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Summer Sundae will not return in 2014
By Andy Malt | Published on Friday 6 September 2013
Leicester-based festival Summer Sundae will not return in 2014, having not taken place this year either.
As previously reported, organisers announced in December last year that they were taking a year off “to look at different models and fresh ideas to bring the festival back for 2014 and beyond”. However, yesterday it was announced that 2014 would also see no Summer Sundae.
The festival’s Director, Coda’s Rob Challice, told the BBC: “Running a city centre event of this size with such an array of entertainment and professional production standards is just not possible in the current economic climate. We have been thinking about this for the last year or two – but it is the financial reality of trying to run a festival in a city centre with the standard of performers we have set. We couldn’t fall behind and produce a sub-standard event”.
Anthony Flint, manager of De Montfort Hall, where the festival has previously taken place, said: “No one takes this sort of decision lightly – the festival has always needed a subsidy from the city council – but the landscape has changed and it is a case of adapting to that reality”.
