Simian Mobile Disco for Standon Calling

Simian Mobile Disco, Nina Kraviz, and Gilles Peterson top the latest dance music acts revealed for the 'circus' themed Standon Calling.

The Audio Doughnuts stage headliners have been confirmed as Simian Mobile Disco, and Nina Kraviz, who will be joined by Benin City, Roy Davis Jnr, Tuesday Born, Two Inch Punch, Mele, Sophie, Debian Blak, Shox, and Pusherman.

Gilles Peterson tops the Count Sizzle's Whoop Whoop circus stage line-up, house in the Cowshed, with support from DJ Format, Greg Wilson, Ross Allen, Natty Bo, Count Sizzle, Count Skylarkin, Leo Beckford, and Cleen Boys.

They join main stage headliners Digitalism, De La Soul, and Band of Skulls, plus Bastille, AlunaGeorge, King Charles, The Correspondents, The Joy Formidable, The D.O.T., Toy, DJ Yoda & The Transiberian Marching Band, The Skints, Public Service Broadcasting, Shields, Lazarus & The Plane Crash, Rotten Hill Gang, Dutch Uncles, Josephine, Craig Charles, Treetop Flyers, London Afrobeat Collective, A Band of Buriers, and more, for the 13th independent music festival and themed summer party, returns to the grounds of a 16th Century Hertfordshire manor house for the weekend of Friday 2nd to Sunday 4th August 2013.

For the line-up details as available please click here.

The theme for 2013 has been announced as 'Running Away From The Circus'. The theme will take over the festival site with interactive theatre, art installations and costumes.

Tier one weekend tickets are priced at £99, children under 13 are free and don't require a ticket. To buy tickets, click here.

There are still many more live acts, DJs, art, theatre and fringe entertainment, family-friendly activities, micro-venues and other attractions still to be announced.

There are numerous stages and the odd unexpected stage appearing from nowhere. The festival boasts a number of bars, one of which is hewn out of an enormous oak tree, secret areas, interactive theatre, swimming pool (with underwater dance area), boutique camping (beach huts, yurts and tipis), kids area, and festival food.

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