Apple have announced that more than two million people have applied for tickets for next month’s iTunes Festival in London.
“We’ve already had over 2 million tickets applied for, at an average of 100,000 every day,” says Oliver Schusser, senior director of iTunes Europe. “This year’s iTunes Festival is looking like our most popular ever and we can’t wait for the Scissor Sisters to kick it off in three weeks time.”
Out of these two million people there are only 60,000 tickets for teh 31-night gigfest, which takes place at the Roudhouse in Camden. Key artists include Scissor Sisters and Faithless.
You should by now be thinking of how you’re going to manage your band’s triumphant rise to fame over the Festival Season next summer. To make things a little easier for you, we thought we’d collect together the contact details of a few of the major ones here:
Bestival (Isle of Wight)
Download this form: http://media.sundaybest.net/media/BESTIVAL_2010_DEMO_ENTRY_FORM_FOR_BANDS.doc
and email it back to demos@bestival.net
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City Showcase
A London based talent competition during May that doesn’t really fit into the festival bracket, but would still be a good platform to get some publicity for your band. More details here:
http://www.cityshowcase.co.uk/
And an application form here:
http://www.sonicbids.com/Opportunity/OpportunityView.aspx?opportunity_id=16617
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Download Festival – Live Nation
info@downloadfestival.co.uk
Live Nation (Music) UK Ltd
2nd Floor, Regent Arcade House,
19-25 Argyll Street,
London, W1F 7TS.
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Endorse it in Dorset
Born from a birthday party in a barn, this growing festival is now in it’s seventh year, definitely worth checking out for it’s friendly, grungy vibe. Held over the weekend of 7th-9th August, near Sixpenny Handley
Contact lamma@lgofestivals.com or flounder@lgofestivals.com with a link to your band’s music online somewhere.
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Glastonbury
Glastonbury are running their ‘Emerging Talent Competition’ again this year – to enter, get two tracks ready to upload to their competition visit this page:
http://www.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk/news/2010-emerging-talent-competition-launches
and be prepared to perform at a number of auditions.
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Great Escape Festival
We mentioned this Brighton beach fest a couple of days back, but here’s the link again:
http://www.escapegreat.com/artistregistration/
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Leeds/Reading
Their official submissions program isn’t open yet, but you can pester them at:
info@festivalrepublic.com
or by sending a demo to:
FESTIVAL REPUBLIC LIMITED
2ND FLOOR, REGENT ARCADE HOUSE
19-25 ARGYLL STREET
LONDON
W1F 7TS
Company No. 02948536
FESTIVAL REPUBLIC LIMITED
2ND FLOOR, REGENT ARCADE HOUSE
19-25 ARGYLL STREET
LONDON
W1F 7TS
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Lovebox
A recent arrival in London’s calendar, this year’s lineup is rumoured to include the fabulous Fat Freddy’s Drop – if you fancy treading the boards with them, apply here:
talent@loveboxlondon.com
(They’ve also set up applications via Sonicbids)
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Red Stripe Music Awards
Not a tents in a muddy field number, this, more a kind of Nationwide, multi venue festival. Last year’s competition was won by Ben Howard, a young man from our neck of the woods who’s gone on to support Jason Mraz and Fink. Apply for this years competition here:
http://www.redstripe.net/rsma/
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T in the Park
All the way up in Scotland, this one. Again official applications aren’t open yet, but you can get in ahead of the crowd by mailing demos to this address:
BIG DAY OUT LTD
PO BOX 25241
GLASGOW
G2 5XS
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V Festival
Across two venues, Chemsford and Staffordshire, this is one of the big mainstream festivals – more people means more competition for slots, but more exposure if you get lucky…
hello@vfestival.com
Billing itself as “Europe’s leading festival for new music” Brighton’s 3 day festival in May has just opened its artist registration page, hoping to attract new bands to play at their May 2010 event. While we can’t agree with their recommendation that you sign up with Zimbalam for your digital distribution needs, we do recommend that you give yourself every chance of getting on stage at as many festivals as possible next year!
