No Bounds Festival

No Bounds Festival No Bounds Festival returns 9-11th October 2026 in Sheffield & Rotherham UK. Music, art, technology and community.

28/05/2026

No Bounds is back!! 🫟 9-11th October 2026 🛸 Sign Up For Pre-Sale Now!!📝

We are so excited to announce that your favourite boundary pushing festival will be back from 9-11th October 2026 getting stuck in across multiple venues in Sheffield and Rotherham!!💥
 
To register for Pre-Sale 📮 and be the first to access tickets 🎟️ Head to the link 🔗 in bio above👆

Pre-Sale tickets will go live next Tuesday, 2nd June at 11am 🚨⏰ with General Release & First Line Up announcement dropping soon after!!⏳👀

10/05/2026

Hello World!! 💞 The engine is starting up once more ⚙️ Our annual act of joyful noise, radical creativity, conversation, connection & adventure is almost here.🫟

As we put the final touches on No Bounds 2026, we take a moments pause, a unique moment, as we accelerate toward 2027 and our 10th birthday. We cannot wait to share this year’s programme and lineup with you soon. 👀👀

But before we open the next chapter, we wanted to look back for a moment…

Today we’re sharing a brand new film that captures the energy, emotion, people and unforgettable moments that made No Bounds Festival 2025 so special. A reminder of what happens when artists, audiences, spaces and communities come together to imagine something different. 🎞️🎥🎨🫂

Huge thanks to and our video team .ski for the beautiful video edit 📺 and to all of our partners and funders who helped 🙏 make No Bounds 2025 possible:

Sheffield City Council
Arts Council England
Hallam University
Treatment Studio
Flux Rotherham
Arts Catalyst
GLOAM Gallery

I K L E C T I K

Our Curators:

Mark Fell & Rian Treanor
carter gordon
Alex Mclean oracles
dance
Picture Palace North

More soon.🌀
The countdown has begun.⏳⏰

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07/05/2026

Huge congratulations to for his impeccably researched new book on the history of indecent music in Sheffield. Out now via

We love Dan’s writing, and his curiosity, diligence and and love of the scene in Sheffield has birthed this essential new book. It really is a MUST read for anyone interested in the Sheffield scene, it’s also got a couple of pages featuring our director

We will be celebrating this new work at No Bounds 2026 (coming soon👀) but for now, we urge you to go and buy a copy. If you’re in Sheffield today he’s got a book launch at tonight from 7pm with some great DJ’s and loads of local heads popping down.

See you all soon…this is a big day, not just local elections, but the celebration of the most definitive piece of writing to date specifically about the Sheffield Music scene, from to Jive Turkey, via and …..it’s so detailed and informative about so many aspects of music culture here.❤️❤️❤️

Looking back at No Bounds 2025: Grit & Graft, we’re filled with gratitude for all the wonderful, life-affirming moments ...
28/12/2025

Looking back at No Bounds 2025: Grit & Graft, we’re filled with gratitude for all the wonderful, life-affirming moments we shared together. 💞

This year was different. It was the first No Bounds Festival without our beloved Hope Works, and the first edition fully in nomad mode. While we felt the loss of not raving at our spiritual home, we also found a new horizon to reach for. A new way to explore our wider spiritual home of South Yorkshire.

In 2025, we crossed a bridge toward even greater freedom, deeper community, and a wider reach. We did what we said we would: channel all our passion, energy, and love from Hope Works into No Bounds moving forward and together, we achieved that and more, in our biggest edition yet.

From the bottom of our hearts, thank you for supporting us and for coming with us on this journey exploring life through music and hybrid arts, rooted in our home while welcoming the world in. We are global and we are local - not mutually exclusive, but intertwined, just like human complexity itself.

Our mission remains unchanged since we began in 2017: to build an internationally significant festival in South Yorkshire that supports and nurtures our own artists and creatives, while inspiring and celebrating the best worldwide talent we can find.

Huge love and thanks to all the incredible artists, curators, venues, and production teams we worked with in 2025. We can’t wait for 2026 - stay close, as we’ll be sharing more very soon.

Until then, here are a few more moments from No Bounds 2025 to remember what went down.

See you all in 2026.

📸 James Ward Lili Takes Flickis, Misha Warren & Jade Ayino

Love,
Team No Bounds ###

It fills us with great sadness to hear of the passing of Ken Downie, one of the three original founding members of The B...
23/12/2025

It fills us with great sadness to hear of the passing of Ken Downie, one of the three original founding members of The Black Dog, formed in 1989 - Warp originals and Sheffield legends whose work helped define the early 90’s era of Warp Records and influenced countless other artists.

We have worked with The Black Dog for many years, and throughout that time their practice has consistently impressed us as much for its conceptual depth as for its versatility. Their work exists far beyond performance alone: immersive, architectural, and deeply human.

From swimming baths to cathedrals to warehouse clubs, they transformed spaces into sites of sonic inquiry, always delivering richly detailed worlds with integrity, curiosity, and passion.

Ken’s contribution to electronic music - and to The Black Dog’s enduring, future-facing vision - will remain profoundly influential to us and to the wider cultural landscape. His ideas are woven into the fabric of No Bounds Festival and will continue to resonate with us into the future.

We send our heartfelt condolences to Ken’s family, friends, and collaborators at this time. He will be missed greatly.

With Love 🖤
No Bounds Festival

13/11/2025

Beatport x No Bounds Festival ~ Quickfire Questions ft Big Ang, Silva Bumpa & Tash LC!!🎤💣

The crew were up in Sheffield last month asking those REAL questions ya know.⁉️⁉️

Brick wall, cold breeze, hotter takes , and stepping into the firing line and serving insight with a side of chaos.🫟

Check the vid above to find out who has love for Fridge Raiders BUT not Bassline.😱😱

We are extremely grateful to Andrew Moore for another superb piece about the festival and the wider significance of elec...
03/11/2025

We are extremely grateful to Andrew Moore for another superb piece about the festival and the wider significance of electronic music culture from South Yorkshire for the whole world!! 🌍

This piece for Clash Magazine is another really great deep dive into , its significance, and the thoughts of other really important members off our electronic music community!🔊

We are so grateful for this piece, and for everyone who continued to inspire us and help us keep growing our wonderful community here at No Bounds every year!!🙏💞

📖To read the article head to the website 🌐 at the link 🔗 in our bio👆

   

We’re still pinching ourselves after the most incredible experience in Rotherham two weeks ago today, for the Sunday pro...
26/10/2025

We’re still pinching ourselves after the most incredible experience in Rotherham two weeks ago today, for the Sunday programme of No Bounds 2025. 💞🦀

Curated by Mark Fell & Rian Treanor, the day brought together talks, workshops, performances and food across three venues and ended with our traditional closing concert, this time at Rotherham Minster.🌀

Rian Treanor & Bianca Scout’s dance project with pupils from Clifton Community School opened the day at R.O.A.R Westgate with pure magic - a life-enhancing premiere filled with young talent, energy & heart. Huge thanks to Chera & the Clifton team for supporting this special collaboration.🔮✨

At ROAR Grove Road (Hope Centre), the atmosphere was electric and communal - like a music, art and dialogue-drenched soup kitchen 🍲. Momma Arab’s incredible Yemeni food was served free for everyone after our Art, Culture & Solidarity in Times of Injustice talk with Terre Thaemlitz & Rotherham Friends of Palestine.🎙️🇵🇸

Signal Sounds hosted a drop-in for families to explore electronic instruments, Rashad Becker’s workshop inspired all, Outlands gathered brilliant voices from the UK experimental arts community. Sets from RP Boo, Beatrice Dillon, & Mat Steele lit up the room - with a surprise performance from one of Electronic Music Club’s young Rotherham DJs. 🎹🎛️🔊🔥

As evening fell, we moved to Rotherham Minster, where Rai’s performance on Shinobue, Shakuhachi & Irish flute (with Koshiro Hino on FX) mesmerised us all, followed by the full splendour of Kakuhan & Rai. Then came Rotherham Sight & Sound - an unforgettable performance that ended with a long, heartfelt standing ovation. 🎻🎼🙌

Finally, NZO reset the space beautifully for Rainy Miller, whose intimate performance of Joseph, What Have You Done? left the audience completely still - a true outer-body moment.🛸💫

Thank you to everyone who made this day possible, especially Arts Council England, Mark Fell, Rian Treanor, Flux, Rotherham Music, R.O.A.R., Rotherham Friends of Palestine, Rotherham Minster & to children’s Capital Of Culture for including the festival in their Autumn programme.🙏

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📸 No Bounds 2025 through the lens of For over a decade, Lili has been woven into the fabric of Sheffield’s underground -...
24/10/2025

📸 No Bounds 2025 through the lens of

For over a decade, Lili has been woven into the fabric of Sheffield’s underground - a dancer, community builder and documenter whose eye catches the spirit that words can’t. From Hope Works dance floors to DIY radio booths, her photography is both love letter and time capsule, celebrating the communities that shaped her lens: raw energy, emotion, and the unspoken language between friends moving to the same rhythm.

For this edition of Through The Lens, we spotlight her shots from our 2025 Opening Rave at Peddler Warehouse - Interplanetary Criminal and Silva Bumpa in full flight, channeling the pulse of the room and freezing that surge of motion when the crowd became one organism, every frame alive with that Steel City energy.

A long-term member of the No Bounds and Hope Works family, Lili’s work carries the same heartbeat that built these spaces - community, self-expression and graft. Her images don’t just document a night; they hold a decade of friendship and movement, all seen through the eyes of someone who helped shape the story.

A reminder that photography isn’t just observation - it’s participation, belonging, and the love that keeps the culture moving.


We’re still buzzing from the incredible performances by and at this year’s 2025, presented in collaboration with our ...
22/10/2025

We’re still buzzing from the incredible performances by and at this year’s 2025, presented in collaboration with our brilliant partners . Each artist captivated us with beautifully intimate, thought-provoking performances. 🎼🤔💭

Bint Mbareh invited the audience to become part of her piece - teasing out words, sung and spoken, to form a living, breathing collective artwork. Her exploration of practice and theme was both delicate and profound, leaving us questioning and inspired in the best possible way. 🇵🇸🗣️🎙️

Rashad Becker drew us deep into his psychedelic 360° sound field - an intricate tapestry of rhythm, tone, and suggestion. It was a masterful work of immersive sound art that felt almost ritualistic; cleansing, challenging, and utterly transformative. 🎛️🍄🎹🌀

Huge thanks to for curating this special collaboration, and to for hosting these performances on the 12:4 system, which elevated the experience even further. 🙏🔊

And heartfelt gratitude to and the amazing team at G-Mill for providing the space and support that made our week-long residency possible.💞

Photos by the wonderful & , who both captured the magic perfectly. 📸🔮

Today, we’re feeling grateful - for our partners, our community, and the beautiful, challenging work we’ve shared together. Here’s to more moments like this in 2026! 💫

   

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