JodieBowie : NOZFEST!!!

My festival has officially been announced… got to do a blog on it!! This will include important details and more. I really cannot contain my excitement for this festival, and my nerves are also kicking in… man it’s all getting so real! I never thought I’d actually be able to pull off this dream of mine. Thank you all so much for your support! 

LINE-UP: In no particular order

27 Days
27 Days are a classic/glam rock band based in the South of England. They play awesome covers as well as original material. These young lads really are talented, and deserve to be heard. So it’s my absolute pleasure to have them play NozFest so you guys can hear and see their talent too. They are not to be missed!
Tell The Devil

Beth Blade & The Beautiful Disasters
Beth and co are a hard rock band based in Cardiff, Wales. Having recently played shows such as Hard Rock Hell, Monstersfest, Amplified and even The Kiss Kruise, these guys are ones to keep a real close eye on! I’m so excited to have them on the line-up, I’m sure you guys will love them… if you want to check them out before NozFest, they are playing my Rock Night at the Heartbreakers in Southampton on the 29th March. Come on down and see the excitement for yourselves!
Beautiful Disease

The Outlaw Orchestra
The Orchestra are a Southern Rock four piece based in Southampton. These guys were highly requested in the poll I put up – these are a voted for band, and they for sure deserve a spot on NozFest. The band have also played festivals such as Love Rocks, Hard Rock Hell, Rock & Blues Custom Show and Planet Rockstock, and have also supported the Kris Barras Band. These guys will for sure get you up and rocking and feeling giddy!
See You In Hell

Stop, Stop!
Of course these lads are a personal favourite! They are a huge part of my life, so they just have to be a part of the first ever NozFest. Stop, Stop! are a glam metal band originally from Barcelona, Spain, but have been touring vigorously all over the UK for the last 5 years. I’m sure you guys will be just has fascinated and love them as much as I do ❤
Toilet Party

Marco Mendoza
This is an absolute delight and pleasure to announce!! To have someone like Marco believe in me and trust me is one hell of an achievement for me. I got a message from the man himself asking if there was any slots left, luckily there was one still going spare…. so I just had to give it to him… I’d be daft not to. If you haven’t already seen this legend live, make sure you grab yourself a ticket as he really isn’t one to be missed!!
Viva La Rock

Saints of Sin
Of course local legends Saints of Sin had to be on the line-up! How could I disappoint 😉 Another highly requested act, and I’m thrilled to have them play. Saints of Sin have played many of my Rock Nights and are always a hit, so you’re not gonna want to miss their performance for sure!
21 Shots

Those Damn Crows
Another awesome band from Wales. Those Damn Crows are a hard-hitting five piece rock band that are causing a stir! These guys have been featured in Classic Rock Magazine and have had their latest album reach No.5 in Rock Charts!! You guys asked…. so I got them and I really cannot wait to see them live for myself. They are freakin’ awesome! These guys are one of the most exciting bands playing NozFest.
Rock ‘n’ Roll Ain’t Dead

Bigfoot
These guys are a personal fave, as well as a band that was highly requested. Bigfoot are a hard rock band from Wigan. Their self titled debut album in 2017 charted in the UK’s Top 40 Rock Albums. I’m very happy to have Bigfoot play my festival, I’ve been wanting to book these guys for a while, so this is an awesome achievement for me, and for those who haven’t heard them I’m sure you’ll be impressed.
Run.

Massive Wagons
The HEADLINERS!! The Wagons themselves!! Honestly, I’m so excited about this, I almost peed when they confirmed! If you’ve kept up with my blogs, you will have noticed Massive Wagons are one of my favourite bands, so to have them play my first ever festival and to be headlining it is just incredible and completed the vision I had. You guys also voted for these guys in bulk!!!
Under No Illusions

IMPORTANT INFO:
Date : Saturday 10th August 2019
Venue : The 1865, Southampton, S014 3AR.
Tickets : £20 advance, £25 on door.
All ages welcome – under 16’s must be accompanied by an adult.
Public Transport : Southampton Central (train station), Bus : Central Station – Holyrood Church (U1C)
Taxi’s : Radio Taxis, West Quay Cars, Aero Taxis Southampton Ltd.
Hotels : Room2 Southampton, Cargo Southampton, The Star Hotel, Southampton Central Travelodge are close by, but feel free to search around for a hotel suitable for you.
Food : The Terrace Sandwich Bar, Red Lion pub, Everest Cuisine, Bayleaf Kitchen, Liberty’s Sports Bar.

If you would like to be given an information package, please head over to the NozFest Website and sign up to receive more details.

THANK YOU’S: 
These guys deserve a massive thank you, firstly for keeping this as much as a secret as I have, but also for supporting me and my dream and helping achieve it.
Design and Artwork : Vincent Sturgess
Venue : Guy & Richard
Advice/Help/Support : Mark Christansen
Festival Hosts : Si Genaro and David Chinery
Official Photographers : Lynn Burt, Damian Godley, Andrew Hayes & Billy Browne.
Pals : Holly, Ema, Jordan, Luke, Jayke, Vi, Liz, Tyler + anyone I may have forgot.
My Parents for encouraging me and supporting me on this journey.

STORY:
It’s been my dream/ambition since I was very small to run my own festival, in May 2018 I decided it’s time to stop dreaming and make it happen. With a lot of forward planning, support and vision I’ve been able to go out there and put together something I thought would be impossible for someone of may age.
It’s taught me that you really do have to work hard for your dreams, but if you believe in yourself you will get there – no matter who or what stands in your way.

I guess you’re also wondering why I chose “NOZFEST” as the name? Well, quite a few people wanted me to call it “JodieFest” which… I just didn’t like. I could’ve called it “RockFest” to fit in with my Rock Nights.. but I felt that was too plain, boring and standard. Then I remembered, my nickname is “Noz” as my Dad could see up my nose when I was born and has pretty much called me that ever since. I think NozFest has quite a good ring to it as well.

The great thing about this festival is that I managed to include all the bands that you guys requested, and also some of my personal favourites!!
This isn’t just for me, this is festival is for YOU and it’s for the bands – it’s our time to join together and have a bloody good time, and share our love of music. For anyone who’s ever felt like a black sheep… NozFest is for you as well! ❤
I wanted to include local bands, bands from ‘a far’ and have a pretty epic headliner – and I think I’ve managed to have a pretty good mixture.

VOLUNTEERS & HELP:
I am looking and do need commited volunteers to help out with NozFest on the stage. I will need people on the door, wristbands, backstage, etc etc. Some experience with festivals and bands would be useful – but as long as you are reliable, work well as part of a team and don’t mind me working with you, then feel free to join the NozFest team!
If you are interested in Volunteering, please drop me a message via the NozFest website or alternately email me at : nozfest@yahoo.com

LINKS:
All important links shall be listed below!
Instagram – JodieBowie
Facebook – JodieBowie
Website – NozFest
Tickets – Eventbrite
Facebook – NozFest

This is literally the basic information, so I hope you’ve enjoyed it or discovered something new etc. Please please don’t forget to give the NozFest Page a like and a share, invite your friends, share the poster… get the word out there! We can do this! I believe in us!

Lots of love

Jodie x ❤ x

Top 5 Songs of September

Sorry I didn’t post my Top 5 of August in blog form, but they are on my FB page if you’re still interested in what they were & they are also included on my Spotify playlist 🙂
Anyway… where the heck has this year gone? It’s October already!! Let’s get crackin’!

Remember there is a YouTube playlist which includes all these wonderful songs from each month, and also a Spotify playlist which you can find via searching for ‘jodieharris15‘.

CHINA PLATES – MASSIVE WAGONS
“I don’t wanna be your friend anymore, it’s only Facebook official, nothing personal…”

I loveeee this song, mainly because it is so modern day with the lyrics! I love it when songs are about online lives because it’s such a huge part of our lives now. This song is so true, and I am living for it!! Gotta love me some Massive Wagons. I’ve mentioned these guys in so many of my Top 5 blogs, but I just keep discovering more and more stuff – if you haven’t… please check them out, and have a look at their new album “Lord Nelson”. FAB! ❤

I DON’T OWE NOBODY NOTHING – THE KRIS BARRAS BAND 
“Cos I’m living life for something, something that you’re not…” 

Wow. I saw Kris live in Southampton, and thought he was absolutely phenomenal! This man has an incredible voice, pure raw talent, a heart full of passion and his guitar faces are off the scale of epic! CHECK HIM OUT if you haven’t already… and get to a live show!! I love this tune so damn much, I feel like it’s definitely another one of my theme tunes for sure!! ❤

TEAR IT APART – PIRATES OF PANAMA
“Trying to shake the boss man off my back…” 

Oh.My.God.
Lads…… forgive me for saying this but…. that is the best music video and best audio you have put out! I was pleasantly surprised. Wow. If you guys didn’t know, the Pirate lads actually played my 21st birthday, so they of course hold a special little place in my heart. I am so happy for them that they are achieving their dreams and goals, and I look forward to see what their futures hold. Musically, if you’re a big L.A Rock fan….. go check these boys out! They’re definitely upped their game! Keep up with that sound boys ❤

JUST LIKE TIGER WOODS – STEEL PANTHER
“Get a platinum card it’ll be good…” 

I recently found myself reaching out for the good old Steel Panther again! This is just a song that generally calms me down, and gives me a “things will be okay” moment. Especially if I am going through family problems…. Steel Panther are a band I gravitate to big time during those times. I guess it’s part of the whole “rebelling” thing, but they give me time to feel like I belong somewhere…. because sadly around family, I always feel like I’m not meant to be there.

21 SHOTS – SAINTS OF SIN
“I took 21 shots for you…”

Well how could I not include this beauty! If you haven’t already seen, I was indeed in the music video – it was a great day and a great experience. Highly recommend checking out the music video, a lot of effort and planning went into it and it’s really payed off. Saints of Sin at their finest! I’m sure they’ve got a lot more tricks up their sleeve, so make sure you do check ’em out 😀

 

Hope you all enjoyed this blog, sorry I’ve not been as active lately – but hopefully you’ve discovered some new awesome tunes in this blog!!

Don’t forget to check me out on social media – don’t be afraid to reach out to me ❤
INSTAGRAM – JodieBowie
FACEBOOK – JodieBowie

Love you long time !!

Jodie x ❤ x

Hard Rock Hell – Sleaze!

I was lucky enough to win free tickets to Hard Rock Hell Sleaze in Sheffield! As we all know, my life is a general cock up, so I thought I’d enlighten you to the HRH experience 😉 

This shindig took place on the 2nd and 3rd of September at the O2 Academy in Sheffield and featured bands such as Wildside Riot, TigerTailz, Vain and Faster Pussycat.
I asked four of my rock ‘n’ roll friends to come along, but due to life being a bit of a pain sometimes, not all of them could make it. So I ended up going with my bestfriend, Jayke from The Last Siren and his girlfriend.

I have to admit, Jayke was so much more on the ball with organising this weekend away than I was. He pretty much booked his hotel straight away, and had to keep reminding me too book mine haha. Even sorted how we were getting there and back. Again, I thank you very much for all your efforts, and hope you and Vi enjoyed your weekend 🙂

Main Stage – VAIN

Let’s start of with chatting about the ACTUAL festival. Well, to me, it was freakin’ awesome! As a die-hard music fan, couldn’t really go anywhere more perfect for a weekend away than a rock festival. Okay, so the genre was sleaze; which is basically glam metal – so big hair, guyliner, rockin’ riff… everything I love in bands basically. Bands of this genre, I’m gonna say, are along the same lines as L.A Guns, Faster Pussycat, Crashdiet, Hanoi Rocks,  Love/Hate etc etc. Nothing at all wrong with those bands.

We got to the festival around 6:15pm? I immediately spotted some of my mofo friends, such as Paula, Lainey and Valeria, so headed up to the second stage to get myself a good spot to see the legends from Barcelona that are StOp, sTop! The boys played an absolutely blistering set, was proper hot and sweaty, but I loved every second of it. There’s something soul reviving about seeing your favourite band make an entire room so happy, and seeing how much energy they have to give. My love for this band gets stronger each time I see them – doesn’t matter what’s going on in my life, they never fail to make me ‘join the party’ and feel like I can touch the sky!!
We then headed back down to the main stage, where I managed to check out Wildside Riot, Tigertailz and Vain. Tigertailz had to be my fave ‘new discovery’. They are that cheesy, harmony, riffy, glammy awesomeness sort of band, you know, like a ‘rock of ages’ kinda feel. I was immediately like “yep, I like this band!”, probably helped that the frontman is pretty hot too!
Lastly, I got pretty much front row to see Vain, I’m not too sure what my opinion is on their music yet, but they were rock stars all the same, and I love rock stars! Just got me thinking about the direction I want my life to go…… and how people with a limited music taste are missing out on so much cool stuff and experiences. I love being who I am. Vain – yeah, I think they are a band I will most likely get into ❤

2nd Stage – Stop Stop!

The organisers did a brilliant job with everything, I’d love to have their job! I can’t wait to see what they do for HRH Sleaze 2! But thank you all such much for enlightening me to more awesome bands I should listen to. This is why I go to gigs – to meet people & to discover new talent!!

So, I suppose you might want to hear about MY experience of the festival? Fecking hell.
Shall we start off with how I was banned from talking about and to my boyfriend…. Oh, and with the fact that I paid for this entire weekend away, i.e I paid the money to secure the tickets, I paid for a double hotel room (not Jayke’s of course), I paid for my own food & drink, and petrol money for Jayke etc, so anyone else going pretty much had a free weekend away. Now, it’s probably not a great idea to go to a sleaze festival if you are into death metal… just throwing that out there. However, on my behalf, it probably wasn’t sensible going with a guy that is obsessed with me.

Main Stage – Ace Von Johnson of Faster Pussycat.

It was a pretty awkward atmosphere for the whole day if I am honest, he kept moaning about the genre of music, and was being a little anti-social anyway. Plus, he wasn’t too keen on the fact I was keeping in touch with my boyfriend (good job I did really). This guy was pretty determined to get obliterated… he did quite a few shots of neat vodka (MY vodka may I add). We got to this festival, and he pretty much became a hermit. I’m not sure what happened or why, but he wouldn’t talk to my friends, or socialise with them or anything. He later told me that most people just go to gigs to stand and listen to music…………………………. I’m obviously doing it all wrong then, silly me. He wouldn’t even talk to the frontman of my fave band, who actually made an effort of going up to HIM and saying hello. I wont lie, I may have missed my other half a bit because he was meant to be there, so was feeling a bit down anyway, but my mate looked like his soul committed suicide, which brought me down a lot. So in my head, I thought I’d look out for someone fun to lighten the mood. I found someone, so went to say hello etc, I turned round, and my friend had left me in the middle of the crowd. So I made my way back to a ‘safe spot’ and waited, but he didn’t come back. So I started panicking. About 30mins later, I went outside and was on the phone to my partner trying to plan what the hell I should do, when luckily my friend Lainey an her partner came to find me and comforted me for a bit, and edged me back inside to find my friends. I decided I wanted to stay at this festival seeing as I’d been looking forward to it for the last 8 months; but needed to give my room key to my friend so he could go back. He found me, and starting pulling me away from my friends, to which I said “no, I’m staying here, this is the hotel key”. He took it and went back to the room.

About an hour or so later, I went back to the hotel, knocked on the door for the room which I had paid for, to be greeted with the door being slammed in my face, and my friend in his watermelon underpants. I knocked on the door again, to which he opened it, blew a raspberry at me and said “what the fucks wrong with you”. I immediately turned round and said “I’m going out!”… I exited the hotel, absolutely fuming, phoned my boyfriend and walked around Sheffield at 1am trying to figure out what to do. I walked until I found another hotel, and was lucky enough to check myself into it… for £115!!! But it was safer, and sensible for me to just completely remove myself from the negative situation, and work out what I should do next… and also sleep in a double bed without the fear of being touched up!!
He left a few answer phone messages of him extremely upset, saying he was sorry etc. Yes, I felt bad in that moment, but at the same time he left a girl on her own in the cold in a town she doesn’t know, in the early hours of the morning, and didn’t let her into the £300 hotel room which she paid for completely cos he had no money, because he was in a mood cos he didn’t like the music and thought the festival was crap. He later sent me a picture of my vodka bottle in the sink. He drank until he was senseless, and then tipped the rest away…. MY alcohol… he just threw away. His claim was “well I bought it for you months ago and you hadn’t drank it”. That is like me buying my mum a necklace as a present and then saying “oh, actually I want that back now”. Morally… you DON’T DO IT!
Morally you also don’t act like a douche cos the girl you like is no longer a single pringle.

Main Stage – Tigertailz!

Sunday morning, I woke up and decided the most sensible option would be to go back to my hotel, pick up my things and return home with Lainey and Mark. I would have just been in a bad mood all day, it would have been horribly awkward. A lot of people agreed I made the right choice. However, I went back to my original hotel, and could hear my friend on the phone disrespecting one of my friends and, I quote, saying “I really like having a free hotel room to myself”. Well, that was the nail in the coffin for me. 8 years worth of friendship straight down the drain, with a massive “FUCK YOU” at the end, and a nice great big shit on the top. I went in and got my stuff, to which he said “seeing as you wont talk, I never want to go to another gig with you ever again, or stay in a hotel with you ever again”. In my head I thought “you fucking prick.” I left, got myself some breakfast… I had left my hoodie so had to go back for it, to which he wanted to talk more, but I really wasn’t interested. I just saw him as the biggest douche-pants on the planet. He told me this was all my own fault, amongst a lot of other things… that it’s rude to talk about people I love, that gigs are only for music and not socialising, that he doesn’t owe me anything, that I’m pathetic and immature, that no one on the planet is polite, that people were pushing him (he was at a gig… do the math), that I’m sad, and also that the music festival was a lot better when I wasn’t there etc.

So, my life lessons were learnt! Basically, real friends truly care about your well being, and sometimes your bestest friends are decades older than you, but they are always there when it matters. True friends are happy for your relationships, and want to share that with you. The people who truly love and look after you, are the people who are right there when you need them most. Just because you don’t like a certain genre of music, doesn’t mean you can’t have a good time and experience new things. Don’t let anyone ever put you down, or try and extinguish that flame that burns brightly in your soul, just because they are unhappy with themselves. The key to everything is love and kindness… and believe it or not, but true music fans, especially of the rock ‘n’ roll kind, are the most lovely and welcoming people on the planet! Just think about that a second…………..

Rock Hard Folks!! ❤

Jodie X

P.S… my hair is now black 😉