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.

The full programme and artist line-up are now announced.

We are afraid the festival is now fully sold out this year.

If you haven’t got tickets join us for our Sunday Publishers fair at Civic House, which is free for everyone. We also still have some tickets left for the club night on Saturday at The Art School.

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Ailbhe Nic Oireachtaigh, photo: Brian Hartley
Akumu, photo: Brian Hartley
Amina Claudine Myers, photo: Brian Hartley

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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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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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