Music Competitions
RnB star Shola Ama confirmed for the Judging Panel for Live and Unsigned Festival
Feb 24th
RnB mega star Shola Ama has just confirmed her place on the judging panel at the Live and Unsigned Festival!
Billed as one of Britain’s most successful RnB artists, Shola will be taking her place on the judging panel in July and casting her eye over some of the UK’s best unsigned talent. The London based singers debut album Much Love sold over one million copies and she enjoyed chart success with the top five singles You Might Need Somebody and You’re The One I Love.
The culmination of her critical and commercial success resulted in four MOBO nominations with Shola going on to collect two awards for Best Newcomer and Best RnB. She also impressed the industry and her fans when she was nominated for two Brit awards, taking home the title of Best British Female.
Amongst her many achievements within the music industry, Shola has collaborated on the Glamma Kid single Taboo, reworking the Sade classic to make it her own and scoring her another top ten single. She released her sophomore album, the critically acclaimed In Return, co-writing 11 of the 16 tracks with a host of international writers and producers. She’s worked with legendary names like Darkchild, Babyface, Stargate, Ali Shaheed Muhhammed, Angie Stone and Shaun Labelle. Her single Imagine remixed by Asylum, went on to become one of the biggest club singles of the noughties. Shola co-wrote her third album, Supersonic, which is one of her most personal works to date. Chris Grayston, Events Director of Live and Unsigned, commented, It’s very exciting to have one of the UK’s best RnB acts involved in the competition. She’s had huge chart success, spent years in the studio and knows exactly what it’s like to be in the spotlight. I’m confident that her appearance on the judging panel will be popular! I’m sure most of the acts in the Urban category of the competition will want to ask her lots of questions!
Shola is now back in the studio once again, writing tracks for her fourth studio album, due for release on independent label Dirty Canvas. The new single DJ Play has already received great reviews and lots of airplay! And of course, watch out for her at the Live and Unsigned Festival!
Main Man Of BBC Introducing Vic Galloway Joins Live and Unsigned
Feb 16th
The main man of BBC Introducing in Scotland, Vic Galloway, is set to join the Live and Unsigned 2010 judging panel.
With an extensive background in music and a thirst for unsigned, fresh acts in the UK, Vic’s knowledge and experience is sure to be a hit on the panel!
Currently fronting the BBC Introducing show in Scotland, Vic is obsessed with unsigned and established musicians. He was launched into the world of music after he witnessed his first live concert by The Damned, and as his obsession grew so did his record collection!
Vic began his career as a musician himself. He immersed himself in Rock ‘n’ Roll when he left school and set out to form a band, get into recording and perform music. And to prove his dedication, he busked his way around Europe for 6 months.
Vic moved onto to working on the other side of the industry, writing for fanzines, working as a venue lighting director in Edinburgh, helping to set up and develop independent labels and working as a press and radio promoter. It was when he was prompted to make a tape for his new regional Radio 1 show that he moved onto the airwaves.
Hayley Stovold, Press Officer for Live and Unsigned commented, “It’s fantastic news that Vic’s joining us for the 2010 live shows, he’s a very influential name. He’s already so busy with the station and his packed out events! He’ll be joining a few other famous names from the world of unsigned music, so we’re sure lots of bands will want to ask him lots of questions about the industry! And let’s face it; he’s always after new bands so some bands might even get played on his show!”
Nowadays, Vic fronts the Introducing show in Scotland and also writes and produces his own music – he’s currently working with prog-pop pioneers Deaf Mutes and punk band Family Man. You’ll also find Vic co-running a club night at the Glasgow Barfly every Friday, called the Funhouse. He’s been pulling in crowds of over 400 people for the last three years. He also spends a lot of time DJ’ing in clubs and writing a freelance column for The List magazine.
Vic lives in Edinburgh , likes getting tattooed, eats spicy food and wants World peace…
For more information on Live and Unsigned please visit http://www.rocklinks.co.uk/music-competitions/live-and-unsigned-2010-the-largest-national-music-competition-for-band-singers-and-musicians
BBC Star Bethan Elfyn confirms her spot on the Live and Unsigned Judging Panel
Feb 10th
The main voice behind BBC Introducing Wales Bethan Elfyn has confirmed her place on this years Judging panel for the national Music Competition Live and Unsigned. From a small town in Wales, Bethans interest in Music and Media led her straight to a successful career. Starting of at spiller records she also got involved with student radio, writing for college newspapers and went on to study journalism. This was followed up by landing a production job at the BBC in North wales and later on secured a producer position for a late night radio session, Bethan was then approached to present Radio 1’s new Nations show, kicking off the rock ‘4real’.
Bethan went on to present on Thursday nights with Huw Stephens and now fronts the BBC Introducing in Wales show every Wednesday. She has DJ-ed and presented onstage at many festivals including Wakestock, The Greenman Festival and Radio 1’s stage at Carling’s Reading Festival. Behind the scenes she DJs with the Vinyl Vendettas, manages a band, runs a record label, edits an independent magazine, produces documentaries and programmes for Radio 1 and Radio 1 Wales.
Hayley Stovold, Press Officer for Live and Unsigned, commented, “Bethan’s experience with unsigned music is invaluable to the judging panel. She’s worked with unsigned bands from all over the country, listens to hundreds of demos every week and as the main voice of BBC Introducing Wales, I’m confident Bethan will be a well known and respected opinion on the panel. We’re really excited to have her involved in the competition!”
Starnow.co.uk where talent gets discovered
Feb 2nd
StarNow is the world’s leading website for online casting calls and auditions. We currently have 2098 casting calls on the site and 666 of those are in our musicians category. We partner with several music competitions including TopoftheOx, Live and Unsigned and Open Mic. Musicians can upload audio and video files to their online profiles and can contact other musicians through the site.
For more information please visit Starnow.co.uk
Rock Music Crowns Music Competition
Feb 1st
Another Music competition for Unsigned Bands, details below.
Music Crowns are proud to announce the launch of the 2010 Rock Music Crown. Entries are now being accepted for the competition that will be judged by some of the biggest names in the industry.
ENTER HERE: Rockmusiccrown.co.uk
Become a fan at the following link – www.facebook.com/rockmusiccrown
PRIZES INCLUDE:
- Appearance in nationwide television advert for Channel 5, Sky One, Channel 4 and Living TV
- £1000 website package
- 1 Year PR & Management Contract
- The ROCK MUSIC CROWN Trophy!
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Live and Unsigned 2010 the largest national music competition for Bands, Singers and Musicians
Jan 29th
Live and Unsigned is back for 2010 bigger, better and louder then ever. Over 30,000 acts have auditioned for the music competition over the last 3 years. If your a Musician or a Band the Music competition offers benefits such as performing live in front of an audience, aswell as the UK’s top Producers, Label executives, Promoters and DJ’s.
So what does this Music competition have to offer if you win?
How does £50,000 worth of prizes sound? Includes a Recording contract with Future Music and upto £30,000 worth of Investment.
Auditions
Auditions are held around the country. You will perform, infront of our prestigious judging panel, a live piece. Should you be successful you will be put through to your regional final.
The Live Regional Finals
Successful audtions will give you a place in the regional final. You will perform an original track with your band or backed by a backing track in front of a huge live crowd!
You will be battling for a place in the Grand Final and the Live and Unsigned Festival.
LIVE AND UNSIGNED FESTIVAL & NATIONAL SHOWCASE GRAND FINAL
The big one! The climax of the Music competition!
You could be playing at the The Live and Unsigned Festival! A capacity crowd could be cheering you on and applauding your music! If you win, you’ll be offered a record deal on the spot!
The winners will be thrust into the media spotlight! TV, Radio, Print … You’ll be there!
The country’s best talent, best labels, best producers and best everything music will be at The Live and Unsigned Festival … are you good enough to be there too?!
Judging
The expert panel of judges will be looking out for musical ability, originality and performance capability. They will also be looking at the originality of your image and professionalism on stage. The ultimate job of the judges is to find an act that can be launched in the UK as a major recording artist.
Other Live and Unsigned News
Radio 1 Star Greg James has confirmed his place as a judge.
Popular day time presenter and Radio 1 DJ Greg James has just confirmed his place on the judging panel of Live and Unsigned 2010!
Greg is set to join other top celebs and record industry A&R to cast his eye over unsigned talent at the Live and Unsigned Festival at the 02 in London this July.
Kerrang DJ’s Join the Judging panel
Unsigned expert and popular voice of Kerrang Radio, Alex Baker is set to judge the Live and Unsigned Regional shows and will be bringing his wealth of experience of up and coming bands with him! It’s a double whammy for Kerrang as Alex will be judging alongside fellow presenter Christian Stevenson who confirmed his place on the panel last week.
For more information on Live and Unsigned the UK’s largest Unsigned Band Music Competition please visit Liveandunsigned.uk.com
Red Bull Bedroom Jam 2010
Jan 27th
Red Bull Bedroom Jam is a weekly webcast to offer bands the chance to record, tour the UK and hit some of the best festivals this summer. The new, revamped season will offer young bands throughout the UK, who upload their videos and get the opportunity to perform on the live webcast as well as tour the hottest festivals and spend time in the studio – with the outright winner securing a two-week recording session at Red Bull’s brand new, state of the art studio in London with a top producer as well as a UK wide tour.
Red Bull Bedroom Jam will begin from 15th February 2010 every Monday at 5pm over at redbullbedroomjam.com
There’s a trailer available for this year’s Bedroom Jam series, encouraging bands to upload their own demos and win the chance to be in the webcast – from their own bedroom… The trailer shows what happened to one of last year’s bands, Don Broco [image attached] – who played one of the webcasts and went on to play at the Camden Crawl, Underage Festival and Download off the back of it…and explains what you have to do if you want to be a part of it this year.