Standon Calling announces BBC Introducing line-up

Standon Calling 2015

Friday 31st July to Sunday 2nd August 2015
Standon House, Standon, Ware, Hertfordshire, SG11 1PR, England MAP
£127 for an adult/youth weekend pass

Daily capacity: 10,000

Last updated: Fri 10th Jul 2015

BBC Introducing will showcase Amber Run, Nova Twins, Attaque, Longy, Alice Walker, Youth Club, Natasha North, and Kimberley Newell on Saturday on the Last Dance Saloon stage at this month's Standon Calling which celebrates its 10th birthday this year in the grounds of the 16th Century Hertfordshire manor house from Friday 31st July to Sunday 2nd August 2015 .

Standon Calling's founder, Alex Trenchard commented, "We're so pleased to have the BBC Introducing team curate one of our favourite stages at Standon and incredibly excited about the talent that is emerging from the surrounding areas. We're firm believers in supporting new and emerging talent and with a history of booking acts that go on to great things whether Florence & The Machine, Mumford & Sons, Clean Bandit, London Grammar, and we hope the eight selected artists will enjoy their time at Standon as much as we will undoubtedly enjoy their fantastic live performances."

Also confirmed is a new addition to Sunday night with a Club de Fromage vs. Coffin Dodgers Disco set on the clock tower stage at the centre of the festival.

Little Dragon top the bill on Friday, The Dandy Warhols with a very special UK exclusive appear on Saturday, and Basement Jaxx will headline the Sunday night. Plus The Horrors, Seinabo Sey, DJ Yoda, Prides, Charlotte OC, Will And The People, The Cuban Brothers, The Black Delta Movement, Bondax, Sink The Pink, Savage, Gilles Peterson, and Patrick Forge, Roots Manuva, Hercules And Love Affair, Ella Eyre, Kwabs, The Antlers, Saint Raymond, Lucy Spraggan, Hypnotic Brass Ensemble, London Elektricity, MC Wrec, Slaves, We Have Band, All We Are, Rag n Bone Man, Real Lies, Jagaara, Black Honey, Kiko Bun, Remi Miles, Maddox, and Waste.

For the line-up details as available see the Standon Calling line-up page.

This year's theme has also been announced as 'A Town of Two Faces', which will include the construction of the festival's very own Wild West Town with a twist. The theme will take over the festival site with interactive theatre, art installations and costumes.

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A weekend ticket is priced at £127. An infant (aged 0-3 years) weekend ticket is priced at £5. A child (aged 4-12 years) weekend ticket is priced at £20. A campervan ticket is priced at £60, with a power hook-up option, and a weekend parking ticket is priced at £10.

There are numerous stages and the odd unexpected stage appearing from nowhere. The festival boasts a number of bars, one of which is hewn out of an enormous oak tree, secret areas, interactive theatre, swimming pool (with underwater dance area), boutique camping (beach huts, yurts and tipis), kids area, and festival food.

On site activities and entertainment includes The Mayor's Homecoming Jamboree, Rockaoke, Line Dancin' Classes, The Town Soapbox, Dr Leech's Wellness Center & Funeral Services, The Treatment Rooms Present: Tombstone Transformations, The Ride of Your Life in the Voodoo Taxi Wagon & Vanishing Graffiti Workshops, Art Macabre Death Drawing, A Beginners Guide to Taxidermy, Wild Wyatt’s Survival Camps: How Not To Die In The West, Potions & Poisons Masterclass, The Church Fate: Legs Akimbo Presents The Church, Gospel Choir, Aunt Annie's Bone Orchard Bake Sale & Bingo, A Conversation with Ghosts, Baptisms of Fire, Shotgun Weddings, Salon London Presents: Dark Matters and Bright Ideas, The Telegraph Office: Wild Words of The West, The Radio Shack & The Newspaper Printing Press, The Cut-Throat Barbers: Talk-of-the-Town Hairstyling, Marvellous Makeovers & The Cut-Throat Cabaret Show, Wild Wyatt's Travelling Menagerie: Wildlife from the Wild West, Trapeze Lessons, Swimming Pool, The Annual Dog Show, A Parade of Dark & Light, Immersive Theatre, and the Happy Hoppers Games Arena.

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