UK TECH-FEST announces after parties, set times and workshops

UK TECH-FEST announces an its after party line-up, stage times and a workshop programme offering musician masterclasses, PR and marketing sessions, product demos and loads more.

The after party shenanigans for this year’s UK TECH-FEST are:

Thursday: AGHAST + Whitmore VS Craft-D (rap battle) + Pteroglyph
Friday: Koala Cage Riot + Sean de Burca + Super Jam
Saturday: Seething Akira + HERITAGE + ChuggaBoom
Sunday: We Are Carnivores, Techeoke + Balls On Parade (No Consequence covering Rage Against The Machine)

Workshops across the weekend are as follows:

Thursday
1pm: Jordan Harris – Life with a Strandberg
2pm: Steph Knight (Domino PR) – PR Workshop
3pm: Double Slit Guitars – Luthier Luke Sedman Q+A
4pm: Sithu Aye – Guitar Masterclass

Friday
1pm: Meyrick de la Fuente (Exist Immortal) – Vocal Masterclass
2pm: Colin Bentham (No Consequence) – Drum Masterclass
3pm: Ollie Rooney – Bass Master Class
4pm: Ola Strandberg – Q+A

Saturday
1pm: David Maxim Micic (Destiny Potato) – Guitar Masterclass
2pm: KLANG:technologies – Product Demo
3pm: Dan Thornton (No Sin Evades His Gaze) – Guitar Masterclass
4pm: Double Slit Guitars – Product Demo Sam Butterfield (Hieroglyph)

Sunday
1pm: Lulu Davis – Management/PR Insights
2pm: Amanda Follit – Digital Marketing
3pm: Pedram Valiani (Frontierer) – Disgusting Guitar Noises
4pm: Carillion Guitars (Chris Delia) – Demo/Q+A

This year’s raffle prizes include some serious gear which you could get your hands on. They are:
Strandberg Red-Rosewood 7-String with EMG 707X pickups
Carillion Guitars Custom Polaris 7-String
Zilla 2×12 Fatboy Cab
All will come with a pair of Shure SE215s In Ear Monitors Provided by HD Pro Audio.

Line up changes:

Unfortunately we have to announce that Humanity’s Last Breath, Port Noir and She Must Burn have had to cancel at the last minute due to a mix of logistical issues! Our sincere apologies go out to anyone who was looking forward to seeing them this year. However they have been replaced by No Consequence, Osiah and The Five Hundred.

Vendors:

This year Tech Fest has the addition of utilities stall stocking everything from camping equipment to fruit, tobacco, toiletries, medical goods, hygienic goods, sweets, grips, rolling papers, lighters, torches, sleeping bags, mats and more!

The food vendors for this year have grown in size with delicious stalls from: Shmoo’s Wood-Fired Kitchen (Pizza), Mexican Catering, Burger/Breakfast Van, Fish & Chips, Chinese, BBQ/Grill, Dutch Pancakes and an Ice Cream Van. The Smoky Tentacles are back this year providing a Shisha Lounge chill out area with Teas/Coffee/Toasties/Tea Cakes/Breakfasts! And Redditch Bumper Balls UK are providing a Sumo Zorb Arena at this year’s festival.

About David Farrell

General Manager and 'THE' competition guy at planetmosh.com. Manager of The Goddanm Electric www.thegde.co.uk, Tour manager for Serpentine, and ex-general Dogsbody at Hammerfest.co.uk. Media partner to numerous bands. Also takes photos, writes reviews and likes classic rock, with a touch of thrash to get the blood flowing.