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International Drone Day 2025

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  • International Drone Day 2025

    • International Drone Day is back!

    Whitstable based Coastal Electronauts present International Drone Day 2025 – an evening of tone clusters, electronic music and live immersive visuals.

    Following the success of previous years, Coastal Electronauts are back with their 3rd annual celebration of drone, community, and experimental sounds.

    International Drone Day was originally conceived by Marie LeBlanc Flanagan of Weird Canada in 2014 with events happening all around the world.

    This year we are excited to have the incredibly talented Sam Battle aka LOOK MUM NO COMPUTER headlining for us.

    LOOK MUM NO COMPUTER has been building his online following since 2017 when he began uploading videos to YouTube, in 2018 he released his first proper EP. Having played sold out shows across the UK and Europe and picked up support from BBC Radio 1 & 6 Music, he continues to tour and release music alongside writing and producing for other artists and sharing content on his YouTube channel.

    LOOK MUM NO COMPUTER’s YouTube channel now has over 650,000 subscribers and shows a real insight into the genius that Sam Battle is; be it building the musical Gameboy Mega Machine, an organ from 90’s toy Furbies or conducting an orchestra of 97 Lego Star Wars Droids to perform the film’s theme song, he is constantly working on creative musical projects. Sam builds his own synths and musical machines which he plays at his live shows and on his genre defying records.

    LOOK MUM NO COMPUTER will be supported by Coastal Electronauts regulars Shape Navigator, Sophie Sirota and AnalogueMechanic.

    Live interactive visuals will be provided by analogue/digital artist @diz_qo

    In addition to the evening’s performance, Electronauts Sebtic Smile and OSVoS will also be hosting a communal drone/jam before the main event; bring a bit of kit and join in. Book your place here:

    You can also hear them perform alongside Ghostyhed afterwards on the Cafe Stage.

    Here’s what people said about last year’s event that featured Benge and Mieko Shimizu:

    ‘Really enjoyed the evening with its eclectic mix of innovative music making. A sonic experience I would certainly recommend.’

    ‘This was a wonderful event with a great mix of performances. Superb sound and visuals throughout!’

    ‘Really enjoyed it. Good venue at a convenient location. A good selection of artists with different styles. Glad to have discovered International Drone Day.’

    Schedule for the evening:

    Cafe Stage

    5-7pm –  Communal Drone hosted by Sebtic Smile and OSVoS

    7-7.30pm DJ Way Back into Time

    Main theatre

    7.30pm – Shape Navigator/Sophie Sirota/AnalogueMechanic

    8.30pm – interval

    8.45pm – LOOK MUM NO COMPUTER

    Cafe Stage

    9.30- 10.30pm  – performances from Sebtic Smile, OSVoS and Ghostyhed

    Artist Info: 

    Shape Navigator

    Shape Navigator (aka Peter Coyte) started out on Guerilla Records in the 90s writing with Coldcut, Seal, David McAlmont and Heartless Crew and is a composer of music & sounds producing work in theatre, film and installations.

    He has long term collaborations with filmmakers Francois Verster and Joanna Callaghan, choreographer Dora Frankel, writer/poet Salena Godden and dragademic John-Paul Zaccarini. He is a co-founder of Coastal Electronauts podcast and music sessions.

    Sophie Sirota

    Sophie Sirota is an acoustic and electric violist, singer and composer. She has worked with a diverse range of artists as a session musician, arranger and composer, including 4-Hero, D’Influence, Gabrielle, Beth Orton, Ed Harcourt, Paul Weller, Kim Deal, Robert Kirkby, Tindersticks and visual artists Jeremy Millar and Sadie Hennesey. She is a member of Coastal Electronauts and the Free Range String Orchestra, and performs regularly at electronics events in the South East and London, creating ambient soundscapes using looper and effects pedals.

    AnalogueMechanic

    AnalogueMechanic is a composer of experimental and electronic music. He started in his early teens creating experimental music using tape recorders and found sounds and moved on to synthesizers and purely electronic music in the mid 70s. His influences are Delia Derbyshire and Daphne Oram of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, F. C. Judd and many others. He has a strong interest in ambient and west coast genre of electronic music but he keeps an open mind and likes to mix east and west coast styles together.