Now’s the time to start planning your summer up the mountain so get July 21st firmly planted in your minds for what we hope will be the most exciting Glasgowbury yet.

2012 marks Glasgowbury’s 12th year in business and we couldn’t be happier to bring you our annual celebration of all that’s great and good about local music.

We’re currently beavering away behind the scenes building up a line-up and festival plan for all tastes.

In the meantime, keep in touch with us via Facebook and Twitter about what you’d like to see at Glasgowbury 2012.

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The ’small but massive’ festival are in the running for:

• Best Small Festival
• Best Line-Up
• Best Family Festival
• Best Service
• Social Responsibility
• Best Toilets

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This is the 5th year of the acclaimed Dublin bash and we’re proud to have picked up a number of awards over the years including holding on to Best Family & Best Service for three years running.

You can show your support and vote for Glasgowbury by FOLLOWING THIS LINK

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Each year Glasgowbury open a submissions period to give all acts an opportunity to put themselves forward for consideration for the event and a panel of people listen to every one ahead of choosing the festival line-up.

Following the incredibly large amount of submissions received in 2011, a majority of which were via post, we’ve decided to go down the green route this year and accept all submissions electronically.

WHAT TO DO:

To submit for Glasgowbury 2012, all you have to do is email submissions@glasgowbury.com with a link to your website, social networking site, third party site with a link to your music etc – wherever your music and a bit of information about you/your act is included.

Please also use ‘Glasgowbury 2012′ as the email subject.

Feel free to include some up to date information, some nice words or horse tips in your email too.

The panel will listen to all submissions over the coming weeks and months before the submissions period officially closes at the end of January.

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Presented by the NI Tourist Board, Glasgowbury were honoured to have beaten off strong competition from the likes of Belsonic, Open House and Pigstock.

In the first year of the awards other acts such as Cashier No 9, General Fiasco and ASIWYFA all picked up awards for their work over the last year.

Next up, Glasgowbury have been invited to the prestigious UK Festival Awards in London later this month where we’re in the running in the Best Small Festival category. Fingers crossed!

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The ‘Small But Massive’ festival are currently in the running for Best Small Festival at the UK Festival Awards (after coming runner-up for the prize in 2010) and are up for Best Festival in the first ever NI Music Awards.

The NIMAs will take place at the Ulster Hall on Wednesday 2nd November and will feature performances from festival favourites such as General Fiasco, And So I Watch You From Afar and Cashier No. 9 among many others.

Later, on November 15th, Glasgowbury will find out the results of the UK Festival Awards in London where the local event is in the running for Best Small Festival.

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In a shortened version of categories this year, the public will be able to vote in just a few sections while a team of judges have been out visiting events to assess their merit in other categories.

So as well as helping us towards the ‘Fans’ Favourite Festival’ award, Glasgowbury are also in the running for the ‘Best Small Festival’ award as judged by an industry panel.

To vote for Glasgowbury and enter yourself into a draw for a pair of tickets to every winning festival, click here.

Voting closes on Monday 10th October, so cast yours soon!

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Thankfully there were plenty of people on hand throughout the day to document proceedings and allow us to look back on our 11th birthday celebrations.

From reviews to radio to video and photos, there’s plenty to sink your teeth into and relive another memorable day in the mountains.

Reviews:

The BBC were out in force at Glasgowbury filming, snapping and generally reviewing the asses off every band there:

BBC ATL REVIEW

Others doing the rounds included:

Live4Ever

Culture NI

E Festivals

State.ie

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Photos:

A host of photographers were snapping away all day and although a lot of links and snaps can be found on our Facebook page, check out these exclusive sets too:

Official Glasgowbury photo set by Shane Kelly

Across The Line

Panic Dots

E Festivals

Daily Mirror

Alan Maguire (Live Music Pics)

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Videos:

We are proud to announce that Glasgowbury 2011 was used to officially unveil new technology from the BBC which saw them stream footage from the Small But Massive Main Stage to computers worldwide.

As well as that, we had a secret backstage tipi where Radio One Introducing were filming acoustic performances all day. Check both sets of footage out here:

BBC Footage

TG4 were also on site filming an hour long special which broadcast last week. Catch it on repeat online or check out a couple of special acoustic performances here:

TG4 Footage

And as always, do a search on Youtube and you’ll find any number of crazy cameos:

Youtube Footage

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Elsewhere there’s a raft of more reviews, photos and everything in between. To stay up to date with all advancements, keep an eye on our official Facebook page!

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The sun shone, the mountains bounced and over 4,500 people climbed the mountain to celebrate acts such as Cashier No. 9, LaFaro, Mojo Fury, Katie & The Carnival and over 50 others.

As always it’s time to recuperate and gather our thoughts before we plan ahead to 2012. We’d love to hear back from you on how your festival experience went and what your thoughts on the overall weekend were so don’t be afraid to get in touch.

Until then…small but MASSIVE!

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We do however have a number of items still to be recovered. Do you know anything about the following:

- We have an item belonging to Tiarnan Larkin;

- We have a distinctive ladies purse with no cards or contact information;

- We have a pair of prescription glasses;

- We have a pair of sunglasses;

- We have a bank card belonging to Mr Mallon;

- We have a black bag containing clothes and other items;

- We have a distinctive sleeping bag in a carrier bag.

If you know these people or think the purse could be yours, please contact us via email (info@glasgowbury.com) or tel: 028 796 28428.

More items are likely to be added to the list in the coming days, but this can not be guaranteed. We will endeavour to get all items back to their respective owners.

HAVE YOU FOUND A TEDDY BEAR DOG?

A mother has been in touch to let us know that her child has lost her small brown dog teddy bear called Basil (it’s name is on the collar).

If you found it or know of its whereabouts, please let us know.

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To The Death Of Fun, their absolutely cracking debut album, has seen the light of day to widespread acclaim and they cap the summer off in style by taking headlining duties atop the Small But Massive Main Stage at Glasgowbury 2011.

“We’re busy rehearsing this week,” said drummer Phil Duffy.

“Normally we’re used to playing 30 minute sets so we’re getting prepared for an hour long slot, we’re having to dust off a few of the old ones.

“They’ll all be getting a run out including When Jackie Shone and 42 West Avenue, it’s going to be an hour full of hits.”

While the debut steered away from the inclusion of the two above mentioned stand outs, it managed to create a legend all of its own from start to finish, much like Cashier No 9 have been doing over the years.

“Myself and Danny (Todd) first played the festival back in 2002 so we’ve been around for a large part of it and slowly but surely we’ve been climbing up the bill over the years.

“But it’s an absolute honour among all of us to be considered as headliners of Glasgowbury this year, we can’t wait, it’s going to be something special.”

So while the immediate future sees the band play their biggest headline show to date, the best is still yet to come if the now 6 piece have anything to say about it.

After a summer full of debauchery sees them tour the length and breadth of Ireland and the UK, they’ll look as far away as Australia for their next stab at domination; a country where Goldstar is already play-listed on major radio.

And then of course there’s the follow-up opus to be considered.

“Danny’s already started work on the next one but we’re really concentrating on working this one and giving it time to breathe first.”

No doubt they’ll find plenty of room for it on the side of Eagles Rock this Saturday night.

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