It’s only a week until the second Tramlines Festival hits Sheffield, which deserves a big fat plug. It starts about teatime on Friday the 23rd July, runs until Sunday night and this year it’s massive with over 50 venues involved. Echo and the Bunnymen are headlining on Sunday, who I’ve been wanting to catch them for a very long time, and I’m looking forward to Eliza Doolittle on the Devonshire Green stage too (I’ll make my getaway before Oly Murs though).
There are shedloads of great Sheffield acts on too and I’ll be spending most of my time watching them (I don’t get out to half enough local gigs these days). La Folie, Hiem, Little Glitches, Violet May, Shake Aletti and Smokers Die Younger all need checking out, and they’re just part of the huge programme.
It’s going to be a great weekend of good music and random wanderings. Sheffield may have missed out on becoming the first UK City of Culture but stuff like this really shows why it was nominated.
More info here: http://www.tramlines.org.uk/
Edit: I forgot to mention that the whole thing is free!
