The final act to be announced for the first StonerKras Festival — to be held next month in Trieste, Italy — is hometown rockers Glory Owl, whose reunion rounds out a six-band bill topped by Nebula but mostly featuring acts from Italy and Slovenia. This only makes sense, considering that’s where the promoters putting it together are based, so the only question that remains is how everyone will work alongside each other on this first go, and I guess if next year StonerKras will be held in Slovenia instead.

And if you’re not up on geography (not that I am), Trieste is in the north of Italy, in Prosecco — yes, like the not-quite-champagne — and Prosek in Slovenia is part of the same region despite being in the neighboring nation. There you have it.

Oh, and here you have it too:

Rocket Panda Management & Mladinski Krožek Prosek-Kontovel are proud to present STONERKRAS FEST

– 20.08.2022 – Prosek-Prosecco (Trieste, ITA) –

StonerKras is a psychedelic music gathering based on stoner, doom and heavy psych music. The festival will have an international footprint but with the aim of enhancing the local heavy scene (both Slovenian and Italian) while attracting spectators from the region but also from neighboring countries. Youth aggregation and cultural exchange accompanied by good music.

!!! LAST BAND ANNOUNCEMENT !!!
EXCLUSIVE REUNION SHOW OF THE ITALIAN LEGENDS

*** GLORY OWL ***

(stoner rock from Trieste)

Do you like distorted guitars and Black Sabbath? Do feel nostalgic for football from the 80’s? Well then Glory Owl is the band you’re looking for!

Glory Owl are five good looking, ravenous adults: their hearts are full of untapped teenage anger.

Your nostalgia for much simpler times will be triggered, when a players’ prowess was measured on the length of their moustache or on how many cigarettes they smoked on a bench.

Or even better times, when beer was a currency and sweaty armpits were the latest fashion in Former Yugoslavian’s underground clubs.

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*** STONERKRAS FEST ***

– 20.08.2022 – Prosek-Prosecco (Trieste, ITA) –

NEBULA (heavy psych, USA)
BUSS (heavy psych, ITA)
OMEGA SUN (stoner doom, SLO)
GLORY OWL Exclusive Reunion Show (stoner rock, ITA)
SAMSATION (psychedelic rock, SLO)
BIG BLACK WHALE (stoner rock, ITA)

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** FOOD & DRINKS **
** MARKET STANDS **
** AFTERPARTY DJ-SET ***

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Tickets at the door: 20€
For info and reservations: info@rocketpandamanagement.com

https://www.facebook.com/events/532235522016554
https://www.instagram.com/stonerkrasfest/
https://www.facebook.com/StonerKrasFest/

Glory Owl, The Weight of Stone (2017)

When Nebula announced their extensive European tour back in April, the Aug. 20 date in Trieste, Italy, was left as a TBA, and it’s been revealed that the reason for that is that the band’s first Euro run supporting their new album, Transmission From Mothership Earth — which was itself announced just about two weeks ago — will cap at the inaugural edition of the StonerKras Fest, a collaboration between Rocket Panda Management (this means I won’t be surprised when Trieste locals Buss are added) and Slovenia’s Mladinski Krožek Prosek-Kontovel. The stated mission is to represent both regions, and fair enough since there’s plenty of heavy to go around, but with Nebula on board, their reach proves immediately international and I doubt the Cali legends will be the only act from elsewhere to play.

Though I say that and I have no idea how many bands there will be on the finished bill, so take it for what it is in being next-to-baseless speculation, but whatever. Even as a single-day all-dayer, I have every reason to believe this won’t be the last edition of StonerKras Fest given the personnel involved, and who knows, maybe you’ll be in that part of the world in August following Nebula on tour like some kind of hippie revivalist thing and you’ll hit this one up. Or maybe you’re just sitting on your ass thinking it would be rad to go someplace you’ve never been and have a once-in-a-lifetime experience there. I say do it. Life’s too short and too generally wretched to let that kind of opportunity slip. As ever: quit your dayjob. For yourself, if not for rock and roll.

From the PR wire:

STONERKRAS FEST

20.08.2022 – Prosek-Prosecco (Trieste, ITA)

Rocket Panda Management & Mladinski Krožek Prosek-Kontovel present STONERKRAS FEST

– 20.08.2022 – Prosek-Prosecco (Trieste, ITA) –

StonerKras is a psychedelic music gathering based on stoner, doom and heavy psych music. The festival will have an international footprint but with the aim of enhancing the local heavy scene (both Slovenian and Italian) while attracting spectators from the region but also from neighboring countries. Youth aggregation and cultural exchange accompanied by good music.

!!! FIRST BAND ANNOUNCEMENT TODAY !!!

NEBULA (heavy psych, USA)

+ more bands T.B.A. !!!

** FOOD & DRINKS **
** MARKET STANDS **
** FREE AFTERPARTY DJ-SET ***

Tickets at the door: 20€
For info and reservations: info@rocketpandamanagement.com

STAY TUNED FOR MORE INFO COMING SOON…

https://www.facebook.com/events/532235522016554
https://www.instagram.com/stonerkrasfest/
https://www.facebook.com/StonerKrasFest/

Nebula, “Highwired”