For the third year running, the Red Stripe Music Award is offering emerging bands the opportunity to play hard and win big, securing slots at three of the summer’s favourite festivals including The Great Escape.
The four month regional gig series will start in January 2009, hitting over 25 of the Country’s best loved live music venues, from The Cabaret Voltaire in Edinburgh to The Royal Pier Pavilion in Aberystwyth – unearthing treasures of the grass roots music scene along the way.
Open to bands playing any manner of music, utterly unbiased to trend or leaning, Red Stripe asks only that applicants are over 18 years old and perform original tracks with the heart and soul they deserve.
Supported this year by Best Before Records, Merc clothing and Fly magazine the stakes are high for 2009.
Bands can enter via link where regular updates on the regional gigs, shortlists, finalists and special promotions will be made over the next 6 months. Fill in your details now and check out what last year’s winner (May 08) has been up to.