Mutations 2025 was only 2 days and I saw 19 bands. This is the least number of days of any of the previous festivals.

• 2021 – 3 days – 31 bands
• 2022 – 4 days – 24 bands
• 2023 – 4 days – 31 bands.
• 2024 – 4 (out of 5 possible days) – 26 bands
• 2025 – 2 days – 19 bands

When I started going on in 2021 the capacity was set around 900 tickets per day, which is the capacity of Chalk. The USP of the festival was that everyone could see the headliners at chalk each day. In 2025 I calculated the capacity of all the venues combined to be 2050 and they sold 2000 tickets. On the second day the combined capacity in the evenings dropped to 1900 so it was inevitable that some people would not get into some venues and all the venues were rammed. This is the same problem the Great Escape festival had back in the late 00’s.  It’s not sustainable and will piss people off.

Anyway, here’s who I saw in 2025:

Fri​day 7th November

1. Silver Gore at Patterns
2. Makeshift Art Bar at Chalk
3. My First Time at Revenge
4. The Orielles at Chalk
5. Mandrake Handshake at Revenge
6. Ratboys at Revenge
7. Pollyfromthedirt at The Folklore Rooms
8. Renny Conti at The Hope and Ruin
9. Mamalarky at The Prince Albert
10. Teke::Teke at The Prince Albert
11. Adwaith at The Prince Albert

Sat​urday 8th November

1. Midding at Green Door Store
2. Ashnymph at The Prince Albert
3. Blood Wizard at Green Door Store
4. Men An Tol at The Hope & Ruin
5. My Precious Bunny at Alphabet
6. Nightbus at Green Door Store
7. The Oozes at Revenge
8. Waldo’s Gift at Patterns