Tuesday, 17 July 2012

Tramlines Sheffield – The Free For All Music Festival



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Tramlines sprung into life in 2009, bringing together a bunch of disparate promoters and disparate ideas. 65,000 people filled Sheffield city centre to what felt like bursting point. Music seeped from every available performance space and a sense of goodwill descended like a mist on the city. Crime rates even fell on the weekend.

By Sunday night, we knew that Sheffield would demand a return in 2010.




A year on, the festival came back, and more than doubled in size. Saturday’s attendance mushroomed from 35,000 to 65,000, redefining our definition of bursting point. In total, over the weekend Sheffield welcomed 105,000 visitors. As the festival grew, so did the performance spaces. The New Music Stage parked its wagons on Barkers Pool, 30 venues became 50 and the Blues and Ale Trail and the Tramlines Buskers Bus had their first outings.

Meanwhile, Toddla T’s showcase dance night moved from DQ to the 1,600 capacity Octagon – but still saw four-hour queues on the night!

In 2011 the event grew again, as 80,000 festival-goers hit town on Saturday and total attendances grew to 155,000. New spaces continued to crop up to cater for the growing crowds. 50 venues became 70, a Folk Forest took root at Endcliffe Park, gipsy-punk lit up Heeley City Farm and our new headline sponsor Nokia joined us in building an Unannounced Tent on the top of Fargate. The Buskers Buses doubled servicing the new Blues and Ale Stage on its second circuit.

A Best Metropolitan Festival gong at this year’s UK Festival Awards confirmed our arrival.

 

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