The UK’s biggest inner city festival, Tramlines, returns to Sheffield for its fifth year on Friday 19 July to Sunday 21 July with a bigger and better music programme than ever before.
ed Lianne La Havas heads up the Devonshire Green Main Stage on Saturday, joined by Dutch Uncles, Friends, Lulu James and Eliza and the Bear. Jim Jones Revue, Slow Club, The Crookes, Veronica Falls, Theme Park, Peggy Sue, Teleman and Everly Pregnant Brothers have been added to the bill on Sunday with Sunday’s headliner still to be announced.
Continuing their commitment to showcasing the best up and coming talent, Tramlines has linked up with BBC Introducing. BBC Introducing supports unsigned, undiscovered and under the radar talent – two acts will open the Main Stage on Saturday.
This year Barker’s Pool will be filled with street theatre and a new stage (Stage Two) will be on Rockingham Street showcasing a mix of leftfield and alternative artists. Yet another strong line-up has been confirmed over two days including New Young Pony Club, The Invisible, 2.54, Sky Larkin, Cheatahs, Thumpers, PINS, Menace Beach, Rolo Tomassi, Tall Ships, Wet Nuns, Lemuria, TTNG and Kagoule.
Steel City DJ and producer Toddla T returns to Tramlines with an expanded dance music programme and his new Toddla T Sound concept. Moving to a bigger venue and almost doubling its capacity, the expanded Toddla T line up will include Maurice Fulton, Forgemasters, Chris Duckenfield, Theo Parrish, Stylo G, David Rodigan MBE, Dub Phizix & Strategy, Dre Skull, DJ EZ and of course Toddla T Sound.
Many acts are still to be announced for the festival which across the city will feature hundreds of artists in 60 venues including four outdoor stages. Additions already include Duke Dumont, B. Traits, Lanterns on the Lake, Alessi’s Ark and Fossil Collective
Last year’s Tramlines saw over 150,000 people turn Sheffield into one massive festival over three days, creating the feel and atmosphere that rivals any green field festival site.
Sarah Nulty, Festival Director at Tramlines said: “We are really proud of this year’s line up and I think fans will agree that we’ve come back stronger than ever. We’ve got loads more in the pipeline to announce. Every year we put on literally hundreds of acts across the whole of the city so this is just the start.
“A few changes this year, the biggest being the introduction of a one off door charge of £6 per day, but we still have loads of free music and areas for people to enjoy. We’ve increased the capacity for Toddla, added a new stage and really enhanced our fringe.
“Tramlines really is a festival like no other. We give music fans a chance to see their favourite artists for just £6 a day. I’d say we are the best value festival out there and I can’t wait for the festival weekend now – things are really gearing up.”
60 of the city's music venues and performance spaces will be pulling out the stops staging hundreds of artists across Sheffield. Devonshire Green's Main Stage and the new and improved Stage Two will be home to some of the most exciting artists around.
There will be the welcome return of the Folk Forest, the Peace Gardens' World Stage, the Buskers Bus, Street Theatre, the Weston Park party and the Blues and Ale Trail - all with line up announcements to follow.
2013 is expected to attract a greater number of fans from outside the city as it steps up another notch to become a destination event for music-lovers from across the country.
Published on 25 April 2013 by Ben Robinson
