Entertainment — Camper Calling

August Bank Holiday Family Music Festival For Everyone

Camper Calling

24 - 27 August 2023

Jazz Events

The Magic Numbers

Lakeside Stage
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Grab your shades and air guitars; four is the magic number! With summer soaked pop-rock hits, The Magic Numbers have been a festival favourite for more than a decade. To date, the band has released four successful albums and many of their singles have graced the Top 20 charts including Forever Lost, Love's A Game, Take A Chance and Love Me Like You. Known for their unique harmonies, melodic hooks, songwriting craftsmanship and timeless sound, they are best served in summer sunshine with a festival beer in hand! Catch them Sunday at Camper Calling on the Lakeside stage!

Altered Images

Lakeside Stage
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We’re thrilled to welcome the early 80s new wave band Altered Images to Camper Calling. Fronted by the unforgettable Clare Grogan, the band have smash hits like 'Happy Birthday', 'I Could Be Happy' and ‘Don’t Talk To Me About Love’. Don’t miss them, main stage, Sunday!

Jesus Jones

Lakeside Stage, Music Act
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We are so pleased to announce ‘Right Here, Right Now’, that Jesus Jones will be playing our Lakeside Stage on Sunday at Camper Calling!

Coming from the nation's capital in 1988, they quickly gained worldwide attention for their blend of noisy indie pop and sampling technology and we can’t wait for them to bring their trademark sound to the Calling fields!

The Blow Monkeys

Music Act, Lakeside Stage
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The Blow Monkeys are unique with a roller-coaster career spanning over 35 years. Always making new music and always stretching musical boundaries, they released possibly their finest work in ‘The Wild River’ in 2018. These Monkeys continue to evolve, long may they swing!

Cut Capers

Lakeside Stage
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CUT CAPERS are a 9 piece Bristol band whose energetic live performance and infectious sound have won them a cult following on the British festival scene.

Mixing a swinging Vintage style brass section with funk, soul and hip hop, they have over the years established themselves as a formidable live outfit, playing regular headline shows and main stage performances at some of the UK’s biggest festivals.

Fours

Music Act, Lakeside Stage
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London based 4-piece band FOURS have always aimed to pack a punch with their neatly packaged pop gems. With catchy hooks, great lyrics and a voice to boot, vocalist Edith Violet has been described as one of London’s most compelling new voices, with soaring tones that fly above the band's tight and fast pop rock. One to watch!

Mr Motivator

Lakeside Stage, Activities

He’s back and the unitard is as bright as ever! So grab your sweatbands and leotards and get ready to blow away those Sunday morning hangovers as Mr Motivator gets you jumping, moving and grooving for a day of fun at Camper Calling.

Embrace

Lakeside Stage
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Playing for ‘All You Good Good People’, at Camper Calling are the one and only, Embrace!

Following in the footsteps of Oasis and The Verve, Embrace found their feet in post-Brit-pop Britain in the late 90s. With three #1 albums, six top ten singles, sold out arena shows and well over a million album sales behind them, we can’t wait to sing along to anthems ‘Gravity’ and ‘Ashes’, Saturday night at Camper Calling.

Dat Brass

Arrow Stage
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Cutting their teeth in the clubs and on the streets of London, Dat Brass are a high-octane 11-piece hip-hop outfit blasting blood-curdling originals and flipping samples from the very bottom of the crate.

Think an unholy amount of brass on the front line, backed up by the tightest DJ, sousaphone and drum rhythm section this side of the millennium! Find them on the Arrow stage, Saturday night at Camper Calling this year.

The South

Lakeside Stage, Music Act
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It could be Rotterdam or anywhere,
Liverpool or Rome,
But we all know it’s Camper Calling,
That The South call their home!

We welcome back The South to the Lakeside stage, Saturday at Camper Calling! With Alison Wheeler once again at the helm of the vocals, their live show promises to celebrate and perform classic Beautiful South hits such as ‘Don’t Marry Her’, ‘Perfect 10’ and of course, ‘Rotterdam’. So c’mon, grab your tickets now and let’s ‘Carry On...Regardless!’

Republica

Lakeside Stage, Music Act
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We’re thrilled and ‘Ready to Go’ with these nineties chart dominators.

Republica are playing Saturday on the Lakeside Stage, so get your ‘Drop Dead Gorgeous’ self down to the front and join us for a great night of Britpop nostalgia!

Grab your tickets now www.campercalling.com/tickets

The Bar-Steward Sons of Val Doonican

Music Act, Lakeside Stage
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Put on yer finest knitted gladrags, style your barnet and bring your finest singing voices, because the UK's hardest working comedy band are coming to Camper Calling!

This motley crew of knitwear-clad brothers-from-other-mothers have a talent for ‘Bar-Stewardizing’ your favourite songs with new comedy lyrics on acoustic geetar, banjo, fiddle, mandolin, accordion, keyboards and the world's first synthesizer ukulele. Get ready to jig, jump ararnd and laugh until your sides hurt, this is an anarchic shindig not to miss!

The Clause

Lakeside Stage
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The Clause, are a 4 piece alternative indie band from Birmingham formed in 2016.

They describe themselves as having a ‘60’s swagger, an 80’s groove and a 90’s attack with the odd techno influence in the live shows’. We’re thrilled to welcome these lads back and we know they’re going places. Don’t forget where you saw them first ;)

Dub Pistols

Music Act, Lakeside Stage
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A riotous collision of drum & bass, hip-hop, ska, dub and punk, there is a slice for everyone at a Dub Pistol party.
One of the hardest working bands in showbusiness, Barry Ashworth and his crew have become a firm festival favourite with their big-beat techno and rock attitude.

Get ready for a ‘Mucky Weekend’ and be sure to catch them playing Saturday at Camper Calling 2020 on the Lakeside Stage!

Supreme Queen

Arrow Stage, Music Act
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More of a rocker than a raver? Then head on over to the Big Top where the ultimate tribute to the ultimate rock band, Supreme Queen are ready to Rock You! You know the hits, you know the legends and you know the power of the ‘tache!

Get your leathers on and don’t forget those air guitars for a wild night of legendary rock, Friday at Camper Calling!

Symphonic Ibiza

Lakeside Stage
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We’re adding to the decks and bringing in the strings, woodwind, brass, percussion and a baton with our Friday night headliners, Symphonic Ibiza! A party like no other, your favourite Ibiza classics will be reimagined with a 25-piece live Orchestra, DJ and vocalists in a totally unique and unexpected way. Get ready to dance the night away with this unforgettable concert of house classics!

Ellie Sax

Music Act, Lakeside Stage
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Ellie Sax has toured the world with her saxophone performing at the world’s most exclusive events, festivals, nightclubs and private parties. She has her monthly residency at O Beach Ibiza for SIN Sundays as well as incredible performances at Nikki Beach Ibiza to name just a few.

​Ellie is an official HedKandi and Ministry of Sound artist and has worked with world-famous DJs from N Trance, Artful Dodger, Marvin Hulmes, Stonebridge, Kings of Tomorrow and incredible artists such as Alison Limerick, Karen Harding and Alesha Dixon and many more.

The Killerz

Arrow Stage, Music Act
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In a Camper Calling alternative universe, we think The Killers and Queen would have had a damn good party in good ol’ Las Vegas. So we thought, why not bring the next best thing to you? We are so pleased to welcome THE KILLERZ to Camper Calling. Having performed around the UK and worldwide, The Killerz have an army of devoted fans and with no shortage of hits, it’s set to be a night of rock and indie bangers.
Get ready to sing your heart out to ‘Mr. Brightside’, ‘Jenny Was a Friend of Mine’, ‘Human’ and ‘Somebody Told Me’. Don’t miss The Killerz, supporting Supreme Queen at Camper Calling, Friday night.

Antarctic Monkeys

Arrow Stage
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After ringing Alex Turner for a few hours, we figured he’s probably still in that Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino. So, we thought, why not get…(you guessed it) THE NEXT BEST THING!

The outstandingly talented and renowned Antarctic Monkeys will be performing Friday night at Camper Calling. These guys are the UK’s official tribute to Arctic Monkeys and as close to the real thing as you can get. So, Snap Out Of It and get your Mardy Bum down to the Arrow Stage on Friday night!

DJ Spoony

Music Act, Lakeside Stage
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One of the original godfathers of UK Garage, DJ Spoony has had a busy past year collating his incredible Garage Classic album and working with the likes of Paloma Faith, Lily Allen, Sugababes and Emeli Sande to critical acclaim.

A household name thanks to his garage anthems, Ibiza residencies and presenting on BBC Radio 1, BBC Radio 5 Live and currently on BBC Radio 2, Spoony has been UK legend for over 20 years.

We can’t wait to take it back to some garage party hits, Friday on the Lakeside Stage at Camper Calling.