UK Festival Awards 2012 announce winners
This year’s UK Festival Awards were announced last night (3 December) at a ceremony held at London’s Roundhouse.
Among the winners of the 2012 accolades were Bestival for ‘Best Major Festival’, Festival No.6 for ‘Best New Festival’ and Benicassim for ‘Best Overseas Festival’.
Elsewhere, Cambridge’s Lodestar picked up the prize for ‘Best Toilets’ and Django Django won ‘Anthem Of The Summer’ for their track ‘Default’.
The list of all the winners is underneath:
Best Major Festival
Bestival
Best Medium-Sized Festival
Bloodstock Open Air Festival
Best Small Festival
Y Not Festival
Best New Festival
Festival No.6
Best Dance Event
Global Gathering
Best Metropolitan Festival
Camden Crawl
Best Line-Up
Download
Best Family Festival
Latitude
The Grass Roots Festival Award
Green Man
Best Toilets
Lodestar
Best Overseas Festival
Benicassim
Agency Of The Year
William Morris
Promoter Of The Year
Gareth Cooper (Festival No. 6, Beach Break, Lollibop)
Headline Performance Of The Year
New Order at Festival No. 6
Best Breakthrough Act
Jake Bugg
Anthem Of The Summer
Django Django – ‘Default’
The Extra-Festival Activity Award
Live From Jodrell Bank
Concession Of The Year
Paelleria
Lifetime Achievement Award
John Probyn
The Greener Festival Award
Croissant Neuf Summer Party
Best Brand Activation
Southern Comfort Juke Joint
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