Tramlines Festival 2016

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Hi guys,

Hope you're well.

 

With Tramlines 2016 just around the corner, we thought we'd post up all the info about this year's event. See you soon!

 

Tramlines, the UK’s biggest inner-city music festival, returns for an eighth year on Friday 22 July and runs until Sunday 24 July, with a bigger and better music programme than ever before.

 

Appearing at the 2016 event are Dizzee Rascal, Catfish and the Bottlemen, Jurassic 5, Kelis, George Clinton Parliament Funkadelic, The Dandy Warhols, Mystery Jets, Gaz Coombes, Dawn Penn, Crazy P Soundsystem, Goldie, Craig Charles, Public Service Broadcasting, Field Music, Little Simz, The Enemy, Norman Jay MBE, Toddla T, Young Fathers, David Rodigan, Basement, Kate Jackson, Big Narstie, LEVELZ and loads more.

 

Joining them on this stellar line up are over 200 local acts, touring bands and international talent which makes Tramlines a destination festival for fans of cutting-edge music across a whole range of genres. By day, it’s a place to discover the best in live music across the outdoor stages and live music venues, spanning hip-hop, indie, electronica, reggae and more. By night, Tramlines takes over the city’s clubs and warehouses, offering up a wide selection of all-things-electronic, from house to hip-hop and drum and bass to techno, all night long.

 

Tramlines attracts 100,000 people over the three day festival, turning Sheffield into one massive festival site, creating a feel and atmosphere that rivals any greenfield festival site. It is the previous winner of Best Metropolitan Festival at the UK Festival Awards and was shortlisted for the Best Small Festival award by NME.

 

18 of Sheffield’s music venues and performance spaces will be pulling out the stops staging hundreds of artists across the city. The 17,500 capacity Main Stage returns to Ponderosa Park while Stage Two will now reside in the o2 Academy. Elsewhere, the Folk Forest stage, the 500-capacity Cathedral and Sheffield’s City Hall, amongst others, will be home to some of the most exciting artists around.

 

There'll be an expanded dance music programme at night time venues - Fusion, Foundry and The Octagon, Hope Works, Plug, The Night Kitchen, Yellow Arch, Code and the o2 Academy, featuring flawless DJ sets and live MC performances, from Randall, DJ Hype, MC Coco, Cut Chemist, Robert Hood Presents Floorplan, My Nu Leng & Dread MC, Greg Wilson, Fleetmac Wood and Leon Vynehall, to name just a few.

 

Tramlines is more than just great music. Discover an array of street theatre on Barkers Pool, breakdancing battles and spray-can art at the Peace Gardens' Community World Stage, woodcraft and free yoga sessions, plus free family entertainment at the Weston Park party, as well as the brand-new film programme at the Showroom Cinema.

 

All this is available for just £42 (+ bf) for a weekend ticket. To stay for the official closing parties on Sunday night, it’s an extra £5 (+ bf).

Festival Director Sarah Nulty commented:

 

“Sheffield is an amazing city with a wealth of musical talent. We aim to bring a mix of our favourite up-and-coming artists and pioneering and iconic national and international artists to the festival and are proud of this year's fantastic, diverse line¬up.

“We pride ourselves on being the most competitively priced music festival out there. Tramlines is all about giving an opportunity to experience great music in Sheffield, a city that has played a pivotal role in every era of contemporary music.”

 

With an impressive music programme over three days, Tramlines 2016 is expected to attract fans from across the UK.

Weekend tickets at £42 plus booking fee can be purchased from http://tramlines.gigantic.com/

 

Under 12s go free; see the website for more details.

For up-to-the-minute information about Tramlines 2016 and for more info on the artists playing visit http://www.tramlines.org.uk or follow Tramlines on Twitter @tramlines

 

Let us know if there's any questions you have.

 

Many thanks

[chrisblor]

It's far too expensive now and the line-up is incredibly underwhelming this year. Much preferred it when the stages were outside the City Hall and on Dev Green, it didn't cost loads of money and there were actually interesting alternative bands on the bill (e.g. Future of the Left, Charli XCX, Hookworms, 65daysofstatic, Wolf Alice, iLiKETRAiNS, Bo Ningen, Tall Ships etc.) rather than boring ones who've already played at the Harley in the last few months.

 

The only way i'd consider attending is if the line-up was more like The Great Escape in Brighton who manage to put together a much more interesting bill at a roughly similar ticket price.

[Hambeast]

Ah its the weekend where everyone in Sheffield pretends to like rubbish guitar bands for a few days.

[DnAuK]

Ah its the weekend where everyone in Sheffield pretends to like rubbish guitar bands for a few days.

 

Struggling to equate Dizzee Rascal and Kelis as 'rubbish guitar bands' here... No douby there will be a few on the fringe. Although I still maintain the best I saw last year, by complete happy accident of being in the wrong place at the right time, were PerfectParachutePicture. You would not believe so much sound could come out of bass guitar and drums only.

[goldenfleece]

It's far too expensive now and the line-up is incredibly underwhelming this year. Much preferred it when the stages were outside the City Hall and on Dev Green, it didn't cost loads of money and there were actually interesting alternative bands on the bill (e.g. Future of the Left, Charli XCX, Hookworms, 65daysofstatic, Wolf Alice, iLiKETRAiNS, Bo Ningen, Tall Ships etc.) rather than boring ones who've already played at the Harley in the last few months.

 

Not been a decent band since Echo and the Bunnymen back in 2009 was it? I don't call any of the acts advertised this year as 'headliners' at all.

Edited July 21, 2016 by goldenfleece

[cocopops99]

It looks like the day tickets are sold out, been looking online today. Wanted to go on the Saturday. Reading the posts on here, looks like there are no free gigs this year. Have i got this right, can anyone confirm:huh:

[jake]

It looks like the day tickets are sold out, been looking online today. Wanted to go on the Saturday. Reading the posts on here, looks like there are no free gigs this year. Have i got this right, can anyone confirm:huh:

 

 

There's loads of free stuff going on - most pubs in/around town, the peace gardens, the small stage by the stall in Endcliffe park (the main folk forest is ticketed).

 

I want to see George Clinton - and that'd be £20/£25 to see him on his own if he was at the 02 - so I wouldn't say £36 for a weekend's music is expensive.

[paula4sheff]

If you honestly think £36 for three days of live music is 'too expensive' then clearly you're very out of touch with what gigs cost.

 

The headliners alone would charge around £30 each to see them, not to mention all the other bands. It's ridiculously cheap for what it is- and compared to other festivals. Have a look around.

 

The days of it being free were unsustainable- as it stands it's the biggest bargain for live music around- and the line-up is interesting and varied. All sorts of different music to suit most tastes.

 

By all means, spend the weekend at home. Save yourself £40-odd if you think it's too expensive. Your loss.

[Wazzock]

If you honestly think £36 for three days of live music is 'too expensive' then clearly you're very out of touch with what gigs cost.

 

The headliners alone would charge around £30 each to see them, not to mention all the other bands. It's ridiculously cheap for what it is- and compared to other festivals. Have a look around.

 

The days of it being free were unsustainable- as it stands it's the biggest bargain for live music around- and the line-up is interesting and varied. All sorts of different music to suit most tastes.

 

By all means, spend the weekend at home. Save yourself £40-odd if you think it's too expensive. Your loss.

 

It's the typical Sheffield mentality - ooh it's too dear!! etc etc etc...... fancy having to actually pay for something eh? Plenty of acts charge more than the entire tramlines weekend ticket for just one gig.

[cocopops99]

Thanks Jake for the heads up on the free stuff. I still ideally want 2 day tickets so if anyone selling theirs get in touch with me.