Wild Paths 2025 14th - 18th October

Wild Paths Festival 

14/10/25 - 18/10/25
Just £45 for a festival pass! 150+ bands & DJs, 15 venues & pop-up stages. 5 days of the best new music - live shows, afterparties and music conferences in the centre of Norwich. What are you waiting for? Grab a super cheap festival or day pass and explore it all!

Tickets Here https://wildpaths.gigantic.com/wild-paths-festival-tickets

Wild Paths is a multi-venue music festival spread across iconic venues and pop-up stages at the heart of Norwich. Featuring an eclectic line-up of jazz, indie, neo-soul, post-punk, psych and so much more! Paired with two days of music industry conferences, afterparties, pop-up bars, food experiences & screenings. It’s a city-wide celebration of music, culture and community

Where’s it guna be?!

Well, in Norwich!... Venues this year include a skatepark in a church, a micro-brewery, a chapel, a secret cocktail den, a hidden street and the basement of a pizza joint. Every space has its own character and specific sound, so make sure you visit them all!  

Festival First Wave

Tell me more about all this music!

The first wave includes a ton of exciting new acts, from the smooth soulful jazz-tinged sounds of South Londoner BINA. to Brighton’s Lime Garden and their unique brand of ‘wonk pop’, blending disco with surf-rock and melodic post-punk. Joining these two Wild Paths returnees is multi-instrumentalist Quinn Oulton whose sound skips between intricate jazz arrangements and catchy RnB. Quinn's live set is a showcase of his unbridled talent, from an artist who's also played and produced for a number of other notable acts in the jazz/soul scene. 

One of 2025’s must see acts Bristol’s Getdown Services join the first wave, with their danceable grooves and astute, hilarious put-downs of modern Britain - not to be missed! For those that like a faceful of brass with their post-punk O. blend ferocious baritone sax with some very adept drum work while Y (spawned from members of Fat White Family and Pregoblin) deliver unpredictable, sharp-edged riffs and a unique brand of jazzy wonk rock. 

This year we’ve turned up the dial to 11 and invited a selection of heavier bands to play a skatepark in a church! Local heroes Other Half are joined by the queercore, savage punk sounds of Shooting Daggers and innovative Bristol band Knives. 

However, if you’re after a more folk-tinged, slightly softer sound then head to the Octagon Chapel for Brown Horse. Norwich’s own six-piece make guitar-driven 90s alt-rock with the folk and country sounds of the 70s. You’d also better make sure you catch Olive Jones, a London-based singer, songwriter, Olive draws on soul, blues and alt-folk to produce her sumptuous melody driven music. 

We’ve announced our first after-party with Donna Leake - a mainstay of Brilliant Corners and NTS Donna draws sounds from all over the globe and all over the clock including jazz, reggae and psych.

Sorry if we went on a bit there’s just so much we're excited to see!