Red Stripe Music Award 2010 - Sign up now!!

Storming into its fourth year, the Red Stripe Music Award 2010, supported by Last FM, is hitting the streets once again to give you the chance to share what you've got with the rest of the country.

Red Stripe is set to raise the stakes with its biggest and best gig series yet with even more live music venues, partners and music industry muscle on board for 2010.

Gigs will take place around the country from January to April, across 30 of the country’s best live music venues - from London’s Dublin Castle and 93 Feet East to the Cockpit in Leeds and Moho in Manchester.

Bands and artists are invited to enter details via www.redstripe.net and if selected, will play for the chance to win spots at some of the UK’s best loved festivals, including The Great Escape.

Fender equipment and Merc clothing will also be up for grabs as well as hours of free consultancy with Arising Artist, a group of music industry professionals who advise on A&R, Promotion, Publicity, Marketing, Management and general business management.

Paul Brazier heads up the Red Stripe team and is keen to give something back to fans of the Jamaican lager beer; “The Red Stripe Music Award is about providing emerging artists with an appropriate platform to be heard, with support from partners that truly benefits each band.”

Extra support in the way of Last FM and The Fly magazine will see emerging talent exposed to music lovers across the country, so get involved and sign up now!

Open to bands playing any manner of music, utterly unbiased to trend or leaning, Red Stripe asks only that applicants are over 18 years old and perform original tracks with the heart and soul they deserve.

Check out www.redstripe.net for more about venues and dates and see what last year’s winner, Ben Howard, has been up to on http://www.muzu.tv/redstripe/ben-howard-talks-rsma-ben-howard-music-video/501651/hq

Red Stripe Music Award venues and dates:

15th January (Fri) London, Flowerpot (Kentish Town)
22nd January (Fri) London, The Windmill (Brixton)
28th January (Thu) Bristol, Croft
29th January (Fri) Cardiff, Barfly
4th February (Thu) Wedgewood Rooms Southsea, Portsmouth
4th February (Thu) Edinburgh, Cabaret Voltaire
5th February (Fri) Glasgow, Box
10th February (Wed) Exeter, Mama Stones
11th February (Thu) Cornwall, Bunters (Truro)
12th February (Fri) Cornwall, Blue (Porthtowan)
17th February (Wed) Leeds, Cockpit
17th February (Wed) Manchester, Moho
18th February (Thu) Newcastle, End Bar
19th February (Fri) Sheffield, Harley
19th February (Fri) Liverpool, Zanzibar
20th February (Sat) Accrington, Attic
4th March (Thu) Brighton, Freebutt
4th March (Thu) Birmingham, Rainbow
5th March (Fri) Bedford, Esquires
11th March (Thu) London, 93 Feet East (Brick Lane)
12th March (Fri) Reading, Purple Turtle
18th March (Thu) St Albans, Horn
18th March (Thu) Oxford, Cellar
19th March (Fri) Remix, Hitchin
20th March (Sat) London, Hootananny (Brixton)
28th March (Sat) Manchester, Moho
25th March (Thu) London, Dublin Castle (Camden)


The Red Stripe Music Award is supported this year by Arising Artist, Fender, Last FM, Merc, The Fly magazine and The Great Escape.



Red Stripe Music Award

RSMA

Check out this slideshow!