Kendal Calling festival news : With 2023 tickets going on sale tomorrow morning at 10am, now seems the perfect …
Festivals and gigs. A listings calendar, plus previews, news, reviews, and photos
Festivals and gigs. A listings calendar, plus previews, news, reviews, and photos
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Blossoms, san fender, LG, two door cinema club
More toilets
And maybe a sensible limit to bringing your own drink into the arena
Cans of Amstel are scrap
Even a limit of 4 cans a day would help
Yes a few more toilets in the main field please 🙏
Seasick Steve, Faithless, Foals, Gerry Cinnamon, Primal Scream, Everly Pregnant Brothers, Rudimental, Reverend and the Makers, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Dizzy Rascal, Happy Mondays.
Pulp!! Would be great headliners
Kids calling was a bit of a disappointment too,. Maybe a mini circus and tent for rainy days. Mini playground too. There was also no vendor with kids in mind,. No diluted juice, fruit shoots or even kids clothing or sunglasses.
More toilets and better signage for the toilets and for the mens urinals so they can find them and not use the toilets when not needed
Please no more resident has beens as headliners. Get some new fresh artists up there.
Slightly more power on main stage. Parklands replaced with the old main stage. Better headphone distribution for silent disco (it was an epic laugh, but so many queuing ages made you feel a bit bad for them. Bands, give me a while… Hotpots were class as ever. Picks people up at a low energy moment of weekend.. 🙂
Foals, Chemical Brothers, Pulp, Maximo Park, Editors, White Lies, Arcade Fire, Amyl and The Sniffers, Sister Sledge, Nile Rodgers and Chic, Sam Fender.
And what was the “£2 cup rent for beer” quoting a bar supervisor at the main arena bar. Judging by the amount of beer glasses strewn everywhere not many people realised this extra beer tax. Cost me £17 odd to get refills with out glasses . Absolute abomination in this financial climate, please come up with a better idea KC!!!!!!
Gerry cinnamon
Sam fender
Florence and the machine
Mumford and sons
More of amy macdonald
Jamie t
Alabama 3
Chris moyles again !!
Blossoms
And lower prices beer and food was extortionate
Oh and a time table /map with every ticket .
Mumford and sons
Artic monkeys
The streets
Found the lay out very messy this year just stools n food places dotted here n there, the main stage was better where it used to be, that hill walking into the arena was terrible
Gerry Cinnamon, Sam Fender, Tom Grennan! Gabrielle again she was amazing!! Becky Hill ooo and N Dubz are back on the scene too!!
Give Ryan Phelps – The British Hustle Magician free tickets he entertained lots of people in the arena and campsites and deserves some recognition!
Gerry Cinnamon, Sam Fender, Frank Turner, Tom Grennan, VACCINES, James, courteeners, Jessie J ♥️ Rita Ora, Ella Eyre
Gerry Cinnamon would be a belter!!
Toilets where absolutely shocking this year.
There carnt of been enough for the amount of people there.
Camped in Emperors fields, could have done with more water points for washing pots, pans ect. Would have been good to see some main stage acts on the big screen in Oktoberfest aswell.
Let us wheelchair user access and exit the main site using the road/track near the main stage rather than having to go up and down the huge hill in the crowds of people and save energy for getting around the site please.
Chemical Brothers, Pulp, Rudimental, ELO, Gorillaz.
I can but dream…killers, gerry cinnamon, gorillaz, arcade fire, mgmt
Mr Wilson’s Second Liners should be main stage, then I’d love to see Pulp at KC. Think they’re the right demographic.
Becky hill , rag and bone man, snow patrol, san fender , Ella eyre , Rita Ora , Jessie j , the script , Lewis capaldi ,
Not too much indie! A wider variety of genres on the main stage.
Maneskin, Arctic Monkeys, Example, The Snuts, Gayle, The HotPots (obviously), Amy Macdonald, Ocean Colour Scene, Mcfly, The Barenaked Ladies, Scott Bradlees Postmodern Jukebox (yes the last 2 are a dream but amazing live)
Sophie Ellis Bextor on the main stage the crowd she drew in on Parklands!!! she was amazing singing her hits and doing some covers rather than plugging new stuff nobody knows. Same with Heather Small!!!
An escalator from Great Plains to the Arena 😁
Bigger & more powerful acts on main stage, felt like everyone on there struggled to get everyone in the crowd going (except maybe Stereophonics).
Parklands tent had far more lively acts on it.
Love to see HotPots, Elvana again on main stage on Sunday. Hot Chip & Beast Decoys again please!
Next year – Chemical brothers, Fatboy Slim, Pulp, Muse, Mumford.
Maybe put Faithless on at a decent time next time instead of 1.30am Monday morning!! Gutted about that one. Surely you could have had them on Saturday night instead of two Drum and Bass acts on back to back?
Also – a mini bus to take frontier campers to the actual arena entrance not just to the top of the hill near the car park. Massive pain walking 25 minutes there and back to the arena.
Not music but- Taps with running water please. 🚰 Our camp hardly had any water and we had to walk to get it- Also a sink would be nice as the only way of cleaning hands was with sanitiser and half of the stations were empty. 🦠
Not who, but WHAT i would like to see are the times the acts are on. Second guessing the whole weekend set times of different acts wasn’t great, unable to plan at all. I’m here to see acts so let me know when they are on! Do any other festivals play hide and seek with their set times?? Genuine question.
Loved that there were lots of female/ female fronted bands
Keep it up they were ace!
Foals
Amyl and the sniffers
Yard act.
Elvana again!
Paulo nutini
Dick and Dom again!
Sophie Ellis better again!
Hotpots! (Obviously) the Sunday morning pick me up everyone needs!
Better traffic management to avoid the MASSIVE Friday queues.
Lancashire Hotpots & Bill Bailey were perfect Sunday afternoon on main stage – more of that please.
Snow Patrol. Amy MacDonald. Kaiser Chiefs.
More toilets it was redicoulas this year ! Cheaper beer you say we carnt take alcohol in the arena due to keeping the prices low at £6.20 a pint i wouldnt say that was low and gaving to pay for a cup at each different bar you go to it soon adds up.
All failing that Gerry cinnamon, Blossoms, Happy Mondays, Rag and bone man, Edd sheeran i could go on x
More female toilets. Less cans of extortionate lager and more draught lager. Less chairs, tables, picnic blankets and other hazards. The hill to view the main stage was an obstacle course in the evening and quite frankly unsafe.
Music wise, Liam Gallagher, Richard Ashcroft, Primal Scream, The Idles.
My highlights … Gabrielle/ Amy McDonald/ Sophie Ellis / Heather Small/ Hacienda Classical/ Oktoberfest/ Silent Disco brilliant as always!!
Missed – Justin Moorhouse And Josh Widdicombe soapbox not as good this year!!
Would love some retro Bands like Spandau Ballet / ABC / Duran Duran / Steps
Any chance of a big info screen in main arena of what’s on where rather than us trying to read the small print on lanyards when you’ve left your reading glasses at home !! 🤪