Summer Sundae Fringe Festival
# Summer Sundae Fringe Festival

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 | 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 Glenn 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 |
| - | - |
