The Futureheads to headline Nozstock 2012

The Sunderland post-punk power quartet will close Saturday night in style on the Orchard Stage, joining previously announced acts The Proclaimers, Dreadzone, Andy C, Camo and Krooked, The Correspondents, Skinny Lister and many more.

Also announced is Friday night Garden Stage headliner and founding member of the now legendary Ganja Crew/Tru Playaz collectives DJ Zinc. More acts just confirmed are North London ska-punk rockers Imperial Leisure, Kal Lavelle (who recently toured with Ed Sheeran), The Caezers, Jake Bugg, Kentish Fire and We Steal Thieves to name a few.

But it’s not just the music line-up that will delight this year, with many nooks and crannies and secret wooded glades to discover. During the day the Bantam Of The Opera tent offers a myriad of theatrical shenanigans to kick back, relax and watch or fully participate in. Here you can learn circus tricks, belly dancing and acrobatics or soak in the puppet shows and hilarious physical theatre.

As the clock strikes twelve it marks the start of two nights of decadence and delight. Fabulous Friday brings a plethora of all things burlesque. From vaudeville to cheesecake - a tasty evening of tassels and glamour, seduction and comedy awaits. On Saturday ring mistress OpheliaBitz presents an eclectic mix of cabaret, humour, song and dance, the dark and the downright electrifying.

Elsewhere, The Tent Of Temporary Thought will spring up in different locations featuring a selection of the UK’s finest wordsmiths (such as the winner of the ‘UK young story yeller of the year’ award Rachael Rose Reid and leading Welsh poet Ifor Thomas) delivering a wide range of talks, poetry, spoken word and forums. And for those who feel the creative itch the new and improved arts and crafts area is an immersive hotbed of fun featuring classes and demo’s of such forgotten arts as chalk carving, haberdashery, coppicing, spoon carving and blacksmith forgery.

Landscaped around a ramshackle Tudor farmhouse this small family-run event now in its 14th year is set in the pristine Herefordshire countryside. It started life as a party for relatives and friends and has grown organically over the years into an experience where a sense of belonging still holds true. 

Nozstock 2012, Bromyard, Herefordshire, 27-29 July 2012

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