Muse - number one!
The cream of European festivals, artists and promoters for 2010 have been announced at Festival Awards Europe in a ceremony at Groningen’s Stadsschouwburg in The Netherlands, on the opening night of the 25th Anniversary edition of Eurosonic Noorderslag. Decided by a combination of public vote and industry juries (with more than 350,000 public votes cast) the winners are:
Best Major European Festival: Heineken Open’er Festival – Poland
Best Medium-Sized European Festival: Electric Picnic Music & Arts Festival – Ireland
Best Small European Festival: 5 Tauron Nowa Muzyka Festival – Poland
Best New European Festival: Temple House Festival – Ireland
Best Indoor Festival: Rolling Stone Weekender – Germany
Best European Festival Line-Up : Oxegen – Ireland
Best Newcomer – Florence and the Machine
Best Headliner – Muse
Festival Anthem of the Year: Muse – Uprising
YOUROPE Green ‘N’ Clean Festival Of The Year: Boom Festival – Portugal
Artist’s Favourite European Festival – Melt! – Germany
Virtual Festivals Europe presents Promoter Of The Year: Kilimanjaro/K2
Yourope Lifetime Achievement Award: Leif Skov
Photograph Nick Cordes (C) 2010