Some of you may have heard about Sheffield’s annual music festival Tramlines. It’s now in it’s fifth year, and for just £6 a day from the 19th – 21st July you can access around 70 venues across the city hosting 100’s of musicians from all genres.
There was some controversy over the festival charging at all, as it’s usually completely free but due to the council’s funding cuts of around £30 million overall, they had no choice but to charge a small amount in order for the festival to run.
After last year having the likes of 
Alt-J and We Are Scientists, the excitement is building for the locals of Sheffield to find out who they have lined up for 2013.
Today they have announced the first set of acts as you can see in the poster, and the rest of the lineup so far can be found here.
The lineup so far features Duke Dumont, who are currently in the charts at number 4 with their single with A.M.E, ‘Need U’, which 3 weeks ago entered the top 40 at number 1.
A lot of the acts are only just becoming known in the music scene so if you haven’t heard of many, it could be worth checking them out because this time last year that’s where Alt-J were; and now look at them.
So if you’re into the festival scene but your student budget isn’t allowing you to attend the likes of Glastonbury or Leeds, then get yourselves back to Sheffield for Tramlines. Half of the festival fun is about the drunken antics with your friends, so presuming you have your student accommodation for over the summer it’ll work out to be a fun and cheap way to do something different with your weekend, as well as discovering some new music.
To keep up to date with new announcements and ticket information, follow them on their twitter page: @tramlines.
Shuffle 
it is actually pretty decent, there is also other things to look out for. I went into like a break dancing b-boy comp that was going off that started hidden away in basement and then went to one of the stages. Good read, and the site is looking awesome!
Oh really that sounds awesome, if I go i’ll definitely have to keep an eye out for the other stuff going on then! and thank you! 🙂