UK festival Awards nominations in full
UK Festival Awards nominations out
The UK Festival Awards, which take place at the O2 Indigo, have announced their list of final nominations. The showcase event for UK and European festivals takes place on the 30th October and will be preceeded with the first ever UK Festivals Conference, presented by the UK Festival Awards team, Virtual Festivals, A Greener Festival, Buckinghamshire New University and Yourope, the European festival organisers association and will be held at the Gibson Guitar Studios in central London with a keynote speech from Julies Bicycle’s director, Al Tickell. And the nominees are ….
Best Major Festival: Creamfields, Download, Glastonbury, Global Gathering, Isle of Wight Festival, Leeds Festival, Reading Festival, T In The Park, V Festival Chelmsford, V Festival Staffs.
Best Medium Sized Festival: Beautiful Days, Bestival, Glade, Hydro Connect, Latitude, Lovebox Weekender, Rock Ness, The Big Chill, The Wickerman Festival, Wakestock (Abersoch).
Best Small Festival: 2000 Trees, Beach Break Live, Cambridge Folk Festival, End Of The Road Festival, Indie Track Festival, Larmer Tree Festival, Secret Garden Party, Standon Calling, Strummercamp, Summer Sundae Weekender.
Best Dance Festival: Creamfields, Dance Island, Escape Into The Park, Glade Festival, Global Gathering, Run To The Sun Festival, South West Four, Waveform Festival.
Best Line-up: Bestival, End Of The Road Festival, Glastonbury Festival, Isle Of Wight Festival, Latitude, Lovebox, Reading Festival, T In The Park, The Big Chill, V Festival Chelmsford.
Best New Festival: Beachdown Festival, Bearded Theory, Camp Bestival, Festibelly, Hop Farm Festival, Offset Festival, The Limetree Festival, The Magic Loungeabout, The Mighty Boosh Festival, Wakestock (Blenheim Palace).
Grass Roots Festival, Beautiful Days, Belladrum Tartan Heart Festival, Big Session, End Of The Road Festival, Kendal Calling, Knockengorroach - World Ceilidh, Loopallu, Off The Tracks, Wickerman Festival, WOMAD.
The Greener Festival Award: Big Session, Cambridge Folk Festival, The Glade, Glastonbury, Latitude, T-in-the-Park, Summer Sundae, Shambala, Workhouse and Waveform.
Family Festival Award: Beautiful Days, Camp Bestival, Fairport’s Cropredy Convention, Greenbelt, Guilfest, Larmer Tree Festival, Solfest, Summer Sundae Weekender, Weyfest, Wychwood Festival.
Best Toilets: Aeon Festival, Festinho, Greenbelt, Larmer Tree Festival, Nozstock, Secret Garden Party, Standon Calling, Strummercamp, The Big Chill, Y-Not Festival.
Best European Festival: Castlepalooza (Ireland); Creamfields Romania (Romania); EXIT (Serbia); Festival Dello Stretto (Italy); FIB Benicassim (Spain); Gurtenfestival (Switzerland); Heineken Open-er (Poland); HOVE Festivalen (Norway); Lowlands (Netherlands); Open Air St.Gallen (Switzerland); Oxegen (Ireland); Roskilde (Denmark); Snowbombing (Austria); Spirit of Burgas (Bulgaria); Tignes Fest (France).
Festival Headline Act: Kings Of Leon, Metallica, Muse, Rage Against The Machine, The Verve.
Festival Rock Act: Biffy Clyro, Bloc Party, Bullet For My Valentine, Elbow, The Raconteurs.
Festival Dance Act: Groove Armada, Hot Chip, Pendulum, The Chemical Brothers, The Prodigy.
Festival Pop Act: Duffy, Girls Aloud, Scouting For Girls, The Ting Tings, Will Young.
Festival Feel-Good Act: Eddy Grant, Neil Diamond, Seasick Steve, Tenacious D, The Mighty Boosh.
Festival Urban Act: Dizzee Rascal, Estelle, N*E*R*D, Roots Manuva, The Streets.
Best Live Newcomer: Duffy, Glasvegas, MGMT, The Ting Tings, Vampire Weekend.
Anthem Of The Summer: Dizzee Rascal feat, Calvin Harris - Dance Wiv Me, MGMT - Time To Pretend, Noah And The Whale - 5 Years Time, The Ting Tings - That’s Not My Name, The Verve - Love Is Noise.