Festival awards shortlist revealed

The finalists in this year’s UK Festival Awards have been announced.

More than 700,000 votes have been cast by music fans for their favourite festivals and artists, a 25% increase on last year’s figures.

Among the public-voted accolades are awards for the Best Major, Medium, Small, New, Family and Grass Roots events, as well as the coveted Best Toilets award.

The titles up for grabs for artists include Headline Performance Of The Year and Anthem Of The Summer.

The winners will be announced at the UK Festival Awards ceremony which at the Roundhouse in London on Monday 1 December.



Here are the finalists in some of the main categories:

Major Festival (daily capacity of 40,000 or above)
Bestival
British Summer Time, Hyde Park
Creamfields
Download Festival
Glastonbury
GlobalGathering
Isle of Wight Festival
Reading & Leeds
Sonisphere Festival
T in the Park
V Festival
Wireless Festival

Medium-Sized Festival (daily capacity of 10,000 to 39,999)
Beautiful Days
Bloodstock Open Air
Boardmasters
Camp Bestival
Green Man
Kendal Calling
Latitude
Secret Garden Party
We Are FSTVL
Y Not Festival

Small Festival
2000trees
Barn on the Farm
Bearded Theory
Beat Herder
Brownstock Festival
Cambridge Folk Festival
Festival No.6
Jimmy's Sausage & Beer Festival
Leopallooza
Zoo Project Festival,


Best Family Festival
British Summer Time, Hyde Park
Beautiful Days
Camp Bestival
Eden Festival
Green Man
Jamie Oliver & Alex James present The Big Feastival
Kendal Calling
Latitude
Leopallooza
Victorious Festival

Best Toilets
Creamfields
Download Festival
End Of The Road
Kendal Calling
Larmer Tree Festival
Latitude
Reading & Leeds
Truck Festival
V Festival
We Are FSTVL

Best New Festival
Mutiny in the Park
No Tomorrow
OnBlackheath
Red Rooster
Rewind North
Secret Festival
Somersault Festival
Summer Sizzler
Together Festival
UKG Fest

The Grass Roots Festival Award
2000trees
Barn on the Farm
Beautiful Days
Bloodstock Open Air
Eden Festival
Green Man
In The Woods Festival
Jimmy's Sausage & Beer Festival
Leopallooza
Y Not Festival

Headline Performance of the Year
Arcade Fire at Glastonbury
Arctic Monkeys at Reading & Leeds
Biffy Clyro at T In The Park
Foals at Bestival
Kasabian at Glastonbury
The Killers at V Festival
The Libertines at British Summer Time
Linkin Park at Download
The Prodigy at Sonisphere
Metallica at Glastonbury
Red Hot Chili Peppers at the Isle Of Wight
Suede at Kendal Calling

Festival Anthem of the Summer
The 1975 – ‘Chocolate’
Arctic Monkeys - 'R U Mine'
Calvin Harris – ‘Summer’
Dolly Parton – ‘Jolene’
Hozier – ‘Take Me To Church’
Metallica - 'Whiskey In The Jar'
OutKast – ‘Ms Jackson’
Pharell Williams - 'Happy'
Royal Blood - 'Come On Over'
Sam Smith – ‘Stay With Me’

Line-Up Of The Year
Beacons Festival
Bestival
Creamfields
End Of The Road
Festival Number 6
Green Man
Latitude
Liverpool Music Week
Liverpool Sound City
Love Supreme Jazz Festival
Lovebox
OnBlackheath
Wireless

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