Sonic city festival 2026 – van 6 november t-m 08 november 2026 – eerste namen

Sonic city festival 2026 - 06/11 t-m 08/11 @Depart
2026 – curators Marie Davidson & Dirty Three - From pulsing electronics and razor-sharp storytelling to sweeping post-rock and folk melancholy… no genre is safe

For its 18th edition, Sonic City leans further into the night. Three days stretched at the edges—where club pulse meets something more unguarded, more cinematic. The programme moves like a slow burn: new names, cult figures, and artists just arriving, threaded together into this year's line-up.
This year’s edition unfolds under the guidance of Marie Davidson and Dirty Three—two curatorial voices that don’t naturally settle in the same room, which is exactly the point. Davidson’s world is precise, rhythmic, wired for the body: a lineage of minimal wave and techno that sharpens repetition into something sensual and slightly confrontational. Her orbit brushes acts like Soulwax, where electronics gain weight, friction, and a certain late-night propulsion.
Dirty Three come from elsewhere entirely. Their music—fragile, sprawling, wordless—leans into tension and release, where silence carries as much weight as sound. Through Warren Ellis and his long-standing dialogue with Nick Cave, their universe stretches toward film scores and devotional intensity, where emotion lingers and unravels in real time.

Curated by Dirty Three: Alex Rex, Christina Carter, Dirty Three, Maxine Funke, Zoh Amba + more names TBA
Curated by Marie Davidson: .618, Curses LIVE, Feu St-Antoine, goat (JP), Leo Vincent, Lord Spikeheart, Marie Davidson LIVE with Nick Verstand, Natasha Pirard, Paranoid London + more names TBA
Curated by Sonic City: Anna von Hausswolff, Billy Fuller, keiyaA, Louis Ottley, Mandy, Indiana, Pigeon, PVA, Rosie Stuart, The Kind + more names TBA

line-up per dag
www.soniccity.be
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