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Other Side Promotions proudly present a Kozfest Pre Party of the highest quality, featuring Austrian space rockers Speck, London psych rockers GNOB and Margate kosmische psyche band Autohaus.
Date: Wednesday 5th August 2026
Venue: Strongroom, Shoreditch:
Line-Up
- Speck (AUT)
- GNOB
- Autohaus
Speck (AUT):
Speck from Vienna have been performing high-energy space kraut rituals since 2019. Speck deliver top-tier space rock. The energy-packed live shows of this Vienna-based quartet turn every venue into a seething cauldron!
Speck creates an epic, groovy sound that hits the listener's legs as suddenly as the devil seizing lost souls. Mega fat basslines, clashing with an energetic driving drumbeat, are complemented by spaced-out synth sounds and an insane guitar that constantly oscillates between experimental, screeching frenzy and rhythmically nuanced precision.
The result is a fusion, a kaleidoscope of innovation with a hint of nostalgia. Better hold on tight!
Every Speck show is an intense, immersive, and energy-charged experience. The unexpected lurks around every corner and edge. The drums push forward, the bass hypnotizes while massive, expressive guitar sounds and synth use the brain as a launchpad into the cosmos. Unexpected frequencies come together, and the whole thing just drives. Where's the journey heading? Who cares, the road is the destination! This quartet provokes sonic collisions: a drummer rolling over every stop sign with a broad heavy-duty machine, a bassist pushing the engine to its limits with a constant roar, and a rowdy guitarist with a lead foot on the wah pedal. Buckle up! There are no traffic rules on the Krautobahn!
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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 EPs — '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, and 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 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, and 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
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Autohaus:
("Motorik psyche with extra Kraut!")
AUTOHAUs are a four-piece band based in Margate, on the south coast of England, influenced by the heavier end of the 1970's German kosmische movement, and a love of neo-psychedelia, noise, and space rock.
AUTOHAUs improvise mesmerising fractal music, layering fuzzed-out sounds and electronic drones with motorik percussion and hypnotic bass lines. Expect to lose yourself in long, improvised, instrumental songs, played loud — a must for fans of Loop, Spacemen 3, The Cosmic Dead, Ash Ra Tempel and NEU!
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Press Quotes:
"As the listener loses themself in each piece, the players create a slowly rotating cognitive kaleidoscope of sound and you become lost in a lysergic storm cloud of phasing and feedback." – DSO Audio
"Inspired mainly by German krautrock and cosmic psychedelia, (they) combine spatial noisy sounds, electronic drones and motorized percussion in their music; pulsating bass lines create a beautifully carrying trance." – More Noise (Poland)
"Great trip! These guys truly channel the weirdo German 70s through their improvisational rituals." – Weirdo Shrine
"An intense listening experience and a spectacular sonic resolution of unstoppable forces and immovable objects." – Ombrelle Concrete
"You're just playing the same thing over… and over… and over." – Heckler at live show
