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The main stage of the 2005 festival.
Summer Sundae (also called the Summer Sundae Weekender) is an annual music festival held in Leicester, England which focuses on indie, Alternative, and local music. The festival began as a one-dayer in 2001 and has grown year on year since then, adding first one and then two campsites, and now involves five stages.
It is 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 is fenced off for camping during the weekend of the festival. The festival is sponsored in part by the digital radio station BBC 6 Music, which in return has exclusive broadcasting rights. The festival usually takes place in August and has grown 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 is run over five stages: The Outside Stage is by far the largest, and hosts the bigger bands, in conjunction with the Indoor Stage, the main auditorium of the De Montfort Hall. In addition, The Musician Stage is a tent featuring mainly acoustic and roots music at times when the Outside stage is quiet, and The Rising Stage features new and local talent. In 2006, the eFESTIVALS Cabaret Stage was added, and for the first time the festival kicked off with 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. For 2007, the festival was preceded by a fringe festival, linked between the weekender event and local arts bodies across Leicester and Leicestershire. The fringe festival was curated by Pineapster.
[edit] 2008 Lineup
The 2008 Summer Sundae Weekender festival takes place between the 8th and 10th August 2008. The line-up announced to date is as follows:
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- Outdoor stage
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- Indoor stage
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- Rising stage
John Power, David Ford and The Heavy have also been confirmed.
[edit] 2007 Lineup
The main stage of the 2007 festival.
The 2007 Summer Sundae Weekender festival took place between the 10th and 12th August 2007. The line-up was as follows:
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- Outdoor stage
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- Indoor stage
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- Firebug Rising stage
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- The Musician Stage
[edit] 2006 Lineup
The 2006 Summer Sundae took place between the 11th and 13th of August 2006. The line-up was as follows
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- Outdoor stage
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- Indoor stage
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- Jim Beam Rising stage
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- The Musician Stage
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- 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
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- 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
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[edit] 2005 Lineup
The 2005 Summer Sundae took place between the 12th and 14th of August, 2005. The bill was as follows
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- Outdoor stage
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- Indoor stage
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- The Musician acoustic stage
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- Rising stage
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[edit] 2004 Lineup
The 2004 Summer Sundae Weekender took place between the 13th and 15th of August, 2004
Highlights of this festival included Kings of Convenience, Super Furry Animals, Ed Harcourt, Air, Amy Winehouse, The Beta Band and Adem.
[edit] 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 the 10th of August, 2003
Saturday's lineup included Alabama 3, Chumbawumba, 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 Concert for a Landmine Free World featuring Emmylou Harris, Steve Earle, Billy Bragg, Joan Baez and Chrissie Hynde sharing the stage.
[edit] 2002 Lineup
The 2002 Summer Sundae Festival took place between the 6th and the 7th of 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.
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