homunculus.” His unique blend of grime and queer artistry promises to leave you breathless.21:45 - I Am Fya
I Am Fya is a multidisciplinary artist who weaves genres like dancehall, techno, and trap into experimental soundscapes. Using her trusty SP404Mk2 sampler, she breathes life into field recordings, creating a sonic tapestry that oscillates between the surreal and the familiar.House / Actual Woods
13:00 - Merlin Nova
Experimental, theatrical, extreme, accessible pop from Merlin Nova, a Londoner who’s been doing her thing for a decade or so and whose associations with the Brixton Windmill scene, the revived This Is Not This Heat big band and talky garage geezer The Cool Greenhouse have in no way defined her.14:00 - Yakka Doon
Formally known as Claire Welford, found in north-east England and offering a take on folk music that’s sparse, minimalist even, but bristling with energy (if not ‘rocking’, precisely) and exuding an earthy real-personhood, Yakka Doon locates a niche somewhere between 60s Topic Records and 90s slowcore.15:00 - Kirstin Halliday
Kirstin Halliday is a dancer and movement artist with a research background in human geography. Their movement work spans live performance, music videos, workshop facilitation and choreographic support. Their current interests include reptile embodiment, postmodern dance scores, backup dancing and erotic performance.16:00 - CHAZZA
CHAZZA is a northern multi-media artist. Her creations sit in their own world filled with unusual fairytales of eccentric characters with a sense of ordinary but yet very far from orthodox. Her inspiration hawks to her northern upbringing and family roots in Lancashire mixed with a period of living in Malta as a child and submerged in her love of vaudevillian theatre and old jazz writers. Over the weekend CHAZZA will be exhibiting her work in the drawing room as well as a live performance of her music in amongst her artwork.17:00 - John Powell Jones
John Powell Jones' practice deals with themes of perception, power structures and personal reality. These ideas are explored through the use of speculative fiction and presented across various mediums including, video, performance, animation and comic books. Over the weekend John Powell Jones will be located in the woods, brining the many different characters, costumes and comic books with them, creating their Web Wide World ready for you to discover.21:45 - John Powell Jones
John Powell Jones' practice deals with themes of perception, power structures and personal reality. These ideas are explored through the use of speculative fiction and presented across various mediums including, video, performance, animation and comic books. Over the weekend John Powell Jones will be located in the woods, brining the many different characters, costumes and comic books with them, creating their Web Wide World ready for you to discover.Vortex
14:30 - Céline Gillain
Brussels’ Céline Gillain is a solo musician who describes her work as collaborative, citing her Digital Audio Workstation as a creative partner. On 2023’s ‘Mind Is Mud’, her most recent album, suavely sung-spoken vocals sit above diced and spliced electronic avant-pop echoing both Laurie Anderson and early Chicago house.16:30 - Fish El Fish
After many years of absence, Syed Kanram Ali (The Hunter Gracchus, Harappian Night Recordings) is BACK as Fish El Fish and with a debut album, ‘Dog Wearing Dracula Fangs’. Both impenetrably murky and compellingly detailed, its eight tracks are built around manipulated dreamvoices and chance-meeting synth’n’tape DIY gurgle.18:45 - Lou Barnell
Lou. Barnell's work gives language to her alienating and disorientating experiences of being a neurodivergent woman. She uses wearable sensors and biorhythmic data to play and score music, using reuseable materials such as ice and thermoplastic refracting parallel states of dreaming and performance.20:30 - Soborgnost
The solo project of sound artist, opera director and speculative fiction multimedia artist Jim Osman, Soborgnost is sci-fi mutant disco at the intersection of vaporwave, dance punk, minimal wave, disco dub, industrial, EBM, proto-house, drone and noise. For this performance Osman will be joined by vocalist Rosa Brook with live VJing from Antonio Roberts.22:30 - Eye Measure
Sheffield's Eye Measure hosts a regular night in the city, Pattern Club, showcasing multimedia performances created using algorithmic patterns. Their fizzing, metal-tipped leftfield techno sets have featured at venues from London’s Cafe OTO to Bristol’s Dare To Club. This performance will be a live AV set using creative coding. Visuals by Zaron Mizmeras.00:00 - At Home with the Boyle Family
At Home With The Boyle Family is a documentary about Scottish artists Joan Hills and Mark Boyle and their chance innovation of the liquid light show in their postwar London home studio, as early as 1963, at a time when such a visual culture was entirely absent in the UK. The film and the art it examines expresses ideas that have much in common with Braziers’ inclusive ethos.00:30 - A Love Letter To Molejoy
‘A Love Letter To Molejoy’ tells the story of Molejoy; a shortlived, little-known punk band. Through VH1-style interviews, never-before-seen concert footage, and a soundtrack of Molejoy covers by a solid-gold lineup (Dog Chocolate, F*Choir, Upset Stomach + more), the film tells the story of a band who rose to infamy with songs about militarism, bodies, hot mums, and the frustration of centrist politics.Sunday
Barn
09:45 - Morning Life Drawing
Supernormal's life drawing sessions are a beautiful and relaxing way to start the day. Materials provided; children are welcome. No photography allowed without the express consent of the models.11:00 - Senior Moment
Part play, part interactive story, Senior Moment is designed for audience participation: if joining in is your thing, come prepared to play a community member or visitor - if not, observers are very welcome! Aggie has been a member of Braziers Park, and a trustee and educator spanning decades; Senior Moment draws upon her experience of group decision making and is an exploration of change within community life.13:00 - Genghis Cohn
Named after a movie in which, quote, “a former SS officer is haunted by the ghost of a man he murdered during WWII”, English folk one-off Gil Shani aka Genghis Cohn's latest album ‘Iron Day’ is a pivot away from murky lo-fi towards mid-60s style fusion – where jazz and rock were both folded into the established manner of broadside and lament.14:30 - Elaine Mitchener / Neil Charles
Two British jazz performers, furiously collaborative in their nature and also two-thirds of The Rolling Calf trio, grace Supernormal for a special edition of the Charles-Mitchener duo setup. Titled ‘SPEAK[ING] OUT’, Charles’ double bass improvisations and electronic textures will form the soundbed for Mitchener’s radical vocal interpretations of political texts and poems.16:15 - Neil Charles / Paul Dunmall / Rachel Musson
A real treat in the offing here! This is a never-seen-before trio comprising of three improvisers of serious renown from the UK jazz landscape: Neil Charles (double bass), Paul Dunmall (saxophone) and Rachel Musson (saxophone).17:45 - CHEWY SHE
A London-based electro-disco-punk band whose music is a celebration of freedom, sex positivity, absurdity, and the pursuit of ecstasy. The band is best understood by their live shows, which include a gonzo narrative, costume changes, soliloquy, choreography, and audience interaction.19:30 - Leo Robinson
Leo Robinson is a Glasgow-based multimedia artist and musician whose practice evolves quicker than anyone can really keep up. He will be playing music from his 2023 album ‘The Temple’ (released on the PRAH label), described as “a baroque epic set in the mundane settings of contemporary Northern England”.21:15 - Fiesta en el vacío
Fiesta En El Vacío is a solo act, Luna Maria Cedrón, whose heritage, upbringing and location is a mix of Argentinian, French and Spanish. Her songs weave people’s music of yore – flamenco, Occitan folk – into that of the present day, notably the addictive bump of reggaeton.Activity Tent
10:00 - Baby Bolide
The ever-popular Bolide infants’ improvisation session returns, now with even more shaking, jangling and clonking. Guaranteed to be the most non-idiomatic and truly freeform performance of the festival! (Children must be accompanied by an adult.)11:30 - Imperfect Bound’s Zine Quilt
Using zine techniques like scrap collaging, printing and stamping on fabric, each person will make their own square to be sewn into a quilt to display at future Supernormal festivals. Imperfect Bound is a queer Oxford-based zine collective formed by artists from My Normal, Trans Happiness Is Real and Common Books.14:15 - SoundHoppers
Discover new ways of making experimental sound through an exciting workshop of sonic games and deep listening! Children aged 5-11 and their parents/guardians/carers are given access to specially constructed sound boxes, transducers and other sound-generating devices to explore how sound travels through various materials and objects.15:30 - Scoopernormal
The family-focused workshop Scoopernormal will see the festival’s budding newshounds create a one-sheet newspaper reporting on the most scandalous, outrageous, interesting or just plain funny stories from the weekend. Maybe your dad fell over? Or your sister did five cartwheels in a row? Or one of the performers used absolutely no delay pedals?16:45 - Kikimora Records: Night Creature Workshop
For their first release, Rosie Tee’s ‘Night Creature’, Birmingham label Kikimora Records got busy making a gloriously DIY music video, and since then simply couldn’t stop making fantastical fancy dress outfits. Join them to craft your own night creature costume, inspired by otherworldly folkloric beings, using foraged materials and plenty of neon.Thicket
11:00 - Bean Pig Puppetry
Bean Pig Puppetry is a queer puppetry collective that believes in the life of all things! They believe in the possibility of otherworlds that are in a constant state of transformation, destruction and creation. They believe that anything can come to life, anything can transform and anything is possible if it’s made out of cardboard and foam.13:00 - Kayle Brandon: Marking The Change
A dark moon meeting for women undergoing ʽthe changeʼ to share experiences and create individual sigils as way-finding tools. This session emerges from Kayle’s recent ‘Swamp Woman’ project, inspired by cultural and mythological histories of water deities, hags and hybrids, in relation to womanhood and the murky waters of the ageing process.17:00 - My Blood Is My Voice
A co-created vocal project seeking collective liberation, My Blood Is My Voice explores the healing work inside deeply listening to the things that tie and fragment us together. Listening to the land, blood in the soil, blood in the body and relationship to ancestries; the collective uses improvised voice as a channeling practice through the lens of queer and neuro-queer lived experiences. Saturday Workshop - Queer Vocal Healing - Guided Vocal Drone Meditation - Heal and free your voice in community! Learn how to listen deeply to one another as a route to collective vocal liberation by building soundscapes and worlds together.18:15 - Céline Gillain
Brussels’ Céline Gillain is a solo musician who describes her work as collaborative, citing her Digital Audio Workstation as a creative partner. On 2023’s ‘Mind Is Mud’, her most recent album, suavely sung-spoken vocals sit above diced and spliced electronic avant-pop echoing both Laurie Anderson and early Chicago house.House / Actual Woods
11:00 - A Bird Bath for Human Bodies
An interactive activity with artists Holly White, Nadia Rossi and Rachel Walker. A DIY spa: a healing place, a soothing place, a gathering space, and a natural ‘bird bath’ for people of all ages to attend. Rejuvenating with their own special organic soaps, embroidered towels, and cucumbers from our cool box.13:45 - Paul Dunmall (solo)
Over 30 years the UK's Paul Dunmall has earned himself a reputation as one of the most uncompromising and talented reed players on the International jazz/improvised music scene. He has performed with Alice Coltrane, Johnny Guitar Watson, Danny Thompson, LJCO, Mujician, Henry Grimes/Andrew Cyrille and as a duo with Chris Corsano.15:00 - Rosie Brownhill
Wistful and bucolic folk music composed on – in various combinations – flute, penny whistle, guitar, piano accordion, keyboard, and chord organ, and recorded with the aim of evoking Rosie Brownhill’s rural Staffordshire surroundings. With some danceable jigs and reels in her locker, as well as more minimalist pieces suitable for rare moments with your own thoughts, this promises to be a special session.16:15 - Paddi Benson & Grace Lemon
A duo performance of the Uilleann pipes from Paddi Benson and Grace Lemon, who can boast a degree in this stuff and a fistful of awards respectively. Their debut release from 2023, under the name A Curious Dance, comprises six pieces inspired by tales of 19th century ballroom dances at infamous psychiatric hospital Bedlam.Vortex
11:00 - Mental Health & Wellbeing of Artists: Iklectik panel discussion
Hosted by British Association for Performing Arts Medicine (BAPAM) and IKLECTIK, this panel discussion brings together festival artists to reflect upon, and share their experiences of well-being and mental health in a post-pandemic era, and how the broader creative sector can support artists maintain their sense of well-being, belonging, security, and most importantly, their means to create.12:45 - Digital Roses
London-based queer duo Digital Roses have been described as "hyper-soul" meets "Nordic noir electronica" and are a musical feast of experimental art pop, ambient noise, and wistful soul melodies. Contemporary visuals, computational forms, sound synthesis, sound art and organic instrumentation/voice explore the emotional landscapes of the human condition.14:30 - La Brea Pulpit
A rare live show outside of Leeds for Pete (Feghoots, Inverted Nepal) and Gretchen (also representing this year with Tristwch Y Fenywod) and their self-styled ganjatronix. Whatever sort of music that hybrid word conjures up in your mind, this is very likely different: abstract synthesised space minimalism that can be both playful and fierce though is often both.16:00 - TOPS w/ Q&A with director Ames Pennington
Future award-winning documentary filmmaker Ames Pennington presents their landmark documentary series TOPS. On the question that defines trans masc experience in the UK today: “What TOP did you wanna wear after TOP surgery?”. Film screening plus Q&A with Ames, hosted by Siân Williams.18:30 - Susannah Stark
On Scottish visual artist and musician Susannah Stark’s debut album ‘Time Together’ she sings, in a softly romantic register, over music with elements of 90s pop, trip-hop, dub and Balearic – arranged in cool, spartan style but teeming with aural Easter eggs that betray Stark’s avant-garde leanings.20:15 - ANAMNESIS
ANAMNESIS was an audiovisual collaborative installation by artists Isadora Darke and Rachel Goodyear commissioned by Fat Out for the 2023 festival. The installation was soundtracked by industrial techno noise maker Aja. For Supernormal 2024, AJA, Isadora and Rachel will be bringing ANAMNESIS into a live performance in collaboration with Nay Fones (QUEEF/Nature Boi), Conny Prantera (The Seer) & Emer Thompson (GY!PA/Water).22:15 - Shrek 666
Scotland's hottest and hauntingest transexual ogre SHREK 666 brings their unique blend of Dark Wave, Trance, Hardcore to a visually show stopping performance. The multidisciplinary artist, DJ, producer and designer has graced stages and galleries internationally. Inspired by posthuman ideologies, fetish and political action, you won’t forget the the sound of ogrecore in a hurry.Red Kite
12:00 - Ginny Lemon
Ginny Lemon is a Midlands-based singer-songwriter, improvisational comedienne, TV personality, character actor and spiritualist. Their work explores the intersections of their working class identity, queerness, disability and taking the piss.15:30 - Infinite Livez
Following cult-hit releases on the Big Dada label in the 00s, Steven ‘Infinite Livez’ Henry went fully DIY, self-releasing scads of psychedelic rap delirium. Now resident in Berlin, his MC style is variously grimey, toasty and cockney, and as a producer he’s out on his own flight path.17:30 - Dhangsha
London’s Aniruddha Das has occupied intersections of noise, minimalism, ritual, bass culture and electronic invention since the 1980s, debuting the Dhangsha alias in 2019. The name’s Bengali for ‘destruction’, and this is some serious bassweight gelignite, packed in with hard-hitting but supremely agile syncopated drums programmed using a ‘no 4/4’ policy.19:15 - Al Karpenter
Al Karpenter began life as the solo project of Álvaro Matilla, with arch noise theorist Mattin his accomplice for a decade, and more recently Marta Sainz and Enrique Zaccagnini have made it a quartet. Think brutal clots of free improvisation, inverted punk, surreally sourced speech and music picked from disparate global pockets.21:00 - Zancudo Berraco
Tranced-out distorto-techno equally suited to a Hackney squat, mainland European airfield or temporarily annexed rural village green. Zancudo Berraco is from north Portugal and ‘Sistema De Luz’, his first release under this name, is essential gear for folks who dig Spiral Tribe, Container or classic era Drop Bass Network.23:00 - Silent Disco
The only way to end the night.Shed
12:00 - Robyn Rocket
Londoner Robyn Rocket makes lush, quasi-ambient, impressionistic and improvisational music on trumpet played through multiple effects pedals. She’s also the main brain behind Cafe Oto gig series Robyn’s Rocket, which builds bridges between the capital’s learning disabled music scene and the out-jazz experimenters found in the Total Refreshment Centre.13:00 - Fashion Tips
Noise meets rock meets punk meets pop meets no meets wave in north-east England's Fashion Tips, fronted by Esmé Newman formerly of Penance Stare. The rhythms are relentless, the vibe is sassy, the Korg tones are kinda sleazy, but there’s black clouds on the horizon.14:30 - Slagheap
This Bristolian power quartet rattle out danceable postpunk jams with cavewoman garage crudity and the impulsiveness of riot grrrl. Think ESG crossed with Skinned Teen, if either of those legendary bands had written songs about goose/swan love triangles or accidental sex party attendance.16:30 - Marlene Ribiero
Anglo-Portugese maker of dream-surreal electronic rustica, Marlene Ribiero's 2023 LP ‘Toquei No Sol’ is her first solo recording under her own name following some mid-2010s releases as Negra Branca. A clean slate in many ways, it also contains most of the things that made Negra Branca great, with elements of dub, free folk, industrial and dreampop.18:30 - Sniffany & The Nits
Sniffany & The Nits' 2022 debut LP ‘The Unscratchable Itch’ is a gothic pogopunk scorcher without parallel, where a band of Cardiff boys lost in London soundtrack Sniffany's tall tales with their crude battery. Supernormal longtermers may recall a couple of the band here in 2014, as members of Joanna Gruesome.20:15 - Cuntroaches
Recently seen touring the UK with Guttersnipe, 2024 has also yielded the debut LP by Berlin-based trio Cuntroaches, following various singles and a split LP with, yes, Guttersnipe. Insane blackened pukepunk vox and illegal levels of Butthole’d FX feed into a sound damaged by dub, psychedelia, no wave and crasher crust.22:00 - Rrose
Timeshifting live techno alchemy from Seth Horvitz aka Rrose, an American composer currently living in London and with a large and distinguished catalogue of releases via Sandwell District, Stroboscopic Artefacts and their own Eaux label. 2023 album ‘Please Touch’ stands tall as a masterful exercise in tension, release, exquisite electronic detail and peaktime rhythmic thrill.QUEEF Qult
12:00 - Edan Sound Therapeutic Sound Bath
Join Soesen from Edan Sound in a deeply therapeutic sound bath: a passive group sound healing session using Himalayan and quartz singing bowls, voice, gongs, shamanic drum and percussion. Find a space and lie down and be bathed in a sea of sounds.14:00 - Queer Choir
After the joyous roaring success of 2022's mighty real iteration - join us in the Queef tent again for another gather around the ol' Joanna in a Queer ol' sing song! Hosted by Judy Brush.15:45 - Monoxide Brothers
Monoxide Brothers are Birmingham’s newest nuclear noise duo. Using a tabletop rig of begged, stolen and borrowed tech, they craft existential sounds for the anxious.17:30 - Hang Linton
Splicing avant-punk and breakbeats, Hang Linton is an interdisciplinary artist based in Leeds. Their art is a rebellion against clean aesthetics, inspired by past experiences, changing global events and the ugliness in the world.19:00 - badcirculation
badcirculation is a collaboration between Antonio Roberts (hellocatfood) and Maria Witek (mxwx). Working primarily with the open source TidalCycles software, they each bring their diverse musical backgrounds to explore genres including grime, footwork, house and UK garage.21:00 - QUEEF QULT PURGE
Join the Queef Qult for our final purge and closing ceremony. A collective cathartic queer noise jam into thumping throbbing DJ set.Unscheduled / Around Site
Flower Person
Flower Person is an ongoing project by London based artist Charlie Goodall (Moving Face). For this years Supernormal Festival he will essentially dress up as a big flower and dance around.
The Hat Lady
The Hat Lady Liz has attended Supernormal since 2011; the festival inspired Liz to start creating her hats, and this year she is returning with a new collection of illuminated cardboard hats to entertain Supernormal 2024.
John Powell Jones
John Powell Jones' practice deals with themes of perception, power structures and personal reality. These ideas are explored through the use of speculative fiction and presented across various mediums including, video, performance, animation and comic books. Over the weekend John Powell Jones will be located in the woods, brining the many different characters, costumes and comic books with them, creating their Web Wide World ready for you to discover.
Destiny Pierce: Cowboy Church
In 1993, Destiny Pierce was gifted a huge box of country and western jukebox 45s in New Mexico. “Do something with me!” the box kept saying – and now, finally, she is. This is Cowboy Church, a dance party with Destiny the selector and Alex Macarte (Gnod) on mixing duties to weird up these singles.
Woodland Chess
Fancy a game of chess in the woods? Stumble upon Birdsmouth Studio's chess board's and play with hand-made clay pieces, made especially for and inspired by Supernormal.
Dubmorphology
Dubmorphology is the project of interdisciplinary artist Gary Stewart, working at the intersection of sound, moving image and computational creativity. His work examines social and political issues of identity, culture, and technology. For Supernormal, 2024 Dubmorphology are our artists in residence and will be delivering a site specific installation and workshop titled Gaia. They will be leading workshops and performances across the weekend. For timings check the board outside of their space.
The Alcoholic's Tarot
Come have your mis-fortune told with Damian Deviant. Bitterly recovering weird old alcoholic gay Damian will read your tea leaves and palm and ask you to draw cards from The Alcoholic Tarot. What will the future hold for you? Will there even be one? One-to-one readings will be available each day at the festival from 10am until 5pm (or as long as Damian feels like it).
The Park Bench - Laura Dee Milnes & collaborators
A micro-micro-micro-pub with no beer. The Park Bench posse invites you to bring your own beverages and a bevy of mates or family members (or both) to play board games, rest your weary pint glass and participate in low-key, lowbrow, low-effort activities while you recharge your batteries. Your new local for the weekend.
Repeater Radio & Soundart Radio
Repeater Radio is an online radio station from Repeater Books exploring philosophy, film, gender, music and politics from a radical left perspective wanting to maximise Mark Fisher’s conception of solidarity without similarity. Broadcasting live 24/7 throughout the entire duration of the festival with live performances, DJs and show hosts. WE WANT YOU! If you want to be involved then just come over and say hi!
psychoSIS
psycho-SIS is a Black Country/Brummie activist and drag artist, combining gogo dancing, pop and PC culture into pagan folk ritualism with comedy and community: a dark entity dragged from the shadows to cast shade and truth on the horrors of glorification of commercialised queerness and pinkwashing in 2024.
I Hear Your Voice Resonating In Mine: Chloé Rochefort
Chloé believes in disruptive tenderness. She creates playful installations made from found materials and inspired by folk cultures, and explores how creative initiative can participate in the celebration of specific communities and minorities.
Kirstin Halliday & David Ronan
Kirstin Halliday is a dancer and movement artist with a research background in human geography and interests including reptile embodiment, postmodern dance scores, backup dancing and erotic performance. David Ronan is an artist with a background in contemporary theatre and dance, they enjoy experimenting with commercial choreo and are discovering photography.
Braziers International Artist Workshop (BIAW) walk n talk
Supernormal developed out of Braziers International Artists Workshop, which started in 1995 and continued until the first Supernormal in 2010. The roots of experimentation and sharing remain at the core of Supernormal’s vision as it continues to evolve. Join founders Gill Ord and Bernadette Moloney, who will talk about the founding principles of the workshop and show work created at Braziers during this period.
Lydia Lunch in conversation with Natalie Sharp
Braziers Park House + Gardens Tour
Braziers Par, founded in 1950 as a School of Social Integrative Research by Norman Glaister, is the longest-standing secular community in Britain. Join gardener and longstanding member of the community Sarah Wood for a tour around the 55-acre site, its charming walled gardens, and find out about its countercultural histories.
Shift: The Welsh Pavilion
Transforming into a mobile showcase for performances, installations, and spontaneous interactions across the weekend, with a strong emphasis on experimental performance, sound, installation, and moving image, Cardiff-based collective SHIFT's Welsh Pavilion will make the most of the festival's communal space to create a unique and immersive experience for the audiences and artistic community at the festival.
NewfrontEars
NewfrontEars is a murky collective which breeds meaningful friendships by nurturing projects with care. This year they will be bringing two light projects to Supernormal: 'Something In The Woods' and 'Don’t Burst The Bubble'. You’ll find them in the woods when the sun goes down.
Lionel Bitchie
Our Supernormal Cabaret host... the Geezer of Glamour, self-proclaimed inventor of showbiz and international loverboy Lionel Bitchie. He’s got the pipes of a karaoke demon and the moves to make you swoon.
L U M E N A A T E
LUMENAATE, no, not illuminate’, Lumenaate. Performer, technician, human, (other) - serving a fresh canopy of sonic goodness. Let them serenade you one, syllable, at a time…
Ivy Profemme
Hannah Al-Shemmeri
Hannah Al-Shemmeri is a self-taught artist born in Wolverhampton. Hannah’s work is an exploration of identity and a visual representation of the masks people wear in everyday life. They will be displaying a collection of paintings exploring this theme and a sculpture of a cartoon mouse reaching for a hug, which stands as a form of protest.
The Irrepressible Force (Matthew Olden)
A new sound piece divined for the Thicket merging drones, dooms, squeaks, creaky gates, hurdy gurdys and other under-worldly bleeps and bloops to divine the ghost in the machine. Using a combination of self-authored computer programs to coax and shepherd an evolving soundscape for the woodland space.
