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The immersive stage. Eleven commissioned audiovisual works, performed once each, in a room built for exactly this and then taken down.
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Program Highlights
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Made with, and made for
3days, four stages, one warehouse
64acts on the bill
18hof continuous programming on Saturday
24the year it stops being a secret
How it works
Three steps, and none of them is a sales call.
- 01
PICK A DAY
Day tickets, weekend passes and a patron tier that funds the commissions. All of them get you into everything on the day they cover.
- 02
GET THE MAP
Two weeks out, the running order and the site map land in your inbox. Stage times, transport, where the water is.
- 03
TURN UP
Doors at 14:00. Nothing sells out on site because nothing is sold on site — it is all on the wristband.
What's included
Everything below is in every tier.
ALL STAGES
One wristband, four stages, no VIP area and no queue you can pay to skip.
COMMISSIONS
Eleven new works commissioned for the festival, performed once, here.
CASHLESS SITE
Loaded on the wristband, refunded automatically within five days if you overload it.
SAFER SPACES
Trained team on every stage, a quiet room, and a welfare tent that is staffed all night.
TRANSPORT
Night buses to three cities, included on weekend and patron tiers.
RECORDINGS
Every commissioned work released free, six weeks after, to everyone who came.
Features
KINETIC_24, in four parts.
CYBER
Warehouse floor, 3am to close, sound system rebuilt from the ground up this year. No photography, no phones on the floor.
DATA
Talks, workshops and open decks, running through the afternoon. Free to anyone with a wristband and to anyone under 18 without one.
SYSTEM_LOGS
The archive stage — every commissioned work from the last four years, replayed across Sunday afternoon.
The work
Recent work, unretouched.
Pricing
Three ways in. No hidden tier.
DAY
£68one day
Any single day, all four stages.
- All stages that day
- Cashless wristband
- Running order two weeks out
WEEKEND
Most chosen£165three days
The whole thing, plus the buses home.
- All three days
- Night buses to three cities
- Commission recordings
- Re-entry all weekend
PATRON
£420three days
Funds one commission outright.
- Everything in Weekend
- Named on the commission
- Sunday rehearsal access
- Two guest day tickets
In their words
Three people who pay for this.
Eleven pieces that had never been performed and will not be performed again. I have been to festivals for twenty years and that is a genuinely unusual proposition.
The welfare tent was staffed at five in the morning and nobody made it weird. Small thing, enormous difference.
No phones on the warehouse floor turned out to be the best decision anyone has made about a dancefloor in a decade.
Questions
The four we are asked most.
IS THERE CAMPING?
No. It is a warehouse site in the city, and the weekend and patron tiers include night buses to three cities so you can sleep in a bed.
WHAT IS THE AGE LIMIT?
18+ after 20:00. The DATA stage is open to under-18s free until then, accompanied.
WHAT IF I CANNOT COME?
Full refund up to fourteen days before. After that we will resell your ticket at face value and pass the money back — no fee, no resale platform.
ACCESSIBILITY?
Step-free across the whole site, viewing platforms on all four stages, BSL on the DATA stage, and a personal assistant ticket free of charge.
A three-day festival of electronic music, moving image and things that do not have a category yet.
Start today, or read everything first. Both are fine.