Drum roll please for the 2009 Summer Sundae videocast! Big thank you to Stuart Silver, who produced and directed the film, to our presenters Mark Grist and Mixy, and to everyone who agreed to take part. We’re really pleased with this year’s video, even if we do say so ourselves – it’s choc-full of snippets of the best bits of music and spoken word, festival vibes and genuine thumbs-up audience feedback. Enjoy!
Summer Sundae’s over for another year, but we’re still on a high. What a fantastic weekend! Not only did the weather do us proud, more importantly we had a really great programme of artists this year and the quality was awesome. A real highlight was the four commissioned pieces – all the artists raised the bar this year and produced some amazing work. Beth Jeans Houghton and Ross Sutherland also proved particularly popular with festival-goers, according to feedback to date from the e-festivals forum.
We had lots of great audience contributions to the Phrased & Confused tent, in the form of workshops with some of our poets, and fridge poems a-go-go. Check back here soon for more video and photos but in the meantime here are our daily Summer Sundae Podcasts from the festival stage which should give you a flavour of what we got up to. Check out Joshua Idehen falling through his chair in Episode 1 (we’ll be sending it in to You’ve Been Framed!)
Want to get a preview of the delights of this year’s Phrased & Confused tent at Summer Sundae? Well, for a mere £4, you can! This Thursday, 13th August, we’re promoting a whole evening of spoken word and music as part of Leicester’s ‘Fringe Thursday’ – the Summer Sundae warm-up party.
You can find us at The Hind, Leicester from 8pm. More details on the venue here
Summer Sundae Fringe Events will be happening at nine venues around the city with open-top buses running on a loop between them. A Fringe Festival wristband is required to utilise the bus service (priced at only £4, including access to the bus)
Tickets are available from: Firebug (Millstone Lane), Donkey (Welford Road) Rockaboom (St Martins Square) and DMH Box office (0116 233 3111). All money raised will be going to Leicester and Rutland Hospice LOROS.
One of the highlights of this year’s Phrased & Confused festival tent will be a solo set on Friday afternoon by mega talented singer-songwriter Jeremy Warmsley – underground hero of London’s new-folk scene. He’s a complete natural when it comes to classic songwriting with an edgy and experimental twist.
For his P&C set Jeremy will be taking requests from the audience, including covers, so if you’ve got any suggestions let us know now and we’ll pass them on to him!
Nine days and counting until this year’s Summer Sundae. We’re still holding out for sun but what the heck, we’re in a tent, we’ve got a fantastic line-up and four brand new never-been-heard-before pieces. We’re excited, oh yes.
What’s more, if you’re the kind of person who likes to prepare well for your festival experience and plot when your not-to-be-missed artists are performing you can download the stage times for this year’s Phrased & Confused stage by clicking here. Or visit our festival page for more information on the artists.
Check out the lovely videocast of Beth Jeans Houghton courtesy of the Observer Music Monthly here. They think she’s a rising star and so do we - she’ll be appearing on the Phrased & Confused stage at Summer Sundae on Saturday 15 August.
Skint & Demoralised and Byron Vincent are the latest acts to be confirmed for Phrased & Confused’s festival tent at the Summer Sundae Weekender (August 14-16).
Byron is your perfect festival poet. Not only does he look as if he’s fallen out of the Arctic Monkeys’ tour bus, his poems and performances contain just the right mix of self-deprecating humour and poignancy.
Meanwhile, Skint & Demoralised blend with seemingly effortless ease John Cooper Clarke-inspired poetry with Beach Boys pop sensibilities to joyous effect. Enjoy!
After working through some 75 proposals from poets around the country, we’re really pleased to announce that we’ve commissioned Joshua Idehen, Sifundo & Jamal Msebele, Hannah Silva & Alexis Kirke and Sound of Rum to create new material for the Phrased & Confused stage at Summer Sundae Weekender (14-16 August 2009). Find out more about them and their work here.
Yay! We’re excited to be heading back to Leicester’s finest music festival this August, where we’ll be pitching our tent and dishing up our signature blend of poems, songs, conversations and the not-to-be missed Fridge Poetry. Oh yes.
So what delights do we have in store for you this year? So far the line-up includes Beth Jean Houghtons, Woodpigeon, Jeremy Warmsley, Joshua Idehen, Inua Ellams, Sound of Rum, Francesca Beard, Salena Godden, Ross Sutherland, Tamsin Kendrick, Stephanie Leal and John Osborne. More programming announcements to come, including our new commissions but it’s already shaping up to be one of our best-ever line-ups!
Want to get a preview of the delights of this year’s Phrased & Confused tent at Summer Sundae? Well, for a mere £4, you can! This Thursday, 13th August, we’re promoting a whole evening of spoken word and music as part of Leicester’s ‘Fringe Thursday’ – the Summer Sundae warm-up party.
One of the highlights of this year’s Phrased & Confused festival tent will be a solo set on Friday afternoon by mega talented singer-songwriter Jeremy Warmsley – underground hero of London’s new-folk scene. He’s a complete natural when it comes to classic songwriting with an edgy and experimental twist.
Nine days and counting until this year’s Summer Sundae. We’re still holding out for sun but what the heck, we’re in a tent, we’ve got a fantastic line-up and four brand new never-been-heard-before pieces. We’re excited, oh yes.
Check out the lovely videocast of Beth Jeans Houghton courtesy of the Observer Music Monthly 
