MICACHU AND THE SHAPES / MAN LIKE ME / JAPANDROIDS / BETH ROWLEY / THE STAVES / BASTILLE / HER NAME IS CALLA / CHARLEE DREW / VOWS / COWBOY / BELLAWAVE

Plus joining us this year for the Acoustic Cafe on the Watering Hole Stage are:

SIOBHAN MAZZEI / PRASH GOR / THE SIMPLETONES / THE SKUNK-BOY PROJECT

Check out the full day by day line-up here now!

These include:

THE LAUGHING HYENA LATE NIGHT COMEDY & CABARET SHOW

COMPERED ON BOTH NIGHTS BY JIMMY MCGHIE

Featuring:

RICH FULCHER / TOBY / CARLY SMALLMAN

DAVID MORGAN / JOEY PAGE / JOE BOR

& CABARET FROM:

RICHARD GARAGHTY / GORONWY THOM / JON HICKS

AND MORE!

Plus other arts & entertainments across the festival including:

FROM DUSK 2 DAWN SECRET SAFARI • THE POETRY BROTHEL • THE SUMMER SUNDAE FESTIVAL CHOIR • STORYTELLER RACHEL ROSE REID • POET TALIA RANDALL • THEATRE FROM GALLI GALLI • TWYCROSS ZOO CONSERVATION STATION • CATH KIDSTON TOUR VAN • CBBC DEADLY ART SAND SCULPTURE AND WORKSHOPS • THE ANIMAL OLYMPICS • JUNGLE FEVER TENT • GORILLA KNITTING • PEDESTRIAN GALLERY • INTERACT GALLERY • FROM DUSK 2 DAWN JAZZ ART CAR • LIVE SAFARI PHOTO SHOOT • FACE PAINTING • KIDZONE CURATED BY SPARK CHILDREN'S ART FESTIVAL • AND MUCH MUCH MORE!

See our arts & entertainments line-up page for more info.

As with our Weekend Tickets, we are pegging these back to 2010 prices, with an Adult Friday ticket costing £35, and Adult tickets for Saturday and Sunday at £45 each.

Plus this year there are discounts for Young Persons (14-17) with Friday costing £25, and Saturday and Sunday £30 each.

Also as usual we have discounted Child Tickets (5-13), this year at £12 for the Friday and £15 for the Saturday or Sunday.

Full details and tickets will be available on our ticketing page.

So be ready tomorrow at 9am as these day tickets are limited in availability and will sell fast!

More musical acts, plus arts and entertainments will be announced soon, but for now, we're happy to publish the day by day line-ups as they stand. Head over to our line-up page to have a look.

As a sneak preview for those who can't wait until next week, we're excited to reveal that the Last FM line up for Friday 17^th in our brand new venue with two stages, Into The Wild and The Watering Hole, is as follows:

SWAY/ WILLY MASON/ FRANCOIS AND THE ATLAS MOUNTAINS/ DAN MANGAN/ BOWERBIRDS/ Y NIWL/ GOODNIGHT LENIN/ CLEAN BANDIT/ TINY RUINS

Also joining this bill are the following fantastic regional acts:

ELIZABETH CORNISH/ KAPPA GAMMA/ WALTER BOTTLE

Keep your eyes peeled for announcements next week. We'll also be revealing the rest of our brilliant arts and entertainment line-up including comedy and cabaret acts!

So if you have a craft, clothes or vintage stall you'd like to bring please see our TRADERS PAGE for more details.

Applications are now open until 7th May so get yours in while you can!

SPEECH DEBELLE/ AGNES OBEL/ DEER TICK/ THE LEICESTER ALL SKA'S REGGAE BIG BAND/ LONEY DEAR/ BOWERBIRDS/ CLOCK OPERA/ THePETEBOX/ MOLOTOV JUKEBOX/ JERSEY BUDD/ LITTLE NIGHT TERRORS/ TINY RUINS

Also announced for the BBC Introducing bill are:

THESE FURROWS/ JAKE BUGG/ MAHALIA/ KENWORTHY/ BUENOS AIRES/ THE DAYDREAM CLUB/ PARK BENCH SOCIETY/ NANCY DAWKINS

These join the host of acts already announced for the festival, with more names to be released soon. Click here to see the line up so far!

Join us on the Summer Sundae Safari. Grab a drink and sample some of the finest acts in our brand new venue with two stages Into the Wild and The Watering Hole. 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…

Plus The Garden will be transformed into a Jungle, with its usual range of interactive delights and a Bandstand Stage with storytelling, poetry and theatre as well as musical performances. And as usual there will be plenty of activities for cheeky monkeys and their families here and in The Kidzone.

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 also be leading a special Secret Safari across the site. Expect the unexpected!

More details on 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. So keep your eagle eyes peeled!

Our event will happen on the night of Saturday 5th May, at the Abbey Tavern, 124 Kentish Town Road, London.

We are very excited to announce that two acts who will also be playing this year's Summer Sundae in August will be joining us for this show; the amazing Francois & the Atlas Mountains, and the lovely Team Me. Also on our bill are the powerful and unpretentious Baxter Dury and experimental rockers Zun Zun Egui.

So get your tickets here and join us for a great night of music, plus gain access to a host of other venues around Camden presenting a brilliant line-up of bands including Death In Vegas, Alabama 3 and The Futureheads.

Also joining the bill for this year's festival are: GOLD PANDA/ THE BLACK SEEDS/ GHOSTPOET/ LEWIS FLOYD HENRY/ STAY+/ TEAM ME/ DOG IS DEAD

See the line up so far here!

Tickets will then go up to full price, with an Adult Weekend costing £105 (up from £95), a Young Persons Weekend (14-17 Years) ticket costing £70 (up from £60) and a Child Weekend (5-13 Years) priced at £35 (up from £30) .

So get your discounted 2012 Early Bird tickets at 2010 prices here now while you still can!

Day tickets will be available in May this year.

OCEAN COLOUR SCENE / DEATH IN VEGAS/ ADAM ANT & THE GOOD THE MAD & THE LOVELY POSSE/ BILLY BRAGG CELEBRATES WOODY GUTHRIE'S 100th BIRTHDAY/ THE KING BLUES/ JACK BEATS/ DJANGO DJANGO/ FRIENDS/ SWAY/ UNCLE FRANK/ DATAROCK/ AKALA/ HIP HOP SHAKESPEARE/ LUCY ROSE/ THE TWILIGHT SAD/ OLUGBENGA (METRONOMY DJ)/ MAYBESHEWILL/ TIM EDEY AND BRENDAN POWER/ HEY SHOLAY/ CLEAN BANDIT

This is in addition to the host of acts already announced for the festival. You can see full details on our line-up page here.

Successful applicants will now be notified by Friday 13th April.

Our first priority is for acts based in the East Midlands (that's Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire).

Please find more details and a link to the online application form on here

The Closing date for submission is Friday the 16th March. So we will be getting back to successful applicants in April. Good Luck!

See the list below and our line-up page for more details:

PUBLIC IMAGE LIMITED/ KATY B/ tUnE-yArDs/ ASIAN DUB FOUNDATION/ REVEREND AND THE MAKERS/ WILLY MASON/ FRANCOIS AND THE ATLAS MOUNTAINS/ JONATHAN RICHMAN/ JUAN ZELADA/ LAZY LESTER AND FRIENDS/ DAN MANGAN/ RACHEL SERMANNI/ CASHIER NO 9/ GOODNIGHT LENIN/ GRACE PETRIE/ THE MAGIC TOMBOLINOS/ Y NIWL

More acts will be announced in the next month so keep checking here, and on twitter and facebook for more details!

So we've teamed up with the clever people at Cuttlefish Multimedia and Exposure Live to put together a great playlist of live tracks on a podcast which you can download for free!

All you need to do is join our brand new mailing list using the box on the left of this page to receive your free download.

Tracks on the podcast are all brilliant live performances from artists local to the festival, including Dark Dark Horse and Kenworthy.

The application form is available to download via our Trader Page under the Info Menu on the left.

Please read the terms and conditions carefully before applying and please note that applications received after the 2nd March 2012 can't be considered.

Successful applicants will be notified by 6th April 2012.

We look forward to hearing from you!

And remember to get your Early Bird tickets while you can over on our ticketing page.

Merry Christmas from all at Summer Sundae!

Tomorrow morning from 10am we will be launching our highly anticipated Early Bird tickets, which are limited in availability, so make sure you grab one while you can either from our ticketing page or by calling 0116 233 3111.

A limited number of Adult Early Bird tickets will therefore be on sale from just £95 for the weekend.

Tickets will be on sale from Tuesday 6th December so make sure you grab one while you can.

Also in response to your feedback, we have decided to bring in a special ticket for 14-17 year olds. The 'Young Persons' ticket will be priced at just £60 for an Early Bird Weekend and again is limited in availability so book early to avoid disappointment!

More info is available on our ticketing page here