LIVE/Wired

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LIVE/Wired is back, offering Island bands the chance to perform at the Isle of Wight Festival, scoop a recording session at a top studio and get guaranteed airplay on Isle of Wight Radio!

Together with the County Press and Platform One, Isle of Wight Radio aim to ensure this year's Live/Wired is the best yet. The winning band will earn a slot on the massive acoustic stage at the Isle of Wight Festival, which last year hosted performances from Midge Ure, Sex Pistol Glen Matlock and Sharon Corr. They will also win a two-day recording session with a professional sound engineer at Platform One's studio.

For the first time in the competition's history, the County Press and Platform One have teamed up with Isle of Wight Radio, which will give the winning track airplay.

The competition kicks off this week with bands and acts of all genres, ages and abilities invited to submit tracks to be put forward into an online poll, hosted at www.iwcp.co.uk. There, fans will be able to hear the tracks, learn more about the bands, check gig listings, watch videos and check out photos of the performances. Vote for your favourites and the top four will go through to a live heat. The top two bands from the live heats, as chosen by a panel of judges from Isle of Wight Radio, the County Press and the music industry will go through to a grand final.

There will be two live heats, the first on December 18, followed by another round of voting and a live heat in February and a grand final in April.

For more information click here.

This year's live heats will be held at Ryde's Wight Rock Bar, with the Grand Final at The Venue, Ryde Theatre.

You can hear the bands on Glyn Taylor's Live and Local and the evening show over the next few weeks - and you can hear all the bands on the Isle of Wight County Press website now!