Annual music festival held in England
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| Summer Sundae |
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 The main stage at the 2005 festival |
| Location(s) | Leicester, England, UK |
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| Years active | 2001–2012 |
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| Website | www.summersundae.com |
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Summer Sundae (also called the Summer Sundae Weekender) was an annual music festival held in Leicester, England which initially focused on indie, alternative, and local music. The festival began as a one-dayer in 2001 and grew year on year since then, adding first one and then two campsites, and later involved five stages running over three days.
It was hosted by the city's De Montfort Hall, both in the hall itself, and over four outdoor stages in the hall's grounds, and including part of Victoria Park. A section of the park was fenced off for camping during the weekend of the festival. The festival was for a time sponsored in part by the digital radio station BBC 6 Music, which in return had exclusive broadcasting rights. The festival usually took place in August and grew from two stages to five over the course of six years. In 2005 the festival welcomed over 70 artists, both well-known and established bands, and local bands from around the East Midlands. This extended to over 100 bands, and the first ever sold-out festival in 2006.
The festival in later years was run over five stages: The Outside Stage was by far the largest and hosted the bigger bands, in conjunction with the Indoor Stage, the main auditorium of the De Montfort Hall. In addition, The Musician Stage was a tent featuring mainly acoustic and roots music at times when the Outside stage is quiet, and The Rising Stage featured new and local talent. In 2006 the eFESTIVALS Cabaret Stage was added, and these were added to in 2008 by the Phrased & Confused/Bathysphere tent, offering spoken word performances during the day and electronica artists later on. In 2012, the Musician Stage and the Rising Stage were replaced by two new performance spaces in The Village, named the Into the Wild stage and the Watering Hole following the festival's safari theme.
From 2006 the festival was preceded the night before it began by an official warm up party, hosted by to provide entertainment to those campers arriving in the City on the Thursday night and raise money for LOROS, a local hospice. From 2007 it became a full Fringe festival event entitled the Summer Sundae Fringe Festival occurring in the week or fortnight up to the festival curated by local arts bodies across Leicester and Leicestershire, culminating in a series of warm-up parties. In March 2008 the festival put on a Taste of Summer Sundae gig to provide a flavour of the bands expected to play the main festival.
2012 line-up[]
The 2012 Summer Sundae Weekender festival took place 17–19 August. This was the last one held. The main festival line-up was as follows:
- Main stage
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- Dark Dark Horse
- Clock Opera
- Uncle Frank
- Asian Dub Foundation
- Katy B
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- Indoor stage
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- Goodnight Lenin
- Savages
- Lucy Rose
- Agnes Obel
- Micachu and the Shapes
- Jonathan Richman
- Tune-Yards
- Death in Vegas
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- Into the Wild stage
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- Hip Hop Shakespeare Company
- Tim Edey & Brendan Power
- Rachel Sermanni
- Cashier No. 9
- Thepetebox
- Speech Debelle
- Akala
- Man Like Me
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- Midnight Wire
- The Staves
- Lazy Lester
- Juan Zelada
- Billy Bragg
- Leicester All Ska's Reggae Big Band
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- The Watering Hole stage
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- Charlee Drew
- Walter Bottle
- Kappa Gamma
- Elizabeth Cornish
- Tiny Ruins
- Clean Bandit
- Bastille
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- Nancy Dawkins
- Park Bench Society
- Mahalia
- Buenos Aires
- Jake Bugg
- Kenworthy
- These Furrows
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- Prash Gor
- The Skunk-Boy Project
- Siobhan Mazzei
- The Simpletones
- Bellawave
- Furies
- Grace Petrie
- Beth Rowley
- King Charles
- Lewis Floyd Henry
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The comedy stage features Rich Fulcher, Toby, Carly Smallman, David Morgan, Joey Page, Joe Bor, Richard Garaghty, Goronwy Thom and Jon Hicks.
2011 line-up[]
The 2011 Summer Sundae Weekender festival took place 12–14 August 2011. The main festival line-up was as follows:
- Outdoor stage
- Indoor stage
- Rising stage
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Saturday
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Sunday
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- Shonen Knife
- Born Ruffians
- Wolf People
- 2:54
- Other Lives
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- Musician stage
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- Teddy Thompson
- Dizraeli & the Gears
- The Paradimes
- Gallery 47
- The Rassoodocks
- Kirkland Turn
- The Daydream Club
- HumbleHe
- Davenport Folk
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- Kitty Daisy & Lewis
- C.W. Stoneking
- Skinny Lister
- Joel Owen & the Antoine Band
- Delta Maid
- Kenworthy
- Austin Francis Connection
- Martha Bean
- Calder McLaughlin
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The comedy stage featured Simon Evans, Gary Delaney, Jon Richardson, and John Cooper Clarke.
2010 line-up[]
The 2010 Summer Sundae Weekender festival took place 13–15 August 2010. The main festival line-up was as follows:
- Outdoor stage
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- Seasick Steve
- Teenage Fanclub
- The Sunshine Underground
- Fionn Regan
- Kyte
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- Tinchy Stryder
- The Go! Team
- Stornoway
- Turin Brakes
- Diana Vickers
- Autohype
- Gaggle
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- Indoor stage
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- The Futureheads
- Frightened Rabbit
- Los Campesinos!
- Errors
- The Besnard Lakes
- Summercamp
- Little Night Terrors
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- Rising stage
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- Steve Mason
- Eliza Doolittle
- Lissie
- Erland & the Carnival
- Rugosa Nevada
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- Musician stage
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- El Pussycat
- David Ford
- Pokey Lafarge & the South City Three
- Megafun
- The Guthlaxtones
- Ashdowne
- Andy White
- The Abrahams
- The Blues Demons
- Peter Wyeth
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2009 line-up[]
The 2009 Summer Sundae Weekender festival took place 14–16 August 2009. The main festival line-up was as follows:
- Outdoor stage
- Indoor stage
- Rising stage
- Musician stage
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Sunday
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- Imelda May
- Teitur
- Kami Thompson
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The Streets were due to headline the main stage on Friday but pulled out earlier the same day due to illness. Skint & Demoralised, Beth Jeans Houghton and Jeremy Warmsley played sets in the Phrased & Confused tent.
2008 line-up[]
The 2008 Summer Sundae Weekender festival took place between the 8 and 10 August 2008. The main festival line-up was follows:
- Outdoor stage
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- Simian Mobile Disco
- Reverend and The Makers
- Cold War Kids
- José González
- Wild Beasts
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- Indoor stage
- Rising stage
- Musician stage
2007 line-up[]
The main stage of the 2007 festival.
The 2007 Summer Sundae Weekender festival took place between the 10 and 12 August 2007. The line-up was as follows:
- Outdoor stage
- Indoor stage
- Firebug Rising stage
- The Musician Stage
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Saturday
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Sunday
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- Richmond Fontaine
- John Cooper Clarke
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- Chuck Prophet
- Aynsley Lister
- Tom Russell
- Seasick Steve
- 's Jazz Band
- Steve Cartwright
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2006 Lineup[]
The 2006 Summer Sundae took place between 11 and 13 August 2006. The line-up was as follows
- Outdoor stage
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Saturday
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- Elbow
- Delays
- Richard Hawley
- Liam Frost and the Slowdown Family
- James Morrison
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- Indoor stage
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Sunday
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- Michael Franti And Spearhead
- DJ Format
- Seth Lakeman
- Baxter Dury
- Merla
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- The Blockheads
- The Proclaimers
- Vashti Bunyan
- Isobel Campbell
- Brakes
- Howling Bells
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- Jim Beam Rising stage
- The Musician Stage
2005 Lineup[]
The 2005 Summer Sundae took place between 12 and 14 August 2005. The bill was as follows
- Outdoor stage
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- Lemon Jelly
- The Bees
- Thirteen Senses
- The Magic Numbers
- Tom Vek
- Art Brut
- Editors
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- Patti Smith And Her Band
- Yo La Tengo
- The Duke Spirit
- The Earlies
- Sierra Maestra
- Sondre Lerche
- Bellowhead
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- Indoor stage
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Sunday
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- Mylo
- KT Tunstall
- The Bays
- Devendra Banhart
- Engineers
- Emiliana Torrini
- Clor
- Hot Chip
- Leon
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- The Wedding Present
- King Creosote
- Alfie
- Patrick Wolf
- Alasdair Roberts
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- The Musician acoustic stage
- Rising stage
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KT Tunstall at the 2005 Summer Sundae
2004 Lineup[]
The 2004 Summer Sundae Weekender took place between 13 and 15 August 2004
Highlights of this festival included Kings of Convenience, Super Furry Animals, Ed Harcourt, Air, Amy Winehouse, The Beta Band, Kasabian and Adem.
2003 Lineup[]
The 2003 Summer Sundae Festival saw the introduction of a dance music to Friday night, and took place over three days between the 8th and 10 August 2003
Saturday's line-up included Alabama 3, Chumbawamba, Laura Cantrell, British Sea Power, Kathryn Williams and The Herbaliser with Gotan project Headlining. Sunday's bill included Ian McCulloch, Aqualung, Durutti Column, Pernice Brothers, Cosmic Rough Riders and Richard Hawley. The finale was a featuring Emmylou Harris, Steve Earle, Billy Bragg, Joan Baez and Chrissie Hynde sharing the stage.
2002 Lineup[]
The 2002 Summer Sundae Festival took place between the 6th and 7 July 2002
Highlights of the festival included I Am Kloot, Beth Orton and local favourites Cornershop. There was a strong Americana influence including the Be Good Tanyas, Calexico and The Handsome Family. David Byrne headlined.
2001 Lineup[]
The inaugural event was held on one day in July on two stages with 14 acts including Morcheeba on the outdoor stage and Lambchop on the indoor stage, with Howard Smith and the Diplomats (formerly the Hornets) as the opening act (Steve Ashton, Lee Allatson).[1]
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52°37′27.76″N 1°07′21.86″W / 52.6243778°N 1.1227389°W / 52.6243778; -1.1227389
