Counterflows

A Festival for Underground, Experimental and International music.

Next edition: April 1-4, 2027. Glasgow.

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It gives us great pleasure to reveal the full artist line-up for Counterflows Festival, 9-12th April 2026 in Glasgow❤️

The final allocation of festival passes are now on sale https://t.co/L48bzj2URe

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Our next one-off event welcomes the brilliant Seijiro Murayama & Jean-Luc Guionnet to GLOSS on the 5th of September.

Seijiro & Jean-Luc will also host a workshop on the 6th of September at Civic House .

Details & tickets at: https://t.co/gD6AlG4Rjw

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Diaries out! ✍

Counterflows Festival returns to Glasgow on 1-4 April 2027. Our 15th year going.

Tickets & further details in November.

We also have some non festival-based news coming soon, including details on some one-off events, workshops, community projects and more 😚

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Today we planted a beyond repair piano for Annea Lockwood in Gathering Ground’s Community Garden space! 🪏🎹🌱

The piano joins the small selection of pianos since 1969 making up Annea's ‘Piano Garden’ series, where she plants a piano, builds a garden around it and lets it stay.

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Stoked to announce that alongside Counterflows Festival in April, we'll be presenting some one-off events in Glasgow.

The 1st of these welcomes 2 legends, Beijing's Yan Jun & Glasgow's Sue Tompkins at Listen Gallery on 4th of March 2026.

Info & tickets:
https://t.co/teTV5CWQLP

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Seasons greetings from Counterflows HQ! 🎄

We'll be launching the full artist line-up for Counterflows Festival 2026 in early January. Get early access to it and the final allocation of full festival passes by joining our mailing list:
https://t.co/Qxl0fgsvnW

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Scotland’s longest running festival of experimental and marginal music is back. We return on the 9 - 12 of April 2026 in Glasgow ♥️

Full Festival passes are now on sale in standard, solidarity and pay what you want tiers:

https://t.co/55MyqYOVUs

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Diaries out! We're pleased to say we'll be returning on the 9-12 of April 2026 for another edition of Counterflows Festival in Glasgow ❤️

Festival passes and further information will be revealed in early November.

📸 by Brian Hartley

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We offer a 4 week fully-funded residency at SSW bespoke to the artists�� caregiving needs & schedule. with:

£3000 artist fee
£300 travel budget
£300 materials budget
£1000 to support access and care costs to enable the artist to take part in the residency
& more

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Open Call: Scottish Sculpture Workshop x Counterflows Caregivers Residency

2025 marks the 5th year of the collaboration between SSW and Counterflows Festival offering vital residency opportunities to Scotland based artists who are also caregivers.

Info: https://t.co/5JWELjOqbE

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A small blast from the past: Sven-Åke at the 1st ever @Counterflows Festival in 2012. Here he is doing his notorious yellow pages work, and with his trio with Axel Dorner and Werner Dafeldecker.

Pics by Alex Woodward.

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Fielding has been involved as a co-curator with Counterflows since we started back in 2012. His relationship with Glasgow dates back to his teens, when he started putting on DIY events under the guise of Cry Parrot, then shortly after founding the Music Language Festival.

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We're very happy to announce that Fielding Hope will be joining Counterflows/AC Projects full-time from this August as our co-director.

He'll be sharing the job with our founder & director Alasdair Campbell, working on our annual festival, special events and projects & more.

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Fielding will be joining after an 11 year stint as the Senior Producer at Cafe OTO in London, where he curated and produced their world renowned programme of experimental and underground music.

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Thanks to The Bell and Henry Ivry for this reall nice interview and feature on Counterflows Festival ❤️‍🔥 https://t.co/i1RnB552vu

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Our dear friends Still House Plants are playing Stirling next week. Go see them!
https://t.co/G3xr1smfsG

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Thanks so much to @thewiremagazine & Claire Biddles for the lovely review of Counterflows Festival this year 🥂✨

Here's the first bit of it: read the full thing in the current issue!

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If you came to Counterflows Festival this year we'd love to get your feedback.

Link here:
https://t.co/XLKLPWm8XM

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Thanks to @theskinnymag for this glowing review of Counterflows Festival last weekend:
https://t.co/d7BoZ2SjOg