The Something Different Collaboration Gathering 2026 Event Info

4th -6th September at Out To Grass WR13 5JW

The Returning

Join us in 2026 as our collaboration gathers again to celebrate the amazing creative talents of our community and what is possible when we work together as one.
Never before has it been so clear that setting the right intentions when we gather can be a powerful thing.
we are trying to return to a balance of energy and less feelings of distance, separation and loneliness within our community, to improve mental health and general well being within our community. It’s about us thriving.
We are trying to embrace a return to care, well being, safe guarding and empathy to all within our community. To put this first and above all else.
We are trying to instigate a return to an older, ancient way of thinking that has been programmed out of our neurological mapping and internal emotional connections.
It is still there and present and ready to use again. We gather to open ourselves to this process, to embrace it and celebrate it.

We celebrate full power female energy and the return to the empathetic embrace of the feminine energy speaking to us through nature and vibrations. Sent from the spirit of our earth, Gaia.
This will bring a balance and connection of all things, into play.
Everything we do, we do for you, with love and empathy for all living things at the centre of it’s ethos.
I know I can rely on you full for support of our efforts because you are our energy and together we are Something Different

Keep your face all over this place for incoming plans and Full line up !!!x x x

Something Different Collaboration Gatherings 2026 – THE RETURNING !!!!

What to expect
-19 stage takeovers across 4 fully immersive and covered stage arenas.
– Hi-grade Sound-systems.
– Performance arts, Spoken Word and cabaret stage
– Opening Ceremony @ fire performance
– Being well & healing area
– Walk around entertainment
– Travelling temple of art gallery, live artists and crafts workshops
– Workshops and educational talks

Hand-picked selection of Market stalls
– Street food vendors catering to all dietary choices
– Fully Licensed Bar with very reasonable prices and a quality selection of drinks.
– Full weekend camping and glamping options.
– Well maintained toilets and showers
-Caring Security, production team, medical team, safeguarding team & Psycare
-Great site accessibility and facilities – and much, much more!

The Essentia Stage

Kicking off straight after the opening ceremony on Friday night with performances, live acts and DJs you will find all kinds of funky fun delivered by Something Different & OTG Presents. Expect Electro, Breaks, funk and live performances. On Saturday this is a perfect stage to check out while visiting the bar or on your way to our food vendors. Joining us for the first time this year you’ll find amazing live acts and live bands performing from midday till midnight presented by Strange Frequencies. We also have a new addition for Psy Sunday shenanigans on the Essentia Stage with Satori bringing the funky and chunky psy vibes leading up to Tribalsphere who will bring the stage to an epic psy crescendo for the weekend.

The Hive Stage

You will find full power Psy in all its forms on The Hive stage over the weekend. AudioAddictz will open the hive stage for us again this year and get you stomping with an eclectic mix of Psy and hard dance music. There will be an absolutely epic Psy adventure on Saturday with the stage hosted by Fluid Frequencies and Woodog Records giving you a blast of full force, forest, twilight and dark Psy. For those of you that like to go faster and harder till you reach a twitchy crescendo, the Hive Stage is the place for you on Sunday. Delivered by Psypiratz and Hitechnicians this stage will push the bpm spectrum from start to finish throughout Psy sunday.

The Flux Stage

You will always find something Epic and alternative to stomp to on the Flux’d stage. Starting with a colossal selection of Drum and Bass hosted by the returning Antimatter Audio crew on Friday. We have a whole load of new and exciting dugga dugga on Saturday for you. The Devotion crew and Brothers Grim’s – We Speak Techno gang will have you bouncing through the day and into the night. They will deliver an epic 12 hours filled with top Acid techno, 303 and Hard House Djs and Producers filling dance floors in the UK currently. You will find a tasty eclectic selection of breaks, garage, bassline, and drum and bass full flava behavior on Sunday with Mercurial Sounds and Sweetboy Sound teaming up for a 12 hour takeover.

The Secret Element Stage

With labels and events championing the explosion of lower to mid temp bpm genres. You can take a journey through from ambient electronic to funky psy breaks and chunky dark progressive and psy-techno over the weekend on the Secret element stage. Ease into the weekend on Friday with Anthropos Festival. As shenanigans peak on throughout Saturday it will get chunky on the Secret Element stage with a good dose of mid tempo psy, Psy-techno and Dark Progressive sounds from Extra Crispy and Shanti Planti Mellow and get your funk on as the day goes on Sunday with Psy chill, Psy dub and ambient and funky vibes Delivered by Deep Sea Frequencies and Fullcircle Festival.