We're really sorry to announce that LOW will be unable to play at Krankenhaus.
Mimi from
@lowtheband
has been fighting cancer & changes in treatment have made extensive travel impossible right now. Thoughts are with Mimi & the band. They welcome your positive hopes and prayers.
Well, as weekends go, that was a cracker.
Thank you to everybody who came along and helped make it what it was. Staff, volunteers, artists, dogs, & your good selves.
Also - It was so tidy when you all left ❤️
Please post us your photos below 👇
We are all really saddened to hear Tony passed away yesterday. He was loved by us all. A very caring, compassionate, funny and lovely man. Truly one of the good guys.
Our thoughts are with his family 💔
Krankenhaus will miss him a lot x
We’re expanding the walks this year to include:
1) A trip to the 5 stone circles at Burnmoor (via the L’al Ratty)
2) ‘The Pilgrimage’ walk across Muncaster Fell (via the L’al Ratty)
3) RSPB guided walk
4) Walk for adults & children along the English Coastal Path
⛰️🚂🥾🌊🦅
Only 3 weeks to go!
Let's introduce you to our Sunday artists!
@The_Waeve
are
@RoseDougall
&
@grahamcoxon
creating an artful mix of cinematic British folk-rock & post-punk. Check out brilliant single ‘Kill Me Again’
📢Tickets on sale soon!
📢Early ticket release for previous years attendees!
1st Release - Last years 'Patrons of the Haus' holders - Friday 26th (check e-mails).
2nd Release - Previous attendees - Monday 29th (check e-mails).
3rd Release - General release 31st Jan.
Festival of the Year!
Listen to Lammo announce Krankenhaus as Festival of the Year on his annual Festival Survey
with Sea Power as best Festival Set ! 🏆🏆🏆
Listen from 2:52:30
@BBC6Music
@steve_lamacq
@SeaPowerBand
@Krankenhausfest
I hope everyone involved realizes that their hard work creates a magical weekend and some very happy people … can’t thank you all enough!
You will be pleased to know that most of our band line-up is confirmed now. We’ll be announcing the first wave in the next few days.
Can you guess who’s coming?
🔮
WOW. We are astounded that after being on sale for just 1 week, we’ve flown past the 800 person mark!
We can relax a little now, but we are working super hard to make it another amazing year.
Exciting things are in the pipeline!
A couple of lovely latecomer additions to Krankenhaus!
Old mates from 'The Fall' - Marc Riley and Craig Scanlon!
They will be playing some tunes between bands on Friday in the Barn Courtyard.
@marcrileydj
We’ll have the Krankenhaus merch on sale soon, once we get the boxes to where they should be.
T-shirts, Mugs, Hoodies, Tote Bags, Patches & Tea Towels etc.
Details soon!
That’s the first name out of the bag! We welcome the lovely lovely lovely
@TheLovelyEggs
to Krankenhaus.
It can’t be anything else but funtimes. We recommend viewing their brand new EGGS TV reportage - episode 1 😵💫😎
Kendals
@ganyambrew
will have a Craft Beer Bar at Krankenhaus this year, serving a selection of delicious craft beers. We've also collaborated with them to produce 'KRK', a session West Coast IPA, available at the merch stall. yyuummmmmm
A huge thank you to all the artists who appeared at Krankenhaus, many thanks to the Muncaster family and staff and most importantly, all of the audience (and the dogs) who made it one amazing weekend to be remembered! 🙌❤️🏕🐻🦅🚂🎉
We’ve made the shortlist in 2 x categories in the U.K. Festival Awards out of nearly 450 entries!
Only 6 festivals per category!
Best Grassroots Festival
Best Family Festival
Winners announced 6th Dec
🙏🤞
📷 We’re putting a photo gallery up on the Festival website soon.
We’ve already got some brilliant band pics, but if you’ve got any pics of the barn courtyard, people enjoying themselves, campsite, eating, drinking, dogs, castle grounds, please send ‘em in. (We’ll credit any use)
📢⛰️🚂SONIC WALKS - Commissioned by
@ace_national
to create 'Sonic Walks' for Krankenhaus. Created by
@StuartMaconie
&
@SeaPowerBand
to be enjoyed on various walks during the festival.
OR enjoy them wherever & whenever you like!
Download for free here:
Check out The Lovely Eggs new bonkers TV show!
Our first band to be announced!
For those on the
@SeaPowerBand
mailing list, 50% of the Krankenhaus line-up has just been announced 😉
EGGS TV. Episode 1 Out NOW! 🥚📺🥚📺 ➡️ If you like it and actually have friends, please share. We don’t do any of that “sponsored post” bullshit 🤮🤮🤮Word of mouth only. 👊
Made it into the Netherlands on my first day cycling to
@SeaPowerBand
's one and only
@Krankenhausfest
in the Lake District. See you in two weeks all you lovely people!
🏞️🌻🌳🌲🌿🏕️🚴🍻
Congratulations to Lee Schofield for winning best nature writing for ‘Wild Fell’.
Lee will be chatting about landscape restoration &
#nature
recovery in the
#LakeDistrict
@Krankenhausfest
with
@joncbirder
.
There will also be a guided nature walk with Jon & Lee !
We're so flippin excited that our very own
@leeinthelakes
& his book 'Wild Fell,: Fighting for Nature on a Lake District Hill Farm' was announced today (
#WorldBiodiversityDay
) as the winner of the prestigious Richard Jefferies Award, for the best nature writing published in 2022.
Go Chris!
Christoph & Douglas Brain will be in conversation with Roy Wilkinson & John Robb over the weekend in the Castles ‘Drawing Room’ to talk about their recent EPIC journeys.
🚴 🌊
Bit tired this morning after 12 days of pedalling. So just did an easy ride along the Rochdale Canal into sunny West Yorkshire. Good to be back! Took the chance to collect my membership card and have a curry and a pint at the
@thetradesclub
tonight.
🚴🦋🐦🌦️🏕️🍻
#krankenhausfest
Mondays bird list for the walk with RSPBs
@joncbirder
Lesser B B gull
Greater B B gull
Black headed gull
Carrion crow
Robin
Common gull
Herring gull
Cormorant
Kestrel
Buzzard
Redshank
Raven
Wren
Siskin
Curlew
Little Egret
Goosander
Oyster catcher
Goldcrest
Nuthatch
Swallow
Krankenhausers!
Steve Lamacq is running a festival summary on 6Music. Please get in touch & tell him about us!
1) Best Fest of ‘22
2) Best festival set ‘22
3) Best festival moment ‘22 (anything! doesn’t have to be music related)
email - lamacq.6music
@bbc
.co.uk
text - 64046
On the Thursday night, food & drink will be available from appx 5pm - 9pm by the barn.
The Fools Bar, Honest Supper Club and a few other food vendors will be on site and ready to serve you!
We'll have some low key DJing too, to put you in the mood.
We are in Cumbria alright! Drizzle, wind and showers got to us at last in the Yorkshire Dales and the climbs were tough. But we reached the sea at Milnthorpe on our way to
@Krankenhausfest
and sleep on a farm tonight. See you in the Lakes!
🏞️🌧️🚴♀️🚴🌿🌳🏕️🐂
Krankenhausers!
Lammo is running his 2023 festival survey on 6Music. If you had an amazing time, please tell him!
1) Best Fest of 23
2) Best Festival set
3) Best Festival moment (anything!)
email - lamacq.6music
@bbc
.co.uk
text - 64046
@steve_lamacq
4 weeks to go until Krankenhaus, let's introduce you to all the Saturday artists!
Headliners
@itsthegoteam
will bring their vibrant sample-laden good times. Check out new LP ‘Get Up Sequences Part Two’. Here's ace blast from the past ‘Huddle Formation’
Hope everyone is ok after the biblical flash flood thunderstorm last night?
If you need any assistance please visit Hannah & gang at Festival HQ & they will try & help.
Will your dog win one of these winners medals?
We’re having a little dog show over the weekend.
Trying to thing of some good Krankenhaus categories.
‘Dog/owner lookalike’
‘Daftest Dawg story’ ‘fastest sausage gobbler’ ‘Most indifferent dog’ ?
Help us out!
5 Weeks to go until K23!
Let’s introduce you to all the incredible artists playing this year.
The gorgeous
@H_HAWKLINE
will be playing on Friday.
Check out single ‘Milk for Flowers’ & some recent solo footage.
8 days to go!
Campsite opens Thursday
Check-in is open 4pm-9pm on Thursday & 10am-9pm Fri-Sun (after 9pm jus park/set up tents & register in the morning)
The weather is looking good ☀️
We’ll send an info e-mail to all ticket holders very soon x
We've updated our Festival Website to include a new 'Further Afield' section featuring places to visit & things to do outside of the Festival, walks and local pubs & food etc.
Especially helpful if you're arriving in Ravenglass early or staying later 🌄
4 nights free camping are included with w/e tickets, but did you know we have a new LONG STAY VISITOR option, which extends your stay in beautiful Muncaster to 7 nights whilst you are up in the Lake District.
(Tuesday 20th to Tuesday 27th)
More info visit:
5 Weeks to go until Krankenhaus!
Let’s introduce you to all the incredible artists playing this year.
The brilliant Bodega will be on before Deerhoof on Friday night.
Check out ‘Doers’ from the ace 2022 LP ‘Broken Equipment’
The Modern Ovens present The Velvet Underground tonight at 23:15pm
Featuring members of Sea Power, Brakes, Pure Conjecture, with special guest appearances from Simon Armitage, Lias Saoudi, This is the Kit, Jem & Marc Riley
5 Weeks to go until Krankenhaus, so let's introduce you to all the incredible artists playing this year.
@iamheartworms
brings gothic avant-garde post-punk to preceedings on Friday. Check out the brilliant recent single ‘retributions of an awful life’.
4 weeks to go until K23!
Let's introduce you to our Saturday artists!
Lancaster 2-piece
@thelovelyeggs
bring the garage-punk fuzz-fun. Check out ‘I , Moron’ feat: the one and only
@iggypop
They will also be in conversation with
@shaunwkeaveny
on Sunday!
If anyone didn’t participate in this years Sonic Walks, you can hear all the audio & download for free on band camp!
Featuting: Stuart Maconie waxing lyrical about Eskdale & reworked tracks from ‘Machineries of Joy’ (w/guest spot from Alfred Wainwright)
Kranken-Feedback
It would be really great if you could provide some feedback for this year’s Krankenhaus. It helps in many many ways.
Here’s a link to the feedback form.
4 weeks to go!
Let's introduce you to our Saturday artists!
The wonderful
@whlungmusic
bring motorik synth-pop & post-punk to Krankenhaus via Lancashire.
Check out LPs ‘Incidental Music’ & ‘Vanities’.
Listen to 'Inspiration!'
Was your dog a winner in the
@shaunwkeaveny
Dog Competition at Krankenhaus?
We didn't get the names of the winning dogs. Can you please tell us for the record books?
Name and category please!🐕
Krankenhaus Festival has been entered into the U.K. festival awards for 2 categories!
BEST SMALL FESTIVAL and BEST GRASSROOTS FESTIVAL
We all would love a Krankenhaus 2023 & this stuff really helps!
PLEASE VOTE FOR US HERE:
#UKFA22
@Krankenhausfest