More than 200,000 votes have already been cast ahead of the awards ceremony at London’s Indigo2 venue on 30th October 2008.
In the major festival category, Glastonbury, Reading, Leeds and T in the Park will all be hoping to beat last year’s winner The Isle Of Wight Festival.
In the artist categories, Muse, Kings Of Leon, The Verve, Metallica and Rage Against The Machine fill the top five slots in the best headliner category, while Duffy, MGMT and The Ting Tings pick up two nods.
Run by Virtual Festivals.com, the awards have grown each year and 2008 will mark a full dinner and ceremony type set up, while Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy will benefit from funds raised on the night.
Virtual Festivals CEO Steve Jenner told us, “Given that it’s been the most talked-about year for festivals ever, it hasn’t surprised us that this year has seen by far the most frenetic, intense and furious voting activity in the UK Festival Awards’ history. Whilst many of the results have been as one would expect, it looks like there could well be one or two very big surprises in the final votes, too.”
The nominations in full are:
Best Major Festival in Association with Icom
Creamfields
Download
Glastonbury
Global Gathering
Isle of Wight Festival
Leeds Festival
Reading Festival
T In The Park
V Festival Chelmsford
V Festival Staffs
Best Medium Sized Festival in Association with Ticketline
Beautiful Days
Bestival
Glade
Hydro Connect
Latitude
Lovebox Weekender
Rock Ness
The Big Chill
The Wickerman Festival
Wakestock (Abersoch)
Best Small Festival
2000 Trees
Beach Break Live
Cambridge Folk Festival
End Of The Road Festival
Indie Track Festival
Larmer Tree Festival
Secret Garden Party
Standon Calling
Strummercamp
Summer Sundae Weekender
Best Dance Festival
Creamfields
Dance Island
Escape Into The Park
Glade Festival
Global Gathering
Run To The Sun Festival
South West Four
Waveform Festival
Best Line-up
Bestival
End Of The Road Festival
Glastonbury Festival
Isle Of Wight Festival
Latitude
Lovebox
Reading Festival
T In The Park
The Big Chill
V Festival Chelmsford
Best New Festival in Association with Jose Cuervo
Beachdown Festival
Bearded Theory
Camp Bestival
Festibelly
Hop Farm Festival
Offset Festival
The Limetree Festival
The Magic Loungeabout
The Mighty Boosh Festival
Wakestock (Blenheim Palace)
Grass Roots Festival
Beautiful Days
Belladrum Tartan Heart Festival
Big Session
End Of The Road Festival
Kendal Calling
Knockengorroach – World Ceilidh
Loopallu
Off The Tracks
Wickerman Festival
WOMAD
Family Festival Award
Beautiful Days
Camp Bestival
Fairport’s Cropredy Convention
Greenbelt
Guilfest
Larmer Tree Festival
Solfest
Summer Sundae Weekender
Weyfest
Wychwood Festival
Best Toilets
Aeon Festival
Festinho
Greenbelt
Larmer Tree Festival
Nozstock
Secret Garden Party
Standon Calling
Strummercamp
The Big Chill
Y-Not Festival
Best European Festival in Association with Yourope
Castlepalooza (Ireland)
Creamfields Romania (Romania)
EXIT (Serbia)
Festival Dello Stretto (Italy)
FIB Benicassim (Spain)
Gurtenfestival (Switzerland)
Heineken Open-er (Poland)
HOVE Festivalen (Norway)
Lowlands (Netherlands)
Open Air St.Gallen (Switzerland)
Oxegen (Ireland)
Roskilde (Denmark)
Snowbombing (Austria)
Spirit of Burgas (Bulgaria)
Tignes Fest (France)
Best Festival Headline Act in Association with Jagermeister
Kings Of Leon
Metallica
Muse
Rage Against The Machine
The Verve
Festival Rock Act in Association with Gibson
Biffy Clyro
Bloc Party
Bullet For My Valentine
Elbow
The Raconteurs
Festival Dance Act
Groove Armada
Hot Chip
Pendulum
The Chemical Brothers
The Prodigy
Festival Pop Act
Duffy
Girls Aloud
Scouting For Girls
The Ting Tings
Will Young
Festival Feel-Good Act in Association with Pimms
Eddy Grant
Neil Diamond
Seasick Steve
Tenacious D
The Mighty Boosh
Best Festival Urban Act in Association with BAT
Dizzee Rascal
Estelle
N*E*R*D
Roots Manuva
The Streets
Best Live Newcomer in Association with NME Radio
Duffy
Glasvegas
MGMT
The Ting Tings
Vampire Weekend
Anthem Of The Summer
Dizzee Rascal feat, Calvin Harris – ‘Dance Wiv Me’
MGMT – ‘Time To Pretend’
Noah And The Whale – ‘5 Years Time’
The Ting Tings – ‘That’s Not My Name’
The Verve – ‘Love Is Noise’
Innovation Award in Association with Weboptimiser Media
Beachdown: All shuttle-buses and official transportation ran on used cooking oil.
Glade: Ticket scheme whereby festival goers were pre-sent an access card to swipe at the gate.
Glastonbury: Biodegradable, starch tent pegs handed out to festival goers.
Hydro Connect: Rickshaws used to ferry festival goers and artists around the site.
Isle Of Wight: Wristbands distributed two weeks before the festival to speed up entry.
Latitude: Theatre Arena built upon the world’s first fuel cell powered festival stage.
Lovebox: Real-time webcasts of artist interviews and performances on website and stage screens.
Solfest: Kids only toilets introduced to make things easier for children and adults alike.
Standon Calling: Hosted the UK’s first festival underwater dance arena in a swimming pool.
The Big Chill: Big Issue vendors sold the programme on site, while buskers were invited to perform.
Most Memorable Moment in Association with Gaymer Cider
British Sea Power, Arctic Monkeys and Klaxons hold impromptu collaboration at Sing Ye From The Hills.
Edwyn Collins makes moving comeback at Glastonbury following life threatening illness.
Jay-Z mocks Noel Gallagher with his rendition of ‘Wonderwall’ at Glastonbury.
Kasabian play up to dance fans with a cover of The Source’s ‘You’ve Got The Love’ at Creamfields.
KISS spit blood and ‘fly over’ Download fans, as thousands dress up as Gene Simmons.
Robert Plant joins Fairport Convention on stage at Cropredy Festival for ‘Battle Of Evermore’
Ross Noble leads a conga around the Latitude site, stealing fans from various stages
Secret Garden Party blow up their lake-marooned Pirate Ship in a firework spectacular.
The Specials and Grace Jones play secret back-to-back gigs at Bestival
Utah Saints break world record for most ever fans doing the ‘Running Man’ dance at Get Loaded In The Park.
