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Thee Sunday Sonics was initially put together in 2015 by Hastings-based artist and musician Danny Pockets as a free entry event within the Fat Tuesday weekend, designed to bring a more experimental element to one of Britain’s most popular music festivals. In the intervening five years the event’s reach and timeframe has expanded as its name has got shorter, migrating and mutating between different venues in the town - from Compendium Studios and The Old Chemist in St Leonards-on-Sea, to the Observer Building, Borough Wines Basement and Printworks Hastings and, to Blackmarket VIP in the heart of Hastings Old Town in 2019, where the bulk of this year’s action will also take place - without ever compromising its distinctive identity.

Central to Sonics’ particular character is the rare equilibrium it maintains between music and visual presentation, with video and digital installations, sonic art and sculpture integrated into the very fabric of each year’s venue, and special care taken to ensure accessibility for interested locals of all ages and social backgrounds to every part of the creative process. In moving the event on since the sad death of its founder in March 2018, Danny Pockets’ former co-curator, local electronic musician and promoter James Weaver, and the rest of the Sonics team have taken particular care to maintain Sonics’ commitment to exploring the collaborative potential of both established and as yet undiscovered creative communities. For 2020, the event includes additional artists, installations, visual content, workshops and events selected by co-curators Lucy Kork, Ben Thompson and the Sonics' visual team of Adam Seeley, Mauricio Vincenzi and Nick Weekes.

For 2020, our mission is to present the most musically diverse in Sonics’ illustrious history. We are committed to expanding on the inclusivity of previous years, maintaining a strong focus on female artists, with an equality of representation among artists and performers that makes a happy change from the male-dominated norm, and a sequence of workshops designed to disseminate Sonics’ gospel of boundary-free creativity as far and as fluidly as possible to all abilities, ages, genders and identities. In this as in the entirety of their endeavours the organisers of Sonics 2020 would like to express their appreciation for the continued support of both Fat Tuesday Music Festival and The Arts Council and the incredible support of new Sonics 2020 sponsors, Hastings record shop, Wow And Flutter.