A heart-felt THANK YOU to everyone who made the space with us at this years' Counterflows Festival 💞

We're proud to have the best team, staff and volunteers, the most respectful, engaged and enthusiastic audience, and a selection of artists we think are making some of the most vital work today.

Calling people of all ages! We're looking to build a kazoo orchestra for Agnes Pe's piece at Counterflows Festival this year.

No musical experience required. If you fancy joining here are some details. Spread the word!
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Inquisitive ears

Proc Fiskal - Disease Again (Official Video) [4K|UHD|60FPS] YouTube video by Proc Fiskal

New Proc Fiskal video is a real tear jerker, honking deep on the vape of betta daze. youtu.be/rCTCpJSVzNY?...

It seems that extremely daft (and racist) Ron Morelli chap is back on the scene playing in the experimental-ish circuit. Quite a few gigs coming up. What's that all about?

Ok so a bit of news. After a bit of demand we've decided to do some one-off events that'll take place outside Counterflows Festival in April.

The 1st of these welcomes two legends we love: Beijing's Yan Jun and Glasgow's Sue Tompkins on the 4th of March.

counterflows.com/event/yan-ju...

Alfred Schnittke - Choir Concerto [Score] YouTube video by Maddenhawk

When the weather is shite and grey and make you want to embrace full hermit mode, i hereby recommend listening to this Schnittke piece:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mjn...

andddd we sold out. quite mad.

there's a couple of individual tickets on sale in februrary if you want to catch some of it. otherwise, see you in april!

Here we go! Super excited to welcome all these amazing artists in April.

Looks like festival passes will sell out v soon, fyi

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: counterflows.com/newsletter/

(funny i'm the one asking this) but are OTO getting any copies? coming down for the 1st two nights of [ahmed] next week!

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:

counterflows.com/festival/cou...

january for the full line-up! sorry it'll be a while still.

The first festival we're doing as full timers. No pressure! Been working on this for a while now and look forward to seeing you there 🙃

Many of you have been asking about how to help our dear pal Keith, aka JD Twitch (Optimo) who has in-operable aggressive brain cancer - here's the crowdfunder ❤️ This man has done so much for music, music careers, and his charity work has been relentless ❤️ Thanks so much friends❤️
tinyurl.com/y9vtc7pj

Formenverwandler, by Sunik Kim 4 track album

The bold yin is back with the most fucked & difficult & beautiful shit in the game. 2 hours of temporal shapeshifting and Nancarrow worship to (re)imagine musical, political and queer horizons. An electric shock in a sea of tasteful gibberish. Do it: sunikkim.bandcamp.com/album/formen...

thanks seán !

thanks mate! hopefully see you soon :)

Ahh i'm glad u feel that way! Its my favourite Scando city by a country mile. If you can find the right bits its magic!

I have a connection to the place (Silja was born there!) and have a fondness therein, but there's not a place in the world i feel more like a walking talking wet sock.

Heading down to London now to work my last 2 weeks at OTO. The final farewell to the place, and the city. A very strange feeling!

Adam Curtis did an Adam Curtis on OTO 😂

aye it was a fun one! super impressed by the sound in there. pat's piano sounded incredible!

Why it's Time to Support Grassroots Venues with a £1 Ticket Levy | The Quietus Back in April, Andrew Carthy – known to fans as Mr Scruff – completed a run of 15 shows in grassroots venues around the UK. This ‘Miniature Arenas Tour’ was a special one. For every ticket sold, he do...

Was interviewed as part of this feature in @thequietus.com on the Music Venue Trust and Save Our Scene's £1 ticket levy scheme.

thequietus.com/opinion-and-...

Louise's fundraiser for life after spinal injury Help Louise Marshall raise money to support Aspire

A message from legendary music writer Louise Gray. www.justgiving.com/page/louise-...

me too :)

I'm not sure! We put them on in Glasgow a few years back (the recording of which became their album last year, 'Wood Blues'). Maybe again one day though :)

Incoming! 4 nights with one of the best live bands in the world, أحمد [Ahmed], at OTO on the 12/13/14/15 of November. Highest possible recommendation!

On sale now for OTO members & publicly on Wednesday.

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An urgent message from The Wire magazine

Running an independent music magazine is becoming increasingly difficult. We need your support

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