With 140 artists playing at Rewire’s upcoming 14th festival edition in The Hague, there are countless performances to discover over the weekend. To help guide you along the journey, we are sharing 10 hidden gems from our most extensive festival edition yet.
Performing each day of the festival, this kinetic performance from artist, vocalist, choreographer, and performance artist Kinlaw provides a giddy spectacle like no other. Delicate and harmonious chamber pop is transposed with whirling and energetic industrial tracks – creating an unfolding sense of movement and stillness, battling an eternal tug of war. The show – based on music from her newly released album gut ccheck (2025) – is part choreography, part popstar, and part chaos – fusing Kinlaw's electrifying calisthenic electronica with theatrical staging and unbridled movement.
Fri 4 Apr 22:45–23:20
Sat 5 Apr 21:00–21:35
Sun 6 Apr 20:10–20:45
Theater aan het Spui - Zaal 2
European premiere
Watch "Kinlaw - SPIT (Official Video)" by "KinlawVEVO" on https://www.youtube.com/
In Sealionwoman's smoky doom folk, Kitty Whitelaw's plaintive, beautiful melodies cut through Tye McGivern's distorted double-bass to create a vivid sense of contrast. Illusive and alluring, Sealionwoman's music dabbles thematically in celtic folktales and mythology, while crescendoing sonically from minimalistic harmony into ritualistic chaos. Catch them play on Friday or Saturday at the festival.
Fri 4 Apr 21:45–22:30
Korzo - Studio
Sat 5 Apr 19:00–19:45
Koorenhuis
Verdensteatret is an artist collective based in Oslo. Since 1986, the group have worked continuously, pushing the boundaries of theatre and visual art. Today, the collective consists of video and sound artists, painters and poets, and sculptors and computer programmers who join together to create intricate audiovisual works. One such piece, Flat Sun, comes to Rewire 2025. This unmissable and unique work combines an extended cinema experience with that of a concert and a theatrical performance to create a one-of-a-kind encounter. Flat Sun is performed twice on Friday evening at Theater aan het Spui.
Fri 4 Apr 17:35–18:25 and 21:45–22:35
Theater aan het Spui - Zaal 1
NL premiere
Watch "Verdensteatret: Flat Sun (Ploché Slunce)" by "4_4 dny v pohybu" on https://www.youtube.com/
BITOI is a Swedish-Danish quartet made up of Cassius Lambert on electric bass and vocalists Alexandra Shabo, Lise Kroner, and Anja Tietze Lahrmann. This choir of three vocalists form the throughline of BITOI’s sound, guiding and leading Lambert’s bass through songs that are equally humble and lavish. Through his processed electric bass – which utilises pitch-shifting and an array of other ghostly effects – Lambert spins gorgeous spectral melodies that belie the bass guitar’s reputation as predominantly a low-frequency instrument. Their live shows slowly build and brim with a magic sensibility; catch them on Friday and Saturday at Rewire 2025.
Fri 4 Apr 21:00–21:45
Korzo - Zaal
Sat 5 Apr 23:15–23:59
Lutherse Kerk
Watch "BITOI - PA-SI-PA (Live Sunnanå)" by "BITOI" on https://www.youtube.com/
Lol K are the South London duo of artist and musician CJ Calderwood – part of Good Sad Happy Bad, who also perform at Rewire this year – and DJ and producer Junior XL. Among the vast sources they draw from in their songcraft are genres as diverse as post classical, grunge, and contemporary club music. Their highly varied output maintains focus by continually seeking to connect multiple – seemingly distant – sonic worlds. In Lol K’s "genreless" live set, Jersey club kicks clash against doom-laden atmospherics, soaring string sections, and detuned riffs.
Fri 4 Apr 01:15–02:00
Korzo - Studio
NL premiere
Watch "Lol K - Outside Chance (Official Video)" by "Halcyon Veil" on https://www.youtube.com/
In a European premiere, the glistening, mutant post-rock of Body Meπa comes to Rewire 2025. Body Meπa are a quartet made up of Greg Fox on drums, Sasha Frere-Jones and Grey McMurray on guitar, and Melvin Gibbs on bass. Amidst swirling effects loops and cyclical and explosive percussion, this group of genre-traversing luminaries teases out works of delectable scale, cavernous breadth, and diabolic warmth. Coming from differing and intersecting traditions of improvised music, rock, jazz, fusion, and contemporary classical, the four come together as Body Meπa. They perform live on Saturday and Sunday.
Sat 5 Apr 00:00–00:45
Korzo - Zaal
Sun 6 Apr 18:15–19:00
PAARD II
European premiere
Aho Ssan is the moniker of electronic musician and artist Niamké Désiré; while Resina is the alias of composer and cellist Karolina Rec. Together, they present Ego Death at Rewire 2025. Their music brims with dark, cinematic intensity, stretching the tonality of the cello to its breaking point and exploring the textures left in its wake. Crackling noise, field recordings, and expansive synthesis shape their compositions, bringing a dynamic and ever-shifting sonic terrain. Across the eight chapters of Ego Death, a wordless narrative unfolds – one of dissolution and reassembly, revealing music’s profound capacity as a language of emotion, subjectivity, and spirituality.
Sat 5 Apr 22:00 –22:45
Koninklijke Schouwburg
NL premiere
Coquetta is the glamorous and extravagant alter ego of sound artist Ioana Vreme Moser, whose work revolves around hardware electronics, speculative research, and tactile experimentation. Moser uses electronic components in interaction with her own body, organic materials, and environmental stimuli. Obsessed with self-beautification, Coquetta applies makeup with utensils that are part sound-device and part beauty-product. Circuitry, make-up substances, and voltages entangle in this performance, as Coquetta's makeup routine is transformed into a peculiar sound piece of playful, flamboyant abrasion.
Sun 6 Apr 18:15–18:55
Theater aan het Spui - Zaal 2
NYX is a London-based collective of artists who join together as a futuristic choir – taking the voice and its potentials to new places, while melding it with sparkling and sincere electronic production. Their ethereal music blossoms out from extended vocal techniques which blur the line between voice and instrument. Led by music director Sian O’Gorman, thematically, the project finds connections between the body, architecture, and nature in an effort to create a celestial form of vocal embodiment. They return to the festival after an impressive performance with Iona Fortune at Rewire 2019. "These are our wild voices that want to be heard and loved," they write, "by ourselves, by our pack." At The Hague's Grote Kerk, become one with NYX's momentous choral compositions.
Sat 5 Apr 00:00–00:45
Grote Kerk
NL premiere
Watch "Everything I Wanted For You" by "NYX electronic drone choir" on https://www.youtube.com/
Wendy Eisenberg is an improviser and songwriter who uses guitar, tenor banjo, computer, synthesizer, and the voice to create genre-spanning works: from jazz to noise to avant-rock to delicate folk. On their critically acclaimed album Viewfinder (2024), foggy free jazz, bossa nova, and indie guitar sounds coalesce. Eisenberg’s background as a writer leaks into their songs, whose freer elements of unbridled jazzy chaos are offset by a sensitive, writerly attention to detail and theme. Unfurling as a synaesthetic, paradoxical epic of “sounds about vision,” upon the close of Eisenberg’s Viewfinder, one may discover a sense of fog being lifted through what the songs elicit: harmonious thoughtfulness and gleaming clarity, both of which will be heard when they perform with a band at Rewire.
Sun 6 Apr 16:00–16:45
PAARD II
NL premiere