Want to play at the London Festivals in 2012? London Summer Jam (LSJ) have teamed up with  Live and Unsigned, giving unsigned bands and acts the chance to play summer festivals in London at the London Summer Jam as part of the Live & Unsigned 2012 competition!

London Summer Jam is a grassroots up festival in London focused on creating and enjoying great music, playing instruments, sing-alongs, workshops, and jams. It is the amazing feeling of making your own music, singing along, and meeting fun-loving, like-minded people. Create great music in our core areas including stages, electric & acoustic jam cites, open mics, and workshops. #LSJ is about experiencing pure passion for music. It’ll be all around you and within you. London Summer Jam, September 2012, is a great post Olympic festival in London. Join the fans, bands and solo artists enjoying new music at #LSJ.

 London Festivals Gig

Year on year London festivals like LSJ receive thousands of requests from unsigned acts from around the region and across the UK applying to play gigs, but spaces are always limited. So for the debut event, London Summer Jam have joined forces with the Live and Unsigned competition to give festival gigs to four acts to perform at the award winning festival! The lucky winners will be chosen from the London Regional Finals to play a slot at the London festival, as well as the overall winner!

LSJ seeks in a very fun way to allow access to music with its "join in" nature making it easy to meet new likeminded people. It will appeal to 18 years old and over who are fun loving and like to have a go at things, like our workshops and jams and to people who like listening to and making great music it will be a great event with fantastic memories.

Win Festival Slots at London Summer Jam

Quincy Prescott, Festival Director: London Summer Jam, had this to say; "London Summer Jam welcomes partners who, like us, support the next generation of music; Live and Unsigned is a great example of this. They provide tremendous prizes, esteemed judges, post-competition promotion and more, allowing original music artists an amazing opportunity to shine. It's outstanding what everyone at Live and Unsigned is doing, and we at #LSJ are proud to support them."

 Live & Unsigned is the biggest unsigned music competition for original unsigned bands and artists in the UK. It offers the winning act the chance to play at The O2 in London alongside some of the UK's best musicians as well as £100,000 in prizes, including an additional new main cash prize of £10,000 for the winning act to spend on development.

Auditions will begin in January 2012 and all acts in the competition are auditioned live. Acts that make it through the audition stage will get to perform to industry judges, A & R associates and celebrity guests. Judging last year’s competition and hopefully set to join the panel again in 2012 include Radio 1 DJ’s Annie Nightingale, Ras Kwame, Tom Deacon and Daniel P Carter, Kerrang’s Alex Baker and Happy Mondays star Bez.

If you are interested in playing the best festivals in London and beyond in 2012, click here to check out all the festival partners for Live and Unsigned 2012.