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Kendal Calling is an award-winning, innovative, independent festival based in the Lake District. It features pioneering contemporary music and art alongside traditional rural entertainment. They pride themselves on being the most fun you can have in the countryside with fields full of activities and attractions for everyone, from families to stag parties!
This year's fancy dress theme has been announced, with festival organisers promising to transform Kendal Calling into a dazzling alien world, bringing outer space to the Lake District! This promises to be an out of this world experience where every area of the festival will be invaded by a host of science-fiction characters taking the festival-goers on a journey through the stars.
Without giving away the festival's plans too much, festival-goers can beam themselves into the Calling Out tent after the bands go home to watch some of the best space films ever made and some that might surprise! Once again an attempt will be made to smash another world record. This year Kendal Calling hope to break the record for the largest moonwalk! No, not by sending people into space! Instead festival-goers should don their sparkly white gloves and embrace their inner MJ as they attempt to 'beat it.'
As well as the overall space themed décor, Kendal Calling will once again have a wide variety of the very best music and performance art to excite, enlighten and entertain throughout the weekend. Keep an eye out for many more Kendal Calling announcements in the near future as this multi award winning festival continues to provide the perfect backdrop for a weekend of musical merriment in the fields.
Main Stage
- Suede
- Frank Turner
- Example
- Happy Mondays
- De La Soul
- Miles Kane
- 2ManyDJs
- Tom Odell
- Razorlight
- Clean Bandit
- Newton Faulkner
- Athlete
- Ella Eyre
- Mr Scruff
- Reel Big Fish
- The Heavy
- Catfish And The Bottlemen
- Rae Morris
- Saint Raymond
- Dub Pistols
- Jess Glynne
- Women's Hour
- Findlay
- Breton
- Josh Record
- Kimberly Anne
- Amber Run
- Gallery Circus
- Lanterns On The Lake
- The Lucid Dream
- Johnny Borrell
- Zazou
- The Lancashire Hotpots
- Aquilo
- DJ Food
- Cheeba
- DJ Moneyshot
- Zion Train
- Reeps One
- The Melodic
- By The Rivers
- Typesun
- Will Varley
- We Were Evergreen
- Tantz
- Urban Folk Quartet
- Mint Royale
- The Baggy Mondays
- Dave Haslam
- Black Cat DJs
- Father Funk
- Gareth Brooks
- King Eider
- The Hummingbirds
- Phoneys & the Freaks
- Howling Rhythm DJs
- Aaron Wright & Jacqui Abbott
- Kommix Kut
- The Raged
- Our Fold
- Dub Sex
- Mark Abbott
- Fallback Productions
- Sam P
- Karl Yates
- Northern Soul Dance Classes
- Augustines
Glow Dance Tent
- 2ManyDJs
- Andy C
- Zane Lowe
- James Zabiela
- Gorgon City
- Goldie
- Dub Phizix
- MC Strategy
- Shadow Child
- Friend Within
- GQ
- Lapsley
- Ash Howell
- My Neu Leng
- Bondax
- MJ Cole
- Karma Kid
- DJ Monki
- Star Slinger
- TCTS
- Kartel
- French Kiwi Juice
Woodlands
- BIRD
- Seattle Yacht Club
- Love For Zero
- Jakarta Club
- Evil Blizzard
- The Templebys
- The Pinstripe Pigeon Band
- Fiona Clayton
- The Lottery Winners
- Jake And The Jellyfish
- Ivan Campo
- Orchid Hunters
- Nancy Kent
- The Lumberjack Cowboy Heartbreak Trucking Co.
- Arran George
- Joe McCorriston
- Alex Hulme
- Mylittlebrother
- Baksheesh
- Ben Dyson
- Gritty Britain
Also Appearing
- Jimi Goodwin
- Frightened Rabbit
- Simon and Oscar (Ocean Colour Scene)
- Lewis Watson
- Admiral Fallow
- Black Rivers
- Team Me
- Norma Jean Martine
- Mirror Signal
- The Tea Street Band
- Champs
- Dario G (DJ set)
- Lauren Aquilina
- Lyger
- Big Sixes
- Etches
- Molly Warburton
- Gypsy Hill
- Smerin's Anti-Social Club
- John Langon Band
- Talisman
- Will Tramp
- Drop the Mustard DJs
- Zutekh
- English Disco Lovers
- Herbal Sessions
- Dub Central
- Showhawk Duo
- Urban Sabotage presents: Davos LIVE
- Lisbon
- The Membranes
- Skutch Manos
- Metisa
- Colt 45
- MDNGHT
- Berlin
- You
- $ista $ista
- Walk
- Honeyfeet
- Harlequin Marching Band
- Skittles & Live Band
- Cut Capers (prev Redfoot)
- Lauren Housley & The Northern Cowboys
- René
- Gypsies of Bohemia
- Scatters the Funky Disco Pig
- The Grand Old Ukes of Yorkshire
- Treedrum
- Riot Jazz Brass Band
- The Dakota Jim Band
- Taylor Jackson
- Charlie Cooper
- Thingumbob & The Thingumajogs
- From A Window
- Buffalo Brothers
- The Big Easy & Swing Dance
- Flamingus
- Flavia
- The Bear Around Your Neck
- Whiskey Moon Face
- Felix Hagan & The Family
- Too Much Love
- Saluation Dub Collective
- The EME
- Dave Rybka
- Xander Smith
- Cal Jader
- Hot Vestry
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