Songwriting UK — Winter 2017

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OW IN ITS seventh year,

Unsigned Only is a competition

for solo artists, bands and

singers all over the world. Prizes include

$150,000 in cash (with $20,000 going

to the Grand Prize winner), one-on-

one mentoring from a group of record

company executives and the chance to

be heard by other figures from the music

industry including artists and journalists.

Categories for the 2018 competition

included AAA (Adult Album Alternative),

AC (Adult Contemporary), Americana,

Christian, Country, EDM (Electronic

Dance Music), Folk/Singer-Songwriter,

Pop/Top 40, R&B/Hip-Hop, Rock and

Vocal Performance.

Among the confirmed judges are Aimee

UNSIGNED ONLY MUSIC COMPETITION

Mann, KT Tunstall; Lydia Loveless;

Melanie Fiona; O.A.R.; Jack Ingram;

Aaron Shust; David Crowder. The

competition is now open and taking

entries through June 2018.

The 2018 competition is now open to entries

T

HE FIRST ACTS of Camp Bestival 2018 have been unveiled. In an

announcement that matches the festival’s ‘sailing’ theme, organiser Rob Dan

Bank says “Ahoy there shipmates and anchors aweigh! HMS Camp Bestival is

ready to set sail with our first wave of salty seadogs to announce. Expect the unexpected

from rock giants Simple Minds and Shed Seven to dance gurus Orbital and Basement

Jaxx and a cheeky bit of Rick Astley too... and that’s just the music. From River Cottage

feasts and animatronic dinosaurs, to Insect Circuses, pantomimes and a gin festival, it’s

full steam ahead for 2018. All aboard!”

Other musical acts on the bill include Clean Bandit, Declan McKenna, Dodie, The

Skatalites and Jaguar Skills as well as DJ sets from Fearne Cotton and Huey Morgan,

who will be bringing his NYC Block Party to the festival. Camp Bestival will take place

at Lulworth Castle in Dorset from the 26th to 29th July 2018 and £1 from every ticket

sold will go to their charity partner, the Ellen MacArthur Cancer Trust.

ALL ABOARD THE GOOD SHIP CAMP BESTIVAL

Festival line-up released: Clean Bandit, Simple Minds and Rick Astley to headline

SARM WEST COAST LA DESTROYED

Wildfires devastate Trevor Horn’s studio

TREVOR HORN’S residential studio has been destroyed

by the wildfires that have devastated much of Southern

California. On 7 Dec the legendary producer tweeted “Sarm

West Coast caught fire yesterday not musically as it has

done in the past 20 years, but physically. We haven’t been

able to get there yet but by all accounts it’s completely burnt

down. Thank you all for your kind messages.”

more at: brotherrock.net

Clean Bandit - one of the three musical headliners

Aimee Mann - one of the Unsigned Only judges