FaT OuT Fest, 1st, 8th & 15th November 2025

🎶 About the FaT OuT Festival

Get ready for a weekend of boundary-pushing art and music at FaT OuT 2025 in Salford, Greater Manchester. The festival transforms multiple venues, including the iconic Islington Mill, into a vibrant hub of experimental sounds and visual arts.

FaT OuT Fest is known for its eclectic lineup, featuring a mix of experimental performers and avant-garde artists. The festival also includes a diverse array of genres, from gothic dancehall to industrial electronica. Therefore, ensuring an unforgettable auditory experience for all attendees.

In addition to live music, FaT OuT Fest offers a variety of interactive workshops and exhibitions. Engage in hands-on activities and expand your creative horizons with sessions led by prominent artists and thinkers.

FaT OuT Fest isn’t just about the music; it’s about fostering a community of like-minded individuals passionate about the underground arts scene. The festival invites you to explore, create, and connect with artists and fellow attendees in a space dedicated to innovative expression and cultural exchange​.

Don’t miss out on this unique festival that celebrates the unconventional and the experimental!

Dates, Locations & Artists

Multiple events will take place during the festival at various venues across Salford, UK.

FaT OuT 25: oram/100

This event marks Salford’s collaboration with Daphne Oram’s centenary tour, celebrating female and gender-expansive sound artists. Curated with the Oram Awards, the programme features live performances and a workshop presented through a 7.1.4 Dolby Atmos spatial audio system, alongside the BEAT BLOCKS haptic floor, creating an immersive and accessible sensory experience.

WHEN: 1st November 2025
LOCATION: Islington Mill, Salford, United Kingdom
LINEUP: NikNak ● Lou Barnell ● Lola de la Mata + Rosie Terry Toogood

FaT OuT 25 – TS DÆMON: No Silence, No Saints

It’s an immersive, genre-defying performance that blends live art, music, and interactive technology. Created by innovative queer artist TS DÆMON, the work explores desire, power, masculinity, and politics through a dark, multi-sensory experience that sits somewhere between theatre, club culture, and gothic techno.

WHEN: 8th November 2025
LOCATION: New Adelphi Theatre, Salford, United Kingdom

FaT OuT 25: KIN.X x CLUB SODOM

Two underground collectives, KIN.X and Club Sodom, come together for a high-intensity night celebrating kink, queerness, and unapologetic club culture. Blending ritual, performance, and bass-heavy dancefloor energy, the event creates an immersive space rooted in community, pleasure, and radical self-expression. Enhanced by the BEAT BLOCKS haptic floor, the night offers a powerful multi-sensory and accessible experience for all.

WHEN: 8th November 2025
LOCATION: Islington Mill, Salford, United Kingdom
LINEUP: ASHTYLR ● Babyjaii ● Bollibubbles ● CVNT TRAXXX ● Eyve ● Hagi ● Johnny Humes ● KOVERT ● Lawal ● Liv Wynter ● LuckyBabe ● LUMENAATE ● MEME GOLD ● Reece ● ZULAA

FaT OuT & Now Wave

FaT OuT welcomes legendary multidisciplinary artist Lonnie Holley, whose work spans music, performance, visual art, and film, rooted in improvisation and radical creativity. Shaped by lived experience and fearless curiosity, Holley’s collaborations include artists such as Michael Stipe, Bon Iver, Moor Mother, and Rokia Koné. The lineup is joined by Hang Linton, delivering a raw fusion of avant-funk, dance-punk, psych-rock, and breakbeats.

WHEN: 15th November 2025
LOCATION: Islington Mill, Salford, United Kingdom
LINEUP: Lonnie Holley ● Hang Linton

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