WOWfest features 2012 winner of Live and Unsigned

This summer’s explosive new music festival WOWfest (17th – 19th August, Isle of Wight), along with 13 other top UK festivals hosts the 2012 winner of the UK's largest battle of the bands music competition, Live and Unsigned.

Live and Unsigned auditions started in January leading up to the National Finals at the UK’s Largest indoor music festival, Live Fest (14th July, 02 Arena). The competition will be judged by a panel of music industry gurus from National Radio 1, Kerrang, BBC Introducing, Regional Press and record labels including Radio 1’s Annie Knightingale MBE, Kerrang! Radio’s Alex Baker, former Stone Roses guitarist Aziz Ibrahim and many more to be announced!

The overall winner of Live and Unsigned 2012 will receive the exclusive opportunity to play WOWfest’s main stage on Friday 17th August. Sharing the main stage over the weekend are the likes of Norman Jay MBE, The Selecter and Aswad, with more still to be announced. In addition the winner of Live and Unsigned’s acoustic music sub category will play WOWfest’s new and local talent stage, Shaved Fish.

Only in its first year, WOWfest’s features an electric mix of House, Reggae, Ska Jazz, World, Disco, Dance, Dubstep and Drum and Bass music including House legends Paul Oakenfold and Danny Rampling, Reggae stars UB40, Junior Marvin of Bob Marley's Wailers and Maxi Priest as well as Ska originals The Selecter and The Beat to name a few. On top of a spectacular line up the festival features Ubuntu, WOWfest’s African Village, as well as a vintage fun fair, workshops, theatre performances and afterhours comedy club and swirling burlesque.

The Live and Unsigned 2012 winner will also play Relentless Energy Drink Boardmasters, Sundown, Strawberry Fields Festival, Cloud 9 Festival, Glass Butter Beach, Bingley Music Live, Cockermouth Rock Festival, Brownstock, WOWFest, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Just So Festival, Stockton Weekender, London Summer Jam and Lancaster Music Festival as well as receive a cash prize of £10,000.

To enter Live and Unsigned visit http://www.liveandunsigned.uk.com/enter-now

Live and Unsigned Grand Final 14th July 2012 , The O2 London

http://www.liveandunsigned.uk.com/music-showcase

WOWfest 17th - 19th August. 2012, Isle of Wight

www.wowfest.co.uk

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www.twitter.com/wowfestiow

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Live Connection - NEWS for unsigned artists

Live Nation Entertainment (UK) to launch

‘Live Connection’

A unique platform for unsigned UK talent

Thursday 6th October 2011; Live Nation Entertainment (LNE) today announced plans to launch Live Connection, a brand new initiative to support new and unsigned artists in the UK.

Live Connection will hand-pick unsigned artists to record audio and video in a professional environment at monthly live sessions and supply each act with three live and recorded tracks to use for personal promotional use, but most importantly, actively promote to the UK music industry and a network of millions of live music fans.

Live Connection has partnered with the streaming service We7 (3 million users per month), Live Nation UK, Ticketmaster UK and Academy Music Group (AMG) content channels and social media platforms, as well as taking the project into the student market with packaged programmes airing through Sub.TV; accessing some 1.76 million students across Students’ Union venues nationwide.

Live Nation Entertainment is engaging with a steering committee of UK industry-only experts and key decision makers who will receive regular news and updates from Live Connection of new and emerging acts, recorded and edited by Pete Webber of Live Connection, via a new online portal and email subscription service at live-connection.co.uk.

Here, experts can exclusively watch professional videos and listen to high -quality, digitally-mastered audio content prior to Live Connection’s extended distribution through its consumer channels.

“As a sound engineer, I know how hard it can be for new artists to get in-front of the right people, so I approached Paul Latham, Chief Operating Officer at Live Nation Entertainment, to support emerging acts by recording, mixing and mastering their songs as well as filming their performance in a concert venue” says Pete Webber, Live Connection. “With his support and industry presence, we have created Live Connection, a cost-effective model that puts the complete package together for new artists. In addition to reaching out to the UK music industry, we are extending our promotion of these acts to millions of music fans, through Live Nation’s associated networks and media platforms.”

“The exposure Live Connection can give to new artists is outstanding” says Paul Latham, COO of Live Nation Entertainment. “With access to millions of music fans, Live Connection is the perfect exposure model for new and emerging acts. We’re not only showcasing their talent to the right industry contacts, we’re building communities, sharing their recorded music and video through Live Nation’s mailing lists, websites and social networks. We’ll also be pushing these artists towards publishing and distribution deals as well as looking to add live exposure and experience through our venue estate and festival output.”

Live Connection launches on Tuesday 11th October 2011.

Please visit:

live-connection.co.uk

facebook.com/liveconnection

twitter.com/live_connection

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Calling all Unsigned Bands - Bandit A&R Newsletter

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