anti social camp is the largest songwriting festival in the world — where the industry comes to creatives, not the other way around. each year in new york city and london, thousands of artists convene for a free, week-long festival of recording sessions, showcases, industry partnerships, community and educational programming supported by our nonprofit foundation.
anti social camp uk returns november 16-20 presented by tileyard. with 20,000 artist applications anually, festival alumni include busta rhymes, pinkpantheress, nile rodgers, glass animals, jacob collier, cash cobain, cigarettes after sex and ava max. partners have included tidal, tiktok, youtube, spotify, the recording academy and jack daniel’s, with coverage in rolling stone, variety and the new yorker.
anti social camp uk returns november 16-20 presented by tileyard. with 20,000 artist applications anually, festival alumni include busta rhymes, pinkpantheress, nile rodgers, glass animals, jacob collier, cash cobain, cigarettes after sex and ava max. partners have included tidal, tiktok, youtube, spotify, the recording academy and jack daniel’s, with coverage in rolling stone, variety and the new yorker.
see below for a detailed itinerary.
we kicked off the week monday morning with the anti social music conference at samsung kx — presenting our icon award to legends glass animals, jamie cullum and billy bragg for a live podcast recording of sodajerker. and then walk the moon performed and hosted a songwriting masterclass, writing a new one live in the room with anti social artists.
on monday evening, hundreds packed colours hoxton for the anti social industry showcase presented by musixmatch, featuring nathan sykes, mae stephens and 25 headlining artists.
tileyard came alive as creators went to work at 200 recording sessions to make tomorrow’s hits.
the tiktok artist lounge became home base throughout the week at tileyard gallery and TYX — hosting creator content, industry 1×1 mentoring sessions and popups from tidal, believe music publishing and splice.
tuesday evening brought the anti social writers round to victoria dalston, where artists told the stories behind the songs in our only acoustic showcase.
with recording sessions entering their final stretch, artists gathered for an evening with tidal at tileyard before taking over the standard hotel.
we cleaned up good on the red carpet for the anti social gala at shoreditch town hall.
it was the world premiere of 100 songs created throughout camp and a celebration of everything that happened over five days together.
Hundreds of students from Tileyard Education and London schools had the opportunity to learn from music industry leaders and receive feedback on their songs with representatives from Atlantic, PRS and beyond.
