Glastonbury Festival will accept entries from UK and Irish bands for one week only next week from Monday 20th – Monday 27th for their annual Emerging Talent competition which gives a band not signed to a label the opportunity to play one of the main stages.
Previous winners/entrants include Stornoway, Scouting For Girls, Treetop Flyers, Ellen and the Escapades, the Subways and, last year, Bridie Jackson and the Arbour.
Entry can be done next week via glastonburyfestivals.co.uk and a panel of 40 music writers and bloggers (including me) will be listening to the acts, compiling a longlist and then that list will be reduced to eight by Michael and Emily Eavis, where a live showcase gig will decide the winning act in April.
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.
Hey,
My name is Joe and I am a member of a young, unsigned rock band from Maynooth, Co Kildare called LEMON.
We are all 16 and we write/perform all of our own music.
So far in our very short career (we’ve been a band for a year now) we have recorded an EP, launched it on Radio Nova, played Whelans’ upstairs, played the vibe for Philo young rockers matinee 2014 and played the ones to watch festival in Whelans’.
We have gotten very posotive feedback on youtube about our songs and we have taken onboard the criticism and improved on it.
Although many venues show an interest in us, few can have us play due to our age so we are very limited to what we can do at the moment.
We would love and apreciate it immensely if you took the time to listen to us and let us know what you think about our music because we are always looking to learn (I’ll leave a link to our youtube channel in this email).
So if you could reply with any advice or criticism for the band, that would be great!
You can contact me via this email address or by phone on: 0857030705
Thankyou for the time and support,
Joe
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-2IkZlkPr8