UK Festival Awards
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The UK Festival Awards are awarded annually, with various categories for all aspects of festivals that have taken place in the UK, and one category for European festivals. The Awards were first established in 2004, and are produced by Virtual Festivals.com. They are voted for by the public via the UK Festival Awards website. To ensure fairness, the votes are weighted to take into account the event capacity.[1][2][3]
The 2008 Awards ceremony was held on 30 October 2008 at the IndigO2 venue in London. Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy will receive funds raised on the night.[1]
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[edit] Categories
- Best Major Festival
- Best Medium Sized Festival
- Best Small Festival
- Best Dance Festival
- Best Lineup
- Best New Festival
- Grass Roots Festival Award
- Family Festival Award
- The Greener Festival Award
- Best Toilets
- Best European Festival
- Best Headline Act
- Festival Rock Act
- Best Dance Act
- Festival Pop Act
- Best Urban Act
- Best Newcomer Award
- Anthem of the Summer
- Innovation Award
- Most Memorable Moment
- The Virtual Festivals Outstanding Contribution Award
[edit] 2008 Nominations Shortlist
- Best Major Festival
- Best Medium Sized Festival
- 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
- The Glade
- Global Gathering
- Run To The Sun Festival
- South West Four
- Waveform Festival
- Best Lineup
- 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
- 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
- Festival Rock Act
- Festival Dance Act
- Festival Pop Act
- Festival Feel-Good Act
- Festival Urban Act
- Best Live Newcomer
- Anthem Of The Summer
- Innovation Award
- Beachdown: All shuttle-buses and official transportation ran on used cooking oil.
- Glade Festival: Ticket scheme whereby festival goers were pre-sent an access card to swipe at the gate.
- Glastonbury Festival: Biodegradable, starch tent pegs handed out to festival goers.
- Hydro Connect: Rickshaws used to ferry festival goers and artists around the site.
- Isle Of Wight Festival: Wristbands distributed two weeks before the festival to speed up entry.
- Latitude: Theatre Arena built upon the world's first fuel cell powered festival stage.
- Lovebox Weekender: Real-time webcasts of artist interviews and performances on website and stage screens.
- Solfest: Kids only toilets introduced to make things easier for children and adults alike.
- Standon Calling: Hosted the UK's first festival underwater dance arena in a swimming pool.
- The Big Chill: Big Issue vendors sold the programme on site, while buskers were invited to perform.
- Most Memorable Moment
- British Sea Power, Arctic Monkeys and Klaxons hold impromptu collaboration at Sing Ye From The Hills.
- Edwyn Collins makes moving comeback at Glastonbury following life threatening illness.
- Jay-Z mocks Noel Gallagher with his rendition of Wonderwall at Glastonbury.
- Kasabian play up to dance fans with a cover of The Source's You Got the Love at Creamfields.
- KISS spit blood and 'fly over' Download fans, as thousands dress up as Gene Simmons.
- Robert Plant joins Fairport Convention on stage at Cropredy Festival for Battle Of Evermore
- Ross Noble leads a conga around the Latitude site, stealing fans from various stages
- Secret Garden Party blow up their lake-marooned Pirate Ship in a firework spectacular.
- The Specials and Grace Jones play secret back-to-back gigs at Bestival
- Utah Saints break world record for most ever fans doing the 'Running Man' dance at Get Loaded In The Park.
[edit] References
- ^ a b "UK Festival Awards announces nominations shortlists". Music Week. http://www.musicweek.com/story.asp?sectioncode=1&storycode=1035842&c=3. Retrieved 2008-10-18.
- ^ "About the UK Festival Awards". UK Festival Awards. http://www.festivalawards.com/awards/news/5310. Retrieved 2008-10-18.[dead link]
- ^ "(Time countdown) left to decide the winners of this year's UK Festival Awards!". UK Festival Awards. http://www.festivalawards.com/index.cfm?section=awards. Retrieved 2008-10-18.
