AC/DC ‘Headline Performance of the Year’ at Festival Awards
Bestival picks up ‘Best Major Festival’ and Camp Bestival got ‘Best Family Festival’...
Last night was the seventh year of the awards which celebrate everything from performances to toilets!
AC/DC’s performance at Donington’s Download Festival was the comfortable winner of the ‘Headline Performance of the Year’ award - it was the band's first festival appearance since he early eighties.
Mumford & Sons, Florence & The Machine, Paolo Nutini and Biffy Clyro were also all honoured at the event at IndigO2.
Meanwhile Camden Crawl picked up 'Best Metropolitan Festival' - with the Mayor of Camden reportedly going up to pick up the award and declaring Camden "the rock n roll capital of the UK if not the world" and declaring war on “fakers” like Shoreditch!
T In The Park got the now legendary honour of ‘Best Toilets’.
James Drury, Managing Director of UK Festival Awards Ltd said: "This year's Awards were the most hotly-contested we've had, with over half a million votes, demonstrating just how important festivals are to the UK public. Despite the continued challenges of the economy it’s been an incredible year for festivals and the Awards is all about celebrating that. The winners should be rightly proud of their achievements, as should the rest of the industry."
The full list of winners is:
Best Toilets - T In The Park
Best Metropolitan Festival - Gaymers Camden Crawl
Best Family Festival in association with Showsec - Camp Bestival
Best Breakthrough Artist in association with Rizla - Mumford & Sons
Best Dance Event in association with Peppermint Bars - Creamfields
Feel Good Act of the Summer in association with Be-at TV - Paolo Nutini
Best New Festival in association with Access All Areas - Vintage At Goodwood
Headline Performance of the Year in association with Jagermeister - AC/DC at Download Festival
Virtual Festivals’ Critics Choice - Biffy Clyro at Glastonbury
Overseas Festival - Snowbombing
Anthem of the Summer in association with HMV - Florence & The Machine ‘You Got The Love’
Line-Up of the Year in association with XL Video - Rockness
Promoter of the Year in association with IQ - Team Glastonbury
Best Small Festival in association with Doodson Entertainment - Kendal Calling
Best Medium Festival in association with Smirnoff Flavours - Green Man
Best Major Festival in association with Tuborg - Bestival
Lifetime Achievement in association with Music Week - Geoff Ellis, T in the Park
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