Summer Sundae

Last updated

Summer Sundae
Summer Sundae Main Stage.jpg
The main stage at the 2005 festival
Location(s) Leicester, England, UK
Years active2001–2012
Website www.summersundae.com

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.

Contents

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 Pineapster 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
FridaySaturdaySunday
Indoor stage
FridaySaturdaySunday
Into the Wild stage
FridaySaturdaySunday
The Watering Hole stage
FridaySaturdaySunday
  • Nancy Dawkins
  • Park Bench Society
  • Mahalia
  • Buenos Aires
  • Jake Bugg
  • Kenworthy
  • These Furrows

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
FridaySaturdaySunday
Indoor stage
FridaySaturdaySunday
Rising stage
FridaySaturdaySunday
Musician stage
FridaySaturdaySunday

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
FridaySaturdaySunday
Indoor stage
FridaySaturdaySunday
Rising stage
FridaySaturdaySunday
Musician stage
FridaySaturdaySunday

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
FridaySaturdaySunday
Indoor stage
FridaySaturdaySunday
Rising stage
FridaySaturdaySunday
Musician stage
FridaySaturdaySunday

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
FridaySaturdaySunday
Indoor stage
FridaySaturdaySunday
Rising stage
FridaySaturdaySunday
Musician stage
FridaySaturdaySunday

2007 line-up

The main stage of the 2007 festival. SummerSundaeSaturdayEve2007.jpg
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
FridaySaturdaySunday
Indoor stage
FridaySaturdaySunday
Firebug Rising stage
FridaySaturdaySunday
The Musician Stage
FridaySaturdaySunday

2006 Lineup

Summer Sundae Logo Sundae71.jpg
Summer Sundae Logo

The 2006 Summer Sundae took place between 11 and 13 August 2006. The line-up was as follows

Outdoor stage
FridaySaturdaySunday
Indoor stage
FridaySaturdaySunday
Jim Beam Rising stage
FridaySaturdaySunday
The Musician Stage
FridaySaturdaySunday

2005 Lineup

Patti Smith Patti prayer.jpg
Patti Smith

The 2005 Summer Sundae took place between 12 and 14 August 2005. The bill was as follows

Outdoor stage
FridaySaturdaySunday
Indoor stage
FridaySaturdaySunday
The Musician acoustic stage
FridaySaturdaySunday
Rising stage
Friday Bathysphere – Lo Tempo Hi Fi ArenaSaturdaySunday
KT Tunstall at the 2005 Summer Sundae Kt tunstall summer sundae05.jpg
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, Sia 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,{Praha Seven} 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 Concert for a Landmine Free World 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)Leicester's praha seven were the opening act on the indoor stage. . [1]

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">De Montfort Hall</span> Music and performance venue in Leicester, England

De Montfort Hall is the largest music and performance venue in Leicester, England. It is situated adjacent to Victoria Park and is named after the "Father of Parliament", Simon de Montfort, Earl of Leicester.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ashton Court Festival</span> Annual outdoor music festival in Bristol, England from 1974 to 2007

The Ashton Court Festival was an outdoor music festival held annually in mid-July on the grounds of Ashton Court, just outside Bristol, England. The festival was a weekend event which featured a variety of local bands and national headliners. Mainly aimed at local residents, the festival did not have overnight camping facilities and was financed by donations and benefit gigs.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">T in the Park</span> Music festival in Scotland, 1994 to 2016

T in the Park festival was a major Scottish music festival that was held annually from 1994 to 2016. It was named after its main sponsor, Tennents. The event was held at Strathclyde Park, Lanarkshire, until 1996. It then moved to the disused Balado airfield, Perth and Kinross, from 1997 to 2014. In 2015 the festival moved to Strathallan Castle. It was originally held over two days, and extended to three days from 2007. In 2016 the daily capacity was 70,000.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Pukkelpop</span> Annual music festival near Hasselt, Belgium

Pukkelpop is an annual music festival that takes place near the city of Hasselt, Belgium, in mid- to late August. It is held within a large enclosure of fields and woodland—adjacent to a dual carriageway called Kempische Steenweg—in the village of Kiewit, approximately 7 km north of Hasselt. It is one of the largest music festivals in Belgium, with an attendance of 180,000 over the course of the event in 2009.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">ValeFest</span>

ValeFest, previously known as The Vale Festival, is a charitable summer music and arts festival that takes place on the Vale, a park and student accommodation site at the University of Birmingham, in Birmingham, England now going into its 19th year.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Glastonbury Festival line-ups</span> Entertianers at the festival in Glastonbury, Somerset, England, listed by year

Glastonbury Festival is a greenfield music and performing arts festival on farm land near Pilton, England. It was first held in 1970 and has been held in the majority of years since then in the summer. Its line-up is diverse, including music, comedy, circus and theatre, taking place on many different stages and performance areas.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Godiva Festival</span> Three-day music festival held each year in Coventry, England

The Godiva Festival is a three-day music festival held each year in the War Memorial Park, Coventry, England, named after the city's famous former inhabitant Lady Godiva. It first appeared as a day-long event in 1997 and became a three-day event the following year in 1998. It is the largest family music festival in the UK, and is made up of two fields; a Main Field and a Family field, which each offer a different experience.

Ann Arbor Blues and Jazz Festival is a music festival in Ann Arbor, Michigan, that started in 1972 from the Ann Arbor Blues Festival, which itself began in 1969. Although the festival has had a tumultuous history and suspended operations in 2006, it was restarted in 2017.

MidPoint Music Festival (MPMF) was an annual three-day independent music festival and music industry conference held in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States, from 2001 to 2017. The event took place every September in the city's downtown and historic Over-the-Rhine entertainment district. It was founded by Cincinnati musicians Bill Donabedian and Sean Rhiney. The festival was acquired in 2008 by Cincinnati CityBeat, a weekly alternative newspaper. In 2016, it was acquired by Music and Event Management Inc. (MEMI).

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Bloodstock Open Air</span> Annual British heavy metal festival

Bloodstock Open Air is a British heavy metal festival held annually at Catton Hall in Walton-on-Trent, Derbyshire, since 2005.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Primavera Sound</span> Music festival

Primavera Sound is an annual music festival held at the Parc del Fòrum in Barcelona, Spain, during late May and early June. It was founded in 2001 by Pablo Soler as "a showcase for Spanish noise bands", originally held at the Poble Espanyol before moving to the Parc del Fòrum, a much larger site on the seafront, in 2005. It is one of the largest and most-attended music festivals in Europe and the biggest in the Mediterranean.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Connect Music Festival</span> Music festival in Scotland

Connect Music Festival is a Scottish music festival. It took place at the Royal Highland Centre Showgrounds in Edinburgh in 2022 and 2023, having been revived from the previous format of the festival, which was held in the grounds of Inveraray Castle, located on the banks of Loch Fyne in Argyll, Scotland, in 2007 and 2008.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Oxegen 2006</span>

Oxegen 2006 was the third Oxegen festival to take place, following the dissolution of its predecessor Witnness in 2004. It took place on the weekend of Saturday, 8 July and Sunday, 9 July at Punchestown Racecourse near Naas in County Kildare, Ireland. The festival was headlined by Red Hot Chili Peppers on the Sunday and The Who on the Saturday.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Shakori Hills Grassroots Festival</span>

The Shakori Hills GrassRoots Festival of Music and Dance is a biannual music and dance festival in the United States, held on the first Thursday thru Sunday in May and October in Pittsboro, North Carolina. The festival takes place on a 75-acre (300,000 m2) venue which is managed by Shakori Hills Community Arts Center Inc. (SHCAC), a nonprofit organization. The festival supports the music and art programs of the SHCAC. It is associated with and modeled after the larger Finger Lakes Grassroots Festival that takes place near Trumansburg, New York each summer. The spring festival started in April 2003 and the fall festival was launched in 2004.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Redfest</span> Music festival

Redfest was an annual music festival at Robins Cook Farm, Kings Mill Lane, Nutfield, Redhill, Surrey, England. It was established in 2007 as a small independent music festival geared toward youth, with over 70 per cent of its initial attenders expected to be under 17, and promised to be safer than its competitors such as GuilFest and Reading. The 2014 event took place over three days, from 24 to 26 July 2012. It featured a main stage, the Total Uprawr Stage, the Introducing Stage and two dance tents. The headliners on the main stage were Peace and Skindred.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Maha Music Festival</span>

The Maha Festival is an independent music festival held in Omaha, Nebraska, United States. The festival is owned and operated by YFC, Inc., a non-profit organization.

Summer Sundae Fringe Festival was an annual music festival, running from 2006 to 2010 and held in Leicester, England, which focused on showcasing artistic talents and communities within the city of Leicester.

Loopallu was a 2-day music festival that took place in Ullapool, in the north of Scotland. It was held annually between 2005 and 2019, attracting 2,500 people which essentially doubled the population of the village while the event was being held.

Music in Leicester, England, has had a varied history. Leicester has several music venues and musical acts have originated in the city.

Twin Cities Summer Jam was a music festival in Shakopee, Minnesota that took place each year in July at Canterbury Park.

References

  1. Peplow, Gemma (6 August 2010). "Summer Sundae Weekender celebrates ten years of feelgood hits". This is Leicestershire. Northcliffe Media. Retrieved 8 May 2012.

52°37′27.76″N1°07′21.86″W / 52.6243778°N 1.1227389°W / 52.6243778; -1.1227389