Supersonic is as innovative and intelligent as festival bills get. Spread across the buzzing industrial creative hub of Digbeth in Birmingham, its boundary-shattering line-ups proudly provide a home for the heavy, the weird and the experimental. It wears its values on its sleeve, championing individuality, solidarity and defiance in the face of oppressiveness from the gloomy world outside.

There’s a lot to be gained from the experience simply by arriving with an open mind and an appetite for discovery. Prior knowledge of the artists playing could almost be an optional extra. Inevitably, if you just drift with the crowds crisscrossing between their main stages at the O2 Institute and XOYO, you’ll stumble across at least one artist unlike anything you’ve ever experienced before. This year’

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