Returning for a second year, today (18th November 2025) Psychic Dancehall festival announces its first wave of artists and early bird tickets.
Adding a third venue, Psychic Dancehall will take place at The Wardwick and Dubrek Studios in Derby, adding new space Electric Daisy, on 21st March 2026, again bringing an unmissable selection of electronic and experimental artists to the Midlands.
The first wave of act announcements includes Pye Corner Audio. The electronic project of “Head Technician” Martin Jenkins, he deals in an eerie, fragile strain of electronic music mixing the Radiophonic/Library music sound, sometimes with a post-punk influence that aligns him firmly with such seasoned hauntologists as Mordant Music, Belbury Poly, and The Advisory Circle. Having been released on labels such as Ghost Box and Sonic Cathedral, Pye Corner Audio’s retro-futurist transmissions remain timelessly compelling, resembling a rickety tape transfer of a collective nostalgia, waiting to be rediscovered.
He is joined by Derbyshire legends Haiku Salut, who return after a hiatus with new music that takes their instrumental dream-pop-post-folk-neo-everything trio to new heights. Long-time supporters of Psychic Dancehall festival, having the trio play in Derby again is special. Their show at the Wardwick is not to be missed.
As Ivan The Tolerable, Oli Heffernan released in the region of ten albums a year, always cutting a hypnotic line between kosmiche music, jazz, post rock, ambient and other downbeat electronica with no drop in quality. He brings a full band show to Psychic Dancehall.
Joining that bill is genre-defying oboist and multi-instrumentalist performs as Madrigirl, fusing medieval sounds and instruments with analogue circuits and loops. Blips, beats, loops and English border bagpipes, crumhorns! That is the kind of unexpectedness that Psychic Dancehall is all about.
Completing the first announcement is Nottingham’s Hexial, who, after the release of latest album ‘Through Static’, progresses from Dubrek in 2025 to open the stage at the Wardwick with his mind-altering IDM and audio-visual show.
Birmingham based record label and promoters Kikimora are on board again as curation partners for Dubrek Studios. The festival is the brainchild of Derby-based music journalist, DJ and promoter James Thornhill.
A limited number of early bird tickets are available at just £20, with a second tier at £30 and full-price tickets going for just £40.
Psychic Dancehall festival is supported with funding from the Arts Council’s Grassroots Music Fund.
With many more acts to be announced alongside DJs and other activities, Psychic Dancehall festival is shaping up to be an unmissable snapshot of UK electronic and experimental music.
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