Bedd

bedd are a six-piece band from Oxford. With reverb-laden guitars and analogue synths, bedd create a melancholy nostalgia, carefully constructing huge, swelling arrangements.
Veering from intimate conversational vignettes to massive slabs of shoegaze noise, bedd try to make sense of the beauty and fragility of life against the backdrop and certainty of pain and loss.

Their debut album Do Not Be Afraid, released in late 2025, has received glowing reviews. Do Not Be Afraid was recorded by the band in rural Oxfordshire, mixed by Robert Stevenson at Sweetzerland Studios, California, and mastered by Tim Turan at Turan Audio, Oxford. It has received plaudits from across the blogosphere and airplay across the BBC network:
‘Bordering on a masterpiece’
— BBC Introducing
‘Cutting through beautifully the filters of an Instagram-encased world, Jamie transforms real concerns, injury and failures into something very magical.’
— Monolith Cocktail
‘“Do Not Be Afraid” is a seriously good example of recreational existentialism.’
— Nightshift Magazine
‘A masterful first album if ever there was one’
— The Big Takeover
‘“I Whoo Yeah” is a devastating six-minute lilt through grief.’
— Oxford Music Scene Magazine
Coupled with sell-out shows in their hometown of Oxford, bedd have been steadily forming genuine connections with an ever-growing following.

The Exact Opposite

Band chemistry is a strange, undefinable, intangible thing, but when it’s there, it’s undeniable.
And it’s undeniable that new duo The Exact Opposite have it in spades. That much is clear from
the first listen of their debut album, Skill Issue, a record that fizzes and fizzles with a very tangible
chemistry that should and needs to be listened to from beginning to end. That it’s just singer/
guitarist Jamie Stuart and drummer/multi-instrumentalist Nigel Powell makes the depth,
richness and full-bodied texture of these songs all the more impressive.