Counterflows 2025
3-6 April

Our first year where several events took place in the Woodside Halls, a venue which now feels to us a spiritual home. So many highlights, including new trio material from Nakul Krishnamurthy, Tom Mudd and Ankna Arockiam, the first time European performances by Vietnamese artists Tran Uy Duc and Vu Ah Han, a rare performance by glorious Japanese ramshackle group Maher Shalal Hash Baz, and so much more.

Festival Documentation (30)

Ailbhe Nic Oireachtaigh, photo: Brian Hartley
Yan-Jun-+-Liene-Roziete by Brian Hartley
Akumu, photo: Brian Hartley
Amina-Claudine-Myers by Brian Hartley
ANGUSRAZE by Brian Hartley
Vũ Hà Anh by Brian Hartley
Feeo by Brian Hartley
ANGUSRAZE by Brian Hartley
Ash Reid by Brian Hartley
Brunnera by Brian Hartley
Small Publishers Fair by Brian Hartley
Counterflows on Paper
Feeo by Brian Hartley
Foodman by Brian Hartley
Gyrofield by Brian Hartley
Inge Thomson by Brian Hartley
Uzganc Choir by Brian Hartley
Klein by Brian Hartley
Krishnamurthy / Arockiam / Mudd by Brian Hartley
Maher Shalal Hash Baz by Brian Hartley
Maher Shalal Hash Baz by Brian Hartley
Masa Nazzal by Brian Hartley
Masa Nazzal by Brian Hartley
Nisha Ramayya by Brian Hartley
Weston Olencki & Laura Cocks by Brian Hartley
Sonic Bothy by Brian Hartley
The Handover by Brian Hartley
Trần Uy Đức by Brian Hartley
Vũ Hà Anh by Brian Hartley

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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 […]

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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 […]

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Images by Brian Hartley
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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 […]

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