Events

Past Events

6 Sep, 2025 — 7 Sep, 2025

Decolonise Fest 2025

Featuring Hyphen, Master Peace, THE NONE, Native James and more

5 Apr, 2025

Decolonise Fest on Tour: Leeds

Featuring Hang Linton, Pleasure Centre and Lia Rye

13 Sep, 2024 — 15 Sep, 2024

Decolonise Fest 2024

Featuring Currls, Grunt, Tripsun and more

30 Mar, 2024

Decolonise Fest on Tour: Birmingham

Featuring Big Joanie (stepping in as Resting Bitch Face can’t make it), Layla Tutt, Blue Ruth

21 Jan, 2024

Decolonise Choir

A space for POC to practise the radical act of collective song

11 Nov, 2023

Decolonise Fest: On Tour – Glasgow

Featuring: Kapil Seshasayee / R.AGGS / Trishaaa

16 Sep, 2022 — 18 Sep, 2022

Decolonise Fest 2022

Featuring Bishi, Breakup Haircut, Fraulein and more…

Flyer for Decolonise Fest and Supersonic Festival Panel or Race and Diversity in the Alternative Music scene. Black and white photo of Decolonise Fest collective. All info on flyers is in text on this page

5 Mar, 2022

Panel: Race and Diversity in the Alternative Music Scene

Decolonise Fest and Supersonic Festival host a roundtable on Race and Diversity in alternative music

9 Dec, 2021

Decolonise Fest Open Evening

An open call for POC who’d be interested in joining our collective and helping us make the next Decolonise Fest happen

1 Sep, 2020 — 6 Sep, 2020

Decolonise Fest 2020: Online

Featuring Crystal Axis, Kominas and more

Grafiti style graphic with black background and white doodles with various liberation slogans and symbols. Decolonise Fest is written in yellow letters

14 May, 2020

Decolonise Power

A night of music by punx of colour from their living rooms to your screens, curated by Decolonise Fest

Colour photo of Indigenous guitarist singing into microphone. Wearing ong hair, headband, white tshirt and earrings

7 Feb, 2020

Panel: Punk and race, past and present

A panel discussion on anti-racism and social inclusion issues within the Punk scene, with guests from Decolonise Fest and more

29 Jun, 2019 — 30 Jun, 2019

Decolonise Fest 2019

Featuring: Big Joanie, Whitelands, Electric Fire, Weedrat (USA) and more…

Black and white photo of Poly Styrene with and graphic overlay saying "Identity! A Poly Styrene Retrospective" in black, pink, yellow, grey and white text and background

1 Jun, 2019

Poly Styrene Weekender

A day devoted to Poly Styrene by 198 Gallery with a gig curated by Decolonise Fest

27 Sep, 2018

Decolonise Fest Open Evening

An open evening for punx of colour to meet up, network and find out more about Decolonise Fest and how to can get involved!

Illustration of Shh..Diam! in a colourful cute comic book style.They are playing their instruments with buildings, constructions and a Godzilla-like large creature in the background. There is a helicopter hovering above

10 Aug, 2018

DF x Bent Fest Gig

Gig in collaboration with Bent Fest featuring Shh Diam! (Malaysia), Screaming Toenail, Guttfull, Irn Brunette

22 Jun, 2018 — 24 Jun, 2018

Decolonise Fest 2018

Featuring Bob Vylan, Nova Twins, Ms Mohammed and more

Flyer with white text on red backround saying "Films in Resistance" and listing event info already on this page. There is one photo of a crowd of Black protestors and another photo of a group of WOC holding skateboards. Both photos are black and white in colour

3 May, 2018

Fundraiser:Films in Resistance

A film screening to fundraise for our next fest

Flyer for Decolonise Fest Lunar New Year gig. White background with illustration of a feminine figure in black with exposed breats and holding what looks like a dagger above their head but may also resemble a unicorn horn. behind is a half circle pattern with black, orange and yellow

18 Feb, 2018

Lunar New Year Special Gig

Featuring Tony協Yap, BAMBOO, STANFIELD, and THE MOLLUSC DIMENSION

Colour Photo of The Rebel Riot, 4 Burmese punks sitting against a wall with grafiti. One has red mohawk, one has a bucket hat and one has a baseball hat on. They are looking at the camera

15 Oct, 2017

The Rebel Riot / Nekra / Whitelands

Featuring Burmese punk band The Rebel Riot and local bands Nekra and Whitelands

Flyer featuring artists Wizard Apprentice and Kohinoorgasm

19 Aug, 2017

Wizard Apprentice, Kohinoorgasm, Screaming Toenail & Best Praxis

A night of electropop, queer punk, visual art and synth noise with acts hailing from California and London

Colour flyer featuring Xana and Lorraine James

19 Aug, 2017

Live Looping Workshops

Featuring Xana and Loraine James

Journey to Justice Flyer. Blue bacground with illustration of 3 hands, one in a fist

22 Jul, 2017

Fan Club x Journey To Justice x Decolonise Fest

Featuring JUNK., Shabsi Mann, Sam Amant

2 Jun, 2017 — 4 Jun, 2017

Decolonise Fest 2017

Featuring Big Joanie, Sacred Paws, The Tuts and more

Colour flyer for Decolonise Fest collage workshop

20 May, 2017

Decolonise yr Art – Collage Workshop

Create a collective piece of art for the Decolonise Fest Art Show

Collage feautring pictures of punks of colour playing guitar

20 May, 2017

Decolonise yr Guitar Workshop

Intro to Guitar workshop focused on getting more Punx of Colour playing

Poster for Decolonise Fest Fundraiser featuring The Tuts, Shopping and As Ondas

18 Mar, 2017

Fundraiser for Decolonise Fest 2017

Featuring Shopping, The Tuts and Teenage Caveman

Poster for Screaming Toenail album launch with a repeat background image of Michelle Obama

11 Mar, 2017

Screaming Toenail EP Launch and Decolonise Fest Fundraiser

Featuring Screaming Toenail, Travis Alabanza and more

28 Feb, 2017

Decolonise your Cinema!

Screening Afro-Punk + more

4 Nov, 2016

Decolonise Fest Benefit

Trash Kit / Big Joanie / Sabatta / Junk