
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 Desertfest: London’s annual celebration of all things stoner, 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, thrash hellraisers Suicidal Tendencies and industrial metal pioneers Godflesh, setting the stage for three days of surprises. Enticed, Louder’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.