Glastonbury Emerging Talent competition offers 2 chances to win

Glastonbury Festival, in association with Q Magazine, has launched the Emerging Talent Competition for the 40th Anniversary Festival in 2010. The return of the annual search for unsigned bands and solo artists who may earn themselves a slot on one of Worthy Farm's famous main stages.

The competition is open to all bands and performers who are not be signed to a major label and based in the UK or Ireland. Acts should upload two of their tracks to the competition website, at competition website which is open from today until 25th January 2010. The live finals will be held at the end of March 2010. The full competition rules and conditions are also available on the link above.

This year there will be a double chance for acts to win. In addition to the 12 entrants selected for the live finals of the main competition, one early bird entrant (any act entering before Friday 31st December) will be selected to play the Queen's Head Stage at Glastonbury 2010. The early bird winner will also remain in the competition, retaining their chance to be selected for the live finals and, ultimately, win a slot on the Pyramid or Other Stage.

"The standard of acts who've entered over the past few years has been amazing," said Festival organiser Emily Eavis. "It's really inspiring to hear how much great music - of so many kinds - is being made in this country right now. I can't wait to hear what comes through this time."

Glastonbury has been running a competition to find the greatest Emerging Talent for the last five Festivals, and the winners will be following in the footsteps of previous winners We Have Band (2009), Golden Silvers, and The Travelling Band (2008), Liz Green (2007), The Deadbeats (2005), Blackbud, and The Subways (2004).

As usual, the competition will be judged by a team of music experts, representing the Festival (Michael and Emily Eavis), BBC Radio One (Huw Stephens) and Q Magazine (editor Paul Rees). The judges will be responsible for picking 11 of the finalists, with 10 runners-up put to a public vote to secure the final 12th spot.

Once again this year the public will be able to decide one 'wild card' entry into the finals. This act, voted for online at competition website, will then be given the final 12th spot - and have a chance to win a slot on the Pyramid or Other Stage.

Glastonbury's Emerging Talent Competition is the best way to get your music listened to by many of the stage and area programmers involved in the Festival.

Tickets have sold out for next year's Glastonbury Festival which runs for five full days from Wednesday 23rd until Sunday 27th June 2010 across a 1,000 acres of beautiful countryside at Worthy Farm, Somerset. There will be no more tickets on sale until sometime early in 2010.

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