Anja Ngozi is a London-based DJ and producer, whose music and sets centre around soulful tunes, lo-fi beats and experimental vibrations… She runs Síbín, a club night and label (founded by herself and the infamous Maxwell Owin), with two new monthly shows on Reprezent and rundemradio. We love this tune, Pastor, which she and Max made featuring O the ghost; this Frank Ocean Mix Anja put together, and her recent edits of American R&B artist India Arie.
9-11 July 2021
Welcome
Welcome to Brainchild Festival, our three day festival celebrating creativity, bold ideas & DIY spirit at a peer-to-peer level.
We connect and stitch together the collectives, communities and creative projects that inspire us into a program of live music, jam sessions, spoken word, DJ sets, talks, workshops, film, theatre and installation art.
The festival is not-for-profit and was started by a group of friends in their first year of university, growing organically every year since. It is now a celebration and gathering of an ever-growing network of creative people, with a capacity of 2500 people. Artists, crew and festival-goers camp together, with no VIP areas on site.
Across the weekend, we create opportunities for valuable conversations, exchanges and collaborations and welcome everybody to get involved. Built up by friends of friends over the years, the atmosphere is warm, open and relaxed. Brainchild is the perfect place to let your guard down, try things out and discover new wonders.
Winners of the AIM Award for Best Independent Festival 2015 & 2016
★★★★ - The Independent
Tickets
Tickets for Brainchild Festival 2021 have now sold out! We’d never in our wildest dreams have anticipated being sold out by the end of February, but we are hugely grateful to everyone who’s booked us in for their first summer of partying since Covid began.
Since selling out, we have also been overwhelmed with interest in volunteering and can confirm that we are no longer taking inquiries about these tickets.
A word on Covid-19:
Whilst we sadly can’t see into the future, we are working very hard to plan for different scenarios so we can adapt to bring you a safe & beautiful festival this Summer. In the meantime, your ticket money is being held securely with The TicketSellers and if we do end up having to cancel due to Covid-19, you will be offered a refund or the chance to roll your ticket over.
Please be assured that we will take all reasonable steps to comply with any relevant guidelines intended to reduce the spread of Covid-19, and that people’s safety will be our number one priority.
Lineup
Here is the first taster of our lineup for 2021! We have SO MANY more things to tell you about, including our whole theatre, comedy, film, poetry, workshops & talks lineup, our installation artists and the rest of the music programme. But for now we wanted to give you these gems to get stuck into. It’s safe to say they are each absolute fire, we dream of their sets at the festival on a pretty much daily basis!
Please note that we’re no longer accepting applications to play or perform at Brainchild 2021. Thank you very much to everyone who applied!
Lynda Dawn
Overmono (LIVE)
Nala Sinephro
Loraine James
Anja Ngozi
OK Williams
Levitation Orchestra
WOOM
Cameo Blush (LIVE)
feeo
Queer House Party
Hotter Project & EKP present FITTER
Shadow Sistxrs Fight Club: We Protect Us
Dragprov
Naughty Corner Productions’ RAVES R US
Storytelling with gal-dem
SORRY
YESYESNONO’s we were promised honey!
Something Borrowed with Harry Baker
Writing
Essential Remedies with Deji Ijishakin
There’s nobody quite like Deji. Incendiary saxophonist, bandleader of Hypernova (an eccentric and explosive meeting of jazz and philosophy), member of Levitation Orchestra, student of Neuroscience and pioneer of Jazz Drill with his solo project Xvngo. We touched base with Deji to get his take on Essential Remedies and his suggestions didn’t disappoint: we are…
Essential Remedies with WOOM
Any WOOM fan will know that loving them is an exercise in patience: since playing their very first set at Brainchild Festival 2017, we have waited 4 long years for any WOOM recordings that we can hear from home. That is, until now… as they have just released their debut EP ~ Into the Rest.…
Essential Remedies with In Flames
Our next instalment in the Essential Remedies series comes from our favourite fire starters In Flames AKA Ruby Kwasiba Savage and Josephine Chime. Together, the two are an unstoppable duo of the dance! Their post-punk disco DJ sets are the stuff of legend, and we’ve been lucky enough to have them tear up the dancefloor at the…
Photography: Hollie Fernando
FAQ
Get In Touch
For job opportunities, volunteering & artist submissions for our events or the festival, please head to our Get Involved page.
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For general enquiries email team@brainchildfestival.co.uk