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:
Weekend and Day Passes:
All of our events and ticket options are listed here:
EARLY BIRD 2025 https://tinyurl.com/56zp5f9j
Friday Pass: https://tinyurl.com/bdf588ha
Saturday Pass: https://tinyurl.com/bdee5cwh
Sunday Pass: https://tinyurl.com/4uvdyd92
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 continually updated in the run-up to #Louder2025 so watch this space for all announcements!
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 November!
Events on Friday 14 November:
Friday 6.45pm
Jon McClure & John Robb:
in conversation: Music Books, influences & more
Friday 6.45pm
Creeping bent: A leap into a Void
– iDouglas MacIntyre in conversation
Friday 8.30pm
The Life & Lyrics of Jonn Penney
(Ned’s Atomic Dustbin)
Friday 8.45pm
Graham Fellows in conversation:
John Shuttleworth takes The Biscuit (& more)!
Friday 8.45pm
Transatlantic Drift: The Ebb & Flow of Dance Music:
Simon Morrison & Katie Milestone
Events on Saturday 15 November:
Saturday 10.15am
Live Forever:
The Rise, Fall and Resurrection of Oasis
John Robb in conversation
Saturday 12 noon
Teeenage Daydream
We are the girls who play in a band
with Debsey Wykes
Saturday 12.15pm
To Hell with Poverty!
Jon KIng in conversation
Saturday 12.15pm
With a little help from their friends
The Beatles changed the world. But who chnaged theirs?
with Stuart Maconie
Saturday 12.15pm
Battle of the bands/Battle of the Books
with Spenwood Books
Saturday 2pm
Clare Grogan in conversation
Saturday 4pm
Justin Curri: The Tremelo Diaries:
Life on the Road and other Diseases
Saturday 2.15pm
Shadowplayers
the rise and Fall of Fctory Records
James Nice in conversation
https://tinyurl.com/dw9xzw5r
Saturday 2.15pm
TV Smith in conversation with acoustic treats
Saturday 2.15pm
Caledonia Screaming The last untold 1977 punk story.
Brant McPhee
Saturday 4.15pm
Henry Normal in Conversation:
with poetry reads
Saturday 4.15pm
Mudsharks, Mute, Music and more
David Barbarossa in Conversation:
Saturday 6.15pm
Dancing Through The Fire:
Dan jennings & Nicky Weller in conversation
Saturday 8pm
Cognitive Dissident:
Matt Johnson
in converstion
Saturday 8.15pm
Misteltoe Vinyl: The story of ChristmasNo.1 with Marc Burrows
with live set
Saturday 8.15pm
The Motel: Clare & Mike Manumission
in conversation
Events on Sunday 16 November:
Sunday 12 noon
Richard Jobson in Conversation:
The Kreuzberg Sonata and more
Sunday 12.15pm
Russ Bestley in conversation:
Turning Revolt into Style
Sunday 12.15pm
Oasis: The Masterplan.
Kevin Cummins in conversation:with visul treats
Sunday 2.15pm
Shock Factory: The Visual Culture of Industrial Music with Nicolas Ballet
Sunday 2.15pm
Martin Barre: A Trick of Memory
Sunday 4pm
Ed Tudor in Conversation: The pen is Mightier
Sunday 4pm
This is How I Fight: Rosie garland in Conversation:
Sunday 4.15pm
Maybe I’m Amazed: John Harrris in Conversation:
Sunday 6pm
Rusty Egan in Conversation:
Sunday 8pm
Billy Bragg: A peoples history – in Conversation