Tickets are now officially on sale for this year’s Supersonic Festival. The annual event is moving from its regular July slot to October this year and sees influental NYC band SWANS headline for a rare live performance.

Birmingham promoters and curators Capsule announced the headline act yesterday with more acts to be revealed in the forthcoming weeks.

Featuring band members Michael Gira, Norman Westberg, Christoph Hahn, Phil Puelo, Thor Harris and Chris Pravdica, SWANS will be performing songs from their early brutal, growling noise albums, with an emphasis on the most heavy Swans material and extreme volume levels that they have become most infamous for. They will also play a selection of new songs which feature on their new full-length album, to be released later in 2010.

Moving from its previous July weekend date to 22-24 October, Supersonic will once again take place in and around the Custard Factory in the heart of Eastside of Birmingham, utilising converted factory warehouses and art galleries and offering up-close, intimate settings to showcase some of the most exciting music out there.

In recent years Supersonic Festival has attracted such names as Italian horror movie soundtrack legends Goblin, Mogwai, Sunn 0))) and Krautrock forefathers Harmonia, early performances by Battles, LCD Sound System and OM, and the first UK shows for many international artists including Harvey Milk (USA), Corrupted (Japan) and Goblin (Italy).

Tickets can be purchased from: The Ticket Sellers and See Tickets.