Nozstock The Hidden Valley | 10 stages - 350 acts - 1 big family. 💖
18th - 21st July 2024 🎪
Independent, eclectic, family friendly and host to some bass thumpin' rave sheds. Nozstock caters for festival goers of all types, from the veteran festival aficionado through to those newly affected by the festival bug. It has evolved from a gathering of 50 friends into an intimate musical odyssey joining the dots between pop, ska, folk, funk, soul, indie, drum’n’bass, psytrance, house and a whole lot more. It is now firmly established as one of the country’s leading boutique festivals. 

The Orchard Stage is set at the foot of a natural arena on the side of the gently sloping valley. Alongside the farmhouse is the Garden Stage, which provides a more eclectic lineup, turning electronic by sundown whilst a converted cowshed, the Cubicles, pushes out sub-thumping bass and dubstep through to the early hours.

The festival is truly home-grown and hand-made – quite literally in fact, with a small army of grass roots supporters helping to create the wonderfully themed environment each summer. Nozstock is the quintessentially British festival – a little bit eccentric, a lot of fun, full of wonder, enchantment… and a touch of magic.
 
"A rural slice of English eccentricity" - Russell Howard

“Nozstock is the best festival of its size in the UK” - Phill Jupitus and The Blockheads

Made You a Mixtape - Artist Management & Distribution

ZEBEDEE’s love for neo-psych and dessert rock sounds propel the band into something of their own, with a plethora of ruckus Sabbath riffs on the finger tips and psycho billy licks on the lips. These eclectic bunch of international musicians (AUS, MEX, CAN, USA) arrange a wide variety of sounds that always seem to blast off into space and crash land at home base. 

The band draws its influences from pulsed up outfits such as The Cramps, Nick Cave, Captain Beefhardt, QOTSA, Fat White Family and the Viagra Boys. 

Zeb Row’s psycho billyesk vocals drill the storytelling narrative right into your ears, down your spine and out your ass. 

With fuzzed out boxy guitars inspired by dessert rock pioneers such as QOTSA, it’s outrageous raw energy draws you in and spits you out like a sunflower seed. Jagged lead guitar licks from Zeb Row and Kelsey Van Mook rely on raw stank rather than overwhelming technical ability which holds a special charm. The songwriting partnership of husband and wife duo Row and Van Mook is timeless, true and tested, always working out material live before throwing it down in the studio. 
That living, loving, working relationship makes for powerful combination, that never settles for anything obsolete. 

Produced by the Grammy award winning engineer, Daniel Avila, has taken time away from his illustrious career to mix up a passion project as good as any other!! He has given everything for this album and his involvement is as crucial as any band member. 

Drum and bass are the roots of the bands core and hold the tracks down throughout every band release. The synchronicity of Michael Benham and Victor De la Garza is undeniable, a long trajectory playing together is evident on every track. Their jazz background lays the ground work for the inexplicably bizarre twists and turns that Zebedee’s compositions tend to take. But you can also hear a lot of Punk, Funk, and Rock n Roll in the rhythm section’s pulse. From Black Flag, to Sabbath, to the Headhunters.

Our most recent member, Fred Seddon has added new creative dimensions to the solid foundation set by the band. Freaky twisted guitar licks from Seddon has freed up all members to be more themselves on stage. 

Sit down, buckle up, break free and do it all over again. This is how the bands tends to steer you through out their most recent album. A never ending vortex of hard hits and psychedelic sound waves that may or may not cause nose bleeds. Youve  been warned. Aloha! Now Get Lost!

I am a passionate fan of music and write for two online magazines, Louder Than War and Penny Black. I sometimes interview people hence the few recordings uploaded here. 

I am in to punk, new wave and dance - yeah I know it sounds broad but its not really - I like it loud and heavy - Sleater-Kinney and Screaming Females or Aphex Twin and Clark.

I like to champion new bands from Manchester and current faves Blossoms, Flesh and No Hot Ashes top my likes. 

Singer songwriters like Laim McClair and who is local and John Grant from the US.

The Districts, Flaming Lips, Broncho and Tame Imapala

Black River Wild is following