new unsigned bands competition for the chance to play Download

Download Festival 2014

Friday 13th to Sunday 15th June 2014
Donington Park, Donington, Derbyshire, DE74 2RP, England MAP
£195 for five nights with camping

Daily capacity: 111,000

Red Bull Studios have released details of this year's nationwide search for aspiring unsigned acts to win a slot on stage at this year's Download Festival taking place at Donington Park over the weekend of Friday 13th to Sunday 15th June 2014.

Red Bull Studios Live at Download 2014 are inviting new acts to upload a video to the site where they will be voted for by the general public and judged by a panel of industry luminaries including Kerrang Radio's Katie P, Radio 1’s Huw Stephens, Red Bull Records' Angie Somerside, and members of Don Broco.

From the bands that enter, 100 will be shortlisted by public vote and put forward to the judges. 15 bands will then be chosen by the panel to head to Red Bull Studios in London for an all-encompassing professional studio experience. Of those, 8 bands will go through to play on the Red Bull Studios Live stage at Download Festival..

Bands who wish to enter have three weeks, from when the competition opens on Tuesday 1st April (until Monday 21st April) to upload a profile to www.redbullstudios.com/downloadfestival. Bands must be unsigned, aged between 16 – 25 and residents of the UK.

Once they have uploaded their profile, it will be monitored and ranked in real time on a chart which measures the amount of hype bands are creating across the web, and social media, and that combined with a classic voting system will result inthe top 100 bands that have promoted themselves best at 5pm on Monday 21st April, going through to the next round to be judged by the panel.

The panel will then choose a final 15 who will get to record in the Red Bull Studio in London with expert producers on hand, be mentored by the music industry panel as well as get practical tips from Don Broco. They will have professional press shots created, media training to help them practice their interview technique, plus other surprises to be unveiled on the day.

On the 16th May short films of each of the 15 finalists performing at Red Bull Studios will then go online for a public vote where 6 bands will be decided by the public and two will be chosen as wildcards by the judges, with those four bands playing across 2 days of the festival.

This is the chance to perform alongside headliners Avenged Sevenfoldm Linkin Park performing 'Hybrid Theory' and Aersomith, plus a bill that includes Rob Zombie, Fall Out Boy, Alter Bridge, Killswitch Engage, Bring Me The Horizon, American Headcharge, Anathema, The Charm, The Fury, Coldrain, Crazytown, Emmure, Heart In Hand, Joe Bonamassa, Kill Devil Hill, King 810, Lyger, Malevolence, New Politics, Polar, Quicksand, Sabaton, Seether, the bizarre looking September Mourning, Skindred, The Pretty Reckless, Upon A Burning Body, The Used, Volbeat, SikTh, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Suicide Silence, Buckcherry, Memphis May Fire, Battlecross, Jake E. Lee's Red Dragon Cartel, Thy Art Is Murder, The Amity Affliction, Avatar, Lonely The Brave, Arcane Roots, Feed The Rhino, The Offspring, Status Quo, Steel Panther, Trivium,and more.

For the full line-up details to-date, please see the Download Line-up page.

For more details see www.redbullstudios.com/downloadfestival

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