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The Winners - The Weekender Awards 2023

17/05/2024

Got some wonderful news today!!!

Delighted to say that I have picked up not one, but two awards at this years The Weekender awards as well as a runner up for Song of the Year.

‘Demons’ was selected as ‘Album of the Year’

‘All I Want’ won for ‘Single of the Year’

Absolutely honoured to have picked up the awards in categories full of amazing talent.

This album has been such an emotional journey and to see it recognised as being worthy of an award really is an honour. Thank you 🙏🏽

🏆 Full Article & Winners below

📸 Frank Murphy

16/05/2024

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐖𝐞𝐞𝐤𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐀𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐬 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟑

This evening we can (finally!) reveal the winners of our 2023 awards. Many congratulations to our winners.

Album - 📀 Brownbear - Demons
EP - 💿 Megan Black - Full Circle (Pt.1)
Song - 🎤 PLASTICINE - On My Own
Single - 🐻 Brownbear - All I Want
Breakthrough - 💥 Abigail Pryde
Live Act - 🎸 Fatherson
Acoustic Act - 🎻 Matthew Hall
Electronic Act - 🎹 BETA WAVES

The Winners - The Weekender Awards 2023

29/12/2023

And part 2 of our shortlists reveal…

🎤 Live Act of the Year 🎤
— sponsored by B12 Entertainment

BIG IRON
Bleed From Within
Codespeaker
Danko
Fatherson
Forgetting The Future
Grace & The Flat Boys
Into the Pines
Sixth Wonder
Spyres

💥 Breakthrough Artist of the Year 💥
— sponsored by Electric Shores PR

Abigail Pryde
Big Iron
Bird Cage Theatre
Bride
Conflict Hope
Day Sleeper
HAVOX
Into Yesterday
Joe Goodall Music
Lo Rays
neverfine
PLASTICINE
Quiet Houses
Snowsofyesteryear
Theta

🎼 Acoustic Artist of the Year 🎼

Cortnë
James Liandu Music
Jamie Taylor Music
Jordan Phillips
Kate Kyle Music
Liv Dawn
Matthew Hall
NANI Music
Neev Music
Shaun Panda Nicolson

🎹 Electronic Artist of the Year 🎹

BETA WAVES
Dot Allison
Fourth Daughter
Get Wrong
Kohla
MALKA
philomenah
Post Coal Prom Queen
SHEARS
Supermann on da beat

A total of 100 nominees across eight categories have been revealed.

29/12/2023

…And the nominees are

We are thrilled to reveal (part 1 of) the shortlists for The Weekender Awards 2023…

💿 Album of the Year 💿
— sponsored by Room 2 —

Abigail Pryde - Abigail Pryde
Brownbear - Demons
Dead Sea Souls - Brought to Life
Gerry Son + The Smokin' Gun Gallus in Wonderland
Mark Sharp & The Bicycle Thieves Unmask The Circus
Raveloe - Exit Light
Royal Bloom - Visceral
She Burns Red - Out of Darkness
Sophie Penman Music - Written in the Books
Withered Hand - How to Love

📀 EP of the Year 📀
— sponsored by Xfire.live —

Arcade State - A Slave to the Waves
Artax - Eternally Regretful
Cloud House - Still Here
David Latto - Dream Logic
Elisabeth Elektra - Broken Promises

Hospital Corner – Speaking New Languages
Lo Rays – Algorithm Gods
Megan Black – Full Circle (Part 1)
Nathan Somevi – Brave
neverfine – Do Everything, Feel Nothing

Rosie H Sullivan – In My Nature
swim school – duality
Theo Bleak – Pain
Vigilanti – Pick Your Poison
Vulpine - Nightmares

🎵 Song of the Year 🎵
— sponsored by Forth Valley College —

Anchor Lane – Ministry
Bird Cage Theatre – The City Screams Us
Bride – Lost Cause
Brownbear - Demons
Day Sleeper – Savage Dreams

Future Colours – May She Sleep Forever
Grace & The Flat Boys - Ghosting
King Creosote – Blue Marvel Elm Trees
Mark Sharp & The Bicycle Thieves – Stubborn
PLASTICINE – On My Own

Raveloe – Clouds Are Release
Rodeo Club – Out of Sight
SILVI – Don’t Wanna Love Again
Theta – What I Want
Xan Tyler – You’re My Muse

🎶 Single of the Year 🎶
— sponsored by Forth Valley College —

Anchor Lane – I Don’t Have Another Soul to Pour
Arcade State – Life is Not Linear
BIG IRON – River Runs Dry
Bottle Rockets Band – Limerence
Brownbear – All I Want

Calum Jones – Truth Hurts
Culann – St Andrews
Distant Images – Sight Unseen
Gerry Son & The Smokin' Gun – Get on Board
Nelson Savage – The Atlantic

Rosie H Sullivan – Only a Woman
Saint Vienna – New Hope
She Burns Red – Out of Darkness
Slowmove – Golden Stitches
Strange Dimensions – To Stay

…more nominees to come

A total of 100 nominees across eight categories have been revealed.

19/12/2023

One week to go >> takes to the stage at with support from & .

Tickets from the link in our bio 🙌

06/12/2023

- 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐖𝐞𝐞𝐤𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐀𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐬 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟑 -

We are back again for the fourth annual awards, with two new categories confirmed for this year...

📀 Album of the Year
💿 EP of the Year
🎤 Song of the Year
🎧 Single of the Year
💥 Breakthrough Artist of the Year
🎸 Live Act of the Year
🎼 ​ɴᴇᴡ - Acoustic Artist of the Year
🎹 ɴᴇᴡ - Electronic Artist of the Year

Thanks again to our sponsors - Forth Valley College, Electric Shores PR, B12 Entertainment, Room 2 and Xfire.live - for their support...

And to all our ... what release (or releases) from the Scottish music scene has impressed you the most this year?

THE fourth annual Weekender Awards are open for entries.

06/12/2023

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29/08/2023

🔥 21 NEW ARTISTS 🔥 added to your line-up today 😍 🎉 including Bemz, Lizzie Reid, swim school, Voodoos, Linzi Clark, The Big Day, Jacob Alon , Kerr Mercer, SILVI, Reignmaker, Cara McBride Music, Sister Madds, Big Special, Man/Woman/Chainsaw, soapboxband, Rory James, Love, Shaun, Fourth Daughter, Kooshty + more.

PLUS we're buzzing to announce a special collab with BBC Music Introducing In Scotland who will take over Barrowland Ballroom Glasgow 2 🎶 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Don't miss out on the best day of the year for Scottish music fans, tickets here 👇
bit.ly/TRAIL2023

08/08/2023

In 2018, 2 local Falkirk lads set out with our hard earned cash and a dream to bring a music festival back to Callendar Park. In May 2019 that dream became a reality and Vibration Festival was launched.

Covid then impacted our chances to return in 2020, but we were fortunate enough to be one of the very few events to run in 2021. We then returned in 2022 with another amazing weekend.

We poured our heart and soul into running those 3 events and have been lucky enough to be supported by you, our customers through what is probably the worst time in history for the event industry. With the costs of running events like this continuing to rise at an alarming rate, and the costs of living hitting all our pockets hard daily we appreciate hugely everyone who has bought into our dream of bringing music to the park.

After substantial loses that we personally covered last year, we spent many, many hours reviewing our budget and the model of the 2023 event. We felt we had a great chance of delivering a brilliant weekend in Sept with a ticket price that was beating most other events out there. As time went on however, the glaring reality is that infrastructure and staff costs continue to rise and without an additional 30/40% of ticket holders in the park the event would likely loose our small local business a substantial amount of our money again. This is obviously not something we can afford to do.

To give ourselves time to reset the event and right size a delivery model that works for the target numbers we are requiring to postpone and roll the event forward.

These events require people to buy in early or else we are left with insurmountable costs to cover pre-event. As the years have gone on people are buying tickets later and later, therefore without years of profitable trade it leaves us costs that are very hard to cover upfront.

At this point we have 2 options for all our ticket holders who purchaesed directly from our website:

Opt 1: The team at Party at the Palace along the road in Linlithgow have come to our aid and offered a free ticket swap - swapping your day ticket or weekend ticket at Vibration Festival for the more expensive Party at the Palace day or weekend equivalent ticket (No VIP upgrade unfortunately) - no additional cost to you

Opt 2: Roll your ticket to 2024 (do nothing) and support a local business in bringing the event to life next summer (30/31 August 2024)

(Edit) - Option 1 is only available if tickets were bought directly from Vibration Festivcal website. If either of the 2 options above are of no interest refunds will be dealt in line with our refund policy. Please contact ourselves or if purchased via a third party, the ticket seller directly for a refund.

Many thanks for your continued support of 2 local lads with a big dream.

We will return, and music will again fill the park!

David & Andy

03/08/2023

The annual end of year AGP Xmas Gig featuring some of the best bands in Scotland and hosted by Vic Galloway (Radio Scotland)

03/08/2023

It is with a mix of emotions that we announce the closure of Pleasure Heads. This band has been a part of our lives since we were 16/17 and we have experienced remarkable highs, as well as challenging lows - but after much contemplation, we believe the time has arrived for the band to gracefully bow out.

When we first began, we never thought we’d have the chance to record music, gain actual fans, sell merch, play festivals, let alone play a gig outside of Falkirk, so for all of this we are eternally grateful.

We leave you with this EP. Our parting gift… Goodbye.

20/07/2023

Looking for your next favourite act at Belladrum Tartan Heart Festival next week? Maybe something a bit different?

Well, here are a few to keep an eye out for... Dead Pony, Fatherson, Spyres, Broken Records, Bemz, Forgetting The Future, Calum Jones, Joe Goodall Music, October Drift, and the wild and wacky Punk Rock Factory

Note: This list is not exhaustive... the line-up is STACKED

THE one thing everyone should take away from any music festival...is a new favourite band.

20/07/2023

"...That's part of the charm at Bella, because you never know quite what's coming next."

The countdown to next week's Belladrum Tartan Heart Festival begins here...

Last tickets on sale. Last chance to catch the likes of Travis, Bastille, Sigrid, Sam Ryder, KT Tunstall, Peat & Diesel, Rianne Downey, Dylan John Thomas, Kiefer Sutherland, The Alabama 3, Newton Faulkner, Colonel Mustard & The Dijon 5, Elephant Sessions, Tom McGuire & The Brassholes, The Zutons, SAINT PHNX and dozens more...

THE countdown to Belladrum is rising to a crescendo as the Highlands prepares to host another comprehensive celebration of the arts.

17/07/2023