Super Furry Animals, Mystery Jets, and The Maccabees headline Standon Calling

Standon Calling is held on the grounds of a 16th Century Hertfordshire manor house at Standon, Ware, Hertfordshire over the weekend of Friday 1st to Sunday 3rd August and has announced the headliners and a host of acts for this year's line-up.

The headlining acts are Super Furry Animals, Mystery Jets, The Maccabees, who will be joined by Dan le Sac vs Scroobius Pip, Glasvegas, Los Campesinos!, Late of the Pier, Johnny Flynn, Friendly Fires, Metronomy, Paloma Faith, and Acid Mothers Temple and the Cosmic Inferno.

more artists for the line-up include The Egg, Joji Hirota And Taiko Drummers, Cage The Elephant, The Mae Shi, Johnny Foreigner, Babyhead, Kitty Daisy & Lewis, She Koyokh, The Fabulous Penetrators, The Black Seeds, The Bookhouse Boys, The Early Years, Christopher D Ashley, Elle S'Appelle, Ipso Facto, Hatcham Social, The Cocknbullkid, New Rhodes, David Viner, Youthmovies, Lesser Panda, Delirium Tremens, Earl Okin, Pre Shuffle, Peggy Sue & The Pirates, Ratty Rat Rat, So So Modern, Sister, They Came From The Stars I Saw Them, Ventroloquist, Mozzy Green, Old Street Musical Union, Chris Aliano, Across The Atlantic, Benin City, and ThePetebox.

The DJs who will be entertaining festival goers at Standon include Eddy Temple Morris (Xfm), Dave Haslam (Xfm, Hacienda, Sweet Sensation), Radiocative Man, Brendan Long (Bugged Out), Dom Chung (Chibuku Shake Shake/ Ministry Of Sound), Loz (Chibuku Shake Shake), Damo Jones, Cantmixwontmixshouldntmixdontmix (Mash Parties, Special Brew, Lost Property, Gimpfist), and General Jimmy (Plastic Soup/ Audiojak).

In addition the spoken word acts include Sophie Wooley, Scroobius Pip, Sebastian Horsley, Joe Dunthorn, and James Scudamore.

Standon Calling is an independent music festival and themed summer party with no VIP areas. Festival goers are led through themed worlds with spectacles, lights, sound and performance artists guiding their way. Friday sees things kick off at midday, and following the launch on the Friday night, the festival peaks with the unveiling of the set-designed secret areas on Saturday night.

This year the festival will have a Japanese theme - expect a clash between the floating world of old Japan and the searing neon decadence of its modern day equivalent. Saturday night is a big fancy dressing up session, expect everything from samurai and geishas squaring up to crazy game show hosts, to harajuku girls, yakuza gangsters and manga characters.

Tickets are now available priced at £89 for an adult ticket. Under 18s must be accompanied by a parent or guardian over 21. Parent and child combined tickets are priced at £150. To buy tickets click here.

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