by Rowan Lees<\/p>\n
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Kendal Calling returned to Lowther Deer Park for another year of drinking, dancing, music, and general festivities. The line up saw acts as varied as The<\/strong> Libertines<\/strong>, Bugzy<\/strong> Malone<\/strong>, and Super<\/strong> Hans<\/strong> of Peep Show fame (“I’ve accidentally run to the Lake District”). Sadly a few of the promised and anticipated acts, including Hans<\/strong> and pioneering rap group Run<\/strong> DMC<\/strong>, were absent due to organisational mix ups. There was plenty still to offer however, James<\/strong> sending home the keen campers of Thursday home singing \u00d4\u00c7\u00ffSIT DOWN NEXT TO ME’ etc. You could hear it being hummed all weekend to be honest.<\/p>\n You wouldn’t be far off in suggesting Kendal’s line-up caters a little for the oldies, but they certainly select their oldies well, some of my personal highlights being provided by the likes of Peter Hook <\/strong>of New Order<\/strong> and Joy Division<\/strong>, who delivered some euphoric singalongs, and The Wailers <\/strong>whose Bob-replacement emulated the legend’s voice incredibly, getting the whole crowd’s head bobbing. Bugzy Malone<\/strong>, Lady Leshurr<\/strong>, and the impressive DJ Line-up provided a bit of well needed youthful energy to proceedings, starting up a few moshpits in the fields.<\/p>\n Headliners included Plan B<\/strong> who gave us a strange but entirely entertaining set, mixing the classics (She Said, Ill Manors)<\/em>, with the strange new reggae material (is he allowed to put on a faux Caribbean voice?) and eventually being ironically cut off at the final chorus of Stay Too Long.<\/em> By far the highlight of the whole event was for me, The Libertines<\/strong>. You hear of sets where it all goes wrong for this group, but they weren’t about to disappoint us, performing a rousing send off of anthemic \u252c\u00e1indie-bangers. From where I was standing, sometimes sitting (unintentionally), in the mudded up front section of the main stage, joy was the consensus. They played a masterful set and whipped up the crowd to boiling point, before tossing a guitar into the crowd, leaving the stage, and leaving all the punters ready to return for 2019.<\/p>\n Tickets are available for next year from the Kendal Calling site: https:\/\/www.kendalcalling.co.uk\/tickets<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" by Rowan Lees \u00d4\u00ff\u00e0\u00d4\u00ff\u00e0\u00d4\u00ff\u00e0\u00d4\u00ff\u00e0\u00d4\u00ff\u00e5 Kendal Calling returned to Lowther Deer Park for another year of drinking, dancing, music, and general […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":508,"featured_media":14781,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,9],"tags":[390,3898,3897,3896,96,19,2913,45,3899],"class_list":["post-14780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-live-reviews","category-music","tag-festival","tag-kendal-calling","tag-lake-district","tag-lowther-deer-park","tag-quench","tag-review","tag-student-media","tag-summer","tag-the-libertines"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n