Deer Shed Festival 5 will be with us in just over a month. With their time traveller’s party planned for 11pm on the first night, things are sure to start with a bang. 

This year’s music line-up include: Johnny Marr, British Sea Power, Stornoway, Wolf Alice, Toy, Pins, Georgia Ruth, Slow Club,Miles Hunt and Steve Mason, Plus many more.

Deer Shed Festival remains the only UK festival to host PG rated comedy. With names like Boothby Graffoe, Ian Tonkinson and Rob Rouse playing special sets suitable for all family members, the comedy at Deer Shed is one of the many things that make our festival unique.

This year sees a new addition to our arenas with literature making its debut. Amongst a strong bill we have the joy of Bob Stanley, member of St Etienne, noted music writer and all round pop music enthusiast discussing his much praised ‘Yeah, Yeah, Yeah – The Story of Modern Pop’ and hosting a pop quiz for us all to test our knowledge. Keeping in the music tradition Dave Simpson revisits his ‘The Fallen’, discussing being in Mark E Smith’s The Fall with a clutch of ex members. and Matt Webster and Gary Cavanagh keep it local talking through the Bradford music scene. Localism gets another look in with lifelong Leeds United fan Heidi Heigh talking about the ups and downs of being a woman on the terraces.

Deer Shed 5 will be chock full of stuff for the kids. Workshops, discos, demonstrations, building, making, programming, stargazing, theatre and all manner of surprises will open eyes and minds over the three days meaning Deer Shed 5 will be a festival for all the family to enjoy. Manchester’s Robogals return to fly the flag for women in science, we have not just a planetarium but also a cosmodrome on site and Dr Marty Jopson will be making science fun for all ages. In keeping with the Time Travel theme the kids can make their own castle or princess and knight costume or upgrade their favourite teddy bear to add on futuristic abilities.

Sunday is cinema day and the Time Travel theme has influenced our choice of films. ‘Mr. Peabody & Sherman’ will travel through time learning history lessons as they go, Marty McFly goes ‘Back To The Future’ in that car and a previous Doctor battles his greatest enemy in ‘Daleks Invasion Earth’. A very special bit of time travel will come to Deer Shed when pianist extraordinaire Darius Battiwalla transports us back to the days of silent cinema accompanying horror classic ‘The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari’.

To celebrate our theme for this year, as well as all that above more Time Travel related happenings are planned across the site. To find out more about that you will need to be with us in Topcliffe from Friday 25^th July.

Tickets for Deer Shed 5 are available as follows:

Adult Weekend Ticket (16+) £109 plus booking fee

Child Weekend Ticket (6+) £30 plus booking fee

Child Weekend Ticket (5 and under) £1 plus booking fee

Campervan / Caravan / Trailer Tent £30 plus booking fee

Tent camping and car park are free to ticket holders.

MUSIC

Johnny Marr, British Sea Power, Stornoway, Steve Mason

Toy, Wolf Alice, Scroobius Pip & Dan Le Sac, Cate Le Bon, Miles Hunt, Summer Camp, Nordic Giants, Slow Club, Georgia Ruth, Bleech, Police Dog Hogan, Woman’s Hour, All We Are, Denai Moore, Teleman, Pins, We Were Evergreen, Catfish & The Bottlemen, Eliza And The Bear, Paws, Withered Hand, Samantha Crain, Sam Airey, Happyness, Lowpines, Cheatahs, The Fauns, Broken Broadcast, Withered Hand, Becky Owen, Paper Aeroplanes, The Glendale Family, Annie Drury, Billie Marten, The Glendale Family, Buffalo Skinners, John Smith, Lyla Foy, Keston Cobblers.

PG RATED COMEDY

Rob Rouse, Paul Tomkinson, Ian D Montfort, Boothby Graffoe, Steve Royle, Gary Delauney, Stuart Goldsmith, Peter Antonoui, Alfie Moore, Wes Zarahuk.

LITERATURE

Bob Stanley On Pop Music, Miles Hunt On Life In The Wonderstuff, Dave Simpson And (Some Of) The Fall On ‘The Fallen’, Steven May, Samantha Ellis, Susie Steiner, Emily Rhodes, Andy Seed, Heidi Heigh And Leeds United Afc, The Bradford Music Scene.

CABARET, THEATRE, & DANCING

Racing Minds, Rockahula Disco, The Deer Shed Dance Academy, Juniper Theatre, Mud Pie Arts, Magic From Morgan And West, Ko Productions, Thingimajig Theatre, Science With Marty Jopson, Tusk Theatre

CINEMA

Back To The Future, Mr Peabody & Sherman, Daleks Invasion Earth.