Ozric Tentacles announced for Desertfest 2024

Ozric Tentacles
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UK space proggers Ozric Tentacles have been added to the bill for next year's Desertfest. The band are currently enjoying their 40th anniversary and recently released their latest album Lotus Unfolding and have been on tour throughout the UK with Gong.

Desertfest London has been the premier event showcasing the best of stoner, doom and psych for over twelve years at various venues throughout Camden. Recently the event has been adding far more prog-friendly artists - this year saw Jo Quail, Blood Ceremony, Church Of The Cosmic Skull and Icelandic art rockers Gauapa all performing.

Currently, alongside the Ozrics, only Italian prog power trio Ufomammut are the only other band to appeal to proggers unless they favour a heavier sound, which should be satisfied by the likes of Masters Of Reality, Suicidal Tendencies, Godflesh on the bill, although more artists will be announced in Janaury, along with day splits and day tickets.

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Jerry Ewing

Writer and broadcaster Jerry Ewing is the Editor of Prog Magazine which he founded for Future Publishing in 2009. He grew up in Sydney and began his writing career in London for Metal Forces magazine in 1989. He has since written for Metal Hammer, Maxim, Vox, Stuff and Bizarre magazines, among others. He created and edited Classic Rock Magazine for Dennis Publishing in 1998 and is the author of a variety of books on both music and sport, including Wonderous Stories; A Journey Through The Landscape Of Progressive Rock.