OUTER WAVES

5 Days to Go: OUTER WAVES Festival Set to Ignite Liverpool’s North Docks With just five days remaining, the stage is nearly set for the arrival of OUTER WAVES—Liverpool’s newest and most daring alternative music and arts festival. Taking place 24–25 May 2025, this debut edition promises an electrifying weekend of sonic exploration and visual innovation at Invisible Wind Factory and Make Liverpool. Saturday sees the hypnotic minimalism of Ex-Easter Island Head take centre stage, while Sunday closes with a mind-expanding headline performance from the legendary GONG. They’re joined by a compelling array of experimental artists including Mandy Indiana, AJA Ireland, Abstract Concrete, Hyperdawn, and Smote—alongside some of the most exciting and boundary-pushing acts from Liverpool’s vibrant underground. OUTER WAVES offers a rare platform for artists and audiences seeking something more provocative, more collaborative, and more alive. Final tickets are now on sale!!!

The full line up of Outer Waves inaugural edition has arrived! Joining headliners Ex Easter Island Head & Gong are UK experimental heavyweights - spanning genres, pushing boundaries and blowing the minds of audiences all over Europe. Leading the Saturday lineup are Ex-Easter Island Head, renowned for their hypnotic, percussive minimalism, while psychedelic legends GONG will close the festival on Sunday with their genre-defying cosmic sounds. Joining them are internationally acclaimed artists including Mandy Indiana, AJA Ireland, Hyperdawn, Abstract Concrete, and Smote. The festival also champions homegrown talent, with performances from A Lesser Version, nil00, Silverwingkiller, Algernon Cornelius, Coughin Vicars, Those Holy, NZanZu, Liminal Project, Transmission Towers among many others. In addition to the live music, OUTER WAVES will feature DJ takeovers from Strike a Pose and Queensway, bringing a mix of underground sounds, high-energy club culture, and genre-defying selections.

Hello friends! It gives us great pleasure to announce the next wave of incredible artists playing the festival in May… Headliners GONG & EX-EASTER ISLAND HEAD will be joined by DIY hyper pop queen NIL00, art indie rockers EUROPEAN TAXIS, free jazz-scapers EX AGENT, Mancunian ethereal drone duo THRAA, London DIY noise / jazz / rock pioneers SLY & THE FAMILY DRONE, electro industrial crooners FAT CONCUBINE & experimental hiphop producer Algernon Cornelius. We have been blown away by the support and love for OW so far - thankyou so much to everyone who has bought a ticket already <3 Day tickets + cheap weekend tickets on sale NOW below. More exhibitions / AV installations & amazing artists still TBA. Watch this space +++ OW x

We're thrilled to announce the next three incredible genre defying artists to play Outer Waves this year... HYPERDAWN - undoubtably one of the UK's most exciting avant-garde acts of the last few years, they have built a reputation for their distinct, hands-on approach to music making, using live reel-to-reel tape processing, electronics and vocals creating broken sound scapes stitched back together with ethereal effected melody, ambience and noise. Rocket Recordings' SMOTE, once a solo endeavour by Daniel Foggin, now expanded to a fuller ensemble blends traditional instrumentation — creaking strings, funeral drums, somber winds — with thunderous synth work and desolate guitar to craft drone and dirge. Merseyside's LIMINAL PROJECT blend soaring reverb soaked guitars, motorik basslines and big 80s drum sounds with luscious yet delicate vocals to create their uniquely ethereal dark wave soundscapes.

Welcome to Outer Waves - The UK's newest alternative art & music festival - 24th & 25th of May 2025 at Make Liverpool & Invisible Wind Factory. We've been blown away by the hype & excitement so far and our super early bird tickets are totally sold out now! Thankyou to all of you who have already bought tickets! We still have so much to announce for our inaugural year - a whole host of incredible musical acts from around the globe, exhibitions & commissioned work all in the pipeline... keep track of all our news by following us on instagram @outerwavesfestival. We have a very limited number of the next tier of tickets on sale now at £39+bf - once these are gone the prices will go up again so buy now to avoid paying more! Stay tuned for more news +++