Standon Calling announces 2023 lineup including all-LGBTQ+ headliners
Standon Calling has announced its lineup and ticket details for the 2023 festival. (Debbie Hickey/Getty Images)
Standon Calling has announced an incredibly queer lineup for the 2023 edition of the festival.
The Herfordshire-based festival will be headlined by three LGBTQ+ acts, with Years & Years, Bloc Party and Self Etseem topping the bill.
Tickets for Standon Calling festival are now available from Ticketmaster.
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Olly Alexander’s Years & Years will headline the Friday of Standon Calling, bringing his Night Call live spectacular to the main stage.
Self Esteem makes Standon Calling history by being the first artist to make the leap from a Laundry Meadows headliner to the top of the main stage bill the very next year, bringing her inspiring live show.
And Bloc Party will close the festival on Sunday with a catalogue spanning 20 years of hits, from their era defining “Silent Alarm” to their incredible new release “Alpha Games”.
Meanwhile the opening night, Thursday will be headlined by The Human League, who will perform hits including “Don’t You Want Me”, “Mirror Man” and “Open Your Heart”.
It will return to the Hertfordshire countryside between 20-23 July, with Anastacia, Melanie C, Confidence Man, Katy B and KT Tunstall also confirmed for the lineup.
Last year the festival was praised for becoming the first major UK festival to achieve a gender-balanced lineup.
The 2022 edition of the festival featured a 54 percent representation of female-identifying and non-binary artists, including an all-female and non-binary lineup stage.
Standon Calling was among a number of UK festivals committed to PRS Foundation’s Keychange initiative in 2018, with the aim to have a gender-balanced line-up by 2022.
Francine Gorman from Keychange said the festival is “demonstrating that gender representative line ups can be achieved” and they’re “giving under-represented artists their rightful space on a prominent festival stage”.
The festival has once again achieved this for the 2023 edition, with even greater representation on the lineup.
Discussing the 2023 edition, festival founder Alex Trenchard said: “We’re so proud of this year’s progress in booking a gender-balanced headline bill.”
You can find out ticket details and the full lineup below.
When do Standon Calling tickets go on sale?
Festival goers can get their hands on weekend and day tickets from Ticketmaster.
There’s also the option to purchase family camping tickets as well as upgrades including, boutique camping, backstage bar tickets and parking passes.
Who’s on the Standon Calling lineup?
It’ll be headlined by Years & Years, Bloc Party, Self Esteem and The Human League. You can check out the full lineup below.
Where is Standon Calling?
The festival takes place at Standon Lordship, Hertfordshire, SG11 1EF.
You can get there by car, taxi, train or bike and find out more on the official website.
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