The Drill, Lincoln
Sonic Boom Independent Music Festival 2025
Free Main Stage 12-8pm Tickets to Evening Aftershocks
Saturday 13th September 2025
Doors: 12:00
About Sonic Boom Festival
Over 50 original new music artists. One ticket. One town. One big day of discovery. A festival like no other. Not-for-profit, community-led, and back for a huge second year.
Everything Everything headline a free main stage in Burton town centre. Joined by K.O.G, Prima Queen, The Clause, better joy, Leah Wilcox and Joel Foster. Hosted by Chris Hawkins (BBC Radio 6 Music)
Main Stage is FREE. You do not need a ticket - come along, have a drink and some food and buy a tee shirt.
After 8pm YOU NEED A TICKET TO SEE Chiedu Oraka, Lissy Taylor, The Bug Club, Riding the Low, The Leisure Society, Omega Nebula, Seb Lowe, CLT DRP, Ruby J, Tom A Smith and loads more playing across the town.
BBC Introducing will be live from town with a 🔥 lineup of rising regional stars.
Sonic Boom Festival is run by Sonic Boom Music CIC, a not-for-profit grown to celebrate the thriving music scene in Burton on Trent. Chris Hawkins (BBC Radio 6Music) calls it "a festival like no other" - with a free main stage at the heart of a genre and venue hopping one day, town centre festival.
We're a fiercely independent team of local music professionals, promoters, and music lovers backed by the council to bring live music to the whole community. Around the festival, we create paid opportunities for regional artists and invest in the next generation of industry professionals. All ticket income goes back into the festival, paying artist fees, and our year-round training programme for 15–25 year olds, TURBO.
Sonic Boom Official Aftershock Stages
BBC Introducing (Brewhouse Arts Centre) Stage - accessible, all ages (expect adult language)
This Feeling (Burton College) Stage - accessible, 16+
Burton Town Hall Stage - accessible, all ages (expect adult language)
Burton Caribbean Association Stage (and kitchen) - accessible
Tower Brewery Stage - 18+
Burton Library Stage - accessible, all ages (expect adult language)
Line-up
Here a handy 'who is on where in the evening' cheat sheet. Lots more info on the website.
Tower Brewery Stage
- The Bug Club
- Seb Lowe
- CLT DRP
- Joan Smith & The Jane Does
Burton Library Stage
- Chiedu Oraka
- Ruby J
- Revivlary
Town Hall
- The Leisure Society
- Riding the Low
Burton Caribbean Association Stage
- Omega Nebula
- JayaHadADream
- Burton Bass (DnB Collective)
This Feeling (Burton College) Stage
- Eighty Eight Miles
- Tom A Smith
- The Slates
BBC Introducing (Brewhouse) Stage
- Special Guest Lissy Taylor
- Taylor Liam Jackson
- Emily Alice
- French Exit
- Fools & Sages
Also, pop up stages and secret finds all across town with:
Analogue Electronic Whatever, Andy Crowe, Andy Hughes, Anna Milne, Ashton Spiby Wood, Better Joy, Burton Bass, Charlotte Bettson, Charlie Rogers, Chiedu Oraka, CLT DRP, DJ Neil (Unofficial After Party), Dodgy Jammers, Dorothy Ella, Edd Saffell, Eighty Eight Miles, Emily Alice, Emma Buckley, Everything Everything, Fools & Sages, French Exit, Gareth Humphries, Gordon Parma, Harry Parker, Honor, Horthworld, Jack Alfie Smith, Jayahadadream, JJ Lovegrove, Joel Foster, Joan Smith & the Jane Does, KOG, Lauren Mary, Leah Wilcox, Lissy Taylor, Matt Peach, Omega Nebula, Prima Queen, Revivalry, Riding The Low, Robbie Denver, Rose Melba, Ruby J, Scrump, Seany Bailey, Seb Lowe, Sheena Vultaggio, Smithy, Sticky Bones Jones, Taylor Liam Jackson, The Bug Club, The Cabanas, The Clause, The Herron Brothers, The Leisure Society, The Ritz, Tom A Smith, Vivienne Wilder, Will Underwood.
Challenge 25
Please note there is a challenge 25 policy at all bars and u18s MUST be accompanied by an adult.
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