Arctic Monkeys (Photo: Live4ever Media)
The Arctic Monkeys will be hoping to soak up more praise for their summer festival gigs when the European Festival Awards take place on January 15th next year.
The Sheffield band have been nominated for Headliner Of The Year after picking up the same prize at the UK Festival Awards earlier this month, although Britain is not represented in the Best Major Festival category, with the likes of Open’er, Pukkelpop and Rock Werchter among those up for that prize.
“This has been a record-breaking year for the European Festival Awards and the hardest-fought competition we’ve had,” James Drury, MD of Festival Awards Ltd, states. “There have been so many wonderful festivals involved from across Europe and it’s testament to the passion of the festival-goers that there has been such a level of engagement. I can’t wait to reveal the winners at the awards ceremony on 15th January.”
Selected nominees:
Best New Festival
B.my.Lake (Hungary)
Burning Eagle Festival (Germany)
First We Take Berlin Festival (Germany)
Groove Music Festival (Ireland)
Last Summer Dance (Luxembourg)
Metal Hammer Festival (Germany)
Snowboxx (Andorra)
Solar Ibiza (Spain)
WeitjeRock (Netherlands)
Your’in (Belgium)
Festival Anthem of the Year
Bastille – Pompeii
Blur – Song 2
Daft Punk – Get Lucky
Die Toten Hosen – Tage wie dieser
Disclosure – White Noise
Imagine Dragons – Radioactive
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis – Thrift Shop
Major Lazer – Watch Out For This (Bumaye)
The Lumineers – Ho Hey
The National – Demons
Best European Festival Line-Up
Berlin Festival (Germany)
Glastonbury (UK)
Hurricane / Southside (Germany)
Latitude (UK)
Positivus (Latvia)
Primavera Sound (Spain)
Rock am Ring/Rock im Park (Germany)
Rock Werchter (Belgium)
Roskilde (Denmark)
Sziget (Hungary)
Headliner of the Year
Arctic Monkeys
Atoms for Peace
Björk
Blur
DieToten Hosen
Editors
Nick & The Bad Seeds
Nine Inch Nails
Queens of the Stone Age
The xx
Best Major Festival
Dour Festival (Belgium)
EXIT Festival (Serbia)
Hurricane/Southside (Germany)
Open’er Festival (Poland)
Pukkelpop (Blegium)
Rock Werchter (Belgium)
Sziget (Hungary)
Tomorrowland (Belgium)
Wacken Open Air (Germany)
Woodstock Festival (Poland)