Glastonbury Unsigned Bands CD

The compilation two CD set, featuring 24 finalists from the inaugural year of the ‘Glastonbury Unsigned Bands’ competition to win performance slots at this years festival is available to buy.

The double album costs £5, with profits split 50:50 between the Fairtrade Foundation charity and the unsigned bands.

The Festival set up the competition as a way of dealing with the landslide of ‘unsigned applications’ received each year to play the Festival. Over 2500 bands entered the competition. A shortlist of 24 was selected to perform in the competition finals in four different categories at Pilton Working Mens Club on the 23,24 & 30/4/04 and 1/5/04. The original intention was for five festival places for the winners of the four categories and a fifth place for an overall winner, to play The Other Stage. The quality of the artists was so high that places were found for a large number of the bands to perform, and they all got to show their class (as well as show up some of the better known bands!).

The competition finals covering the full range of music styles were a perfect scouting ground for Concrete Recordings with their philosophy, ‘there are two kinds of music, good and bad.’ The label were delighted when their idea of releasing the compilation album was enthusiastically met by the Festival staff at the Pilton Finals.

There’s a great deal of excitement in all the camps involved in the project; Glastonbury Festivals, who dreamt up the competition, Concrete Recordings who have organised the release, the Fairtrade Foundation whose name will be met by a new audience and will benefit from 50% of the profits and lastly, the unsigned bands who receive priceless exposure and the remaining 50% of the profits.

Copies of the album are available online at http://www.concreterecordings.co.uk/glastonbury.html, as well as information about the featured bands.

Bands on the CD :
RaLfE BanD (www.mindhorn.com)
The Subways(www.thesubways.net)
BlackBud(www.blackbud.co.uk)
The LoveGods(www.thelovegods.com)
Hombres Imposible(www.hombresimposible.com)
Earl(www.earlworld.com)
Cakeboy (paul.cakey@ntlworld.com)
Zuba(www.zuba.co.uk)
Roullet(roulletsounds@aol.com)
Walking Wounded(www.peoplesound.com/artist/walkingwoumded)
Bodixa (www.bodixa.co.uk)
Menlo Park(www.menlopark.co.uk)
The Bilderberg Group(www.thebilderberggroup.co.uk)
Cream Tangerine(www.creamtangerine.org)
Skyscraper(www.skyscraper.org.net)
DELUXE(www.deluxe-music.info/)
DARK CHUNK(www.darkchunk.com)
Hazah(www.hazah.com)
Death Before Dishonour
Note for a Child (www.noteforachild.com)
Resonators(resonators@fsmail.net)
The Magenta House(www.magentahouse.com)
Hushpukena(www.hushpukena.com)
Moose(www.moosefunk.com)

For more on The Fairtrade Foundation see www.fairtrade.org.uk

Michael Eavis with BlackBud		Michael Eavis with The Subways

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