Brighton indie built on hooks that outlived the 2006 landfill purge, still filling rooms on the strength of 'Naive'.
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Kendal Calling 2026 Lineup
Four days in a Lake District deer park, with Biffy Clyro and Wolf Alice over a deep Cumbrian undercard.
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About Kendal Calling 2026
Kendal Calling runs at Lowther Deer Park outside Penrith, a Lake District site that gives it hills on every side, and 2026 ran July 30 to August 2. The Kooks opened the Main Stage on the Thursday, Two Door Cinema Club took the Friday, Biffy Clyro the Saturday and Wolf Alice the Sunday.
Underneath that it is unusually northern and unusually deep. The Libertines, Primal Scream, The Vaccines, Scissor Sisters, The Cribs, The Lathums, The Snuts, Jamie Webster and Gabrielle all played the Main Stage, while Calling Out ran Circa Waves and Witch Fever, and Tim Burgess of The Charlatans kept his Tim Peaks Diner going with Lloyd Cole, Bis and the Milltown Brothers. Eleven stages, and a good half of the bill is bands from within an hour's drive.
Expect alternative, rock, indie-rock and pop across 278 acts.
At a glance
- Dates
- – Thursday to Sunday, four days
- Where
- Lowther Deer Park, Penrith, Cumbria, UK
- Lineup
- 278 acts
- Website
- Official site
Kendal Calling 2026 lineup & schedule: all 278 acts
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Northern Irish trio whose Tourist History riffs still do the work, bright interlocking guitars built for a field at sunset.
Indie-rockIndie-pop
Scotland's shirtless festival warriors, with knotty math-rock instincts wired to enormous singalong choruses.
Alt-rock
Mercury-winning UK alt-rock: from whispered folk to full-throated fuzz in one set, with Ellie Rowsell commanding every register.
Alt-rock
Vacant Weekend
The Covasettes
Manchester indie that has played every small room in the north and earned the bigger stage.
Indie-rockIndie-pop
Vanessa Carlton
Piano pop with a long tail: 'A Thousand Miles' is inescapable, and the records after it went quieter and stranger.
PopPiano-pop
The Cribs
Three Jarman brothers from Wakefield playing scrappy, shouted indie rock with the amps set to argue.
Indie-rockPost-punk
Esmeralda Road
Alternative
The Silver Bars
Rianne Downey
A Lanarkshire voice built for rooms considerably larger than the ones she is currently playing.
Indie-popFolk-pop
Swindled
Alternative
Black Honey
Brighton four-piece with a Tarantino streak, all reverbed guitars and cinematic swagger.
Indie-rockAlt-rock
Creeping Jean
Rock
Hard-Fi
Alternative
Keyside
Liverpool guitar songs with the swagger already installed, no apprenticeship apparently required.
Indie-rockBritpop
Brooki
Scottish four-piece from Whitburn, West Lothian, whose debut album W.L. hit number one in the UK. Big singalong choruses with Jack Cochrane's accent left intact.
Indie rock
Son Mieux
Dutch indie pop that dresses up and means it, camp and widescreen and fond of a key change.
Indie-popIndie-rock
The Vaccines
Fast, short, hook-first guitar songs from a band that has never once been embarrassed about wanting a chorus.
Indie-rockGarage-rock
Irish songwriter writing sharply about adolescence over guitar-pop that keeps getting bigger, a rising voice entirely her own.
Indie-popSinger-songwriter
Beaux
New York glam-disco troupe fronted by Jake Shears and Ana Matronic, whose falsetto hooks and cabaret theatrics turned 'I Don't Feel Like Dancin'' into a global staple.
Pop
Two decades of wiry New York indie rock and standup-grade stage banter, still touring on hooks sharpened in 2005.
Indie rockPost-punk
Deaf Havana
A Norfolk band that has broken up and come back more than once, writing rock songs about exactly that.
Alt-rockPost-hardcore
Late Night Indie Disco with Chris Hawkins
Baggy Mondays
Matt Hennessy
Indie rock
Swim School
Edinburgh four-piece pushing hazy shoegaze guitars up against genuinely sharp pop writing.
Indie-rockShoegaze
Cherryholt
Rock
The Untold Orchestra Pres. Beatles
Fletchr Fletchr
Rock
Freddie Halkon
Indie rock
Mustbejohn
Dance
The Hunna
Big, glossy British guitar rock built for rooms with their hands already in the air.
Indie-rockAlt-rock
Hello Cosmos
Rock
'Dreams' and 'Rise' and a voice that has not thinned in thirty years of British soul pop.
SoulPop
Bleech 9:3
Alternative
Liverpool songwriter whose terrace-anthem folk went from pub singalongs to arenas without losing the crowd that got him there.
FolkSinger/songwriter
Pastel
Brogeal
Scottish folk rock played at pace, trad instruments pushed through a rock band's volume.
Folk-rockCeltic
Albion's prodigal poets, where Doherty and Barât are still shambolic, still romantic, still the best bad idea British rock ever had.
Indie-rock
Arkayla
Alternative
Keo
British band giving grunge-weight guitars and nineties indie rock a new run behind Finn Keogh's raw voice.
Pop
Abbie Mccarthy
Praise & worship
Shit Indie Disco
Grandmas House
Alternative
Indie Power Hour
The Cases
The Slates
Northern comic folk songs about chip shops and shopping trolleys, delivered completely straight-faced.
ComedyFolk
My First Time
Rock
Lily Moore
A big, worn soul voice out of Brighton, singing about other people's business and her own.
SoulSinger-songwriter
Irish indie four-piece with harmony-rich guitar pop on a steep rise, carrying the Cranberries torch for a new generation.
Indie rock
Perth duo: punchy, sunburnt indie rock in the great Australian garage tradition, mates-first energy and hooks to match.
Indie rock
Liverpool indie with a mariachi trumpet in the middle of it, which turns out to be the whole trick.
Indie-rockMariachi-rock
Pentire
Wigan four-piece with a chart-topping debut behind them, playing jangling, plainspoken guitar pop that reads like short stories about a northern town.
IndieIndie rock
Witch Fever
Manchester punk with doom in the low end, furious about religion and unbothered about being liked.
PunkDoom-punk
Vistas
Edinburgh indie pop, bright and uncomplicated, written to be sung back from the front ten rows.
Indie-popIndie-rock
Primal Scream
Screamadelica put a Glasgow rock band in the middle of acid house, and they have been switching between the two ever since.
RockPsych-rock
Glaswegian singer-songwriter with acoustic-rooted indie, a rasp and a knack for the kind of chorus a whole field finishes for him.
IndieSinger/songwriter
Circa Waves
Liverpool indie that keeps getting bigger and louder without losing the sunburst choruses it started with.
Indie-rockBritpop
Late Night Indie Disco with Karl Yates.
Diplomats of Sound DJs
Rebel Hearts
Spangled
Alternative
Brasswurst Band
Matt Felix
Lloyd Cole
Liam C
The Northern Threads
Rock
Mood Hoover
Amy True
Hip-hop
The Craic Inn
Bis
Hyphen
K-Estate
Dance
Arctic Numpties
Mikey Snooze's Banger Off
Mixxlab DJs
Tim Burgess DJ
Katie Owen
Pop
Nat Dempsey
Paper Jones
The Brat Pack
Tim Burgess
Alternative
Peggy with the Good News
Dick & Dom
Potter
Anna Lynch
Barbarossa Beat
Dance
Filthy Laugh
Alternative
Molly Warburton
Pop
Revivalry
Xanadu
Dobbo
Mich Dulce and Her Midnight Callers
Alternative
Roeparkin
Away from the Numbers
Moody Brew
Oswald Slain
Alternative
Ruby Duff
Pop
The Kokos
Electronic
Elf Jaw
Milltown Brothers
Alternative
The Rosadocs
Carsick
The Empire Police
Slamboree
Breakbeat
Spanish Horses
Toast Club
Crossover jazz
We Broke Free: Indie Sleaze Disco
Yaang
Aziza Jaye
Reggae
Listen Twice
Rock
Lucigenic
Indie rock
Scratchcard Wednesday
Pop
Beardyman
Morton Betts
Discovery: a Daft Punk Disco
Gans
Alternative
The Maddocks
Rock
Exploding Head
Northern Irish power-pop with an absurd hit rate in the late 90s and no interest in slowing the tempo since.
Alternative rockPower pop
Big Band of Boom
Rock
Callum Spencer
Singer/songwriter
Dea Matrona
DJ Helen's Italo After Dark
Voodoo Radio
Rock
London-Congolese powerhouse with rumba, soukous, and horn-stoked joy, virtuosic musicianship played strictly for dancing, Kinshasa tradition at London velocity.
Congolese rumba-jazz
Rainmann
Pop
Wirral band whose jangling, sea-salted psychedelia runs from the breakout pop of 'Dreaming of You' to eerie, folk-tinged records steeped in faded seaside towns.
A fictional band from an Eccentronic Research Council concept record made flesh, with Fat White Family's Lias Saoudi fronting their sleazy, synth-driven glam rock.
Is There a Soul Out There
Dubtendo Allstars
Lycra 80s Party
Somatic
Starshaped DJs
Tc & the Groove Family
Jazz
DJ Priya
DJ Shaolin Monkey's Super Disco Friends
In Parallel
Electronic
Si Chai
DJ Helen & Jimmy the Gent
Jordan Villa
House
Raji Rags
Breakbeat
Freshta
Pop
Tim Peaks FM with Chris Hawkins
Antiks
Harriet Dagnall
Alternative
Jeanine . Aaron Brooks . Tiny Rebel . Romy Taylor
Kendal's Movie Soundtrack Hour
Black Powder Merchants
Rock
Dejected
Shelly's Bane
Singer/songwriter
That Disney Show
Aphid
Stockport singer raised on country in an Irish family, setting American-style storytelling against northern English indie after years in Manchester pubs.
Singer/songwriter
The Ogretones
Betty Lou
Sold to the Sky
Rock
Nadia Kadek
Alternative
Tulpa
Harlan Frank and the Houseplants
The Lilacs
Indie rock
Oversize
Ruth Lyon
The Cords
Champ
Gardna
Miss Lilly
Park View
Syndicate
Kymara
R&B/soul
Radio Une Sound System
Dutty Moonshine Big Band
Hannah Robinson
Jimmy the Gent
The North
Indie
Glass
Ellur
Sun Byrd
The Futureheads
Paramoreish
Afflicted
Tom Hardwick's Italo Disco
Tom a Smith (replaces ? Liang Lawrence)
Divers Green
Karma Sheen
Rock
The Twang
Xox
Black Bordello
Alternative
The Orielles
DJ Fallback's Future Disco
Doves
Mr Fitz
The Sly
Ummi
Issey Cross
Uk Foo Fighters
Andy Robinson
Bobby Friction
Saturday Night Fever Disco
Fleetmac Wood
The Skinner Brothers
Jon Da Silva
House
Panjabi Hit Squad
Ltwalto's Alternative Anthems
Dave Haslam
Singer/songwriter
Omega Nebula
DJ Shaolin Monkey's French Touch
Manara
Almass Badat
Afrobeats
Mr Fitz & Limmz
Bodyroot
Clara Pople
Alternative
Eve Buckley
Naomi Kalu
The Fleetwood Mac Celebration
Chloe Pinney
Crossfire
Levi Roots' Carnival Party
Run Remedy
Alternative
Birty
Electronic
Susannah Clegg
Gifthorse
The Thingumajigs
Dom Joly: 25 Years of Trigger Happy Tv
Another Mister
Alice Kim
Neo-soul
Bex
Persimmon
The Untold Orchestra Pres. Movie Anthems
Leazes
Alternative
Nina Morton
Pop
Asbestos
Ushti
Girl in the Year Above
Pop
Sarah Johnstone
Massive Wagons
Rock
The Cumberland Swirls
Twayn
Farmer of Funk
Kotoa
Mark Gardener DJ Set
Tooth
Alternative
Georgia May
Monka
Helicon
Luke Una
House
Jenna Cole
Matty Hollywood
S.i.m.o x Hippo Sound System
Laurie McMahon
Rock
K-klass Live
Polyvinyl
Tom Rowley
Alternative
Soothsayers
Tom Hardwick's French Disco
Two Headed Horse
Alternative
Divorce
Groove Armada DJ Set
Magic Seas
Pop
Medley P
Nontaines D.c.
Surya Sen
Electronic
The Ultimate Abba Party
Tim Peaks DJs
808 State DJ
Mista Trick Collective
Dance
Kizzi
DJ Shaolin Monkey's Hip Hop Block Party
DJ Hiphoppapotamus
Dance
Crag Sow
Luke Una's Closing Party
Naina
Mahnoor
The headliners
Biffy Clyro · Scotland's shirtless festival warriors, with knotty math-rock instincts wired to enormous singalong choruses. Saturday's headliner, still the loudest three-piece in Britain.
The Kooks · Brighton indie built on hooks that outlived the 2006 landfill purge, still filling rooms on the strength of 'Naive'.
Two Door Cinema Club · Northern Irish trio whose Tourist History riffs still do the work, bright interlocking guitars built for a field at sunset.
Wolf Alice · Mercury-winning UK alt-rock: from whispered folk to full-throated fuzz in one set, with Ellie Rowsell commanding every register. Closed the festival, moving between whisper and roar inside one song.
Up-and-comers to catch early
Nell Mescal · Sharp, unsentimental songwriting.
Other acts worth planning around
The Libertines · Chaotic on a good night, which is the point.
Scissor Sisters · Back out and built entirely for a Friday night field.
The lineup by day
Thursday lineup (July 30)
The Kooks, The Covasettes, The Cribs, Vacant Weekend, Vanessa Carlton, Amy True + 18 more
Thursday set times (26 sets)
- Diplomats of Sound DJs · Chai Wallahs
- Vacant Weekend · Main Stage
- Rebel Hearts · Tim Peaks Diner
- Spangled · Chai Wallahs
- The Covasettes · Main Stage
- Brasswurst Band · Oktoberfest
- Matt Felix · Town Hall / The Stagger Inn
- Lloyd Cole · Tim Peaks Diner
- Vanessa Carlton · Main Stage
- Liam C · Chai Wallahs
- The Northern Threads · Town Hall / The Stagger Inn
- The Cribs · Main Stage
- Mood Hoover · Tim Peaks Diner
- Amy True · Chai Wallahs
- The Craic Inn · Town Hall / The Stagger Inn
- Bis · Tim Peaks Diner
- The Kooks · Main Stage
- Hyphen · Chai Wallahs
- K-Estate · Tim Peaks Diner
- Arctic Numpties · Town Hall / The Stagger Inn
- Mikey Snooze's Banger Off · Oktoberfest
- Mixxlab DJs · Chai Wallahs
- Tim Burgess DJ · Tim Peaks Diner
- Katie Owen · Town Hall / The Stagger Inn
Friday lineup (July 31)
Two Door Cinema Club, Baggy Mondays, Beaux, Black Honey, Brooki, Creeping Jean + 81 more
Friday set times (87 sets)
- Diplomats of Sound DJs · Chai Wallahs
- Esmeralda Road · Calling Out
- The Silver Bars · Main Stage
- Nat Dempsey · Roots
- Paper Jones · Town Hall / The Stagger Inn
- The Brat Pack · Parklands / Glow (Takeover)
- Tim Burgess · Tim Peaks Diner
- Peggy with the Good News · Roots
- Rianne Downey · Main Stage
- Swindled · Calling Out
- Dick & Dom · Parklands / Glow (Takeover)
- Potter · Chai Wallahs
- Anna Lynch · Roots
- Black Honey · Main Stage
- Creeping Jean · Calling Out
- Barbarossa Beat · Tim Peaks Diner
- Filthy Laugh · Town Hall / The Stagger Inn
- Molly Warburton · Woodlands
- Revivalry · Parklands / Glow (Takeover)
- Xanadu · Chai Wallahs
- Dobbo · Roots
- Hard-Fi · Main Stage
- Keyside · Calling Out
- Mich Dulce and Her Midnight Callers · Tim Peaks Diner
- Roeparkin · Woodlands
- Arctic Numpties · Parklands / Glow (Takeover)
- Away from the Numbers · Town Hall / The Stagger Inn
- Moody Brew · Roots
- Brooki · Calling Out
- Oswald Slain · Chai Wallahs
- Ruby Duff · Woodlands
- The Snuts · Main Stage
- The Kokos · Parklands / Glow (Takeover)
- Elf Jaw · Roots
- Son Mieux · Calling Out
- Milltown Brothers · Tim Peaks Diner
- The Rosadocs · Woodlands
- Carsick · Chai Wallahs
- The Empire Police · Roots
- The Vaccines · Main Stage
- Slamboree · Parklands / Glow (Takeover)
- Spanish Horses · Tim Peaks Diner
- Toast Club · Woodlands
- We Broke Free: Indie Sleaze Disco · Desert Island Disco
- Nell Mescal · Calling Out
- Yaang · Roots
- Aziza Jaye · Chai Wallahs
- Listen Twice · Town Hall / The Stagger Inn
- Lucigenic · Tim Peaks Diner
- Scratchcard Wednesday · Woodlands
- Beardyman · Parklands / Glow (Takeover)
- Beaux · Calling Out
- Morton Betts · Roots
- Discovery: a Daft Punk Disco · Desert Island Disco
- Scissor Sisters · Main Stage
- Gans · Woodlands
- The Maddocks · Tim Peaks Diner
- Exploding Head · Roots
- We Are Scientists · Calling Out
- Ash · Parklands / Glow (Takeover)
- Big Band of Boom · Chai Wallahs
- Callum Spencer · Town Hall / The Stagger Inn
- Dea Matrona · Woodlands
- DJ Helen's Italo After Dark · Desert Island Disco
- Voodoo Radio · Tim Peaks Diner
- Two Door Cinema Club · Main Stage
- Deaf Havana · Calling Out
- Kongo Dia Ntotila · Chai Wallahs
- Rainmann · Azaadi
- The Coral · Parklands / Glow (Takeover)
- The Moonlandingz · Woodlands
- Is There a Soul Out There · Town Hall / The Stagger Inn
- Late Night Indie Disco with Chris Hawkins · Calling Out
- Dubtendo Allstars · Parklands / Glow (Takeover)
- Lycra 80s Party · Desert Island Disco
- Somatic · Azaadi
- Starshaped DJs · Tim Peaks Diner
- Tc & the Groove Family · Chai Wallahs
- Baggy Mondays · Calling Out
- DJ Priya · Azaadi
- DJ Shaolin Monkey's Super Disco Friends · Town Hall / The Stagger Inn
- In Parallel · Parklands / Glow (Takeover)
- Si Chai · Chai Wallahs
- DJ Helen & Jimmy the Gent · Woodlands
- Jordan Villa · Desert Island Disco
- Raji Rags · Azaadi
- Freshta · Azaadi
Saturday lineup (August 1)
Biffy Clyro, Abbie Mccarthy, Arkayla, Bleech 9:3, Brogeal, Cherryholt + 82 more
Saturday set times (89 sets)
- Diplomats of Sound DJs · Chai Wallahs
- Tim Peaks FM with Chris Hawkins · Tim Peaks Diner
- Matt Hennessy · Calling Out
- Swim School · Main Stage
- Antiks · Town Hall / The Stagger Inn
- Harriet Dagnall · Woodlands
- Jeanine . Aaron Brooks . Tiny Rebel . Romy Taylor · Chai Wallahs
- Kendal's Movie Soundtrack Hour · Parklands / Glow (Takeover)
- Cherryholt · Calling Out
- The Untold Orchestra Pres. Beatles · Main Stage
- Black Powder Merchants · Woodlands
- Dejected · Roots
- Shelly's Bane · Town Hall / The Stagger Inn
- That Disney Show · Parklands / Glow (Takeover)
- Fletchr Fletchr · Calling Out
- Aphid · Roots
- Bec O'malley · Tim Peaks Diner
- The Ogretones · Parklands / Glow (Takeover)
- Freddie Halkon · Main Stage
- Betty Lou · Chai Wallahs
- Sold to the Sky · Town Hall / The Stagger Inn
- Mustbejohn · Calling Out
- Nadia Kadek · Woodlands
- Tulpa · Tim Peaks Diner
- The Hunna · Main Stage
- Harlan Frank and the Houseplants · Roots
- The Lilacs · Parklands / Glow (Takeover)
- Hello Cosmos · Calling Out
- Oversize · Woodlands
- Ruth Lyon · Chai Wallahs
- The Cords · Tim Peaks Diner
- Champ · Roots
- Gabrielle · Main Stage
- Gardna · Parklands / Glow (Takeover)
- Bleech 9:3 · Calling Out
- Miss Lilly · Woodlands
- Park View · Roots
- Syndicate · Tim Peaks Diner
- Kymara · Chai Wallahs
- Radio Une Sound System · Town Hall / The Stagger Inn
- Jamie Webster · Main Stage
- Dutty Moonshine Big Band · Parklands / Glow (Takeover)
- Hannah Robinson · Roots
- Pastel · Calling Out
- Jimmy the Gent · Desert Island Disco
- The North · Woodlands
- Glass · Roots
- Brogeal · Calling Out
- Ellur · Woodlands
- Sun Byrd · Chai Wallahs
- The Futureheads · Parklands / Glow (Takeover)
- Paramoreish · Town Hall / The Stagger Inn
- Afflicted · Roots
- Tom Hardwick's Italo Disco · Desert Island Disco
- The Libertines · Main Stage
- Tom a Smith (replaces ? Liang Lawrence) · Woodlands
- Arkayla · Calling Out
- Divers Green · Roots
- Karma Sheen · Chai Wallahs
- The Twang · Parklands / Glow (Takeover)
- Xox · Town Hall / The Stagger Inn
- Black Bordello · Tim Peaks Diner
- The Orielles · Woodlands
- Biffy Clyro · Main Stage
- DJ Fallback's Future Disco · Desert Island Disco
- Keo · Calling Out
- Doves · Parklands / Glow (Takeover)
- Mr Fitz · Chai Wallahs
- The Sly · Tim Peaks Diner
- Ummi · Azaadi
- Issey Cross · Woodlands
- Uk Foo Fighters · Town Hall / The Stagger Inn
- Abbie Mccarthy · Calling Out
- Andy Robinson · Tim Peaks Diner
- Bobby Friction · Azaadi
- Saturday Night Fever Disco · Desert Island Disco
- Fleetmac Wood · Parklands / Glow (Takeover)
- The Skinner Brothers · Chai Wallahs
- Shit Indie Disco · Calling Out
- Jon Da Silva · Tim Peaks Diner
- Panjabi Hit Squad · Azaadi
- Ltwalto's Alternative Anthems · Town Hall / The Stagger Inn
- Dave Haslam · Parklands / Glow (Takeover) & Tim Peaks Diner
- Omega Nebula · Chai Wallahs
- DJ Shaolin Monkey's French Touch · Desert Island Disco
- Manara · Azaadi
- Almass Badat · Azaadi
- Mr Fitz & Limmz · Chai Wallahs
Sunday lineup (August 2)
Wolf Alice, Circa Waves, Dylan John Thomas, Florence Road, Grandmas House, Indie Power Hour + 82 more
Sunday set times (88 sets)
- Diplomats of Sound DJs · Chai Wallahs
- Grandmas House · Calling Out
- Indie Power Hour · Main Stage
- Bodyroot · Roots
- Clara Pople · Chai Wallahs
- Eve Buckley · Woodlands
- Naomi Kalu · Tim Peaks Diner
- The Fleetwood Mac Celebration · Parklands / Glow (Takeover)
- Filthy Laugh · Town Hall / The Stagger Inn
- The Cases · Main Stage
- Chloe Pinney · Roots
- The Slates · Calling Out
- Crossfire · Tim Peaks Diner
- Levi Roots' Carnival Party · Parklands / Glow (Takeover)
- Run Remedy · Woodlands
- Birty · Chai Wallahs
- Susannah Clegg · Roots
- The Lancashire Hotpots · Main Stage
- My First Time · Calling Out
- Antiks · Town Hall / The Stagger Inn
- Gifthorse · Tim Peaks Diner
- The Thingumajigs · Woodlands
- Dom Joly: 25 Years of Trigger Happy Tv · Parklands / Glow (Takeover)
- Another Mister · Roots
- Lily Moore · Calling Out
- Alice Kim · Chai Wallahs
- Bex · Woodlands
- Florence Road · Main Stage
- Persimmon · Roots
- The Untold Orchestra Pres. Movie Anthems · Parklands / Glow (Takeover)
- Old Mervs · Calling Out
- Leazes · Woodlands
- Nina Morton · Tim Peaks Diner
- Asbestos · Roots
- Red Rum Club · Main Stage
- Ushti · Chai Wallahs
- Pentire · Calling Out
- Girl in the Year Above · Woodlands
- Sarah Johnstone · Roots
- Massive Wagons · Parklands / Glow (Takeover)
- The Cumberland Swirls · Town Hall / The Stagger Inn
- The Lathums · Main Stage
- Twayn · Roots
- Witch Fever · Calling Out
- Farmer of Funk · Desert Island Disco
- Kotoa · Chai Wallahs
- Mark Gardener DJ Set · Tim Peaks Diner
- Tooth · Woodlands
- Georgia May · Roots
- Monka · Parklands / Glow (Takeover)
- Vistas · Calling Out
- Helicon · Tim Peaks Diner
- Luke Una · Woodlands
- The Craic Inn · Town Hall / The Stagger Inn
- Primal Scream · Main Stage
- Jenna Cole · Roots
- Matty Hollywood · Desert Island Disco
- S.i.m.o x Hippo Sound System · Chai Wallahs
- Laurie McMahon · Tim Peaks Diner
- Dylan John Thomas · Calling Out
- K-klass Live · Parklands / Glow (Takeover)
- Polyvinyl · Roots
- Sold to the Sky · Town Hall / The Stagger Inn
- Tom Rowley · Woodlands
- Soothsayers · Chai Wallahs
- Tom Hardwick's French Disco · Desert Island Disco
- Two Headed Horse · Tim Peaks Diner
- Wolf Alice · Main Stage
- Divorce · Woodlands
- Groove Armada DJ Set · Parklands / Glow (Takeover)
- Circa Waves · Calling Out
- Magic Seas · Tim Peaks Diner
- Medley P · Azaadi
- Si Chai · Chai Wallahs
- Nontaines D.c. · Town Hall / The Stagger Inn
- Late Night Indie Disco with Karl Yates. · Calling Out
- Surya Sen · Azaadi
- The Ultimate Abba Party · Desert Island Disco
- Tim Peaks DJs · Tim Peaks Diner
- 808 State DJ · Parklands / Glow (Takeover)
- Mista Trick Collective · Chai Wallahs
- Kizzi · Azaadi
- DJ Shaolin Monkey's Hip Hop Block Party · Town Hall / The Stagger Inn
- DJ Hiphoppapotamus · Chai Wallahs
- Crag Sow · Parklands / Glow (Takeover)
- Luke Una's Closing Party · Desert Island Disco
- Naina · Azaadi
- Mahnoor · Azaadi
Kendal Calling 2026 lineup FAQ
When was Kendal Calling 2026?
July 30 to August 2, 2026 (Thursday through Sunday) at Lowther Deer Park near Penrith, Cumbria.
Who headlined Kendal Calling 2026?
The Kooks on the Thursday, Two Door Cinema Club on the Friday, Biffy Clyro on the Saturday and Wolf Alice on the Sunday.
How many acts are listed?
278 across eleven music stages, each with its set time.
Does this page list the comedy and the rest of the programme?
No. Kendal Calling's Soapbox tent runs comedy and spoken word, and the wider programme includes bingo, karaoke, silent discos and kids' activities. This page covers the music.
What is the Tim Peaks Diner?
A venue run by Tim Burgess of The Charlatans, programming smaller sets and DJ slots across the weekend. In 2026 it hosted Lloyd Cole, Bis, the Milltown Brothers and Burgess himself.
Is the 2026 edition over?
Yes. It finished in August 2026.
How do I find the acts I'd like?
Type a few artists you love into the finder at the top of this page. It matches them against this lineup and explains each pick.
When is Kendal Calling 2027?
Kendal Calling is expected back in July 2027; the festival has not announced the 2027 dates yet. The 2026 lineup stays on this page until it does.
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