Bands
Please read the instructions below carefully. We do need you to provide all of this requested information in order for your application to play to be considered.
Industry Bands / DIY:
We need to see that you are serious about moving into the music industry as a full time career, either via signing to an industry company or on a self promoted DIY basis.
To help you achieve this we require:
An in depth biog with evidence of the publicity you have created for your band and quality (300dpi min) digital photographs for full colour magazine use
A fifty word summary regarding the band, for use in our souvenir programme
All online promotional addresses you have, such as Facebook, Myspace, Soundcloud or a an artist website address
Details of recorded material available for sale to the public, IE: CD’s, Vinyl, MP3’s
Average age of the band
Your industry representatives details if you have them IE: PR contact, Agent, Manager, Label etc. If you don’t have them, the contacts for all of those who are involved in promoting you and looking after your interests.
Phone numbers and email addresses for two members of the band, pointing out the main band contact
A brief description of what you intend to do to
promote yourself playing at TWF.
We want you to make the very
best of this opportunity. We will do our bit and we expect you to do yours
for your own benefit
Bands will need to arrive with all of their own gear, we do not get into sharing equipment. Staging, PA and lighting will be supplied. All bands play a 40min set (strict) including our headliners
Covers Bands or Non-Industry.
If you simply play for fun or are semi-pro, then you will need to provide TWF with the following:
An in depth biog with evidence of the publicity you have created for your band and quality (300dpi min) digital photographs for full colour magazine use
A fifty word summary regarding the band, for use in our souvenir programme
All online promotional addresses you have, such as Facebook, Myspace, Soundcloud or a an artist website address
Details of recorded material available for sale to the public, IE: CD’s, Vinyl, MP3’s
Contacts for all of those who are involved in promoting you and looking after your interests
Phone numbers and email addresses for two members of the band, pointing out the main band contact
A brief description of what you intend to do to promote yourself playing at TWF
Bands will need to arrive with all of their own gear as we do not get into sharing equipment. Staging, PA and lighting will be supplied. All bands play a 40min set (strict) including our headliners
TWF is accepting band applications
from 1 November 2011
All applications to the email or postal address on our
Contact
page.
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Band entry criteria
The Willow Festival exists to promote artists to the public and the music industry. TWF is a bands showcase for recently signed or unsigned acts as well as a vehicle for entertaining the public via live music.
Bands that appear at The Willow Festival do so entirely at their own cost. TWF festival is run by unpaid volunteers for your promotion. TWF is a non-profit making event.
TWF is not genre based. All styles of live music acts are welcome to apply. From Jazz to Hardcore. However, it must be played live. No miming, backing tracks or faking it. We do not showcase solo or groups of vocalists who use backing tracks.
We have a merchandise marquee where our team can sell your products and we do not take any type of commission for this. It’s a free service to help you with your appearance costs. If you are a successful applicant, then our merch team will contact you at the relevant time.
Each year TWF processes approximately 3500 band applications, so please once you’ve contacted us, await our reply. There’s no need to chase, we will respond to you, even though it could take many weeks.
The Willow Festival also accepts applications from covers bands and around 25 play the festival, mainly in our large beer marquee. The criteria for applying as a covers band is not the same as for an industry band or DIY act. So to the right are two separate sets of details.
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