Summer Sundae's theme embraces the spirit of adventure

This summer's Summer Sundae Weekender has announced that this year they will be embracing the spirit of adventure and transforming the festival site into a wild landscape as they take festival goers 'On Safari'.

The Summer Sundae Safari theme extends to a new music venue complete with two stages - The Watering Hole and Into the Wild. More details concerning 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.

The festival reveals, "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. For this year only, The Garden will be transformed into a Jungle, densely packed with a full of range of interactive delights and a Bandstand Stage with storytelling, poetry and theatre as well as musical performances. As usual there will also be plenty of activities for cheeky monkeys and their families in The Garden and also in The Kidzone.

"Connect with your wild side and discover your animal spirit be it as a roaring lion, a majestic gazelle, an imperial elephant or a cackling hyena. All are welcome in our Safari Park and fancy dress is most definitely encouraged!

" 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. From Dusk 2 Dawn will be leading a special Secret Safari across the site. You'll have to locate them through the madness or catch them on twitter and facebook to get involved."

The line-up for the weekend of Friday 17th until Sunday 19th August 2012 includes Adam Ant & The Good The Bad & The Lovely Posse, Akala, Asian Dub Foundation, Billy Bragg Celebrates Woody Guthrie's 100th Birthday, The Black Seeds, Cashier No 9, Clean Bandit, Dan Mangan, Datarock, Death In Vegas, Django Django, Dog Is Dead, Francois And The Atlas Mountains, Friends, Ghostpoet, Gold Panda, Goodnight Lenin, Grace Petrie, Hey Sholay, Hip Hop Shakespeare, Jack Beats, Jonathan Richman, Juan Zelada, Katy B, Lazy Lester And Friends, Lewis Floyd Henry, Lianne La Havas, Lucy Rose, The Magic Tombolinos, Maybeshewill, Ocean Colour Scene, Olugbenga (Metronomy Dj), Patrick Wolf, Public Image Limited, Rachel Sermanni, Reverend And The Makers, Stay+, Sway, Team Me, Tim Edey And Brendan Power, Tune-Yards, The Twilight Sad, Uncle Frank, Willy Mason, and Y Niwl. For the line-up details as available please click here.

More acts will be announced next week!

The event at De Montfort Hall, Leicester offers a civilised and relaxed atmosphere, an unwavering ethical standpoint, high production values, a quality range of foods from around the world, 20 cask ales and a mean line in cocktails (all reasonably priced) at four bars throughout the site, not to mention stalls, and high calibre comedy.

An adult weekend ticket is priced at £105. A young person (14-17 years) ticket is priced at £70 for the weekend. A child (aged 5-13 years) ticket is priced at £35, and under 5s go for free.

There's an additional cost for camping tickets which are per person, not per tent. An adult camping ticket is priced at £10, a young person's camping ticket is priced at £7, a child camping ticket is free, and camper vans and caravans tickets are priced at £40 (maximum 5 people).

To buy tickets, click here.

Latest Updates