Tramlines announces first bands for 2017

Sheffield’s annual, ludicrously cheap weekender Tramlines returns this July headed by The Libertines, who top a diverse line-up spanning everything from classic indie and nostalgic pop to rising South London rap and Syrian electro.

Returning for 2017 as an exclusively outdoor event, this year’s festival ditches the previous multi-venue set-up in favour of stages set in three of the city's parks, with the main stage based in Ponderosa Park and another two in Devonshire Green and Endcliffe Park.

Joining Doherty and co. are electro-pop pleasurists Metronomy, revived 90s/00s girl band All Saints, classic Californian hip hop heads The Pharcyde, Wirral five-piece The Coral, Glaswegian alt-rockers Twin Atlantic, Syrian singer-songwriter Omar Souleyman and ska and reggae legends Toots and The Maytals.

Also on the bill are Welsh singer-songwriter Cate Le Bon, American indie-rockers We Are Scientists, hip hop artist and poet Akala, New Orleans' Hot 8 Brass Band, rising South London rapper Nadia Rose, Glasgow R'n'B duo Bossy Love and DJ, musician and film-maker Don Letts also feature on the bill, along with hotly-tipped Loyle Carner, the Croydon rapper who's just dropped debut album Yesterday's Gone.

Spring King, Cabbage, Alvarez Kings, Fizzy Blood and John Joseph Brill are also among those representing the best of the rising names from the North.

With early bird and first release tickets all snapped up, second release weekend tickets are now on sale at £38 here.

The festival organisers are also the team behind Outlines, the multi-venue festival – also in Sheffield – which launched last year to provide a platform to breaking talent from across a range of genres. Returning for its second year on 3 and 4 March with headliners Jagwar Ma, you can find out more from our news story.

Various venues in Sheffield city centre
Fri 21-Sun 23 July
www.tramlines.org.uk

Full line-up:

Akala, All Saints, Alvarez Kings, Blaenavon, Bossy Love, Cabbage, Cate Le Bon, Don Letts, Estrons, Fizzy Blood, Goat Girl, Jalen N’Gonda, John Joseph Brill, Loyle Carner, Lucy Spraggan, M.O, Metronomy, Mike Hughes, Nadia Rose, Omar Souleyman, Sheffield’s Sgt Pepper Project, Spring King, The Age of Luna, The Coral, The Libertines, The Magic Gang, The Pharcyde, The Wharves, Toots and The Maytals, Twin Atlantic, We Are Scientists, Yorkston Thorne Khan