BYLINE FESTIVAL 2025

*** 11-13 july 2025 *** keele university ***

*BRought to you by Byline Times* *WITH sell-out shows* *AND MORE TO BE ANNOUNCED*

*line up*

**MUSIC**

*DJ SMUTTY*

… of legendary punk-rockabilly band ‘Levi and the Rockats’

*Names*

WITH BRAND NEW MATERIAL...!

*The People's Friends*

Quasi-classical symmetries fracture into thumping punk fuelled mayhem, swirling through psychedelic fog

**COMEDY**

*Hook Up Culture Cabaret*

BRILLIANT COMEDY - BACKED BY A LIVE JAZZ BAND!

**COMMENT & LITERATURE**

*OTTO ENGLISH & ROSIE HOLT HOST: 'The Bad Press Awards’*

(The FEstival favouritE & SELL-OUT SHOW)

*Byline Times Talk Programme*

HELD in A beautiful chapel, featuring Byline Times writers and special guests, including…

**THEATRE**

*Rosie Holt - ‘Churchill’s Urinal’*

BRILLIANT SATIRE FROM BRITAIN’S FIRST FEMALE CHANCELLOR (…)

*Asif Kapadia - ‘2073’*

Gripping drama FROM THE award-winning director

**WORKSHOPS & DISCUSSIONS**

gET INVOLVED and join one of OUR INSPIRING SESSIONS

* Solve gender inequality * write a novel plot * create a protest poem *

* TAKE PART IN AN Intergenerational mind map *

*SPECIAL GUESTS*

* Naz Shah MP * Lord Adebowale * Dawn Butler MP *

* Peter Geoghegan * Jamie Kelsey Fry * Brian Klaas *

AND MORE……