Supersonic Festival 2019, the 15th edition – Sarah Angliss: The Open Fund for Organisations
“Supersonic reasserts itself as the best European festival for new music”
The Quietus
Starting as a one-day event in Birmingham in 2003, Supersonic Festival, curated and produced by Capsule , is an internationally renowned experimental music and arts festival. Occupying an exalted position at the heart of Birmingham’s cultural life, as well as attracting an international audience.
Supersonic Festival has been named as the UK’s premier experimental music festival, with rave reviews from The Independent, Arts Desk and The Quietus to name but a few, and topping The Guardian’s Guide to the best experimental music festivals in Europe. Bringing together live performances by some of the worlds most extraordinary artists, visual art, and audience participation to create a legendary one-of-a-kind festival. It takes place alongside a year-round programme of live events, exhibitions and kids gigs which present the highest quality new work in ways you least expect.
2019 sees the Superspecial 15th edition of the festival. Pioneers of heavy music Neurosis open the festival in style at Birmingham’s Town Hall and throughout the weekend of July 19th-21st, an incredible array of artists from across the globe descend on the industrial back streets of Digbeth, featuring: Anna Von Hausswolff, Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs, The Bug & Moor Mother, Hen Ogledd, Sarah Angliss, Big Joanie, Dalek, Jerusalem in my heart, MONO & many many more!