# Summer Sundae

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 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

| Friday | Saturday | Sunday |
| Dark Dark Horse Clock Opera Uncle Frank Asian Dub Foundation Katy B | The Daydream Club Little Night Terrors Dog Is Dead Molotov Jukebox Friends Lianne La Havas Adam Ant Ocean Colour Scene | Cowboy Jersey Budd Deer Tick Team Me The Black Seeds Reverend and the Makers Public Image Ltd |

   ### Indoor stage

| Friday | Saturday | Sunday |
| Vows Kyte Loney, Dear Datarock Ghostpoet Patrick Wolf Olugbenga Jack Beats | Goodnight Lenin Savages Lucy Rose Agnes Obel Micachu and the Shapes Jonathan Richman Tune-Yards Death in Vegas | Her Name Is Calla Maybeshewill Hey Sholay Japandroids The Twilight Sad Django Django Ed Harcourt Stay+ Gold Panda |

   ### Into the Wild stage

| Friday | Saturday | Sunday |
| Y Niwl Bowerbirds Dan Mangan François & the Atlas Mountains Willy Mason Sway | Hip Hop Shakespeare Company Tim Edey & Brendan Power Rachel Sermanni Cashier No. 9 Thepetebox Speech Debelle Akala Man Like Me | Midnight Wire The Staves Lazy Lester Juan Zelada Billy Bragg Leicester All Ska's Reggae Big Band |

   ### The Watering Hole stage

| Friday | Saturday | Sunday |
| Charlee Drew Walter Bottle Kappa Gamma Elizabeth Cornish Tiny Ruins Clean Bandit Bastille | Nancy Dawkins Park Bench Society Mahalia Buenos Aires Jake Bugg Kenworthy These Furrows | Prash Gor The Skunk-Boy Project Siobhan Mazzei The Simpletones Bellawave Furies Grace Petrie Beth Rowley King Charles Lewis Floyd Henry The Magic Tombolinos |
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

| Friday | Saturday | Sunday |
| The Maccabees Graham Coxon The Bees Givers Fists | Newton Faulkner Reef Bellowhead Kissmet Beth Jeans Houghton Showaddywaddy I Am in Love Hhymn | McFly Example The Cuban Brothers The Young Knives The Leisure Society Maniere Des Bohemians My First Tooth |

   ### Indoor stage

| Friday | Saturday | Sunday |
| Toots & the Maytals Portico Quartet King Creosote & John Hopkins The Agitator Admiral Fallow Elliott Morris | I Am Kloot Chapel Club The Jim Jones Revue Wilko Johnson Benjamin Francis Leftwich The Heartbreaks Flashguns | Blood Red Shoes Everything Everything Warpaint Factory Floor The Phantom Band The Antlers Dark Dark Horse Silent Devices |

   ### Rising stage

| Friday | Saturday | Sunday |
| Shonen Knife Born Ruffians Wolf People 2:54 Other Lives | Pete & the Pirates Little Comets Yaaks Dionne Bromfield Lysergic Suite We Three & The Death Rattle | Dry the River Ben Howard Dutch Uncles The Black Atlantic Kyla La Grange Tom Williams & the Boat The Swiines |

   ### Musician stage

| Friday | Saturday | Sunday |
| Uncle Frank Raghu Dixit By the Rivers The Whybirds Citizen Smith Elizabeth Cornish Martin Brown Kieran Hebden Rhett Barrow | Teddy Thompson Dizraeli & the Gears Mama Rosin The Paradimes Gallery 47 The Rassoodocks Kirkland Turn The Daydream Club HumbleHe Davenport Folk | Kitty Daisy & Lewis C.W. Stoneking Skinny Lister Joel Owen & the Antoine Band Delta Maid Kenworthy Austin Francis Connection Martha Bean Calder McLaughlin |
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

| Friday | Saturday | Sunday |
| Seasick Steve Teenage Fanclub The Sunshine Underground Fionn Regan Charlie & the Martyrs Kyte | Tinchy Stryder The Go! Team Stornoway Turin Brakes Diana Vickers The Moulettes Autohype Gaggle | Mumford & Sons Local Natives The Low Anthem Junip Johnny Flynn & the Sussex Wit Pete Molinari These Furrows |

   ### Indoor stage

| Friday | Saturday | Sunday |
| Roots Manuva Slow Club Lou Rhodes Swimming Spotlight Kid | The Whip The Fall Caribou Tunng Laura Veirs The Woodentops Liam Frost Dog Is Dead Karma Suite | The Futureheads Frightened Rabbit Los Campesinos! Errors The Besnard Lakes Summercamp Catherine A.D. Little Night Terrors |

   ### Rising stage

| Friday | Saturday | Sunday |
| Steve Mason Eliza Doolittle Lissie Erland & the Carnival Megaphonic Thrift Rugosa Nevada | The Invisible Fool's Gold Kid Adrift A Genuine Freakshow Isbells We Show up on Radar Black Carrot The Souvenirs | Skepta Devlin Riz MC Ellen and the Escapades The Crookes DM Stith Matthew P Red Shoe Diaries David Gibb |

   ### Musician stage

| Friday | Saturday | Sunday |
| Jason & the Scorchers Danny and the Champions of the World By the Rivers Gadjos Peggy Sue Kirsty Almeida The Rag & Bone Shop of the Heart Kristyna Myles The Orchard James Lewis Band Kristy Gallacher | Frankie & the Heartstrings Tiffany Page Goldheart Assembly Harper Simon The Leisure Society John Butler The Stiggz Andi Griffiths & the Steel Orchestra Stuart O'Connor Alex Highton Stevie Jones & the Wildfires | El Pussycat David Ford Pokey Lafarge & the South City Three Megafun The Guthlaxtones Ashdowne Andy White The Abrahams The Blues Demons Peter Wyeth |

## 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

| Friday | Saturday | Sunday |
| Idlewild Mystery Jets Oi Va Voi Kid British Razmataz | The Charlatans Saint Etienne Bombay Bicycle Club Broken Records The Joy Formidable Minnaars Frontiers Mr. Plow | The Zutons Bon Iver Easy Star All Stars Devon Sproule Port O'Brien Maybeshewill Shortwave Fade |

   ### Indoor stage

| Friday | Saturday | Sunday |
| Ranking Roger's "The Beat" Filthy Dukes Dan Black Beardyman Qemists The Breakdowns | Chipmunk Mr Hudson The Airborne Toxic Event 65daysofstatic Emmy the Great Sonic Boom Six The Yellow Moon Band David Thomas Broughton Yunioshi Her Name is Calla | New Beautiful South The Lightning Seeds Chairlift Micachu and the Shapes Monotonix Woodpigeon Kevin Hewick Abi Moore Band |

   ### Rising stage

| Friday | Saturday | Sunday |
| múm Wild Beasts Gold Panda My Latest Novel Blk Jks | Frank Turner Future of the Left James Yuill The Kabeedies The Domino State Kav Missing People Dumbfound | The Dykeenies Baddies First Aid Kit The Cheek Flashguns Ou Est Le Swimming Pool You Fellows of All Souls Abi Moore |

   ### Musician stage

| Friday | Saturday | Sunday |
| Cantaloop Out Of Karma Ash Grunwald The Deap People David Wyatt Band These Furrows Echolocation The Legion Great Imitation Gadjos Sally Hossack Natalie Squance Joel Owen | Hugh Cornwell The Jim Jones Revue Golden Animals Morph The Heroes Martin Harley Band John Smith Jake Flowers Woodstock Daryl Kirkland Refuge | Imelda May Teitur Kingsize Tommy Womack & the Dissenters Kami Thompson Megadub Gren Bartley Giles Likes Tea Hopscotch Boulevard Becky Syson |
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

| Friday | Saturday | Sunday |
| Supergrass The Coral King Creosote Royworld Fight Like Apes The Heroes! | Macy Gray Róisín Murphy Dodgy Camera Obscura Dengue Fever Danny and the Champions of the World Jersey Budd The Chairmen | Simian Mobile Disco Reverend and The Makers Cold War Kids José González Wild Beasts The Agnostic Mountain Gospel Choir Rook & the Ravens |

   ### Indoor stage

| Friday | Saturday | Sunday |
| The Count & Sinden Benga Nina Nastasia Emma Pollock Errors Love Ends Disaster! | The Whitest Boy Alive Tom Baxter Henry Rollins spoken word set Rachel Unthank and the Winterset Zombie Zombie Kyte Tired Irie The Screening Maybeshewill | Lightspeed Champion Joan As Police Woman of Montreal Efterklang Jeffrey Lewis Hamell on Trial Swaggar Our Broken Garden |

   ### Rising stage

| Friday | Saturday | Sunday |
| Howling Bells Fuck Buttons Noah and the Whale The Mae Shi Youthmovies | Natty Dawn Landes Frightened Rabbit Envy & Other Sins Rod Thomas Gary Go Project Notion New York Alcoholic Anxiety Attack | Lykke Li James Yorkston Those Dancing Days Alela Diane The Voom Blooms Charlie Jones |

   ### Musician stage

| Friday | Saturday | Sunday |
| The Heavy John Power Ictus Catherine Tran M48 Dead Slow Chris Warner Calder Steve Jones & Mark Gill Joel Owen | El Mahico Uncle Frank Foy Vance The Travelling Band Leicester Ska Jazz Ensemble Dan Arborise Maximum Danger Project Chris Helme The Hi & Lo Ann Duggan Dan Raza Chloe Vaughan Mr. Plow | Special Ed and the Shortbus Kathryn Williams & Neill MacColl The Agnostic Mountain Gospel Choir The Codes Dawson Smith & The Dissenters James Maddock John Budding Greg Gent Andy Whittle Small Bear |

## 2007 line-up

The 2007 Summer Sundae Weekender festival took place between the 10 and 12 August 2007. The line-up was as follows:

   ### Outdoor stage

| Friday | Saturday | Sunday |
| The Divine Comedy The Concretes The Aliens Kate Nash Fazed | The Magic Numbers Sophie Ellis-Bextor The Rumble Strips Malcolm Middleton Jazz Jamaica Kitty Daisy & Lewis The Displacements | Spiritualized Acoustic Mainlines Echo & the Bunnymen The Pigeon Detectives Koop Cherry Ghost Vetiver Pacific Ocean Fire |

   ### Indoor stage

| Friday | Saturday | Sunday |
| DJ Yoda Candie Payne Soweto Kinch Findlay Brown Palladium | !!! Low Martha Wainwright Maps Cud Jeremy Warmsley The Falling Leaves The Screening Matt Andasun | Duke Special Broken Family Band Gruff Rhys Spoon Tiny Dancers Ben Taylor The Lea Shores Nuru Kane |

   ### Firebug Rising stage

| Friday | Saturday | Sunday |
| Pole Kangding Ray Modified Toy Orchestra The Buoys Badun kReepa Vs ASMO Saab 900i | Simple Kid The Whip Wild Beasts zZz Fatal Star Bruises | Seasick Steve Polytechnic Alberta Cross Fujiya & Miyagi Stephanie Dosen The Strange Death of Liberal England Toy Heroes Dandilions |

   ### The Musician Stage

| Friday | Saturday | Sunday |
| Richmond Fontaine John Cooper Clarke The Dirty Backbeats The Chairmen Vijay Kishore Collum Regan Daisy B | Dr. Robert & P.P. Arnold Sam Kelly's Station House Indigo Moss Acoustic Vibronics Andy Griffiths Band Jill Barber Butterflypolite Kevin Hewick Gren Bartley David Wyatt | Chuck Prophet Aynsley Lister Tom Russell Seasick Steve El Pussycat Sonny Monk's Jazz Band Outside Track Southern Tenant Folk Reunion Andy Stirton Heartland Roots Band Steve Cartwright |

## 2006 Lineup

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

   ### Outdoor stage

| Friday | Saturday | Sunday |
| Elbow Delays Richard Hawley Liam Frost and the Slowdown Family James Morrison | Gomez Calexico Nouvelle Vague ¡Forward, Russia! the Young Knives Tunng Kissmet Don's Mobile Barbers | Belle & Sebastian Stephen Fretwell Guillemots José González Morning Runner The Long Blondes Redcarsgofaster |

   ### Indoor stage

| Friday | Saturday | Sunday |
| Michael Franti And Spearhead DJ Format Seth Lakeman Baxter Dury Zil Merla | The Blockheads The Proclaimers Vashti Bunyan Isobel Campbell Brakes Howling Bells El Mahico Onion | Coldcut The Buzzcocks The Boy Least Likely To Adem Captain M.Craft Misterlee New Cassettes Firebrand |

   ### Jim Beam Rising stage

| Friday | Saturday | Sunday |
| Plaid Psapp Sofalofa A Hawk and a Hacksaw Stendec) The Buoys Now Formication | The Voom Blooms Little Man Tate Gravenhurst Mr Hudson & The Library Joan As Policewoman Gem Djune Just Norris | Larrikin Love Jamie T Absentee Camera Obscura Sophie Solomon Token of My Affection William Hut |

   ### The Musician Stage

| Friday | Saturday | Sunday |
| The Blockheads Kingsize Great Blind Degree Shana Morrison ButterflyPolite Andy Griffiths Band Storm Thieve David Wyatt Band | Kim Richey Simon Honeyboy Hickling Derrin Nauendorf William Elliott Whitmore The Junipers Rob McCulloch Joel Owen Paula Driver BR549S Rise Kagona and Champion Doug Veitch Band Steel State Circus | Gary Potter Waking the Witch Mike West and Truckstop Honeymoon Hayley Hutchinson Ego Armalade The Displacements Giovana Olivera Oli Dickinson Paul Lamb & the King Snakes Elaine Croft |

## 2005 Lineup

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

   ### Outdoor stage

| Friday | Saturday | Sunday |
| Idlewild British Sea Power Sons and Daughters | Lemon Jelly The Bees Thirteen Senses The Magic Numbers Tom Vek Art Brut Editors The Traces | Patti Smith And Her Band Yo La Tengo The Duke Spirit The Earlies Sierra Maestra Sondre Lerche Bellowhead |

   ### Indoor stage

| Friday | Saturday | Sunday |
| Scratch Perverts feat. Dynamite MC Infadels Malcolm Middleton Acoustic Ladyland | Mylo KT Tunstall The Bays Devendra Banhart Engineers Emiliana Torrini Clor Hot Chip Leon | The Wedding Present King Creosote Alfie Patrick Wolf Alasdair Roberts The Havenots The Dirty Backbeats |

   ### The Musician acoustic stage

| Friday | Saturday | Sunday |
| Trashcan Sinatras Bap Kennedy Pacific Ocean Fire Post War Years | The Duhks The Redland Palomino Co Mojo Hand Circulus Corb Lund Sally Barker | Rico Rodriguez and the Pressure Tenants featuring Tan Tan Jason Ringenberg Ethan Daniel Davidson Band Jackie Leven Jill Sobule Tony Alles Bluesville |

   ### Rising stage

| Friday Bathysphere – Lo Tempo Hi Fi Arena | Saturday | Sunday |
| Four Tet Minotaur Shock Arovane Flotel Cyan | South San Gabriel Amusement Parks on Fire The Chalets Vibronics Espers Vincent Vincent and the Villains Redcarsgofaster Sarah Spade Band | Kissmet Luke Haines Battle Love Ends Disaster! Ist Owsley Sunshine Auburn |

## 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. .