Entertainment — Camper Calling

August Bank Holiday Family Music Festival For Everyone

Camper Calling

24 - 27 August 2023

2021

Calling All Kidz Club

Rose Tent

Keep your little ones occupied with all sorts of ‘hands-on’ fun in the Kidz Paint Yurt! Pull up a pew and get stuck in, making jewellery, key-rings and being creative with pottery painting too! For the more energetic kids they also have bouncy animals, skipping ropes, hula hoops and much more!

Open all weekend for kids of all ages, there is plenty to make, see and do!

Old Time Sailors

Arrow Stage

Sailing into Camper Calling’s Arrow Stage on Sunday. We welcome a hearty crew of 30 singing sailors ready to welcome you aboard! Grab your shipmates, grab a pint and head over to sing along. Each member of HMS Calling gets a copy of the Sunday Sailor programme, with all the lyrics to the songs, so there’s no excuse to not join in! Land ahoy!

Supergrass

Lakeside Stage, Music Act
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Can you hear us, pumping on your stereo? That’s right Callers, the legendary Supergrass will be taking over the main stage as your Saturday headliners at Camper Calling 2021.
This iconic britpop band reformed in 2019 to the delight of their fans and with a huge catalogue of hits, we can’t wait to be back in a field dancing with you and your loved ones. After one strange year, we’re ready to feel ALRIGHT!

Manic Street Preachers

Music Act, Lakeside Stage

One of the most influential and iconic rock bands to come from Wales, they’ve been on a mission since 1991 to restore revolution to rock & roll and we can’t wait for them to bring their incredible back catalogue of hits to the Lakeside Stage.

BBC Music Introducing in the West Midlands

Arrow Stage

Camper Calling isn't just a festival to listen to your all time favourite bands, but a place to find new favourites too! We’re proud to be working with BBC Music Introducing in the West Midlands to curate a line-up buzzing with new talent, fresh sounds and incredible artists. Head on over to the Arrow Stage to support the very best in new, local music and find your new favourite sound!

Glitterball

Carnival Stage

Yes Sir, I Can Boogie Saturday night at Camper Calling! Our Glitterball evening is for all you disco divas ready to Shake Your Body, Down to the Ground!

Get those flares, glitter your faces, pop on some platforms and get ready to strut. The funkiest family Disco in town, Saturday night only at Camper Calling.

The Magic Teapot

Carnival Field

The Magic Teapot is a lovely little oasis hidden away in our Carnival Field. With the fire always burning and the kettle always simmering, the friendly teapot crew will be ready to offer you a refreshing cup of tea and coffee while the musicians play and sing, encouraging all to join in!

A place to sit and soak up the atmosphere with a cuppa, simply watching and taking it all in, or becoming part of the action.

Aloha Night

Carnival Stage
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You guys asked for themes, so say Aloha to our Sunday night over at The Carnival Stage!
Grab your coconuts, grass skirts, garlands and garish shirts, Aloha is a family vacation to Hawaii, featuring your favourite 90s pop classics!
From Britney to Bjork, Spice Girls to Soul II Soul, the decks will be spinning all your pop favourites!

Silent Disco

Woodland Adventure, Activities, Activity Village, Adults, Kids, Teens

Shh! Camper Calling’s worst kept secret IS BACK!

Head into the woods and find your voice as our DJs battle it out for crowd participation. Infamous and a heck of a lot of fun for all the family, head on in for the quietest disco in town!

Please don’t hold on to the headphones throughout the weekend. This will make it a fairer experience for everyone; Headsets will then never become low and other people can make great memories too!
These headphones have no purpose outside of this specific silent disco either…so there’s really no need to take them. Return them after your disco session so the fun can roll on!

Thank you ❤️

Augustfest

Arrow Stage, Music Act
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Prost! It’s not Camper Calling without the return of our beloved Bierkeller Schunklers. Once more we welcome you to raise your stein Saturday night at Aüguztfest!

A legendary night at Camper Calling and known to be one of the most popular, you’ll laugh until you cry ensuring not a dry eye (or glass!) in the house!

Fancy dress is STRONGLY encouraged, so ready the Lederhosen and get on your Dirndl and prepare to toe tap, clap and thigh slap the night away!

Pixie Lott

Lakeside Stage, Music Act
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Sprinkling some Pixie dust at Camper Calling, we are so thrilled to announce the incredibly talented Pixie Lott will be performing on Sunday!
The pop sensation became a household name after her singles ‘Mama Do’ and ‘Boys and Girls’ went straight to number one in the UK charts and more recently, she’s captured the nation's heart as a coach from The Voice Kids UK.

Her catchy, summer soaked boppy pop tunes will have you dancing in the field and singing along in no time and we can’t wait to welcome her to the festival!

There’s a Lott of fun to be had!

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.