Andy Hickie through to Glastonbury Final
by Ben Davis on 29 February, 2008 | 5 comments
After being whittled down from 2500 entries, Wrexham’s Andy Hickie has made it through to become one of the 12 finalists of the Glastonbury New Talent 2008 competition. The final is being held on 29th and 30th March down in Pilton, Somerset (the closest village to the festival site) and on the judging panel will be Glastonbury organisers Michael and Emily Eavis, Q Magazine editor Paul Rees, BBC Radio DJ Huw Stephens and Sarah Boden from the Observer amongst other industry glitterati.
The winner of the competition will get to perform at the festival in June, on the Pyramid Stage.
Previous winners of the competition, who then went on to much success include Scouting For Girls (2007) and The Subways (2004). The Wrexham music scene has a warm connection with the Glastonbury ‘New Talen’ competition. Back in 2004 (when is was called ‘Unsigned’), Cream Tangerine made it through to the final 12 and received great praise from the Eavis family and industry folk alike.
Performing with him at the final will be his ‘Merry Maidens’ aka Laura Leigh, Stan Dickenson, Steff Owens, Gemma McHale, Ben Trow, Neal Thompson and Andy Daff.
Link: Glastonbury ‘New Talent’ website
Andy Hickie and some of the Merry Maidens
on 01/03/08 at 10:39 pm
thats awesome news well done hickie
on 02/03/08 at 12:55 am
Great news. Well done, Andy!
on 03/03/08 at 7:20 am
Well deserved “Stepping Stones” to greater things. Well done Andy.
on 04/03/08 at 4:43 pm
if you play the main stage you have to come on out of a giant dog-head. fact!well in sir.
on 13/03/08 at 8:54 pm
xxxxxxxx ! 😀