You can win Shropshire Festival Gigs at OsFest as Live and Unsigned confirm Osfest as a festival partner for the Live & Unsigned 2012 competition. 

The popular festival takes place on 1st-4th June 2012 in Oswestry, Shropshire. Headline acts for 2011 included massive acts such as Example, The Feeling, Tinchy Stryder, and Goldie Lookin’ Chain, as well as Live and Unsigned Tour favourites Missing Andy and Paradise Point. 

Shropshire Festival Gigs 

Each year OsFest receives thousands of requests from unsigned acts from around the region and across the UK applying to play at the festival, but spaces are always limited. So for this Spring’s festival OsFest is once again working in conjunction with the Live and Unsigned competition to find four acts to play at the renowned event. Acts will be chosen from the live showcase finals to play a slot at OsFest and the lucky winners will take to the stage in front of a crowd of thousands of music lovers at the biggest Shropshire Festival.

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At last year’s festival Live and Unsigned acts Arcade Parade, Lucy Spraggan and The Trinity Band were all selected as winners to  perform at Osfest. The Trinity Band eventually went on to win the competition. 

Chris Grayston, Managing Director of Live and Unsigned said, 'OsFest 2011 was such a smash-hit that we simply had to get them on board for 2012. Last year’s overall winners and runners up performed at OsFest 2011 and got great reviews, it really opened doors for them and we’re hoping for the same level of success in 2012!’ 

Live & Unsigned is the UK's biggest unsigned music competition for original unsigned bands and artists 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 want festival gigs for 2012 click here to check out all the festival partners for Live and Unsigned 2012