Summer Sundae Weekender adds Wild Beasts

Summer Sundae Weekender have announced more acts for 2008 who will be playing at De Montfort Hall and Gardens, Leicester from Friday 8th to Sunday 10th August.

The new additions are Wild Beasts, Fight like Apes, Natty, Errors, Dawn Landes and Danny and the Champions of the World.

They are the latest additions to an eclectic bill of acts so far confirmed who include headliners Supergrass, and The Coral – Acoustic Set, with support acts including Simian Mobile Disco - Live, Roisin Murphy, Whitest Boy Alive, John Power, Agnostic Mountain Gospel Choir, The Heavy, Lightspeed Champion, Reverend And The Makers, Henry Rollins, José González, Joan As Police Woman, Howling Bells, Dodgy, Tom Baxter, King Creosote, Of Montreal, Nina Nastasia, Jeffrey Lewis, Rachel Unthank, Dengue Fever, The Count & Sinden, Dirty Projectors, James Yorkston & The Athletes, Royworld, and more. For the line-up details as available please click here.

This year the Summer Sundae Weekender has also introduced a host of initiatives in an effort to make the festival more eco-friendly than ever, including partnering with Sustrans to create new routes for cycling and walking, providing pouches for cigarette butts, using only biodegradable materials on the festival site, and providing all motorists with lightbulbs to offset carbon emissions accrued in travelling to the site.

Day tickets are now available priced at £40 for Saturday and Sunday and £35 for Friday. Weekend tickets are on sale, and the prices are as follows:-
Adult £95
Adult + Camping £100
Adult + one child £124
Adult+2 Children £154
Adult+Child+Camp £129
Adult+2 Kids+Camp £159
Campervans £25 - please telephone De Montfort Hall on 0116 2333111.
Note that once the early bird tickets have sold out, the adult price will revert to the full price of £90.

Summer Sundae Weekender is using a 'ticketless' system this year. Please ensure that you properly read all of the information on the page, so that you understand how it all works. To book tickets, click here.

The Summer Sundae Weekender - into it's eighth year - is now established as a three day festival with full camping facilities. As well as featuring internationally known and cutting edge artists on stages both indoor and outdoor, there is also the Cabaret Tent which eFestivals is proud to sponsor.

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