Delighted to be teaming up with Arika to present an event as part of their new Episode, From the Rivers to the Seas, taking place at Tramway (Glasgow) We welcome Mazen Kerbaj, Kamilya Jubran & Ejrad (Masa Nazzal and Hajar Ibrahim) on 15 November 2026. arika.org.uk/episode-12/

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: counterflows.com/event/seiji…

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 😚

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.

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: counterflows.com/event/yan-j…

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 counterflows.com

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/co…

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

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.

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.

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.

Thanks to The Bell and Henry Ivry for this reall nice interview and feature on Counterflows Festival ❤️‍🔥 glasgowbell.co.uk/the-uks-mo…

Our dear friends Still House Plants are playing Stirling next week. Go see them! stirlingevents.org/tolbooth-…

If you came to Counterflows Festival this year we'd love to get your feedback. Link here: forms.gle/jJNQDtWmYaPBm91y6

Thanks to @theskinnymag for this glowing review of Counterflows Festival last weekend: theskinny.co.uk/music/live-m…

A heartfelt thank you to everyone who joined us under the Glasgow sun's warm glow for 4 days of music, discussion, hanging out and partying 🥰 This was one of our favourite editions of the festival yet. Pictures courtesy of Brian Hartley. Plenty more to come! BIG LOVE X

Pleased to announce that you (probably) won't get too soggy moving between each venue at Counterflows this year 😎

The time is here! Counterflows 2025 kicks off tomorrow 😮 Below in the slides we've included some key information for everyone attending. Have a read over and we look forward to seeing you all soon ❤️

Fresh from the printers …a peak inside COUNTERFLOWS ON PAPER 2025 Pick up a copy from Thursday at the festival! Edited by Joel White, Helen Charman & Emmie McLuskey Printed by Sunday's Print Service Illustrations by Project Ability Design by Oliver Pitt

We have a handful of festival pass returns here if anyone wants to join us next week! eventbrite.co.uk/e/counterfl…