Deershed Festival 11: Wave of acts for 2020 event is announced to music lovers
Deershed Festival 11: Wave of acts for 2020 event is announced to music lovers

Deer Shed Festival has announced Stereolab and Baxter Dury as 2020 main stage headliners.

This is alongside other artists heading to North Yorkshire this summer, like Kate Tempest, The Twilight Sad, Sinkane and Snapped Ankles.

After returning to the forefront of the British music scene in 2019 with a seven-album reissue campaign and accompanying live tour, British-French avant-pop band Stereolab will headline the Friday main stage line-up.

Led by song-writing team Tim Gane and Lætitia Sadier, Stereolab’s performance promises to be “a mesmerising end to Friday evening in Baldersby Park” according to organisers.

Deer Shed Festival director Oliver Jones said: “Stereolab were the soundtrack to our 20s when my wife Kate and I worked in the music industry in London back in the ‘90s.

“To bring a band with such musical heritage, a band who hold such personal significance for us as a team, to our family’s home North Yorkshire truly is a dream come true.”

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Fresh from releasing ‘Slumlord’ on 19th November – the first single from his upcoming album Night Chancers, due for release in March 2020 – Baxter Dury joins Stereolab as headliner, topping the main stage bill on Sunday.

Dury’s sixth studio album is set to be his richest and most expansive musical palette to date, following on from Prince of Tears, which the festival team have described as “one of the best albums of 2017.”

“It may be difficult for some of us of a certain age to separate the name ‘Dury’ from that of Baxter’s father, Ian.”

Kate Tempest to perform
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Kate Tempest will also return to perform live in North Yorkshire for the first time since she headlined the Deer Shed Festival main stage in 2017, with a powerful rendition of her apocalyptic masterpiece, Let Them Eat Chaos.

“One of the most poignant performances we’ve ever showcased in Baldersby Park,” according to Jones.

Deer Shed has also announced a partnership with two of the best independent live music venues in Yorkshire.

Taking over the festival’s In The Dock stage on Saturday, Brudenell Social Club and The Crescent will present a bill that includes Scottish post-punk band The Twilight Sad (headline), part-psych, part-krautrock outfit

Snapped Ankles, and fast-rising indie newcomers Dry Cleaning, with more acts to be revealed soon.

This is as well as the comedy, spoken word, kids entertainment, and amazing food that makes up a top weekend at such a family-friendly festival.

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REVIEW:

Myself and my two sons, aged 10 and 11, went along to Deershed Festival 10 in the summer of 2019.

We’ve been to a few different festivals around the North East and this one is by far the best for families.

It’s layout, the acts, the atsmophere, and the activities are all geared up for children – but so that the adults get as much fun out of it too.

Despite the rain on the Saturday, we waded our way through the mud in our wellies and took shelter in the various tents to watch an abundance of acts.

Our favourites were Dylan Cartlidge, who found fame on The Mighty Redcar.

His set in the Dock Stage was awesome and the kids loved him, even getting his autograph on a paper plate and a picture afterwards.

Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs and their futuristic style entertained us and was also another great act for the lads and me.

The Wedding Present, Howl and Hum, and DJ Rory Hoy and his silent disco were brilliant.

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However, the piece de resistance for us was KOG and the Zongo Brigade. We chose to watch these over the headline act Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever – who were also said to have been ace.

KOG and the Zongo Brigade at Deershed Festival 2019

KOG and the Zongo Brigade at Deershed Festival 2019

But the rain saw us wander into the Pallet Stage where we saw this energetic African inspired band – with a guest appareance from their “sister” Wiyaala.

Oh my god what a night, what entertainment, and what aching bodies we had by the end of the gig!

Amazing and a definite must-watch if you ever get the chance.

All in all, a fantastic weekend which is highly recommended for anyone with little’uns.

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