Just 24 hours until top music festival starts in North Yorkshire with Gaz Coombes, Public Service Broadcasting + more

Running from Friday, July 28 to Sunday, July 31 in the lush fields of Baldersby Park at Topcliffe near Thirsk, Deer Shed Festival 13 promises to be the best one yet.

The headliners include exhilarating leading British jazz act The Comet Is Coming, the ground-breaking Public Service Broadcasting and legendary Scottish idie outfit The Delgados.

The bespoke musical line-up also features Gaz Coombes, The Big Moon, This Is The Kit, BCUC, Dream Wife, Gwenno, Rae Morris, Steam Down, W. H. Lung, Grove, Panic Shack, Plastic Mermaids, Rozi Plain, Skinny Pelembe and DJ Rory Hoy

There has always been a lot more than cutting edge music to this most civilised, family-friendly and high quality of festivals whose tickets are going fast just four weeks from launch.

The Deer Shed festival has often been hailed as the “Latitude of the North” and, as always, this year’s offers a schedule packed with comedy, science, literature, theatre, children and sports activities.

The final announcement involved the literary and spoken word strand.

The names on this particular part of the festival programme includes:

Public Service Broadcasting talking to music author and Guardian critic Dave Simpson.

Gordon Raphael talking about classic band The Strokes.

Poet and comedian John Hegley.

The Eggs Book Club.

Children’s author Bethan Woollvin.

Northern News podcast live.

Spoken word record label Nymphs & Thugs’s poetry showcase.

Waterstones Children’s Laureate Joseph Coelho.

Comedian and author John Robertson.

Writer and dancer Helen Kumar.

Story Yoga with Enchantica.

Last year’s festival, which showcased John Grant, Yard Act, Self Esteem, Billy Nomates and Nadine Shah, was hailed in the press for its “girl power theme” and high standards.

As always, this year’s event also promises a quality food and drink offer.

Megan Evans, festival director, said: “"Early bird tickets were snapped up before we’d even announced a band which is really heartening in tough times for independent events like ours."

Deer Shed Festival 13 tickets are available at:

https://www.deershedfestival.com/