The Libertines’ Carl Barat performing with new band The Jackals (Photo: Niall Lea for Live4ever)
The Libertines won the Headline Performance Of The Year prize at yesterday’s (December 1st) UK Festival Awards ceremony thanks to their incident packed return at London’s Hyde Park for British Summer Time last July.
The band came out ahead of other high profile headline gigs, such as Arctic Monkeys at Reading/Leeds and Metallica at Glastonbury, but Glastonbury itself did triumph in the Best Major Festival category.
“Another outstanding summer has made this year’s voting and judging a hugely exciting but also challenging task,” awards director Steve Jenner remarked. “Not that this put off the festival going public; we’ve seen a 25% rise in votes with over 720,000 cast this year.”
2014 UK Festival Awards, selected winners:
Best Major Festival
Glastonbury
Best Medium-Sized Festival
We Are FSTVL
Best Small Festival
The Zoo Project
Best New Festival
The Secret Festival
Best Metropolitan Festival
Live At Leeds
Best Overseas Festival
Tomorrowland (Belgium)
Best Toilets
V Festival
Headline Performance Of The Year
The Libertines at British Summer Time
Best Breakthrough Artist
Wolf Alice
Anthem Of The Summer
Calvin Harris – ‘Summer’
Line-Up Of The Year
Festival Number 6
Outstanding Contribution To Festivals Award
Rob da Bank
