Last year’s Tramlines saw over 150,000 people turn Sheffield into one massive festival over three days, creating the feel and atmosphere that rivals any green field festival site. Although line-ups won’t be announced until the end of April, festival bookers have confirmed there are lots of new additions for 2013.

70 of the city’s music venues and performance spaces will be pulling out the stops staging approximately 700 artists across Sheffield. Devonshire Green’s Main Stage and the new-and-improved Stage 2 (formerly known as the New Music Stage) will be home to some of the most exciting artists around.

There’ll be an expanded dance music programme, curated once again by the one and only Toddla T, a Street Theatre area, and the welcome return of the Folk Forest, the Peace Gardens’ World Stage, the Buskers Bus, the Weston Park party and the Blues and Ale Trail.

In order to make this year’s festival possible, for the first time ever, there’ll be a £6 daily door charge to access the main stages and music venues (the ones who usually charge a fee to enter their venues).

Valuing the crowds who have made Tramlines the unique, award winning festival it is over the years, a discounted ticket offer will be available. Festival goers can sign-up to Become a Tramliner on www.tramlines.org.uk to get access to a limited number of weekend tickets, priced at just £15.00 for all three days of music. Other than this, there’ll be no presale tickets available, with all day tickets on sale on the door at the venues and stages.

Festival Director Sarah Nulty comments: “We have worked hard to deliver a fantastic diverse line-up this year and we are confident that our festival goers will support the festival with the new ticket price. We’ve kept the cost as low as possible and at just £6 a day, we know our offer makes us one of the most competitively priced festivals out there. The Become A Tramliner campaign has been designed to give something back to our loyal fans who’ve made Tramlines such a wonderful event over the years. Without them, Tramlines wouldn’t be half the fun it currently is!”

Tramliners will also be the first to hear about new additions to this year’s line-up, as well as getting access to Tramliners-only VIP ticket giveaways and competitions from artists, friends of the festival and sponsors.

A combination of factors have led to the new ticket model including the loss of Nokia as sponsor, the reduced council budget, the costs for the major venues of putting on bigger shows, and increasing safety costs relating to an ever-growing audience.

Free family entertainment will remain on offer around the city and most of the city’s pubs will be putting on a show that can also be enjoyed for free.

Check out the dates below:

11 - London Electrowerkz

12 – Leeds Brudenell Social Club

13 - Newcastle Cluny 2

14 - Liverpool Blade Factory

15 - Cardiff Undertone

16 - Southampton Joiners

Currently holed up in a studio working on new material, The 1975’s debut album will be co-produced by the band and the award-winning Mike Crossey (Arctic Monkeys, Foals).

February and May tour dates are below:

FEB

7 – Kingston – New Slang

8 – Brighton – Green Door Store

9 – Southampton – Lennons

11 – Liverpool – Shipping Forecast

12 – Middlesbrough – Mixtape @ Keys

13 – Nottingham – Bodega

14 – Chester – The Compass

15 – Preston – 53 Degrees

16 – Manchester – Deaf Institute 10pm curfew

18 – London – Borderline

MAY

22 – Newcastle – Northumbria University

23 – Sheffield – Queens Social Club

27 – Glasgow – Oran Mor

28 – Birmingham – HMV Institute Library

29 – London – Heaven

31 – Portsmouth – Wedgewood Rooms

They’re a fun rock band, reflected in almost any of their videos. Their music sounds like a mix of Arctic Monkeys and Queens Of The Stone Age, with a hint of Jack White.

The band have also released the video for their most recent single ‘Hangman’.

Taking place in Yorkshire over two days, Detestival will be entirely curated by Wet Nuns. A whole host of very special guests are set to be confirmed over the coming weeks, and the first confirmed acts for the festival can now be announced as Bo Ningen, Wolf People, Hookworms, Kult Country, John J Presley, Blood Sport, and of course Wet Nuns.

“One of the best things about being in a band, along with substandard motorway food, unimaginable inter-gig boredom, fractured relationships and soul-crushing financial sacrifice, is the opportunity to play alongside and witness other bands.

Detestival is basically an incredibly selfish opportunity for us to put on what we think is the best line up of bands in the UK, every single band performing on the weekend we have either played with or seen in the last couple of years. We adore and hate every single band with a fiery intensity, they are all far too good and talented and we hate and love them for it. Now we have created an opportunity for us to play with them all, in the city where we have honed our sloppy talent.”

Sponsored by Kraken Rum, Detestival will take place on the Easter weekend of March 30 – 31, 2013 at Sheffield’s Queen’s Social Club.

Weekend tickets for the festival are on-sale now for £14 from the following online sites; harleylive.co.uk/ticket-shop, seetickets.com, gigantic.com/harleylive,

Tickets are also available from the following outlets in Sheffield: The Harley, The Wick At Both Ends, Record Collector, HMV Sheffield, The Old Sweet Shop.

“We respect the Big Issue’s motto of ‘a hand up, not a hand out’ – so we’ll do all we can on this trip to boost the vendors sales and raise awareness of the charity’s fine work” say the band.

The band will perform at the Big Issue distribution centre, before making their way down to London, making stops along the way.

You can contact the band if you’d like them to play near you and/or if you can provide accommodation at crownsband@gmail.com.

Tour dates:

DECEMBER

13 – Glasgow

14 – Liverpool/Manchester

15/16 – Sheffield/Leeds

17 – Nottingham/Birmingham

18 – London

APRIL

23 – Newcastle – O2 Academy

24 – Sheffield – O2 Academy

25 – Birmingham – O2 Academy

26 – Nottingham – Rock City

27 – London – O2 Islington Academy

Described as their finest and most cohesive record to date, the album contains themes of machinery and linear structures.

‘I: The Weapon’ is a track from the album available for you to have a sneak preview:

The band’s UK tour dates are as follows:

JANUARY

19 – Glasgow – Ivory Blacks

20 – Sheffield – Corporation

21 – Wolverhampton – Slade Rooms

22 – London – The Garage

Tickets on sale now from the following link: http://www.ents24.com/web/artist/61714/Cult_Of_Luna.html

Again produced by GGGarth Richardson in Los Angeles, ‘Opposites’ signals the band’s growing ambition with twenty-two tracks spread across two discs. A deluxe version of ‘Opposites’ adds a DVD which contains a feature-length documentary which examines the making of the album. Fans who pre-order the album will receive the instant gratification track ‘Stingin’ Belle’, the accompanying video for which is now online.

MARCH

20 – Metro Radio Arena, Newcastle

21 – LG Arena, Birmingham

22 – Motorpoint Arena, Cardiff

23 – Motorpoint Arena, Sheffield

25 – Arena, Manchester

26 – International Centre, Bournemouth

28 – The O2, Dublin

29 – Odyssey Arena, Belfast

31 – AECC, Aberdeen

APRIL

1 – SECC, Glasgow

3 – The O2, London

For more information please visit the Biffy Clyro Website.

Tickets are priced at £12 advance in London, £11 advance in Manchester and £10 everywhere else and are available to purchase via www.kililive.com/artists/anberlin and seetickets.com.