UK FESTIVAL AWARDS 2012: SHORTLIST REVEALED
The UK Festival Awards shortlists ahve been revealed, after a record number of over half a million votes are cast.
They include Beautiful Days in Devon, Green Man and Beach Break Live in Wales, 2000Trees in Gloucestershire, Dot to Dot in Bristol and End of the Road on the Dorset/Wiltshire border.
Challenges such as extreme weather, financial losses and enegry efficiency will be firm fixtures on the agenda for this year’s UK Festival Conference 2012 where industry professionals are set to gather on Monday 3rd December at The Roundhouse, North London.
Best Major Festival
BBC Radio 1 Hackney Weekend
Bestival
Creamfields
Download
GlobalGathering
Hard Rock Calling
Isle Of Wight Festival
Reading & Leeds
T in the Park
V Festival
Best Medium-Sized Festival
Beautiful Days
Bingley Music Live
Bloodstock Open Air Festival
Camp Bestival
Green Man
Kendal Calling
Latitude
RockNess
The Secret Garden Party
Wakestock
Best Small Festival
2000trees
Beat Herder
Cambridge Rock Festival
Festival No.6
Glasgowbury
Lakefest
Strawberry Fields Festival
Wilderness
Y Not Festival
Zoo Project
Best New Festival
BBC Radio 1 Hackney Weekend
Beacons Music & Arts Festival
Eastern Electrics Festival
Festival No.6
Gathering
Lakefest
No Direction Home Festival
Over the Moon Festival
Retro Trax
Xstatic Summer Festival
Best Dance Event
BBC Radio 1 Hackney Weekend
Beat Herder
Bestival
Creamfields
Glade Festival
GlobalGathering
Lovebox
Nozstock: The Hidden Valley Festival
Shakedown Festival
Zoo Project
Best Metropolitan Festival
Camden Crawl
Dot To Dot Festival
Freeze Festival
Gathering
Live At Leeds
Liverpool Sound City
London Summer Jam
Orkney Folk Festival
Slam Dunk Festival
Tramlines
Best Line-Up (Decided by expert jury)
Beach Break Live
Bestival
Download
Festival No.6
LeeFest
Radio 1 Hackney Weekend
Truck
Wakestock
Wireless
Y Not
Best Family Festival
2000trees
Bearded Theory
Beautiful Days
Beverley Folk Festival
Blissfields
Cambridge Folk Festival
Camp Bestival
Lakefest
Latitude
Wilderness Festival
The Grass Roots Festival Award
2000trees
Beautiful Days
Belladrum Tartan Heart Festival
Bloodstock Open Air Festival
End of the Road Festival
Green Man
Greenbelt
Hop Farm Music Festival
Lakefest
Y Not Festival
Best Toilets
BBC Radio 1 Hackney Weekend
Beautiful Days
Bestival
Bloodstock Open Air Festival
Download
Latitude
Lodestar
Reading & Leeds
T in the Park
V Festival
Best Overseas Festival
Benicassim (Spain)
Ibiza Rocks (Spain)
Tomorrowland (Belgium)
Burning Man (USA)
Electric Picnic Music & Arts Festival (Ireland)
Optimus Alive (Portugal)
Outlook & Dimensions (Croatia)
Snowbombing (Austria)
Sziget Festival (Hungary)
Audioriver (Poland)
Headline Performance Of The Year
New Order at Festival No. 6
Stevie Wonder at Bestival
Mogwai at Green Man
Dizzee Rascal at Kendal Calling
Ed Sheeran at Wakestock
Slayer at I’ll Be Your Mirror/ATP
Jay-Z at Radio 1’s Hackney Weekend
Metallica at Download
The Stone Roses at T in the Park
The Cure at Reading & Leeds
Best Breakthrough Act
Emeli Sande
Lana Del Rey
Alt-J
Jake Bugg
Alabama Shakes
Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs
Django Django
Azealia Banks
Dry The River
Frank Ocean
Anthem Of The Summer
Florence & The Machine – ‘Shake It Up’
The Black Keys – ‘Lonely Boy’
Rihanna – ‘We Found Love’
Azealia Banks – ‘212’
The Vaccines – ‘Teenage Icon’
Arctic Monkeys – ‘R U Mine?’
Two Door Cinema Club – ‘Sleep Alone’
Alabama Shakes – ‘Hold On’
Nicki Minaj – ‘Starships’
Django Django – ‘Default’
More info at: www.festivalawards.com/shortlists
