Standon Calling Festival add Dananananaykroyd, The Hempolics, Bastille and Pushing Hands to the bill!

Friday12th Sunday 14th August 2011 Standon, Hertfordshire (Just 40 mins from London) Tickets

Themed Fancy Dress, Swimming Pool, All-Night Bars, On-Site Nightclub, Interactive TheatreSelf-styled fight pop outfit Dananananaykroyd, reggae crew The Hempolics and two white-hot tips for 2011 Bastille and Pushing Hands are the final four bands joining artists including Spiritualized, Battles, Lamb, Africa Sound System and Hercules and Love Affair on the Standon Calling bill.

Live they all promise something special. Vowing to give the crowd a frenetic work-out Dananananaykroyd are likely to showcase material from their new album There is a Way, recorded with legendary LA producer, Ross Robinson. Fresh from supporting Faithless, The Hempolics will bring some sunshine to the stage with their catchy track Serious guaranteed to get the crowd in the summer mood.

Bastille may have kept his soaring vocals and infectious bleeps and beats on the down low, but those in the know suggest this may be one of the hotter acts to emerge from 2011. If little is known about Bastille, even less is known about Pushing Hands, but theyre one of our bookers favourite bands on the bill. With only a handful of gigs behind them, Standon Calling represents their festival debut. Could be another act you can say you saw at Standon first in years to come.

Tamsin McLarty, booker for Standon Calling says: 'The final four bands are hugely different but all bring something extra to the bill. Dananananaykroyd are superb live - fun, funny and raucous as the name suggests. I've no idea why we've not had them before, but glad we rectified that problem! The Hempolics are easily one of the best reggae acts around, perfect to ease the pain of Sunday as your last day at Standon. The last acts are two of my favourite new artists and it's important that Standon continues to support acts in the early stages of their career. Bastille create clever glossy pop and are gathering a loyal following from their memorable live shows. Pulling Hands are the ones I'm on the edge of my seat about, though. I've not seen them live yet, few people have, and the anticipation is bubbling away. They've got this shadowy melancholy that seeps through with occasional shafts of the light of the greats - Talking Heads, Wire, Yo La Tengo.