winner announced of Glastonbury Emerging Talent Finals

Glastonbury Festival 2014

Wednesday 25th to Sunday 29th June 2014
Worthy Farm, Pilton, Shepton Mallet, Somerset, BA4 4AZ, England MAP
£210 (secured with a deposit) - SOLD OUT

Daily capacity: 177,500

Last updated: Wed 17th Sep 2014

Last night saw the Glastonbury Emerging Talent Competition Finals take place in Pilton with the shortlist of 8 acts performing ten minute showcases to compete for not just one but three prizes this year.

This year saw the PRS for Music Foundation partnering with the Emerging Talent Competition meaning that as well as winning a slot on one of the Festival's main stages, the winners of the competition were also awarded a £5,000 prize, and two runners-up were also awarded a £2,500 prize.

Festival founder Michael Eavis announced the overall winner was the Italian duo of Michele Ducci and Alessandro Degli Angioli aka M+A, with Cornwall 4 piece The Black Tambourines, and South West London songstress Izzy Bizu the well deserved runners-up.

Many of the acts who competed in last night's competition are likely to be be given the chance to perform on a stage somewhere at this summer's Glastonbury Festival.

This year's competition entrants were all musicians not signed to a major label, based in the UK and Ireland. The finalists had been selected by 40 music bloggers from thousands of entrants, and included terrific performances from Gibson Bull, Hero Fisher, Only Girl, FURS, and Pandr Eyez.

This year it looked likely from the moment that M + A finished their 10 minute set of percussion, vocals and samples that they were going to be a hard act to beat, with the final act The Black Tambourines coming close with their brand of Cornish surf noise, and competition opener 19 year old Izzy Bizu's vibrant voice proving another memorable performance on the night.

Glastonbury Festival has been running the competition to find the greatest Emerging Talent for the last seven Festivals. Previous competitions have brought bands like Bridie Jackson and The Arbour, Treetop Flyers, London Afrobeat Collective, Ellen and the Escapades, We Have Band, Golden Silvers, The Subways, Stornoway, and Scouting For Girls to Festival prominence.

eFestivals will have reviews and pictures of all the competing acts online shortly.

Ticket buyers must pay their balance payments before 11.59pm (BST) tomorrow, Monday 7th April with balances either paid online (click here) or on the booking line: 0844 412 4635.

The resale for Ticket + Coach packages will take place from 7pm on Thursday, 24th April. That will be followed by a resale of General Admission Tickets, from 9am on Sunday, 27th April.

This year's Festival which happens over five full days from Wednesday 25th until Sunday 29th June 2014 across over a 1,000 acres of beautiful countryside at Worthy Farm, Somerset will host Friday headliners Arcade Fire, and Kasabian who close the Pyramid Stage on the Sunday. Other names announced are Jack White, Dolly Parton, Skrillex, James Blake, MGMT, Richie Hawtin,Disclosure will headline a night on the West Holts stage, Blondie, Lily Allen, The Black Keys, Lana Del Rey, Warpaint, The Wailers, Elbow, Sensational Space Shifters ft Robert Plant, Massive Attack, Pixies, Ed Sheeran, De La Soul, MIA, Rudimental, Jurassic 5, Wilko Johnson, The 1975, Bonobo, Kelis, Paolo Nutini, Tinariwen, Little Dragon, Chvrches, Metronomy, Interpol, Foster the People, Mogwai, Royal Blood, John Grant, Bryan Ferry, Kodaline, Manic Street Preachers, Goldfrapp, London Grammar, Jake Bugg, Danny Brown, Dexys, Above & Beyond, Seun Kuti and Fela's Egypt 80, Eats Everything, Annie Mac, Suzanne Vega, Lil Louis, ESG, Midlake, Angel Haze, Four Tet, Temples, Mnek, John Newman, Chromeo, Francois Kevorkian, Parquet Courts, Crystal Fighters, Nitin Sawhney, tUne-yArDs, DJ Pierre, Toumani & Sidiki Diabate, Chance the Rapper, Sun Ra Arkestra, Rodrigo Y Gabriela, Phosphorescent, Connan Mockasin, Public Service Broadcasting, Courtney Barnett, Gorgon City, Daptone Super Soul Review, Wolf Alice, The Radiophonic Workshop, Jagwar Ma, Jamie XX, Ms Dynamite, BrEaCh, and Chloe Howl.

There are still thousands of acts to announce! The full line-up will be announced in May.

As usual eFestivals will bring you the very best-sourced rumours, allowing festival-goers to see who is playing long before the bands are formally announced - keep your eyes on the Glastonbury 2014 rumours, updated as we receive information. Help us to help you - if you hear of a band that's playing, please let us know.

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