You could win a festival slot at one of the biggest events on the island with Live and Unsigned! Guernsey Festival has teamed up with Live and Unsigned to give one unsigned band or act from the Grand Final a slot at Guernsey Festival!
Situated on farmland known locally as ‘the Rabbit Warren’ in the parish of St Sampson on the Channel Island of Guernsey, the event will take place on 23rd and 24th June. Its hugely successful debut last year under the name The Guernsey Festival of Performing Arts resulted in the festival being shortlisted in the Best New Festival category by the UK Festival Awards. This year’s event promises to be even bigger and better than the last.
Guernsey Festival 2012
After welcoming the likes of Ocean Colour Scene, Primal Scream and Example last year, Guernsey Festival is now the biggest festival on the island. Organisers receive thousands of requests from unsigned acts from around the region and across the UK applying to play at the festival, but there just aren’t enough spaces for everyone! So for the 2012 festival, Guernsey is going to choose just one Live and Unsigned act to play their festival. The lucky act will be chosen from the Grand Finalists.
A spokesman for Guernsey Festival said; “Guernsey Festival is making many exciting additions to the scheduling this year and the inclusion of Live and Unsigned is one of those. It will be great to host a grand finalist from a national competition, judged by industry professionals, at our second festival.”
How to win a slot at Guernsey Festival 2012
Two weeks after Guernsey Festival 2012, our grand finalists will be taking to the stage at The O2. Those who make it to the Grand Final will be competing for £10,000 cash and slots at up to 11 festivals!! The winner of Live and Unsigned 2012 is so far scheduled to play at the following festivals; Glass Butter Beach, Bingley Music Live, Norfolk Spectacular, Boardmasters, Strawberry Fields Festival, Brownstock, ButserFest, Stockton Weekender, Just So Festival, London Summer Jam and Lancaster Music Festival. These festival slots are subject to genre suitability and dates.
Auditions are already well underway 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.
To get the chance to play festival slots such as Guernsey Festival, enter Live and Unsigned. For more information on Guernsey Festival, check out the festival website.
