Acid Horse 2025: tQ’s 10 Essential Picks

Less than two months out from the return of Pewsey’s Acid Horse, Noel Gardner picks out 10 must-sees at this year’s edition, from Matmos to Milkweed via ballroom-gone-industrial, Eastern Bloc alt pop, psychic drone and much, much more

Last year’s Acid Horse. Photo by Maria Jefferis

Come all ye to the village of Pewsey in Wiltshire, home to all manner of bespoke festivities in its history no doubt. But forget everything you know about village fetes when it comes to Acid Horse, because this three-day kneesup in and around Pewsey’s Barge Inn will be a sonic dazzlement spanning rock, dance, folk, noise and things defying even those classifications. It will also be a convivial change to form friendships or revive old ones…

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