Antony Szmierek

Brighten The Corners Festival 2023 is a two-day multi-venue festival in Ipswich on Friday 9th and Saturday 10th June 2023. Buy your weekend ticket!

Line Up  
Our Friday headliner is 86TV's, and our Saturday headliner is The Go! Team.

We've also got ALK BLK ERA, Antony Szmierek, Baba Ali, Butch Kassidy, CHERYM, Coops, Cowboyy, deathcrash, DITZ, Flip Top Head, Gaffa Tape Sandy, Gengahr, Group Listening, Isaiah Dreads, Ishmael Ensemble, Jehst, Jords, Joshua Idehen, Karma Sheen, Kyoto Kyoto, Lande Hekt, MEMORIALS, Moreish Idols, muva of Earth, Naima Bock, Nuha Ruby Ra, O., Pulled Apart By Horses, Rozi Plain, The Lounge Society, Triptides, with more to be announced!  
  
Brighten The Corners Festival, formerly known as Sound City Ipswich, takes over five town-centre venues with over 70 artists performing.

The venues are: The Smokehouse, The Baths, The Corn Exchange, St Stephen's Church, and the Cornhill.

14+ (14-15s must be accompanied by an adult)

Brighten The Corners Festival 2023

The Go! Team - Ladyflash

86TVs

The Go! Team

ALT BLK ERA

Baba Ali

Gigs

Ipswich

Multiple Venues, Ipswich

We’re so excited to unveil our first wave of bluedot 2023, a unique carnival of music, space and environmentalism beneath Cheshire’s iconic Lovell Telescope.

Grace Jones, Pavement (only UK show of 2023), Roisin Murphy and Leftfield join the already announced Max Richter and the BBC Concert Orchestra at the iconic Jodrell Bank Observatory from 20–23 July 2023. Also announced are Mercury prize winners Young Fathers, art rockers Django Django, feted post-punk four piece Dry Cleaning, Malian desert blues pioneers Tinariwen and experimental rockers Black Country, New Road, plus a Sunday Closing Party headlined by the iconic Annie Mac.

Nubya Garcia, Georgia, Max Cooper (3D AV), David Holmes, Beak>, Gwenno, Teleman, CMAT, Lava La Rue, Big Joanie, Skinny Pelembe, Scalping, Belief, Pictish Trail, Divorce, Madmadmad and Radiophonic Workshop also join the first wave of the festival’s music line-up.

Visit discoverthebluedot.com to explore the arts, culture and science line-ups, including Adam Buxton's Bug, Brett Morgen presents Moonage Daydream, BBC Sky At Night's Maggie Aderin-Pocock and much more.

This is a 16+ event

Antony Szmierek

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