Play 10 Festivals in 2012!

Live and Unsigned today have announced that the winner of the 2012 competition will be playing Glass Butter Beach festival in August...by our counts that makes 10 festivals for the winner to play, and 30 festival partners across the regions for Live and Unsigned acts to perform as part of the Live and Unsigned festival tour 2012......sounds like a dream!

The winner of Live and Unsigned 2012 is scheduled to play; Glass Butter Beach, Bingley Music Live, Norfolk Spectacular, Boardmasters, Strawberry Fields Festival, Brownstock, ButserFest, Just So Festival, London Summer Jam and Lancaster Music Festival. (These festival slots are subject to genre suitability and dates.)

Yes you counted right, that makes 10 UK Festivals SO FAR (with 30 Festival partners across the regions too in the Live and Unsigned festival tour 2012)! That list is hopefully set to increase over the next couple of weeks, and it will also include an additional international festival. Add that to the £10,000 pound cash prize and there can be NO DOUBT that this act is going to have the summer of their lives!

Glass Butter Beach 2012

Glass Butter Beach, is an annual surf, wake, BMX, skate and music festival held in Llanbedrog near Abersoch, Gwynedd, North Wales

Glass Butter Beach is a festival playground of tranquil proportions. Flat grassy fields raised up from the beach that sits a 2 minute walk below. Great festival moments embrace you with open air & tented stages and a whole host of other magical entertainments, while the festival campsite boasts views like no other; Cardigan Bay, Snowdonia Mountains and the festivals very own beach.

In 2011 Glass Butter Beach saw such acts as Rizzle Kicks, Benjamin Francis Leftwich, Goldierocks, Aswad and a whole other eclectic mix of established and up-and-coming artists over three stages. This has led to the organisers being inundated with requests from signed and unsigned bands alike to perform at their 2012 event.

Mark Durston, CEO of Sensation Live who run Glass Butter Beach says; "Glass Butter Beach are stoked to welcome the winning band to the 2012 line-up. As an avid supporter of unsigned acts who deserve national festival exposure, we jumped at the chance to secure a set at GBB.12 for the winner of such a credible accolade as Live and Unsigned."

The Competition

Live & Unsigned is the biggest unsigned music competition for original unsigned bands and artists in the UK. It offers the finalists the chance to play at The O2 in London alongside some of the UK's best musicians at Live Fest, London’s biggest indoor festival. There’s also £100,000 worth of prizes to be won, 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 of 2012, including Wales festival Glass Butter Beach 2012, click here to check out all the festival partners for Live and Unsigned 2012.