Summer Sundae Fringe Festival

Summer Sundae Fringe Festival
Location(s)	Leicester, England, UK
Years active	2006–2010
Website
www.summersundaefringe.com

Summer Sundae Fringe Festival (also called the Summer Sundae Fringe) 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.

It was created by Andy Black and Richard Haswell and subsequently run and organised with the help of the Leicestershire based music forum Pineapster, who strove to organise promoters, venues, organisers and musical acts to organise and run their own events in promotion of their own talents and showcase the best of the cities talent whilst fundraising for charity.

The festival began as a one off warm up party in 2006 and grew year on year (until 2010), to a two-week showcase of musical talents, in a wide variety of venues and locations across Leicester. The fringe festival was scheduled to occur annually across the first two weeks of August each year. The fringe traditionally culminated with a series of warm up parties, across Leicester city centre, occurring on the Thursday evening before the start of the Summer Sundae Weekender event.

These warm up parties are formally titled 'Fringe Thursday', and are linked by an open top bus service, included within ticket price, which provides party goers with transport to move them from event to event. All artists appearing at Fringe Thursday events donated their time and services for free.

Tickets were sold for Fringe Thursday and had to be exchanged for a wristband to allow bus entry.

The event occurred for the last time in 2010.

Size

The 2006 warm up party sold out to 360 people. The 2010 Fringe Thursday events sold over 2500 tickets. A grand total of nearly £25,000 was raised for LOROS across the festival's five-year history.

Ethos

The Fringe Festival was run as a charity fundraiser with two main principles

1, To showcase the best in artistic talent from the city of Leicester to an outside audience

2, To raise awareness of the hospice LOROS to a new, younger generation of people.

From inception, the festival strove to exhibit local talent to a new audience. The arrival of main festival ticket holders from all over the UK provided a ready made market of people keen to explore both new music and their new location. Thus Fringe Thursday excels by providing a medium to guide tourists from outside of the county, across the city, to visit a variety of establishments and experience local musician, comedians and photographers from across Leicester.

History

2010 event & line up

The 2010 Summer Sundae Fringe Festival ran from Friday 6 August 2010 to Thursday 12 August 2010. The festival culminated in Fringe Thursday again.

Firebug	Musician	Donkey	Lansdowne	The Pub	Independent Arts Centre	Y Theatre : Presented in Association with Leicester Comedy Festival	The Shed	Phoenix Film Tent
Autohype These Furrows Kids in Cars	The Pennyhangers The Lysergic Suite Charlie Jones & The Martyrs The James Lewis Band	Cantaloop Bobby Sunshine Band By The Rivers Yellowbelly	Fists Acid Pony We Three & The Death Rattle	Hewick, Haynes & James The Jazz Butcher Christine	Free Control Mellow Baku The Gadjo's Roger Wilson David Wyatt Ashdowne	Snez Naik Ben Hutchinson Jim Smallman Ben Ennis David Morgan David Longley Andy Robinson Vikki Stone & The Flashbacks	The Screening Little Night Terrors Superevolver The Boobytraps	Family Entertainment Phoenix Square Cinema Tent

2009 line up

The 2009 Summer Sundae Fringe Festival ran 3–13 August 2009. The festival culminated in Fringe Thursday, on 13 August 2009, across 9 city centre venues in Leicester. Over 2000 people attended the 2009 Fringe Thursday warm up parties.

Firebug	Musician	Donkey	Lansdowne	Hind : Phrased & Confused	New Road Inn	Kayal : Presented in Association with Leicester Comedy Festival	The Shed	Helsinkis
Minnaars Maybeshewill Charlie Jones & The Martyrs	Jersey Budd Dumbfound Jose Klann	The Beautiful South The Deap People David Wyatt You Fellows of All Souls	Ambrose Tompkins Penfold Gate	Mark & Mixy Salenna Godden Book Club Boutique Mr Plow Band Sound of Rum	The Falling Leaves Pacific Ocean Fire	Tony Law Gary Delaney Jim Smallman	Autohype The Heroes Fists Mega Dub	Dj Si

2008 line up

Firebug	Musician	Donkey	The Charlotte	Helsinkis
Tired Irie Pacific Ocean Fire Love Ends Disaster!	The Chairmen Ugly Pop Stars The Legion Greg Gent Herra Hidro	M48 Project Notion James Maddock Swaggar	The Dandilions The Parlotones The Elite The Utopians	Lisa Lashes Neil Appeal J-Luv Glen Randall

2007 line up

Firebug	Musician	The Charlotte	Comedy Tent (presented by efestivals)
The Dirty Backbeats Redcarsgofaster Fatal Star Just Norris	My Drug Hell Harper Ambrose Tompkins	The Displacements Assembly Now The Elite	Raymond & Mr Timpkins Revue Scott Hall Gary Delaney

2006 line up

The first warm up party occurred on Thursday 10 August 2006 at Firebug Bar, Millstone Lane, Leicester. 360 people sold out a capacity venue. £1560 was raised and donated to LOROS hospice

Firebug	Misterlee Love Ends Disaster! The Dirty Backbeats

External links

• Official Website
• eFestivals festival coverage