The nominees for this year’s UK Festival Awards have been revealed, and it’s the inaugural British Summer Time event in Hyde Park which appears to have had the biggest impact on music fans during the summer of 2013.
British Summer Time, which brought The Rolling Stones back to Hyde Park for the first time since 1969, is nominated for Best Major Festival, Best New Festival and Best Metropolitan Festival.
Elsewhere, the aforementioned gig from the Stones is up for Headline Performance Of The Year, where it will compete with other major bookings such as Arctic Monkeys at Glastonbury and Eminem at Reading/Leeds.
“We’ve seen one of the most vibrant seasons in 2013, line-ups have featured a huge number of must-see and incredible new acts,” James Drury of the UK Festival Awards comments. “Alongside that talent legends like Rolling Stones and mega-stars like Eminem returned to the stage. Again we’ve beaten the record of votes cast with 575,000 received this year and we can’t wait to reveal the favourites of the festival-going public.”
The main categories are all listed below, while the winners of other sections – such as Agency Of The Year, Best Line-Up and Outstanding Achievement – will be decided by a selected panel.
Shortlist:
Best Major Festival
Barclaycard presents British Summer Time Hyde Park
Bestival
Creamfields
Download
Glastonbury
GlobalGathering
Parklife Weekender
Reading & Leeds
T in the Park
V Festival
Best Medium Festival
Bloodstock Open Air
Boardmasters
Camp Bestival
End of the Road Festival
Green Man
Kendal Calling
Latitude
Secret Garden Party
We Are FSTVL
Y Not Festival
Best Small Festival
2000trees Festival
ArcTanGent
Bearded Theory
Beat Herder
Blissfields
Brownstock Festival
Festival No6
Glasgowbury
Strawberry Fields Festival
The Zoo Project Festival
Best New Festival
ArcTanGent
Barclaycard presents British Summer Time Hyde Park
Chilfest
Folkstock
FOUND
LIVE in Barnsley
Lost at Sea
Love Supreme Jazz Festival
The Fusion Festival
We Are FSTVL
Best Dance Event
Beat Herder
Bestival
Creamfields
GlobalGathering
Gottwood
Nozstock: The Hidden Valley Festival
RockNess
South West Four
The Zoo Project Festival
We Are FSTVL
Best Metropolitan Festival
Barclaycard presents British Summer Time Hyde Park
Dot To Dot
Live at Leeds
Liverpool Sound City
Love Saves The Day
Slam Dunk Festival
South West Four
The Great Escape
Tramlines
Vans Warped Tour UK (2012)
Best Family Festival
Beautiful Days
Beverley Folk Festival
Cambridge Folk Festival
Camp Bestival
Chilfest
Green Man
Lakefest
Larmer Tree Festival
Latitude
Truck Festival
Best Grassroots Event
2000trees Festival
Bearded Theory
Beautiful Days
Blissfields
Green Man
In The Woods
Kendal Calling
Larmer Tree Festival
The Zoo Project Festival
Y Not Festival
Best Toilets
2000trees Festival
ArcTanGent
Bearded Theory
Blissfields
Creamfields
Download
GlobalGathering
Kendal Calling
We are FSTVL
Y Not Festival
Best Overseas Festival
Benicàssim (Spain)
Berlin Festival (Germany)
Dimensions (Croatia)
Electric Picnic Music & Arts Festival (Ireland)
EXIT Festival (Serbia)
Outlook Festival (Croatia)
Rock Am Ring/ Rock Im Park (Germany)
Snowbombing (Austria)
The Garden Festival (Croatia)
Tomorrowland (Belgium)
Headline Performance Of The Year
Arctic Monkeys – Glastonbury
Biffy Clyro – Reading & Leeds
Elton John – Bestival
Eminem – Reading & Leeds
Foals – Latitude
Rammstein – Download
Sigur Ros – End of the Road
The Prodigy – Creamfields
The Rolling Stones – Barclaycard Presents British Summertime
The Rolling Stones – Glastonbury
Anthem Of The Summert
Do I Wanna Know – Arctic Monkeys
Feel the Love -Rudimental
Freak Out – Chic ft Nile Rodgers
Get Lucky – Daft Punk
Ho Hey – The Lumineers
Inhaler – Foals
Ni**as in Paris – Jay-Z
Pompeii – Bastille
Radioactive- Imagine Dragons
White Noise – Disclosure
Breakthrough Act Of The Year
Bastille
Disclosure
Frightened Rabbit
HAIM
Imagine Dragons
Kendrick Lamar
London Grammar
Rudimental
The 1975
The Strypes