SUMMER SUNDAE WEEKENDER 2012! DE MONTFORT HALL AND GARDENS 17^th 18^th 19^th AUGUST 2012 Presented by Coda and DMH 

Summer Sundae Weekender are delighted to announce that this year they’ll be embracing the spirit of adventure and transforming the festival site into a wild landscape for you to explore. 

Join us on 17^th, 18^th & 19^th August 2012 on the Summer Sundae Safari! Grab a drink and sample some of the finest acts in our brand new music venue complete with two stages; The Watering Hole and Into the Wild. Enter if you dare into the jaws of the main arena’s Lion’s Den, or find some shade in the De Montfort Hall’s Crocodile Lagoon. For this year only, The Garden will be transformed into a Jungle, densely packed with a full of range of interactive delights and a Bandstand Stage with storytelling, poetry and theatre as well as musical performances. As usual there will also be plenty of activities for cheeky monkeys and their families in The Garden and also in The Kidzone. 

Connect with your wild side and discover your animal spirit be it as a roaring lion, a majestic gazelle, an imperial elephant or a cackling hyena. All are welcome in our Safari Park and fancy dress is most definitely encouraged! 

Within our Safari Park will be 5 Stages of Music and Entertainment, featuring bills curated by Last FM, Drowned in Sound, The Musician, DBE & Superfly, and BBC Introducing, plus late night Comedy & Cabaret presented by the Big Difference Company, the people behind Dave’s Leicester Comedy Festival. From Dusk 2 Dawn will be leading a special Secret Safari across the site. You’ll have to locate them through the madness or catch them on twitter and facebook to get involved. Expect the unexpected! More details concerning this year’s theme, entertainment and various other unique elements that will make up the Summer Sundae Safari Site will be released over the course of the next month. 

‘An understanding of the natural world and what's in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment.’ 

Sir David Attenborough, Distinguished Honorary Fellow University of Leicester. 

The line-up so far: 

ADAM ANT & THE GOOD THE BAD & THE LOVELY POSSE, AKALA, ASIAN DUB FOUNDATION, BILLY BRAGG CELEBRATES WOODY GUTHRIE’S 100th BIRTHDAY, THE BLACK SEEDS, CASHIER NO 9, CLEAN BANDIT, DAN MANGAN, DATAROCK, DEATH IN VEGAS, DJANGO DJANGO, DOG IS DEAD, FRANCOIS AND THE ATLAS MOUNTAINS, FRIENDS, GHOSTPOET, GOLD PANDA, GOODNIGHT LENIN, GRACE PETRIE, HEY SHOLAY, HIP HOP SHAKESPEARE, JACK BEATS, JONATHAN RICHMAN, JUAN ZELADA, KATY B, LAZY LESTER AND FRIENDS, LEWIS FLOYD HENRY, LIANNE LA HAVAS, LUCY ROSE, THE MAGIC TOMBOLINOS, MAYBESHEWILL, OCEAN COLOUR SCENE, OLUGBENGA (Metronomy DJ),  PATRICK WOLF, PUBLIC IMAGE LIMITED, RACHEL SERMANNI, REVEREND AND THE MAKERS, STAY+, SWAY, TEAM ME, TIM EDEY AND BRENDAN POWER, tUnE-yArDs, THE TWILIGHT SAD, UNCLE FRANK, WILLY MASON, Y NIWL 

Plus more acts to be announced next Week! 

TICKETS: 

2012 Early Bird Tickets are now completely sold out. But full price 2012 tickets remain pegged back at 2010 prices. 

A limited number of day tickers will also be available in May. Tickets avaliable HERE

Please note that due to planned building work at Regents College, all camping for Summer Sundae 2012 will be on Victoria Park. We will still have family and quiet(er) areas at this campsite.