We’re delighted to announce that our 2025 Festival – #Louder2025 – will take place over the weekend of Friday 14th – Sunday 16th November. We’ll be in person at the Innside Hotel, Manchester and canNOT wait!
Weekend and Day Passes:
All of our events and ticket options are listed here:
SUPER EARLY BIRD WEEKEND PASSES: https://tinyurl.com/56zp5f9j
FRIDAY PASS (EVENING ONLY): to be announced
SATURDAY PASS: to be announced
SUNDAY PASS: to be announced
Our Weekend Passes include access to events across the Festival Weekend as well as discounted single or double accommodation options – Bed and Breakfast & access to the Wellness Suite at our festival venue, The Innside Hotel, Manchester.
Our Festival events will be updated in 2025 but in the meantime, take a look at the range and quality of what we enjoyed in 2024 to get a sense of what we’re about!
Many thanks again for your support – we’re delighted to invest, improve and indulge with you all and we canNOT wait to see you in 2025!
Events on Friday 15 November:
| 8.30pm – 9.45pm Secret Public: How LGBTQ Performers Shaped Popular Culture ( 1955 -1979) Jon Savage in conversation https://tinyurl.com/2s4f37a9 |
| 6.30pm – 7.45pm DJ Paulette: Welcome to the Club: The life and lessons of a Black Woman DJ https://tinyurl.com/mr2z52ux |
| 6.30pm – 7.45pm Some New Kind of Kick: Kid Congo Powers in conversation https://tinyurl.com/yc3h9zrc |
| 6.45pm – 8.00pm Club Cultue Panel discussion: Two decks or six strings… What’s entertaining people? https://tinyurl.com/5ywznfye |
| From 8.30pm Don Powell & Daryl Easlea in conversation: 50 years of Slade in Flame + movie night https://tinyurl.com/mry6af6m |
| 8.30pm – 9.45pm Uncommon People – Britpop and Beyond in 20 songs Miranda Sawyer in conversation https://tinyurl.com/2s4zdjya |
Events on Saturday 16 November:
| 10.15 – 11.30am Let The Music Play: How R&B fell in Love with 80s Synth: Steven Vass in conversation https://tinyurl.com/2prxrx9w |
| 10.15 – 11.30am Tiffany Murray in conversation: My Family and Other Rock Stars https://tinyurl.com/4zpxfm36 |
| 10.30 – 11.30.am Street Level superstar: Lawrence and Will Hodgkinson in conversation https://tinyurl.com/4aa5xryd |
| 12.15 – 1.30pm Postcards from Scotland: Grant McPhee in conversation with very special acoustic treats https://tinyurl.com/mpnn95mu |
| 12.15 – 1.30pm “I read the news today, oh boy” Our annual #MusicWriting Panel Discussion https://tinyurl.com/58ke393a |
| 12.00 – 1.30pm The Closest Thing to Crazy Mike Batt in conversation https://tinyurl.com/5a8e5pp5 |
| 2.00 – 3.15pm Lindsay Reade in conversation with Terry Christian: A Continual Farewell: My Life With Tony Wilson https://tinyurl.com/5hf6ptcm |
| 2.15 – 3.30pm Mixing Pop and Politics – a lively debate with Toby Manning https://tinyurl.com/y52sb34m |
| 2.15 – 3.30pm Katy Lironi in Conversation: Matilda in the Middle https://tinyurl.com/267kx2n5 |
| 4.00 – 5.15pm Rebel With A Cause: Roots, Records & Revolutions – Darcus Beese in conversation with Nihal Arthanayake https://tinyurl.com/ysnjmb9a |
| 4.15 – 5.30pm Neil Fox in Conversation with Carl Hunter: Music Films https://tinyurl.com/252cz4my |
| 4.15 – 5.30pm Janey Lee Grace in Conversation: From Wham to Woo – a life on the mic https://tinyurl.com/5kx68zfk |
| 6.00 – 7.15pm Beezer: Until Now Volume 1: A Life in Photographs https://tinyurl.com/mr3ejekj |
| 6.15 – 7.30pm Just Backdated: Seven Years in the Seventies with Chris Charlesworth https://tinyurl.com/mwuunyyk |
| 6.15 – 7.30pm The Full English: Stuart Maconie in conversation with David Quantick https://tinyurl.com/5xh45xh6 |
| 7.45pm Jah Wobble: in conversation: & live set with Family & Invaders of the Heart https://tinyurl.com/2hzkwhbk |
| 8.00pm Dream machines: Electronic Music in Britain from Dr Who to Acid House: Matthew Collin, Graham massey & Caro C https://tinyurl.com/44kebnt2 |
Events on Sunday 17 November:
| 10.15 – 11.30am Rock N Roll Colouring: Mindfulness colour in Heavy Metal With Dan Tobin, Lisa Bardsley, Ol Drake of Evile and Steve Beebee of Kerrang! https://tinyurl.com/3yd5frwh |
| 12.00 – 1.15pm Write Lines : Adventures in Rap Journalism with Andrew Emery https://tinyurl.com/2mnz93dx |
| 12.15 – 1.30pm Joy White in Conversation: Like Lockdown Never Happened – Music and Culture During Covid https://tinyurl.com/ntupavtm |
| 12.15 – 1.30pm House Anthems: Poetry Book Launch & Performance with Ralph Dartford and Gary Clark https://tinyurl.com/3prpwjcc |
| 2.00 – 3.15pm The Ukranians: Taking Kyiv to the Kosmos: In conversation & live acoustic set https://tinyurl.com/4csdh3zw |
| 2.15 – 3.30pm A Double Decade Header of Pride in Music with authors Anna Doble & Ian Wade in conversation https://t.co/7CJb6GzDxQ |
| 2.15 – 3.30pm The Record Collector’s Sunday Sermon with Daryl Easlea and David Quantick https://tinyurl.com/yc6mud38 |
| 4.00 – 5.15pm Jim Bob in Conversation with acoustic treats https://tinyurl.com/55hezpw5 |
| 4.15 – 5.30pm Who’s the Boy with the Lovely Hair?: Jakko Kakszyk in conversation https://tinyurl.com/y8f7m7tk |
| 4.15 – 5.30pm Mark Hoyle of Dub Sex in Conversation: https://tinyurl.com/p3n7suhj |
| 6.15 – 7.30pm Simon Raymonde in Conversation: In One Ear https://tinyurl.com/2xk549p4 |
| 8.00pm Festival Finale Dr John Cooper Clark: 50 Years in Showbiz tinyurl.com/3temw5xs |