Name: OSP Presents: Kozfest Pre-party! Featuring: GNOB + Red Sun (ITA) + Floating Heads (SCO)
Start: 2024-07-25T19:45:00+01:00
End: 2024-07-25T23:00:00+01:00
Location: Strongroom Bar

OSP Presents: Kozfest Pre-party! Featuring: GNOB + Red Sun (ITA) + Floating Heads (SCO)

𝐎𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐒𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐞𝐱𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐥𝐲 𝐞𝐱𝐜𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞 𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐊𝐨𝐳𝐟𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐩𝐫𝐞 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐲, 𝐟𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚 𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐨𝐟 𝐪𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐩𝐬𝐲𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐚 𝐯𝐢𝐚 𝐋𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐨𝐧, 𝐈𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐒𝐜𝐨𝐭𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐝!
𝐀𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐞𝐞 𝐛𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐬 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐛𝐞 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐊𝐨𝐳𝐟𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐃𝐞𝐯𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐤𝐞𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝟐𝟔𝐭𝐡 𝐨𝐟 𝐉𝐮𝐥𝐲.
*𝐓𝐡𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝟐𝟓𝐭𝐡 𝐨𝐟 𝐉𝐮𝐥𝐲 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟒*
𝐒𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐫𝐨𝐨𝐦 𝐁𝐚𝐫, 𝐒𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐜𝐡, 𝐋𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐨𝐧.
𝐅𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠:
𝐋𝐈𝐕𝐄:
𝐆𝐍𝐎𝐁
𝐑𝐞𝐝 𝐒𝐮𝐧 (𝐈𝐓𝐀)
𝐅𝐥𝐨𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐬 (𝐒𝐂𝐎)
𝐆𝐍𝐎𝐁:
GNOB are a heavy psych 4-piece band based in and around East London influenced by psychedelic and traditional music from around the world, resulting in an eclectic fusion of Eastern, Arabic, psych, rock, and fuzz. Formed in 2014 in a crusty, disused & shabby warehouse in Hackney Wick (East London) they began experimenting with different instruments and psychedelics forging their sound to what it has become today.
They released 4 E.P’s…’Cosmosis’ ‘Temple of Sinners’ ‘Reverend Bills One Way Trip to Hell’ & ‘Shrunken Head’ followed by their debut full-length album, ‘Electric Dream Demon’, released in 2018 on Drone Rock Records. As the band reshuffled yet again they recorded their seminal 20 minute live jam acid nightmare Ep… ‘High Priestess’ an EP not for the faint hearted, one for the most experienced psychedelic cosmonauts only.
After gigging extensively in London, South-East, Midlands, Wales across late 2021 through 2022 the group went into the studio to record the next full-length album. The title of the new album, ‘GNOB II’, gives a nod to the fact that no founding member remains in the band, yet still the spirit of GNOB still lives on!
Throughout the years GNOB has had many line up changes, some left then returned , some vanished from the modern world seeking their own journey never to return again & some moved on to greater things but as Gnob is an ever changing and evolving notion….the music must go on.
GNOB are …..
Nicholas Georgiou – Guitar, Vocals
Ben Kenobi Le Marchant – Bass Guitar
Luke Tomkins – Guitar
Richard Noakes – Drums, Percussion
𝐋𝐢𝐧𝐤𝐬:
Video Link 1:

Facebook: https://m.facebook.com/gnobuk/
Instagram: @gnob_psych_45
Bandcamp: https://gnob.bandcamp.com
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/6nQOMhT41lA4m0Pfo6uDat?si=5-AYGNgTTrar6gN7Zvu2bg
𝐑𝐞𝐝 𝐒𝐮𝐧 (𝐈𝐓𝐀):
RED SUN formed in March 2014 after a few long night jams under the starry sky of Albone, a tiny village in the province of Piacenza (Italy).
The trio composed by Stefano ”Eno” on guitar, Mirco on bass and Federico”Fredo” on drums and synth, serves an original mix of psychedelia and space instrumental rock.
The band's first work is “TRIOSOPHY”, recorded in February 2015, and released as a self-produced CD in September and then subsequently reissued on vinyl by Spin On Black in October 2016. The musical concept pursued by the band is the search for a unique sound, clear and powerful to hear and internalize, a sound that gives shape to the vision behind each song.
In October 2017 the trio with the collaboration of Psyka Records (DE) released the second work entitled THE WIND, THE WAVES, THE CLOUDS. From the seven tracks one perceives the ideal evolution of the band, which enriches the compositional style with more accurate arrangements and a more powerful sound, without however losing the expressive poetry which remains intact.
In the meantime, during an intense two-week summer tour in the United Kingdom, the band had recorded 3 tracks at Lonewolf Studio in Wellington which will then be part of the split "Psychedelic Battles Vol. 4" produced by Vincebus Eruptum.
In 2018 and 2019 Red Sun carried out an intense live activity and played at festivals in the United Kingdom, Germany and Italy.
During the following two years characterized by the effects of the pandemic, the three took part of the side project "The Old Mill Free Ensemble" together with the friends Horst Friederich and Riccardo "Cavitos", a work released in 2021 for Sunhair records. In November 2022 T.O.M.F.E. played an intense two hour show at the PNF in Wuerzburg.
In the second part of 2022 Red Sun composed the new songs that were recorded in the summer of 2023. The album that will be released in 2024 by Subsound Records in Rome will be titled "From sunset to dawn".
The mantra followed by the members of the band is that each song must be like a sculpture, with a well-defined identity, while being part of that flow of notes and emotions generated by the concept that has taken shape over time and during the long hours spent in the rehearsal room.
𝐋𝐢𝐧𝐤𝐬:
https://redsun3.bandcamp.com
https://www.facebook.com/redsuntrio
https://www.instagram.com/redsun.band
𝐅𝐥𝐨𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐬 (𝐒𝐂𝐎):
Hailing from Aberdeen, Scotland, the 5-piece noise spawners of Floating Heads blend fuzzed-up, heavy neo-psych tones with melodies that soar and crunch.
Drawing from influences ranging from the Black Angels to MBV, the band is an eclectic mix that strives to invent mind-twisting modern psych rock that demands attention.
Formed in 2019, the band started as a psych/shoegaze project and released their EP debut ‘No Reflections’ recorded in Bradford amid the looming pandemic. They followed up their second EP, ‘Yesteryear’, recorded at Dystopia Studios in Glasgow in 2022. Now, the fiercely independent band is on a mission to put Aberdeen firmly back on the UK (and beyond) map, building on stellar performances with the likes of Helicon and The Third Sound.
Floating Heads release their 3rd EP with Fuzzface maestro Jason Shaw in April, and the band will be hitting the road this summer in venues across the UK, including the legendary Kozfest.
Floating Heads are:
James Callander, Chris Hadden, Matthew Carrington, Konstantin Karman.
𝐋𝐢𝐧𝐤𝐬:
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/56OtYrDUPuoXFbXkH6GE3T
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/floatingheadsband
Bandcamp: https://floatingheads.bandcamp.com/album/no-reflections-2
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/floatingheads_/?hl=en-gb