Supernormal is a festival like no other, providing a powerful antidote to the current malaise of festivals-as-big-business. Blurring the boundaries between art and music, performer and audience, it champions the iconoclastic and the experimental, allowing risks to be taken and leaps of imagination to occur. Somewhere in spirit between the original Glastonbury Fayre and an eccentric village fete, Supernormal is the alternative's alternative.
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09/08/12 - Map now available online
We’ve had a few requests for it, so here’s the map for this year’s festival.
02/08/12 - Schedule now online
Better late than never… Thankyou all for your patience. We can now reveal the schedule(v1.3) for Supernormal 2012. We must stress that minor alterations are not impossible. With that in mind… have a looky (click to zoom):
17/07/12 - Watch The Supernormal Documentary Online!
That’s right folks. We’re thrilled to present “Supernormal: Love Each Other Or Die” in its entirety. The film was shot during the 2011 edition, by Andy Moore of Little Matey productions.
06/07/12 - Arts press release now online
SUPERNORMAL is a festival like no other, an alternative even to the ‘alternative’ festival circuit. Entirely artist-led and resolutely non-commercial, SUPERNORMAL combines an acclaimed and avant-garde musical line up with a visual arts programme to match. SUPENORMAL truly bucks the trend – blurring the boundaries between contemporary art, live music, performer and audience all in […]
27/06/12 - Blurt head up latest announcements!
We are thrilled to announce that post-punk legends BLURT, COSTA & NERO, THE MURDER ACT, QUEER’D SCIENCE & RAAGNAGROK will join recent additions RAMESSES and GINKO on this year’s already mouth watering music programme. With yet more updates to the arts programme just around the corner, this is going to be a Supernormal to remember. […]
21/06/12 - Tickets selling fast – first warning
With less than 2 months to go, we thought we should give you a bit of early warning regarding ticket sales. Unlike previous years, there are unlikely to be tickets available at the last minute. We are a long way ahead of where we were this time last year. As the big day approaches, tickets […]
18/05/12 - Announcements galore
Today, we are thrilled to announce a host of wonderful additions to this years programme. Supernormal has always been about more than just music. This year will be no exception, with more art and performance than ever before. Take a peak at some of this year’s artistic endeavours, here. Bang the Bore have put together […]
12/04/12 - Stage design deadline: 30th April
Just a quick reminder that the deadline for stage design proposals in 30th April. Here is the brief for anyone that missed it first time around: We’ve decided to extend the involvement of artists for Supernormal 2012 to incorporate the construction of a temporary stage at this years’ event. Part site-specific installation, part working stage, […]
29/03/12 - First Acts Announced!
Here it is folks. We are thrilled to announce the first acts for Supernormal 2012. There’s shed loads still to come, including some pants-wettingly exciting headliners! Plus: Art, performance, film, workshops and much, much more. Enough chat. On with the names: The Telescopes James Blackshaw Caroline Weeks Hey Colossus Patrik Fitzgerald Bilge Pump The Pheromoans […]
19/03/12 - It’s “Swing Time” at Gallery 1.1
Will Cruickshank’s ‘Swing Harmonograph’ (one of the commissioned works for this year’s SUPERNORMAL Art and Music Festival) carries the artist’s romantic inventions to a typically playful, yet in fact deeply (and literally) moving end. Relationships are at the core of his work – that between viewer and art-object of course, but also between viewers, the […]