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.

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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Publication

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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Thank You

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 […]

Documentation
Images by Brian Hartley
Announcement

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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