Counterflows 2025
3-6 April
We’re back! Prepare your ears, mind and body for 4 days of far-reaching sounds from a local & international cast of artists, unfurling across some of the best spaces in Glasgow. Counterflows is a celebration of the experimental, the weird, the under-represented, the revelatory. Live shows, a club night, discussions, hang-outs, a small publishers fair and dedicated festival zine await.
Counterflows is always the same and always different. We try to keep things as accessible and fun as possible, with no headliners, affordable tickets (with pay what you can option), venues spread out within comfortable walking distance of one another, no scheduling clashes and breaks during the day for food and chilling out. We’re a festival about music and bringing people together. We’re a festival that opens up possibilities.
Artists
Ailbhe Nic Oireachtaigh
Akumu
Amina Claudine Myers
ANGUSRAZE
Ankna Arockiam / Tom Mudd / Nakul Krishnamurthy
Ash Reid
Brunnera
feeo
Foodman
gyrofield
John Wall
Klein
Maher Shalal Hash Baz
Masa Nazzal
Nisha Ramayya
Sonic Bothy
The Handover
Tran Uy Duc
Uzganc Choir
Vũ Hà Anh
Weston Olencki & Laura Cocks
Yan Jun
Festival Schedule
3 April 2025
3 April 2025
4 April 2025
4 April 2025
5 April 2025
5 April 2025
Posts
Counterflows on Paper 2025
Counterflows on Paper is a collection of specially commissioned pieces spanning text, poetry, illustration and comics, collated into a limited edition Zine. Spanning a wild range of topics across its 30 pages, the Zine was edited by Joel White, Helen Charman and Emmie McLuskey, designed by Oliver Pitt and printed and bound in Glasgow by […]
Updates
Counterflows 2025
As the 2025 edition of Counterflows fades into the distance we just wanted to express our heartfelt gratitude to everyone that made this edition such a joyous occasion. All the artists, the wonderous audience and the whole Counterflows team were magnificent. Each venue and their teams played a huge role in making the festival run […]
Counterflows Festival 2025. April 3-6, Glasgow. Tickets on sale now
After a year off Counterflows – Scotland’s longest running experimental music festival – is back. After a busy 2024, which welcomed a London showcase at Café Oto, the launch of Still House Plants latest album and a collaboration with our pals at Arika for their Episode 11, we are relieved and buzzing to be deep […]