Liverpool International Festival of Psychedelia

Liverpool International Festival of Psychedelia
Background information
Genre(s)	Psychedelic Rock
Date(s)	September
Location	Liverpool
Venue(s)	Camp & Furnace (2012 - 2017)
Years active	2012 - 2017
Promoter(s)	Liverpool Psych Fest
Website	Official Page

Liverpool International Festival of Psychedelia (Also known as PZYK and Liverpool Psych Fest) was a festival hosted in Liverpool, England in various incarnations since 2012. The festival harbors a heavy emphasis on psychedelic and experimental music. The festival also promoted individual events and has worked in collaboration with other festivals such as Eindhoven Psych Lab, Desert Daze and Levitation.

The festival was hosted at Camp & Furnace, a converted warehouse located in the burgeoning Baltic Triangle district on the edge of the city centre. Along with festivities spanning in roughly sixteen hour days there are also art exhibits, visual exhibits and workshops. Even the website itself for years offered a visual showcase to add to the eclectic atmosphere of the festival.

The festival would also host exclusive vinyl releases at the festival, showcasing various bands performing at each respective festival.

Line-Ups

2012

The inaugural edition of Liverpool International Festival of Psychedelia would take place on 29 September 2012 at Camp & Furnace in Liverpool. Along with announcing several bands as The Quietus as a media partner the festival would also host psychedelic artwork by Screenadelica, visual art, film screenings and more. The inaugural edition would host two stages for bands from roughly 2PM - 4AM the next morning, along with visuals provided throughout the day will be provided by Milk, Behind The Wall of Sleep, Will Sergeant and Sonic Cathedral.

Furnace	The Blade Factory
Time & Space Machine	Mind Mountain
Plank!	Baltic Fleet
Hookworms	Black Market Karma
Dead Skeletons	Lola Colt
Mugstar	Cult of Dom Keller
Palma Violets	Thee Piatcions
Wolf People	Milk Maid
Ancient River	Black Manila
The Lucid Dream	Koolaid Electric Company
Altered Hours	Dark Bells
Rosco	Helicon
The Shook Ups	The See See
	Drenge
	Edgar Summertyme
	The Wild Eyes

2013

The second edition of Liverpool International Festival of Psychedelia would be hosted on 27 and 28 September 2013 at Camp & Furnace in Liverpool. Newly expanded to two days with a third stage, the follow-up edition would expand further on the bands, integrating a wide range of bands from the United Kingdom, Europe and The United States.

The 2013 edition of the festival would attain widespread praise from several publications.

Friday 27 September

Furnace	Camp	Blade Factory
Klaus Johann Grobe	Eat Lights; Become Lights	Mordant Music Miasma
Moon Duo	Warm Digits	The KVB
Psychic Ills	The Holydrug Couple	The Oscillation
Dead Meadow	Night Beats	Plankton Watt
Laurel Meets The Obsolete	Carlton Melton	The Wild Eyes
Yeti Lane	The Cosmic Dead	Os Noctambulos
Dead Horse One	Kult Country	Base Ventura
Mind Mountain

Saturday 28 September

Furnace	Camp	Blade Factory
Peaking Lights Sound System	The Altered Hours	Andy Votel's Pandemic Heavy Psych Catastrophe
Clinic	Trans	Helicon
Mugstar	White Manna	Delta Mainline
Fuzz	Hookworms	Three Dimensional Tanx
The Limananas	Singapore Sling	Sauna Youth
Jacco Gardner	Charlie Boyer and The Voyeurs	Cold Pumas
The Paperhead	The Wands	The Soft Walls
The Resonars	The Lucid Dream	Mo Kolours
Maston	Lola Colt	Bonnacons of Doom
Alfa 9	Novella	Psyience
Alien Ballroom	The Woken Trees	Musings in Drone

2014

The 2014 edition of Liverpool International Festival of Psychedelia would be hosted on 26 and 27 September 2014. Like the previous year three stages would be hosted with bands performing all through the day. The festival would also host installations, cosmic audio voyages, visual sensations and a wide array of DJs including Pomponette, God Unknown, The Chimes of Big Ben, Sonic Cathedral, The Quietus, Neil Murphy (Mugstar) and many more. The festival would ultimately sell out.

The festival would see praise from the likes of The Sleeping Shaman, Louder Than War, The Skinny, Fragmented Flaneur and Psych Insight among others.

Friday 26 September

Furnace	Camp	Blade Factory
Suuns	Zombie Zombie	Klaus Johann Grobe
POW!	Besnard Lakes	Jibioa
Allah-Las	Young Husband	Black Bombaim
Amen Dunes	The Early Years	Thought Forms
Wolf People	The Vacant Lots	Barberos
Les Big Byrd	Spectres	Hellshovel
Sudakistan	Holy Wave	ZHOD
Black Mekon	Asteroid #4	Pete Bassman
Al Lover's Sacred Drugs	Spindrift	Formes
	Plank!	Purple Heart Parade

Saturday 27 September

Furnace	Camp	Blade Factory
GOAT	Camera	Satteliti
Christian Bland & The Revelators	White Hills	One Unique Signal
Woods	Gnod	September Girls
Quilt	Teeth of The Sea	Theo Verney
Sleepy Sun	Hills	Orval Carlos Siberius
Grumbling Fur	Anthroprophh	Bed Rugs
The Lucid Dream	Lay Llamas	Cheval Sombre
The Janitors	Bonnacons of Doom	Half Loon
Nueva Costa	Moodoid	Whistlejacket
Traams	Islet	Cantaloupe
Sudden Death of Stars	Mazes	Strange Collective
	Temple Songs	The Glass Moths

2015

Following being awarded "Best Small Festival" by the 2015 NME Awards, Liverpool International Festival of Psychedelia would announce their fourth edition, set for 25 and 26 September 2015. Now expanding to four stages, the festival also would host Anton Newcombe (The Brian Jonestown Massacre) as the artist in residence, along with curated stages by Sacred Bones Records, BYM Records and Cardinal Fuzz, presenting Cardinal Fuzz Sound Attack.

Psych Fest have also announced the release of PZYK Vol. 1, a deluxe triple vinyl compilation celebrating the current psychedelic scene with acts from all over the world that have either played at the festival in the past, or are due to perform this year.

The festival would garner praise from several publications such as Drowned in Sound, Gods in The TV Zine, Clash Music and many others.

Friday 25 September 2015

Furnace	Camp	Blade Factory	District
Factory Floor	Carlton Melton	Finders Keeps vs. Anton Newcombe DJ Set	Fumaca Preta
Etienne Jaumet	Gala Drop	Giant Swan	Karen Gwyer
Blanck Mass	Young Knives	Mai Mai Mai	Graham Massey's Toolshed
Destruction Unit	PINKSHINYULTRABLAST	Holovr	Keksploitation
Chicos de Nazca	Tess Parks and Anton Newcombe	JC Satan	Jane Weaver Re-Scores Belladonna
The Ganjas	Jacco Gardner	The Octpus Project	Evil Blizzard
Vuelvetaloca	Dengue Fever	Throw Down Bones	Megaphonic Thift
Phobophobes	The Feeling of Love	Yung	R. Seiliog
	The Underground Youth	Holy	Lucern Raze
		ZHOD	Charles Raze
		Favour Povet
		Corey Bowen

Saturday 26 September 2015

Furnace	Camp	Blade Factory	District
Spititualised	K-X-P	Psychemagik DJ Set	Sex Swing
Hookworms	The Heads	Mamuthones	Black Devil Disco Club
Jane Weaver	Lumerians	Turzi	Vision Fortunes
Slug	Cult of Dom Keller	Kogumaza	Magic Castles
Sun Araw	Kandodo3	Indian Jewellery	Hey Colossus
Death and Vanilla	Dead Sea Apes	Noveller	The Callus
The Flowers of Hell	Fever The Ghost	Tau	Virginia King
Roy and The Devil's Motorcycle	Menace Beach	The Altered Hours	The Plastic Mermaids
Strange Collective	No Joy	Crows	Weird Owl
	Radar Men from the Moon	Pauw	Bonnacons of Doom
	Dream Weapon	Equations	The Tambourines
		Girl Sweat

2016

The 2016 edition of Liverpool International Festival of Psychedelia would be set for 23 and 24 September 2016 at Camp and Furnace in Liverpool. Like the previous year the festival would host four stages and special showcases by GuruGuru Brain (Narrow Road to The Deep Mind), Fete Souterraine, a Pure Phase Ensemble featuring Mark Gardner (Ride) and much more. A fifth stage entitled PRYZM would be added.

The festival would attain praise from several publications.

Friday 23 September 2016

Furnace	Camp	Blade Factory	District	PRYZM
Super Furry Animals	Howes	DJ Fitz	Flamingods	Oliver Coates
Gwenno	Gnoomes	Helicon	Man of Moon	Big Naturals
Josein Ohrn + The Liberation	Demdike Stare	MDME SPKR	The Veldt	Perspection
La Luz	Silver Apples	Cowtown	Flavor Crystals
Lorelle Meets the Obsolete	Dungen	Father Murphy	Cool Ghouls
The Hanging Stars	The Stairs	Muscle and Marrow	France
	Kikagaku Moyo	The Love Coffin	Aquagascallo
	Minami Deutsch	Cellar Doors	Arlt
	Prairie WWW	Bantam Lyons	That Fucking Tank
	Nawksh	Goizilla
		Brahma-Loka
		DJ de Vega

Saturday 24 September 2016

Furnace	Camp	Blade Factory	District	PRYZM
The Horrors	Andy Votel DJ Set	Cherrystones DJ Set	Spectres	Virtual Forest
The Moonlandingz	Avid Washed	Silver Waves	The Early Years	Bonnacoms of Doom
Harald Grosskopf	Caverns of Anti-Matter	Rats on Rafts	Pop. 1280
Pure Phase Ensemble 4	The Wytches	Baba Naga	Electric Eye
Methyl Ethyl	Acid Mothers Temple	Vanishing Twin	Plank
Ultimate Painting	The Lucid Dream	Eartheater	Cairobi
Guadalupe Plata	Eagulls	Wooden Indian Burial Ground	Flowers Must Die
Tangerines	Le Hell Gang	Has a Shadow	Pure Joy
	Ulrika Spacek	Tomaga	10000 Russos
	Tau	New Candys	Desert Mountain Thyme
	Yeti Lane	In Zaire	Chuck Johnston
	Sadaar Bazaar	Yaya Futuro	Ashtray Navigations
		Ye Nuns
		Taman Shud
		Brian Washington

2017

The 2017 edition of Liverpool International Festival of Psychedelia would be hosted on 22 and 23 September 2017 at Camp & Furnace in Liverpool. Notably it would be the final edition to be hosted in this location as that the festival curators would go on hiatus until a proposed re-start in 2020 (Moved to 2021.). Along with the five stages from the previous year a film tent would be hosted alongside the PRYZM tent. The festival would propose a "Green Cup" system to ease up on waste, along with hosting various breweries appointed to each stage area including Five Points Brewing (Furnace), North Brewing (Camp), Black Lodge Brewery (Blade Factory), Innis & Gunn (Lobby), Lagunitas (Camp Exterior) H1780 Tap & Still (Greenland Street Exterior) and a specially crafted PZYK brand. (District/PZYK Gallery).

Friday 22 September 2017

Furnace	Camp	Blade Factory	District	PRYZM
Songhoy Blues	The BUG vs. Dylan Carlson	Container	Steve Davis + Kavis Torabi DJ Set	Mark McGuire
Träd, Gräs Och Stenar	Loop	Grim Brides	Acid Arab	Ancient Ocean
Endless Boogie	The KVB	Juju	Gnod
The Telescopes	Dirty Fences	The Pattern Forms	Julie's Haircut
Laetitia Sadier Source Ensemble	Once & Future Band	Novella	Omni
Is Bliss	Male Gaze	WH Lung	L.A. Witch
	Magnetix	Magic Shoppe	Bambi Davidson
	Exit Group	Mass Datura	Aquaserge
	Duds	Fuss	The Sonic Dawn
			Yassassin

Saturday 23 September 2017

Furnace	Camp	Blade Factory	District	PRYZM
The Black Angels	Adrian Sherwood	The Bongolian	Andy Votel DJ Set	Krautwerk
WITCH	The Comet Is Coming	De Wilde Jagd	Fujiya & Miyagi	Eeter
A Place To Bury Strangers	Sex Swing	Mr. TC	Patten	Black Angels X Drowned In Sound
Jane Weaver	Baltic Fleet	Nonn	Dans Dans	A Century Of Zombie Sound
White Manna	The Holydrug Couple	Meatraffle	Seahawks	Castle Face X The Quietus
Cosmonauts	Wolf People	The Homesick	Backlash	Witch X Bernie Connor
The Proper Ornaments	Il Sogno Del Marinaio	Guantanamo Baywatch	Rancho Relaxo	Musings in Drone
Ex Easter Island Head Large Ensemble	Elephant Stone	Zofff	Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs
	Gulp	Celestial Bums	Flavien Berger
	Autobahn	Cavalier Song	Castles
	Dead Vibrations	Dreamherbs	Hurricane Heart Attacks
		The Anteloids	Weirds
			Purple Heart Parade

2021

On 6 February 2020 the team behind Liverpool International Festival of Psychedelia would announce a new event entitled PZYK. The festival was intended to downsize back to a single day, sixteen hour event in the same vein as the inaugural edition. The original proposed lineup would host the likes of Altin Gün, Snapped Ankles, Vanishing Twin, Black Country, New Road, W.H. Lung, The Lovely Eggs and Haley Fohr's alter ego, Jackie Lynn.

The line-up is completed by Keeley Forsyth, The Utopia Strong, Pregoblin, Free Love, Los Bitchos, Bonnacons Of Doom, Sunburned Hand Of The Man, Eric Copeland, Kel Assouf, Gong Gong Gong 工工工, Yīn Yīn and Kaukolampi, amongst others.

PZYK was intended to take place at the Invisible Wind Factory in Liverpool on 16 May 2020 but would be re-scheduled to 15 May 2021 due to The CO-VID19 Pandemic. However, in early 2021 with a header of "PZYK IS DEAD. LONG LIVE PZYK", the organizers would state the following: "Despite the positive vaccination news, we still have no certainty as to whether it will be feasible to host the festival in May 2021. With months of continued planning ahead to realise PZYK 2021, we do not have the luxury of waiting until the spring before making a decision as to whether we can welcome our congregation to Liverpool in May.

We appreciate that people travel from around the world to visit the festival and out of respect we want to provide clarity as soon as possible. We were incredibly excited about presenting the festival at a new venue and we have made the decision to cancel with a heavy heart. We look forward to a point in the future when COVID-19 is but a distant nightmare and we can come together once more."

External Links

• / Liverpool Psych Fest on Discogs