Wide Awake Festival is a counter-cultural celebration, organised by Bad Vibrations, LNZRT and the team behind MOTH Club and The Shacklewell Arms. It’s back in Brixton’s Brockwell Park on Saturday 25 May for another showcase of some of the most exciting bands of the past, present and future.
Seattle radio station and non profit arts organisation KEXP will be hosting the main stage for headliners including Slowdive, as well as recently added in-demand DJ Helena Hauff, and electronic pop icon Alice Glass who is definitely one not to miss.
Alongside the revered headliners, be sure to catch: everyone’s favourite post-punk figureheads Dry Cleaning; experimental genre-defying Eartheater; the Iranian-Dutch trailblazer Sevdaliza who has masterfully written about how women are marginalised in the music industry; the impassioned relevant fire and guts of Brighton punks Lambrini Girls; unique and spellbinding Brighton avant-folk quartet The New Eves who are set for huge things… to name but a few from the massive multiple stage line up.
We are also looking forward to PC Music star Hannah Diamond, Australian singer-songwriter Grace Cummings, and new wave revivalists Deep Tan.
Wide Awake 2024 hosts a great selection of politically informed panels. Independent, anti-capitalist, ad-free publication ‘hate zine’ will host a zine fair exploring social justice through art, photography, poetry and words.
You will also see the phenomenal feminist direct action group Sisters Uncut running a banner-making workshop to express love and solidarity for the people of Gaza.
Also in attendance is performer, activist and host of politically informed punk scratch night How To Catch A Pig, Liv Wynter, asking: ‘Can you be a DIY & political artist in 2024?’.
Wellness platform Woo will host a panel talk on what wellness looks like to Gen Z and Gen Y, with speakers including the brilliant Janey Starling. All of them building an influential and important community of people who you can’t not investigate.
Social, cultural and environmental awareness are at the core of Wide Awake, the festival is for those that want not only the best cutting edge music, but also for those who want change, and the world to be a better and safer place.
Wide Awake have also announced their partnership with Médecins Sans Frontières, the humanitarian medical care charity known for its projects in conflict zones and countries affected by endemic diseases.
Brixton is the perfect location for Wide Awake, a thriving place known for it’s live music history across the years and across genres, boasting some of the capital’s best music venues, with music even thriving on the streets themselves. A rich, diverse, and musical history surrounds this beautiful South London park.
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