Pushing forward: Naeem Davis and Nadine Noor Ahmad
(Picture: Photography Natasha Pszenicki, Assisted by Monty Vann)An hour. That’s all it took for Overflo festival to sell out its first run of tickets — a few hundred or so — when they went on sale last Friday. By the time most websites had announced the launch of the new 10,000-capacity festival coming to Burgess Park, it was already sold out. And so it was that Overflo became one of the most anticipated events of ‘22.
The size of the crowd is likely all Overflo will have in common with most other London festivals this year. Indie sleaze is out. Instead, Overflo is a celebration of queer culture and underground nightlife, centred on music, art, care and culture and both appealing to — and crucially, put together by — “queer, trans, non-binary, black, indigenous and POC talent”. Alongside the likes of Flesh Festival in St Albans and Hackney Wick’s Body Movements, these details make it one of the first of its kind, certainly on this scale and ambition and puts it centre stage as a forerunner of the LGBTQIA+ festival scene.
