QUOB 2026

On 17th and 18th July I was in Lake District to perform at QUOB. It’s a relatively new festival, with the first edition only taking place in October 2025. It takes place in Fell Foot Woods in a barn/shed-type structure that can probably hold no more than 200 people.

In many ways it reminds me of a much smaller version of SUPERNORMAL Festival, in that I went there not knowing many of the artists but knew I was in for a well-curated series of weird and wonderful performances.

On the first night I was most looking forward to seeing Slikback. I’d played his music many times on my Mondo Radio and (Algo|Afro) Futures radio shows and so was really excited to see him perform. When he dropped Armada I joined the mosh pit! My back hated me the next morning but it was worth it.

On Saturday I did two performances. The first was my usual footwork-inspired tracks with a bit of chaos on top. I will get around to doing a proper release of these soon, I promise!

Following that I did an unannounced super-secret visuals performance for Slikback’s DJ set (omg!). For this I used my modular video synth. It was also the first outing of my newly acquired Glitch Boy module. Definitely more that I want to explore with that. For example, it has bluetooth support so I want to hand out a controller to the audience so that they can play a game as I glitch it.

A huge thanks to the organisers for inviting me to perform. It’s not often that I get to do live coding outside of the usual Algorave and Algorave-adjacent contexts. I get a bit nervous thinking about how unfamiliar audiences will react to something very different but thankfully many people seemed to enjoy it!

Of course I really loved everyone’s performances but particular highlights were from Slikback (obvs), Bathing Suits (who gave me a shout out aieeee!), A’Bear, Alex Izaak Milling, CURRENTMOODGIRL, Kelly Jayne Jones, Grasping at Reality, and Brawny. Go support them, and of course support the festival itselef!