Louder Than Words Festival 2026 - Super Early Bird Weekend Passes

Louder Than Words Fest has been described as 'The UK's biggest music based literature festival'. Our 2026 festival weekend will be our 14th edition, and once again we're bringing together authors, artists, poets, performers, lyricists, journalists, DJs, bloggers, publishers, fans and aficionados of music and popular culture for in conversations, panel discussions, meets and greets, workshops and more!

Our Super Early Bird Weekend Passes are strictly limited in number and offer the current best discount available for our 2026 Festival. Our Passes give you access to our #Louder2025 Festival programme across Friday 13th - Sunday 15th November, 2026 - all housed at the fully accessible Innside Hotel, Manchester. Weekend Pass holders are free to join any of the Festival events included in the programme (as available on the day).

The 2026 weekend programme of events will be announced as contributors are confirmed

We will also offer Weekend Passes that include B&B accommodation & access to the health centre at The Innside, watch this space for all details.

Louder Than Words Festival enables audiences, contributors, sponsors, participants and more to hear, share, discuss and celebrate the best of published and unpublished words associated with music and popular culture industries - we have social areas at our Manchester venue, The Innside, so that everyone has the opportunity to meet, enjoy and grow our community of like-minded fans and enthusiasts!

Unlike Frank Zappa’s much quoted interpretation of music-writing, Louder Than Words Fest promotes the craft, conducts interviews with thinking people, encourages reading and aims to develop artistic appreciation of all-comers through engagement.

#Louder2026 includes a range of quality events for engaging with like-minded individuals; encouraging interaction with performers, authors, editors, publicists, reviewers, press, artists and aficionados.

From Rock to Pop and Punk to Folk, from Poetry to Publishing, Art and Performance and all things in between, Louder Than Words Festival has something for everyone - engagement and involvement are central to all we do. Join us and enjoy a taste of something different!

The images below capture some of the fun and events from #Louder2025!

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