Download, Arctic Monkeys and We Are FSTVL clear up at the 2013 UK Festival Awards

Download Festival took the gong for Best Major Festival on Monday 2^nd December, beating the likes of Glastonbury, Reading & Leeds and V Festival at the UK Festival Awards that took place at London’s Roundhouse. From winning Best Line-up at last year’s awards, Download has brought rock and heavy metal music to the masses. Sheffield’s finest, Arctic Monkeys won this year’s Best Headline Performance for their mind-blowing headline set at Glastonbury. Seeing off competition from heavyweights, The Rolling Stones, Elton John and Foals, the quartet is finishing the year on a high.

The title of Best New Festival was snapped up by electronic party We are FSTVL. Established only this year at Damyn’s Hall Aerodrome in Essex, We are FSTVL played host to the world’s leading stars of dance music, much to the delight of electronic music fans. Feeling the love from the voting public, Rudimental beat fellow Mercury Music Prize nominees, Disclosure, in the Breakthrough Act of The Year category. Elsewhere, French duo Daft Punk got lucky taking the title of Anthem of The Summer for their catchy hit “Get Lucky” featuring Chic’s Nile Rogers who accepted the award via video message.

After much deliberation from renowned UK music journalists, the winner of Best Line-up this year went to Latitude, a festival which continues to gather the finest acts in music and the arts to date. As previously announced, the recipient of the Outstanding Achievement award went to Fiona Stewart of Green Man Festival for her contribution to the festival industry.

James Drury, Managing Director of UK Festival Awards commented:  “In this, our 10^th year, we had the most fiercely-fought competition for the awards. There were so many incredible festivals taking place this year that it’s not surprising that 575,000 votes were cast by fans from across the world.

“Congratulations to all those which made it into the finalists – it’s no mean feat to make it into the top 10, considering over 340 festivals entered this year.”

More this year’s festivals came out to celebrate 2013’s season with Kendal Calling, Creamfields, Camp Bestival, Bearded Theory and Barclaycard presents British Summer Time also taking home awards. A full list of winners can be found below.