Pack your bags, throw on your best summer clothes and get ready to hit the trail to Leicester, as the amazing festival bonanza Summer Sundae Weekender emerges on the horizon. For three whole gorgeous days in August, you can experience the very best of what the British summer has to offer in the magnificent grounds of De Montfort Hall – fun in the sun, beautiful campsites, exceptional food and drink, and of course, music, glorious music…need proof? Read on!

We are especially excited this year to announce our most thrilling and quixotic headliners yet. Ready? On Friday night, everyone’s favourite Brummie rapper Mike Skinner, aka The Streets is set to get the Weekender off to a rousing start with his distinctive blend of pop suss, urban cool and lyrical genius. Another musical heavyweight arrives on Saturday, with the legendary and much-loved The Charlatans returning to the live arena in spectacular fashion to reclaim their shiny pop throne. And, to round things off, Sunday sees not one, but two amazing headliners – The Zutons, who have long enthralled audiences with their beautifully whimsical, madly addictive art-pop, and folk maestro Bon Iver, who crafted one of the most heartbreakingly perfect albums of 2008 with “For Emma, Forever Ago”. Almost makes you wish it was August already, doesn’t it…

In addition, Summer Sundae have also been famed for cherry picking the cream of the new band crop, with such grade-A, high calibre, tender young talent like Noah and the Whale, Kate Nash, Young Knives and many others gracing its stages long before anywhere else, and this year is, naturally, no exception. So get yourself down and get acquainted with the varied yet tasty likes of First Aid Kit, Baddies, Kabeedies and Beardyman, as perfect an opportunity as any to tell your friends, “Yes, well, I heard them at Summer Sundae first” when they inevitably become huge.

Go to www.summersundae.com for more information, not to mention ticketing details. And in case you’re wondering how to get there, there are multiple scenic rail links to Leicester, not to mention the fact that the festival site is close to the city centre. But don’t forget, early bird tickets are on sale until the end of March, so snap them up while you can…and we’ll see you in Leicester!