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

A space to create and be creative with The Customs House. Recording studio, rehearsal space, dance studio and more. Call us on 0191 4563917 to get involved!
These are songs recorded/mixed and sometimes even written here.

Kingsley Chapman and The Murder

From the North of England.

Bookings : shaun@xraytouring.com

John and The Ragmen are Teesside four pieces who play a mix of fine funky upbeat tracks and heart-warming soulful tunes; they are gruffness personified with a sweet taste of indie rock. They will leave you wanting more in seconds and John’s voice captivates the masses.

"John and The Ragmen started at the beginning of 2013, within one year they've released two sets of recordings and a video while keeping up a busy schedule on the road with greater things to come in 2015." - NE Volume

"The Teesside four piece played acoustic led feel-good tunes which got more than just my toes tapping, and the crowd seemed to agree judging by the wealth of screams, cheers and applause." - Smoke and Steel

"John and The Ragmen have such a unique sound and style" - Tees Music Scene

*Special thanks to Andrew Jones for recording August Acoustic and The Jester Recordings.*

*Special thanks to Andrew Jones and Simon Shaw for playing on/helping create all of the tracks on the 3 released recordings*

- JATRM

General Sherman are a group of five friends from Middlesbrough. Utilising guitars, violin, keys, glockenspiel, ukulele, percussion and flute they make warm, wonky folk music. They tackle topics such as murderous family pets, the life of a tree, neuroses, nostalgia, infant cobbling entrepreneurship, zenning in a submarine, why heathens rage furiously, and striking a ball well. They released their debut EP “Tales of Noddy’s House” on 28th December 2012 and are to release their debut album "Get Down with General Sherman" on the 6th of June.

“The five-piece play music how they want it to sound are not constrained by any traditional formulas for structure or instrumentation. The dual boy-girl vocals work together seamlessly with finger-picked guitar melodies, haunting violin and the occasional introduction of the glockenspiel.”
Rob Nichols - Evening Gazette

"A kind of skew-whiff folk constructed of shafts of dark and light. Gently arresting."
The Crack

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