Tramlines: Sheffield annual festival announces headliners

Richard Ashcroft, The Courteeners and the Kaiser Chiefs have been announced as performing at the Sheffield festival

Richard Ashcroft, The Courteeners and the Kaiser Chiefs are to join Paul Heaton and Jacqui Abbott at this year's Tramlines, it has been announced.

The Sheffield festival, now in its 15th year, will see dozens of acts perform over three days between 21 and 23 July.

Last year, 100,000 people attended the event, which has now grown to include comedy shows as well as music.

Operations director Timm Cleasby said: "This year's line-up is a cracker, with some awesome names."

Richard Ashcroft, who was part of the band The Verve, is to headline the Friday evening, while The Courteeners are on the main stage on the Saturday evening.

Paul Heaton and Jacqui Abbott, previously of The Beautiful South, are to close the festival on Sunday night.

Paul Heaton and Jacqui Abbott are probably best known as being part of the band The Beautiful South

The Courteeners played the main stage at the festival in 2019

Across the weekend, Bloc Party, Blossoms, Kate Nash, Katy B, Beabadoobee, Kaiser Chiefs and the Sugababes are all due to appear.

Regular Tramlines bookings and Sheffield bands the Everly Pregnant Brothers and Reverend and the Makers also feature.

Since beginning in 2009, the event has grown from a free inner-city festival for 35,000 in the city centre, to a larger site at Hillsborough Park, capable of hosting 120,000 people across the weekend.