With one week to go until its special limited-edition return on April 25th and 26th, Supersonic Festival has confirmed the final additions to an already formidable 2026 lineup. Tickets sold out some time ago, and on this evidence it’s easy to see why.
Ten new names join a bill headlined by the worldwide exclusive of Microplastics (the new live band of aya, 96 back and Jennifer Walton) alongside the previously announced ØXN, Prostitute, Milkweed, Bong II and more.
Among the additions, Guttersnipe stand out. The duo will bring their hallucinatory, queer-fuelled brand of noise-rock to Digbeth in celebration of their new album Extinction Burst!. Feeo will weave personal narratives into immersive blends of drone, ambient and minimalist electronics, while Glasgow-based multi-instrumentalist Harry Górski-Brown fuses traditional music with experimental electroacoustic sound.
Jennifer Reid, who delivered a memorable rooftop set at last year’s festival — serenading Lancashire dialect songs against the competing thump of a neighbouring soundsystem — returns for 2026. She’ll perform both as unaccompanied ballad singer and as her DJ alter ego Yung Grim Reaper, spinning everything from Northern soul to egg punk. Hang Linton also returns with a late-night set primed for full party energy.
Thorn Wych, the Lancashire-based instrument maker and musician whose debut Aesthesis drew comparisons to Tibetan ritual music and the ancient folk sound of Epirus, will perform her otherworldly songs sung in tongues both familiar and alien. Birmingham duo Monoxide Brothers deliver scrawled, weirdly catchy noise, Lucifer Sky (the solo project of Indira Lakshmi) presents viscerally personal experimentations, and Peiriant promise a rich and sonorous auditory experience.
Close harmony folk duo Ancient Hostility — who emerged from the same radical folk and black metal circles as GREET‘s Matthew Broadley — will perform songs blending vivid storytelling with fierce political edge. As part of the extra-curricular programme, they’ll also collaborate with a choir of Supersonic attendees.
Meanwhile, MMM (main image)— the collaboration between Gayle Brogan (Pefkin, Burd Ellen), Nick Jonah Davis and Elizabeth Still (Haress), previously announced for Supersonic — have released a video for Hands to Stone, Eyes to Stars. The track is taken from their album Lunistice Alignments, recorded at Black Bay Studio on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides, where the trio created a sonic response to the Lunar Standstill at the exceptional megalithic site known as the Calanais Stones. The video features footage of the stones by experimental filmmaker Ian Nesbitt. Lunistice Alignments will be available to buy in physical form for the first time at Supersonic 2026.
The festival’s much-loved Market Place returns too, taking over the Zellig Building in the heart of Digbeth on Saturday. Free and open to all, it brings together record sellers, zine-makers, illustrators, DIY designers and a flash tattoo day with House of Thieves Tattoos. Workshops include protest banner printing with Natasha Taheem, talisman-making with Bunny Bissoux, and an eco-friendly fabric synthesizer building session with Lia Mice. A screening of the 2022 documentary Sirens is presented in collaboration with Falasteen on Film, and AHRKH (A P Macarte of GNOD) will host a sound bath. Learn protest songs with Debbie Armour (Burd Ellen) and Ancient Hostility. Stuart Maconie’s annual Freak Zone pub quiz and a kids’ gig with Hang Linton, hosted by Emily Dore, round things out.
As Thomas Blake wrote in his review of the 2025 edition, Supersonic can claim to be not just the best small festival in the country, but the best of any size. Nothing in this year’s programme suggests otherwise.