Scotland's shirtless festival warriors — knotty math-rock instincts wired to enormous singalong choruses.
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.
Kendal Calling 2026 lineup & schedule: all 278 acts
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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.
Mercury-winning UK alt-rock — from whispered folk to full-throated fuzz in one set, Ellie Rowsell commanding every register.
Abbie Mccarthy
Arkayla
Baggy Mondays
Beaux
Black Honey
Brighton four-piece with a Tarantino streak, all reverbed guitars and cinematic swagger.
Bleech 9:3
Brogeal
Scottish folk rock played at pace, trad instruments pushed through a rock band's volume.
Brooki
Cherryholt
Circa Waves
Liverpool indie that keeps getting bigger and louder without losing the sunburst choruses it started with.
Creeping Jean
Deaf Havana
A Norfolk band that has broken up and come back more than once, writing rock songs about exactly that.
Glaswegian singer-songwriter — acoustic-rooted indie with a rasp and a knack for the kind of chorus a whole field finishes for him.
Esmeralda Road
Fletchr Fletchr
Irish indie four-piece — harmony-rich guitar pop on a steep rise, carrying the Cranberries torch for a new generation.
Freddie Halkon
Gabrielle
'Dreams' and 'Rise' and a voice that has not thinned in thirty years of British soul pop.
Grandmas House
Hard-Fi
Hello Cosmos
Indie Power Hour
Liverpool songwriter whose terrace-anthem folk went from pub singalongs to arenas without losing the crowd that got him there.
Keo
Keyside
Liverpool guitar songs with the swagger already installed, no apprenticeship apparently required.
Late Night Indie Disco with Chris Hawkins
Late Night Indie Disco with Karl Yates.
Lily Moore
A big, worn soul voice out of Brighton, singing about other people's business and her own.
Matt Hennessy
Mustbejohn
My First Time
Irish songwriter writing sharply about adolescence over guitar-pop that keeps getting bigger — a rising voice entirely her own.
Perth duo — punchy, sunburnt indie rock in the great Australian garage tradition, mates-first energy and hooks to match.
Pastel
Pentire
Primal Scream
Screamadelica put a Glasgow rock band in the middle of acid house, and they have been switching between the two ever since.
Red Rum Club
Liverpool indie with a mariachi trumpet in the middle of it, which turns out to be the whole trick.
Rianne Downey
A Lanarkshire voice built for rooms considerably larger than the ones she is currently playing.
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.
Shit Indie Disco
Son Mieux
Dutch indie pop that dresses up and means it, camp and widescreen and fond of a key change.
Swim School
Edinburgh four-piece pushing hazy shoegaze guitars up against genuinely sharp pop writing.
Swindled
The Cases
The Covasettes
Manchester indie that has played every small room in the north and earned the bigger stage.
The Cribs
Three Jarman brothers from Wakefield playing scrappy, shouted indie rock with the amps set to argue.
The Hunna
Big, glossy British guitar rock built for rooms with their hands already in the air.
The Lancashire Hotpots
Northern comic folk songs about chip shops and shopping trolleys, delivered completely straight-faced.
Wigan four-piece with a chart-topping debut behind them — jangling, plainspoken guitar pop that reads like short stories about a northern town.
Albion's prodigal poets — Doherty and Barât still shambolic, still romantic, still the best bad idea British rock ever had.
The Silver Bars
The Slates
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.
The Untold Orchestra Pres. Beatles
The Vaccines
Fast, short, hook-first guitar songs from a band that has never once been embarrassed about wanting a chorus.
Vacant Weekend
Vanessa Carlton
Piano pop with a long tail: 'A Thousand Miles' is inescapable, and the records after it went quieter and stranger.
Vistas
Edinburgh indie pop, bright and uncomplicated, written to be sung back from the front ten rows.
We Are Scientists
Two decades of wiry New York indie rock and standup-grade stage banter, still touring on hooks sharpened in 2005.
Witch Fever
Manchester punk with doom in the low end, furious about religion and unbothered about being liked.
808 State DJ
Afflicted
Alice Kim
Almass Badat
Amy True
Andy Robinson
Anna Lynch
Another Mister
Antiks
Aphid
Arctic Numpties
Asbestos
Northern Irish power-pop with an absurd hit rate in the late 90s and no interest in slowing the tempo since.
Away from the Numbers
Aziza Jaye
Barbarossa Beat
Beardyman
Bec O'malley
Betty Lou
Bex
Big Band of Boom
Birty
Bis
Black Bordello
Black Powder Merchants
Bobby Friction
Bodyroot
Brasswurst Band
Callum Spencer
Carsick
Champ
Chloe Pinney
Clara Pople
Crag Sow
Crossfire
Dave Haslam
Dea Matrona
Dejected
Dick & Dom
Diplomats of Sound DJs
Discovery: a Daft Punk Disco
Divers Green
Divorce
DJ Fallback's Future Disco
DJ Helen & Jimmy the Gent
DJ Helen's Italo After Dark
DJ Hiphoppapotamus
DJ Priya
DJ Shaolin Monkey's French Touch
DJ Shaolin Monkey's Hip Hop Block Party
DJ Shaolin Monkey's Super Disco Friends
Dobbo
Dom Joly: 25 Years of Trigger Happy Tv
Doves
Dubtendo Allstars
Dutty Moonshine Big Band
Elf Jaw
Ellur
Eve Buckley
Exploding Head
Farmer of Funk
Filthy Laugh
Fleetmac Wood
Freshta
Gans
Gardna
Georgia May
Gifthorse
Girl in the Year Above
Glass
Groove Armada DJ Set
Hannah Robinson
Harlan Frank and the Houseplants
Harriet Dagnall
Helicon
Hyphen
In Parallel
Is There a Soul Out There
Issey Cross
Jeanine . Aaron Brooks . Tiny Rebel . Romy Taylor
Jenna Cole
Jimmy the Gent
Jon Da Silva
Jordan Villa
K-Estate
K-klass Live
Karma Sheen
Katie Owen
Kendal's Movie Soundtrack Hour
Kizzi
London-Congolese powerhouse — rumba, soukous, and horn-stoked joy, virtuosic musicianship played strictly for dancing, Kinshasa tradition at London velocity.
Kotoa
Kymara
Laurie McMahon
Leazes
Levi Roots' Carnival Party
Liam C
Listen Twice
Lloyd Cole
Ltwalto's Alternative Anthems
Lucigenic
Luke Una
Luke Una's Closing Party
Lycra 80s Party
Magic Seas
Mahnoor
Manara
Mark Gardener DJ Set
Massive Wagons
Matt Felix
Matty Hollywood
Medley P
Mich Dulce and Her Midnight Callers
Mikey Snooze's Banger Off
Milltown Brothers
Miss Lilly
Mista Trick Collective
Mixxlab DJs
Molly Warburton
Monka
Mood Hoover
Moody Brew
Morton Betts
Mr Fitz
Mr Fitz & Limmz
Nadia Kadek
Naina
Naomi Kalu
Nat Dempsey
Nina Morton
Nontaines D.c.
Omega Nebula
Oswald Slain
Oversize
Panjabi Hit Squad
Paper Jones
Paramoreish
Park View
Peggy with the Good News
Persimmon
Polyvinyl
Potter
Radio Une Sound System
Rainmann
Raji Rags
Rebel Hearts
Revivalry
Roeparkin
Ruby Duff
Run Remedy
Ruth Lyon
S.i.m.o x Hippo Sound System
Sarah Johnstone
Saturday Night Fever Disco
Scratchcard Wednesday
Shelly's Bane
Si Chai
Slamboree
Sold to the Sky
Somatic
Soothsayers
Spangled
Spanish Horses
Starshaped DJs
Sun Byrd
Surya Sen
Susannah Clegg
Syndicate
Tc & the Groove Family
That Disney Show
The Brat Pack
The Coral
The Cords
The Craic Inn
The Cumberland Swirls
The Empire Police
The Fleetwood Mac Celebration
The Futureheads
The Kokos
The Lilacs
The Maddocks
The Moonlandingz
The North
The Northern Threads
The Ogretones
The Orielles
The Rosadocs
The Skinner Brothers
The Sly
The Thingumajigs
The Twang
The Ultimate Abba Party
The Untold Orchestra Pres. Movie Anthems
Tim Burgess
Tim Burgess DJ
Tim Peaks DJs
Tim Peaks FM with Chris Hawkins
Toast Club
Tom a Smith (replaces ? Liang Lawrence)
Tom Hardwick's French Disco
Tom Hardwick's Italo Disco
Tom Rowley
Tooth
Tulpa
Twayn
Two Headed Horse
Uk Foo Fighters
Ummi
Ushti
Voodoo Radio
We Broke Free: Indie Sleaze Disco
Xanadu
Xox
Yaang
The headliners
Biffy Clyro — Scotland's shirtless festival warriors — knotty math-rock instincts wired to enormous singalong choruses. Saturday's headliner, still the loudest three-piece in Britain.
Wolf Alice — Mercury-winning UK alt-rock — from whispered folk to full-throated fuzz in one set, 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.
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