A UNIQUE WEEKEND OF
MUSIC · SCIENCE · COSMIC CULTURE · FAMILY FUN
revealed, Spring 2023
EXPLORE BLUEDOT
Bluedot 2022’s unique combination of music, science, arts, culture and family fun saw us host music headliners Björk and The Hallé, Mogwai and Metronomy, Groove Armada and Hannah Peel & Paraorchestra, iconic science speakers including Tim Peake, Libby Jackson and Brian Cox, cultural icons including Helen Pankhurst, Delia Derbyshire Day and Rough Trade Books and family fun from Big Fish Little Fish, Brainiac Live, Clangers and much, much more. Bluedot 2022’s line-up was our most diverse and most varied line-up to date, with a broader range of non-music activity than any previous year, record crowds for science and culture names, and a higher proportion of female/non-binary and non-white performers than ever before.
‘A triumphant return… myriad of eclectic delights and musical highlights’ – BBC
‘A unique festival in which science and music go hand-in-hand, and where homemade spacesuits are as plentiful as band T-shirts’ – The Guardian
★★★★ The Guardian · ★★★★★ Manchester Evening News · ★★★★ The Times
*Thursday Opening Concert requires separate ticket to bluedot weekend and can be booked either as a standalone day ticket or an add-on to your weekend booking.
FULL WEEKEND LINEUP TO BE ANNOUNCED
BOUTIQUE AT BLUEDOT
Introducing The Colony, our boutique campsite at bluedot. Wake up beneath the towering Lovell Telescope in our Bell Tents, Podpads, Bedouin Tents and more, and explore the vast wonders of the cosmos – or just sit back and observe the view. If you’d like to upgrade your standard weekend camping to something extraordinary, The Colony is the place for you.
These are available as buy outright or with our deposit scheme – spreading your payment across instalments, paid off before you arrive at bluedot.
2022 LINE-UP
- Groove Armada
- Björk with The Hallé
- Mogwai
- Metronomy
- Hannah Peel and Paraorchestra present The Unfolding
- Public Service Broadcasting
- Plus Very Special Guests Sea Power
- The Pankhurst Sessions With Laura Bates, Nikita Gill and Natasha Walter
- Huw Griffiths BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY
- Kojey Radical
- Kelly Lee Owens
- Tim Peake
- Libby Jackson
- Jim Al-Khalili
- Monica Grady
- Chris Lintott
- Stewart Lee PRESENTS KING ROCKER
- Desiree Burch
- Adam Buxton The Best Of Bug!
- Lolly Adefope
- Squarepusher
- Yard Act
- Anna Meredith
- Working Mens Club
- Warmduscher
- Orlando Weeks
- Oumou Sangare
- BCUC
- Pongo
- Mary Anne Hobbs
- Jane Weaver
- Tim Burgess
- Porridge Radio
- Lonelady
- Lido Pimienta
- Lanterns on the Lake
- A Certain Ratio
- Jockstrap
- Haai
- I. Jordan
- Alewya
- Los Bitchos
- Kathleen Frances
- David Olusoga
- Dale Vince
- Jessica Wade & Melissa Castrillón
- Rough Trade Books WITH MUSA OKWONGA, ROY AND MORE
- Tim’s Twitter Listening Parties
- A Problem Squared
- Brainiac Live
- Clangers
- The Space Shed
- Aardman Animations
- soapbox shorts
- psyched!
- Creative Manchester Poetry: Remixes and Reimagination
- Creative Manchester Crime and Punishment
- Creative Manchester Love and Being
- Creative Manchester Our Future Selves
- Creative Manchester Writing Nature ft The Nan Shepherd Prize
- To the Round Meadow: Alan Garner and Jodrell Bank Film presentation and panel discussion
- Eric Drass
- Rebecca Bowler
- Matthew Cobb
- Keith Grainge
- Robert Walsh
- Jill Tarter
- Maggie Aderin-Pocock
- Rene Breton
- Ben Stappers
- Dr Shari Breen
- Sad Night Dynamite
- Henge
- Sofia Kourtesis
- The Goa Express
- A Guy Called Gerald
- WH Lung
- Manara
- LYR
- Nabihah Iqbal and Libby Heaney
- Katy J Pearson
- Keeley Forsyth
- Peaness
- Stealing Sheep and Radiophonic Workshop present La Planete Sauvage
- The Eccentronic Research Council & Maxine Peake
- Balraj Singh Samrai and Farah Ahmad Khan
- The Bug Club
- Secret Night Gang
- Nuha Ruby Ra
- Koreless
- Mark Radcliffe’s Une
- Goya Gumbani
- Joy Anonymous
- FaceSoul
- Ethan P Flynn
- Gretel Hanlyn
- FEARS
- NoSo
- Morgan Harper-Jones
- Mandy, Indiana
- Mewn
- Carly Mclachlan
- Richard Betts
- Jon Savage
- Daniel M. Davis
- Gillian Forrester
- Sheena Cruickshank
- Sarah Crowther
- Christopher Jackson
- Chris Jones
- Martha Hilton
- Kat Coyte
- John Ilee
- Jim Wild
- Leah Morabito
- Rob Rouse
- SNJÓLAUG LÚÐVÍKSDÓTTIR
- Robin Ince
- Ahir Shah
- Ignacio Lopez
- Andrew O’Neill’s History of Heavy Metal
- Kiri Pritchard-Mclean
- Garrett Millerick
- Matthew Winning
- New Scientist
- The bluedot podcast with Chris Hawkins
- Centre for New Writing
- Pop-Up Puppet Cinema
- The Actual Reality Arcade
- Mother and Baby Space
- Hengercise
- Big Fish Little Fish’s Cosmic Disco
- Jedi Lightsaber Training
- Twisted Time Machine
- Shlomo’s Beatbox Adventure for Kids
- Dance Like A Mother: The Family Edition 10:00 daily at Power Plant
- Bhangracise
- Morning Family Films FEATURING AARDMAN ANIMATIONS
- Watch The Skies
- Night time Parade BY GLOBAL GROOVES
- Cloudscapes
- Luminarium
- The Nectary by Alison Smith
- GAIA by Luke Jerram
- jodrell bank centre for astrophysics
- the great ape challenge
- Giant 303
- Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
- Manchester School of Architecture Landscapes of Infrastructure
- IT is Rocket Science – Beyond Infinity
- Science Made Simple
- Unmasked: The Science of Superheroes
- The Mousetrap Balloon Show
- Chester Zoo Who’s Calling Who?
- Earth and Solar System & Manchester Volcanology Volcanoes: What makes them go bang?
- Oh Bot Robot Comedy Workshop
- Practical Action Plastics Challenge & Floating Garden Challenge
- Cottonopolis Women’s Institute Galaxy Biscuit Decorating with Cottonopolis Women’s Institute
- The Making Rooms Soldering Badges Workshop
- The Making Rooms
- Carbon Co-op and People Powered Retrofit Carbon Co-op
- The James Webb Space Telescope
- Welcome to Jodrell Bank
- Telescope walking Tour
- British Geological Survey Wheel of Earth’s Fortune
- British Antarctic Survey Extreme Antarctica
- Science Grrl Creativity Science
- The SKA Observatory
- Practical Action
- Dalton Nuclear Institute Let’s talk about nuclear energy
- The Royal Society of Chemistry Take Charge
- Graphene, The University of Manchester Graphene City
- UK-MED & HCRI Sounding the Siren: HCRI and the Climate Crisis
- The Zooniverse The Zooniverse
- Manchester Centre for Audiology and Deafness (Mancad) Safe and Sound: How loud is too loud?
- Woodland Trust The Woodland Trust
- Macclesfield RSPB Wildlife Explorers Giving Nature a Home
- QET LABS, The University of bristol Quest Quantum
- Cheshire Wildlife Trust Wonderful Wildflowers
- Earth and Solar System Space Rocks!
- Manchester Girl Geeks Stomp Rockets!
- Chester Zoo Preventing Extinction with Science
- University of Manchester Physics Outreach (UMPO) Science Busking
- Telescope Projections by Greenaway & Greenaway
- Guerilla Archaeology of Space (GASA) The Archaeology of Space: Guerilla Archaeology Space Agency (GASA)
- Community Mapping Uganda Community Mapping Uganda
- Andrew Siemion
