The streets are strewn with Sleep shirts, all of Camden’s venues are fully booked and the Northern Line stinks of weed. It can only be : London’s annual celebration of all things , psychedelic and sludgy! For 2024, the weekender has ventured beyond its own hazy horizons. The bill this year is topped by genre-straddlers Masters Of Reality, hellraisers Suicidal Tendencies and pioneers Godflesh, setting the stage for three days of surprises.
Enticed, ’s team descended onto the capital and were there to catch as much of the action as possible, from the garden-variety doom acts to punks, post-rockers and whatever the fuck Ozric Tentacles are. Here’s our report on what went down: Despite the comparative eclecticism of this year’s lineup, start Desertfest 2024 with the usual fare: stoner/doom from the wilds of Norway. And it’s.
.. fine.
The trio’s set inside The Underworld honours the woozy stylings of and Electric Wizard, dealing out some enjoyable fuzz but little more. In The Black Heart, distil doom to its base elements, cultivating a hypnotically intense atmosphere with just a guitar, a bass and a drum kit. Friday’s line-up in the Electric Ballroom is decidedly dedicated to the scene that gives the festival its name.
Openers are more in line with the garage rock/psych of modern stoner acts like All Them Witches, but the shades of psychedelia that bleed through as the set progresses put them at least in the same spiritual planes as such fellow Cali forebears as . L.
