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Friday, 13. January 2012 |
FESTIVAL AWARDS
EUROPE ANNOUNCE WINNERS
The best European festivals, artists and promoters of 2011 were
revealed last night at a sold out ceremony, featuring performances from James
Vincent McMorrow, Selah Sue and Dog is Dead.
Taking place at Groningen's De Oosterport in The Netherlands, the
third edition of the awards was bigger and better than ever with over 350,000
votes and 200 festivals taking part from 32 different countries. A record
breaking edition!
Decided by a combination of public vote and industry juries, Festival
Awards Europe is the only event solely dedicated to recognising the
contributions and achievements of the event organisers and performing artists
that generate billions of Euros for local economies and brighten up the summer
for tens of millions of festival-goers each year.
And the winners are:
Best Major European Festival – Sziget
Festival (Hungary)
Best Medium-Sized European Festival – Off Festival
(Poland)
Best Small European Festival – Haldern Pop (Germany)
Best New European Festival – Extrema
Outdoor (Belgium)
Best Indoor Festival – I Love Techno (Belgium)
Best European Festival Line-Up – Rock
Werchter (Belgium)
YOUROPE Green ‘N’ Clean Festival Of The Year – Melt!
(Germany)
Artist’s Favourite European Festival – Southside / Hurricane
(Germany)
Best Newcomer association with Eurosonic Noorderslag – James
Blake
Best Headliner – Coldplay
Festival Anthem of the Year - Coldplay ‘Viva La Vida’
Virtual Festivals Europe presents Promoter
Of The Year – FKP Scorpio (Germany)
YOUROPE Lifetime
Achievement Award – Michael Eavis, Glastonbury (UK)
Said Fruzsina Szep
from Sziget festival after receiving the
Best Major Festival Award and inviting everyone to join her in a drink of
Palinka: “We were very much hoping to win this award and it really means a lot
to us because 2012 will be the 20th edition of our festival.”
On receiving his lifetime achievement award Glastonbury founder Michael Eavis
said: “42 years ago I started something on my farm towards
the end of the flower power era in the 60’s and we had less than a thousand
people and now we have 150,000 people registered to buy a ticket for 2013.
Thank you very much to everyone and thanks to all the people who have been
involved in our show and thanks to all the people who buy tickets every year. I
hope there are a few more years to go yet, another 10 years maybe.
James Drury, MD of
Festival Awards Ltd, which organises the Awards said: "The further growth
of the European festival awards and another record-breaking event highlights
just how important festivals are to people across the continent. It's testament
to the hard work and passion of everyone involved with festivals that they
continue to be so popular. With Glastonbury being the inspiration for so many
festivals, I was especially delighted to welcome Michael Eavis to receive the
Lifetime Achievement Award. He has been seminal in the success of the festival
scene in the world.”
Christof Huber,
General Secretary YOUROPE commented: “Michael Eavis is
an icon in the European festival scene and in my view, Glastonbury is the mother
of all European festivals. He is just the right person to get the Livetime
Achievement Award at the Festival Awards Europe."
MORE INFOS eu.festivalawards.com
Top 5 Festivals in each category:
BEST MAJOR FESTIVAL
Hurricane Festival (Germany)
Roskilde Festival
(Denmark)
Sziget (Hungary)
Tomorrowland (Belgium)
Wacken Open Air (Germany)
Winner: Sziget (Hungary)
BEST MEDIUM-SIZED FESTIVAL in association
with Megaforce
Berlin Festival (Germany)
Melt! Festival (Germany)
Off Festival (Poland)
Pohoda Festival (Slovakia)
Rock for People (Czech Republic)
Winner: Off Festival (Poland)
BEST SMALL FESTIVAL
Appletree Garden (Germany)
Blues in Hell (Norway)
Extrema Outdoor
(Belgium)
Haldern Pop (Germany)
Springtime Festival (Belgium)
Winner: Haldern Pop
(Germany)
BEST NEW FESTIVAL
Extrema Outdoor (Belgium)
Festival Hongerige Wolf (Netherlands)
Luna Festa (Belgium)
The Green Village
(Ireland)
Waves Vienna (Germany)
Winner: Extrema Outdoor (Belgium)
BEST INDOOR FESTIVAL
Blues in Hell (Norway)
I Love Techno (Belgium)
Montreux Jazz Festival
(Switzerland)
Reeperbahn Festival (Germany)
Springfestival
(Belgium)
Winner: I Love Techno (Belgium)
ANTHEM OF THE YEAR
Aloe Black - I Need a Dollar
Arcade Fire - Wake Up
Coldplay - Viva La Vida
Foo Fighters – Rope
Foster The People - Pumped up
Kicks
Winner: Coldplay - Viva La Vida
HEADLINER OF THE YEAR
Arctic Monkeys
Chemical Brothers
Coldplay
Foo Fighters
Queens of the Stone Age
Winner:
Coldplay
NEWCOMER OF THE YEAR in association with Eurosonic
Noorderslag
Anna Calvi
James Blake
Magnetic Man
Selah Sue
The Vaccines
Winner: James Blake
BEST EUROPEAN FESTIVAL LINE-UP
Heineken Opener Festival (Poland)
Hurricane / Southside
(Germany)
Oya Festivalen (Norway)
Rock am Ring (Germany)
Rock Werchter (Belgium)
Winner: Rock Werchter (Belgium)
YOUROPE GREEN ’N’ CLEAN
AWARD
Melt! (Germany)
Oya Festivalen (Norway)
Shambala (UK)
SOS 4.8 (Spain)
Winner: Melt! (Germany)
ARTISTS’ FAVOURITE
FESTIVAL
End of the Road Festival (UK)
Paléo Festival Nyon
(Switzerland)
Southside / Hurricane (Germany)
Sziget Festival
(Hungary)
T in the Park (Scotland)
Winner: Southside /
Hurricane (Germany)
2010
winners:
Best Major European
Festival: Heineken Open'er Festival – Poland
Best Medium-Sized European
Festival: Electric Picnic Music & Arts Festival – Ireland
Best Small
European Festival: 5 Tauron Nowa Muzyka Festival – Poland
Best New European
Festival: Temple House Festival – Ireland
Best Indoor Festival: Rolling Stone
Weekender – Germany
Best European Festival Line-Up : Oxegen – Ireland
Best
Newcomer – Florence and the Machine
Best Headliner – Muse
Festival Anthem
of the Year: Muse ‘Uprising’
YOUROPE Green ‘N’ Clean Festival Of The Year:
Boom Festival – Portugal
Artist’s Favourite European Festival – Melt! –
Germany
Virtual Festivals Europe presents Promoter Of The Year:
Kilimanjaro/K2
YOUROPE Lifetime Achievement Award: Leif Skov,
Roskilde
About Festival Awards Ltd:
Festival Awards Ltd is the producer of the
Festival Awards UK, Festival Awards UK Conference, and Festival Awards Europe.
As well as giving fans chance to tell festival organisers which events they
think are the best, it also provides industry networking and knowledge-sharing
opportunities through the associated UK conference.
www.festivalawards.com
About
YOUROPE:
Yourope is the association for European Festivals, with over 60 members
which are among the most well established festivals in Europe. All Yourope's
members are dedicated to improving the European festival scene in terms of
working conditions, health and safety, environmental and music talent.The
overall aim of the association is to collaborate and share best practice, and to
pinpoint areas that would benefit from a joint approach. Yourope is also
founding partner of the European Talent Exchange Programm and the live music
lobby European Live Music Forum.
www.yourope.org
About Eurosonic Norderslag:
EuroSonic Noorderslag is Europe’s most
important live music industry conference and showcase festival for European
talent. With
over 2800 delegates, showcases by 260 artists and a conference with 100 panels,
keynote speakers, interviews and meetings, EuroSonic Noorderslag is the key
exchange and networking platform for European music, European artists,
international music industry professionals and organizations.
www.euroSonic-noorderslag.nl
About Intellitix:
Intellitix is the market leader in RFID
access control and cashless payment systems. This year alone we activated over 1
million RFID Tags at festivals including Coachella, Bonnaroo, Lollapalooza,
Outside Lands, Electric Zoo and Austin City Limits. We cut queues to a minimum,
eradicated ticket fraud and unwanted resale, and our proprietary software and
fully integrated hardware proved 100% secure and reliable. Rather than be a
cost, the Intellitix platform is designed to generate new revenues. Having
recently opened a European office (based in central London), we are currently
looking for a selection of forward-thinking festivals to work with in Summer
2012 and beyond.
www.intellitix.com
Megaforce:
Megaforce is a
European-wide acting stage company. The company was founded 1992 and became
shortly after being accepted as one of the most capable providers for stage
solutions throughout Germany. The company produces and provides classical
open-air-stages for festivals as well as arched roof stages for classical
concerts. With a large choice of stages of each kind, it is able to provide
stages for all the big festivals and open-air-concerts all over Europe at the
same time. Megaforce also builds all kind of staging and rigging solutions for
corporate events, sporting events, exhibitions or open-air festivals and has an
international trucking company of its own.
www.megaforce.de
About Virtual Festivals Europe:
Virtual Festivals.com has grown by purely
organic means since 1999 to become the UK’s market leading online portal and
social network for music festivals, successfully consolidating this marketplace
(from the hundreds of events that take place to the millions who attend them) in
one place on the web.
The website currently commands more influence and
credibility with both industry and consumers in the festival sector than any
other single media property. Building on its UK success, Virtual Festivals
Europe was launched in collaboration with YOUROPE in July 2008 to aggregate the
pan-European festival marketplace in a similar way.
eu.virtualfestivals.com
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