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 was formerly sponsored in part by the digital radio station BBC 6 Music, which in return had 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 these were added to in 2008 by the Phrased & Confused/Bathysphere tent, offering spoken word performances during the day and electronica artists later on. Since 2006 the festival has been preceded the night before it begins 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. Since 2007 it has become a full Fringe festival event 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. __TOC__

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2009 lineup

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
Rankin 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 & 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 lineup

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 Roisin Murphy Dodgy Camera Obscura Dengue Fever Danny & the Champions of the World Jersey Budd The Chairmen	Simian Mobile Disco Reverend and The Makers Cold War Kids Jose Gonzalez Wild Beasts The Agnostic Mountain Gospel Choir Rook & the Ravens

;;Indoor stage

Friday	Saturday	Sunday
The Count and 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 lineup

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 the 11th and 13th of 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 Jose Gonzalez 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

thumb The 2005 Summer Sundae took place between the 12th and 14th of 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 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.

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.

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.