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Experimental Arts & Music Festival SUPERNORMAL is an experimental festival of arts and music, expanding upon new paradigms of what a festival can be.

Independent and uncompromising, it champions multi-faceted, exploratory art and music from the underground, margins and fringes to impart inspiring and engaging encounters beyond the everyday and the expected. Evolving from the countercultural lineage of Braziers Park, Supernormal came to life out of the auspices of the Braziers International Artist Workshop. Connecting with the ethos and ideologi

es of the Braziers community, and exploring possibilities of alternative living and learning, Supernormal retains these values, forming a network of artists, collaborators, partners and platforms to forge and nurture a community spirit all of its own. More than a festival, Supernormal has become a revolutionary and ever-evolving artistic realm where expression and experimentation combine, collaborate and collude without restraint, where inspiration is free to thrive and possibilities are infinite.

25/02/2026

Time! What even is it? According to the so-called calendar, it’s just a couple of weeks since a big bunch of Team Supernormal were at our favourite place on earth – Braziers Park in Oxfordshire – for our annual winter visit. That means it’s a whole 12 months since our last one of these. And six months since the last edition of Supernormal. And two months since we announced, with a heavy heart as genuine as it is clichéd, that we would be taking a year out in 2026 to ensure that the festival, and its site, can return with great and fiery force.

The last year has absolutely flown by, so hopefully the next one-and-a-half will do too, because we can’t wait to be with you in the Braziers field again – and nothing boosts the collective Supernormal serotonin more than taking a stroll in that field, even in our winter thermals.

Once summer kicks in, the plan is for the team to get back there and embark on a programme of site-wide improvement. This will relate to accessibility and sustainability – we are working with people who can advise us from positions of lived experience/expertise – as well as general maintenance of the stages and facilities. In other words, the background labour that ensures there can be a Supernormal 2027, 2028, 2525 etc.

We also have new team members and a bag of ideas for how the next Supernormal can be both the same fringe-culture weekender you know and love, and at the same time different and challenging. Can those things coexist? We think they can.

Team Supernormal x

12/12/2025

Hello to all reading and we at Supernormal hope the season is treating you kindly. We come to you however with an announcement we know will disappoint, but which is being done in the best interests of the festival: we’re taking a break for 2026, with the aim of returning 100% invigorated in 2027.

The reasons for this are multifarious, mundane in some ways, not grave or dramatic but hopefully understandable. The long and the short of it is that Supernormal is a DIY festival assembled by a small team in and around the other bits of their lives, and isn’t done by anyone as their actual job or bolstered by art funding. So it’s boringly necessary for us to have to be regularly thinking about the (near) future and weighing up whether we can balance all the plates that need to be balanced, without burning ourselves out to the point where Supernormal – as in the whole organisation – is in jeopardy. Sometimes, not enough of us can and that’s the gist of our 2026 situation.

This does however mean that we have extra opportunity to address various things which are very ‘behind the scenes’-y but highly important nonetheless. These include upkeep of Braziers Park, aka the Supernormal festival site; improved accessibility and sustainability, both onsite at Braziers and in a more general sense; and developing residency and programming opportunities for the next festival and beyond.

What we also want to reiterate, before signing off for now, is that Supernormal is in a sincerely good place at the time of writing, and we all love doing this. Which, as we say, is why we’re anxious for it not to develop in a way that sours the overall deal. We were thinking about the next edition of the festival as soon as the last one finished, and we’ll still be doing that, just with a bit more time to work on the details. We’ll be living it up again before you know it!

Team Supernormal x

All photos by Richard and Karen Edkins:
1) Sign and natural foraged inks by Abi Hubbard
2) 1000 Pounds To Survive Us
3) Big Farmer
4) Loré Lixenberg: Panic Room
5) Nadeem Din-Gabisi
6) The Village Green
7) All Power Emanates From The Land
8) Hannah Catherine Jones
9) Jamal Sterrett
10) Distraxi

19/11/2025

A few weeks ago Team Supernormal had our annual general meeting, illustrated as is customary here by our annual general team photo.

We look dead cheerful because we are in aka Newcastle’s fabulous DIY venue of punk/art/weird/experimental creativity and other such similar things that power our motor.
The Lubber Fiend know how to pour a pint or 10,000, which is why they have run the bars at the last two Supernormal festivals – suffice to say we hope to work with them for many years to come.

Also, if you happen to be in the vicinity, book yourself in for lunch and/or dinner at their downstairs food spot the Lubber Kitchen, like we did. They are knocking it out the park and that’s a Supernormal guarantee!

So thanks to them, the birthday party which populated the room after we were done meeting and let us kind of take over the karaoke, and Newcastle in general for being mint.

If you’re reading this – hope you’re great as the year gets late, wrap up warm and we’ll speak soon.

Team Supernormal xx

11/08/2025

At the time of posting, it is around one week since the frighteningly beautiful clientele of Supernormal 2025 saddled up and left the Braziers Park site. We did not accost them at the exit gate and demand their opinion on what they’d just been part of*… but plenty of them have let us know anyway, and there’s no call for false modesty here because the post-fest vibes all seem EXTREMELY POSITIVE. That was the vibe when everyone was onsite and having it, as well, so good to know these things match up.

Supernormal is a DIY festival that everyone involved does in their spare time and for the love of the game, which means that piecing ‘em together two years in a row is a major commitment. It’s made a lot easier by the knowledge that out there is a great and considerate community of would-be attendees who are bang up for going each year and like what we do as much as we do. But there is still the worry, each time and before it all coalesces, that we’ve bitten off more than we can chew. Here is a list that can never convey all the gratitude we have but is hopefully both informative and sincere.

To Supernormal’s first, last and only home, Braziers Park, and its residents for being principled and accommodating hosts! Our beautiful and wonderful volunteers – including those who build the site’s various structures in the days before the festival and pack them up in the days after – the various sound/light engineers and electricians who get the whole thing cranking, and a man named Jed and his forklift, without whom SN would be a logistical impossibility! Newcastle’s brilliant The Lubber Fiend, who ran the bars like hoppy clockwork! This year’s crop of excellent food vendors, and indeed SN’s own catering legends Mother May I! The security and medical team who absolutely ‘get’ this festival while doing their job with unflappable diligence! The 2025 programme partners, namely Braziers International Artists Workshop, Gut Level, Heart N Soul, I Am Fya, Nat Sharp and Sh*tepop, for adding at least five new dimensions to the lineup!

Thankyous continued in comments because we've got a lot of feelings. X
Photos of Slikback and Jesse Darling by the team ###

31/07/2025

We are serious about merch

🔥2025 Supernormal Merch 🔥
We’ve stepped things up this year. T-shirts and caps feature new designs by Leomi Sadler, the Braziers House Metal T is back in its original colourways, and there’s a tea towel designed by our music programmer Meg Woof.
That’s just a bit of what’s on offer — it tends to go quick, so swing by the merch tent early if you’re keen!

30/07/2025

Final partner for 2025 - although maybe partner is not quite the right word….

BIAW – In The Thick Of It
Before Supernormal, there was Braziers International Artists Workshop, founded in 1995 and a regular meeting place for experimental, intercontinental and multidisciplinary creativity. To mark these gatherings, and to explore the legacy of Braziers as meeting place 30 years on, BIAW have regrouped to take over the Thicket space. Old friends return with art, films, conversations, sounds and spontaneous performances; join, reform and reflect on the messy laboratory this whole thing grew out of.

🚨 Sunday Tickets Now Available!Weekend tickets are SOLD OUT – but you can still grab Sunday-only tickets (no lottery required).Supporter, Standard, Teen & Child tickets available!

🚗 Lift Shares for Supernormal 2025 – share your ride! We’ve partnered with Caroster to make it easy. 👉 Join here: https://app.caroster.io/e/7d46e60e-65c8-4c55-bac4-1db093a527cb

29/07/2025

New in 2025 HOOF — we have worked with three partner programmers for the HOOF stage 🔥🔥🔥

Sh*tepop
Q***r chaos and full-throttle performances incoming: Sh*tepop are taking over the Hoof Stage. Co-piloted by Babyjaii and Shrek 666, this all-day dance riot throws baile funk, donk, afrobeats, and sweaty Scottish rave energy into the blender. It’s not polite, it’s not polished, and that’s the point.

I Am Fya
From Manchester but with strong Barbados roots, as explored on newly released album/film ‘Homeland’, I Am Fya is renowned for her blend of dancehall, acid, trap and raw emotion. For Supernormal 2025, she’s curated a lineup which, much like her own productions and live shows, celebrates q***r underground energy and genre rebellion. Leftfield hip-hop meets South Asian folk, performance art crashes into alt-r’n’b, and boundaries exist only to be torched. Unmissable.

Badness Centre
The wellness industry wants you tidy and calm. Badness Centre wants you untamed and loud! Nat Sharp has summoned a strange and beautiful ritual space (18+ only) in collaboration with Sheffield’s Gut Level. Gut Level is an inclusive, DIY rave haven in Sheffield that centres radical care, offering workshops for disabled, q***r, neurodivergent and underrepresented artists. Enter a sensory overload of eco gloryholes, sex-chaos-magic and collective experimentation.

🚨 Sunday Tickets Now Available!Weekend tickets are SOLD OUT – but you can still grab Sunday-only tickets (no lottery required).Supporter, Standard, Teen & Child tickets available!

🚗 Lift Shares for Supernormal 2025 – share your ride! We’ve partnered with Caroster to make it easy. 👉 Join here: https://app.caroster.io/e/7d46e60e-65c8-4c55-bac4-1db093a527cb

27/07/2025

The Supernormal team arrive onsite today at Braziers Park to start the build for the 2025 festival! In the final run up we wanted to share some of the partner programmers we have had the pleasure of working with this year, first up are 💜❤️🧡💛

Heart N Soul are returning as a partner programmer after first joining the Supernormal programme in 2024, Heart N Soul is an organisation that promotes radical creativity and supports artists in realising their potential. Based in south-east London, they work year-round with learning disabled and autistic artists with a vision for a more open, creative and equal world. Billed this year: live sets from longstanding SN favourite Dean Rodney and dreamy pop visionary Sebastian Golgiri; a screening of ‘Dancing With The Fortunes’, the film accompaniment to D.M.S. aka Danielle’s new album; and Castro (pictured) on deck duty.

Also:

🚨 Sunday Tickets Now Available!Weekend tickets are SOLD OUT – but you can still get Sunday-only tickets (no lottery required).Supporter, Standard, Teen & Child tickets available!

🚗 Lift Shares for Supernormal 2025 – share your ride! We’ve set up a Caroster to make it easy. 👉 Join here: https://app.caroster.io/e/7d46e60e-65c8-4c55-bac4-1db093a527cb

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18/07/2025

With the clock ticking ever more onward to the moment Supernormal 2025 throws its doors open, we have a full weekend schedule live on the website for you! It can be found at the top of our website’s front page, with pop-up descriptions included when you click on a name, and (in the nicest possible way) we hope it gives you a right headache trying to work out what you’re going to see, because we seem to have packed the programme to its gills once again.

Alternatively, if you are reading this without having a (very much sold out) weekend ticket, you might want to scroll down to the Sunday (or, for an untimetabled but more colourful option, checking out the poster pictured above), because if you like the look of that you CAN buy a ticket for that day only. These cost £60, £20 for teens, £5 for ages 2-12 and £75 if you want to be a ‘supporter’ and give us a little extra, and that can also be found at the top of the Supernormal website.

There’ll be a few more updates from us between now and Friday 1 August, including some info about liftshare options, and if you’re already attending Supernormal watch your inbox for an informative email about getting to, being at and generally making the best of the fest. Alright! Thanks for reading and here’s to two more hectic weeks before one even more hectic weekend.

11/07/2025

We are so excited to tell you that our full programme is now live!!!

Head over to our website to dive in (link in our bio), we're all hyped and hope you will be too!

You can also find Sunday tickets up for sale on our website, if you fancy coming for the day! 🎉

Love, team Supernormal ###

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22/06/2025

If you'd gone down to the woods this weekend, you'd be sure of finding a big Supernormal team [pictured] hanging out there. If, that is, it was the woods of Braziers Park, to where we shall return in less than six weeks (!) for the 2025 edition of our festival.

It was as storied and inspirational as ever, so the prospect of having a thousand or so of you legends rocking up and bugging out too is a real midsummer motivator.

Keep a lookout for info about Sunday ticket sales and our final programme additions in the meantime!

Thankyou to for having us too!
Love, Team Supernormal ###

Photo ID: a group of people smiling for a photograph in the woods

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Braziers Park School Of Integrative Social Research
Ipsden
OX10

Website

http://www.supernormalfestival.co.uk/

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