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!)

P&C at Summer Sundae, Podcast Episode 1:

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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.

And we’ve got an awesome line-up showcasing the very best of this year’s Phrased & Confused Stage, including Sound of Rum, Salena Godden and the Book Club Boutique, Ross Sutherland, Mark n Mixy, Lorna Meehan and Mr Plow.

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.