Glastonbury Festival is on the bucket list of every band going and each year, the festival runs its Emerging Talent Competition that allows bands to submit to play one of the main stages at the lauded festival.
The competition is open to new UK and Ireland-based acts will also be awarded a £5,000 Talent Development prize from PRS Foundation if they win. ter competition to help take their songwriting and performing to the next level. Two runners-up will also each be awarded a £2,500 PRS Foundation Talent Development prize.
Last year, as one of the judges (we are again this year), Nialler9 picked the eventual winner of the Emerging Talent Competition in Marie White, who played the festival and later, signed a four-album deal with Decca Records and a deal with Universal Music Publishing Group so we’re very proud to have played a part in White’s journey.
But to get to that point, a band must enter next week between 9am Monday 27th January until 5pm Monday 3rd February 2020 on the Glasto site.
To enter, acts will need to supply a link to one original song on SoundCloud, plus a link to a video of themselves performing live (even if it’s only recorded in a bedroom).
Niall Byrne is the founder of the most-influential Irish music site Nialler9, where he has been writing about music since 2005 . He is the co-host of the Nialler9 Podcast and has written for the Irish Times, Irish Independent, Cara Magazine, Sunday Times, Totally Dublin, Red Bull and more. Niall is a DJ, founder of Lumo Club, club promoter, event curator and producer of gigs, listening parties & events in Dublin.
