Kooks lined up to take to stage at lakeside festival
Valley Fest has announced the first acts for its 2023 event.
Indie band The Kooks will headline the Saturday night at the festival, which takes place from Thursday to Sunday, August 3-6.
The family-friendly food and music festival takes place alongside Chew Valley Lake.
The Kooks launched their career with their album titled Inside In/ Inside Out. This quadruple-platinum album includes She Moves in Her Own Way, You Don’t Love Me and the band’s top five single Naive.
Since then, they’ve gone on to release five further albums, including Let’s Go Sunshine, which achieved top ten status in the UK Album Charts in 2018. Their latest record, 10 Tracks To Echo In The Dark flirts with genres from 80s synth-pop to funk to prog rock.
Josh Eggleton will head up the food programme. He is chef patron of the multi-award-winning restaurant The Pony Chew Valley (previously the Michelin-starred Pony
and Trap). Helping to curate a stellar feasting menu, Josh will also bring in many of the muchloved and award-winning chefs of the South West for demonstrations.
One such chef is Peter Sancheziglesias, of Michelin-starred Paco Tapas and newly opened Casa. He will be behind the festival’s Friday Feast. Peter will also run a chef demonstration, sharing some of his skills, knowledge and passion.
Tickets for the feasts will go sale in the new year.
The award-winning festival is now in its eighth year and offers big-name headliners to rising stars with feasts, cooking demonstrations and lots more in between. Having sold out twice in a row, the festival is going from strength to strength, organisers says.
Luke Hasell, Valley Fest founder, said: “We’re off to a strong start and there’s still so much to come. More
headliners, Arcadia’s Alchemist Playground line-up plus our Regenerative programme, not forgetting our workshops and wellbeing classes. I can’t wait for everyone to get on my land!”
Expect hedge-to-hedge Somerset sparkle and plenty of nonsense with a spectacular soundtrack. Weekend Tickets are £155 (plus booking fee) and can be bought in instalments to spread the payment from www.valleyfest.co.uk