07/10/2009

La Casa Azul nominated for the UK FESTIVAL AWARDS 2009

With the prestigious nominees recently announced for the UK Festival Awards, awards that give prizes related to diverse aspects of organization, philosophy, functioning, and of course the performances that take place at various UK Festivals, we have received notification that none other than LA CASA AZUL have been nominated for the special award given to the best live performance for their concert at the Indietracks Festival this past July. As the award name itself proclaims, the “Virtual Festivals Critics' Choice Award” is designed to recognize those whose performance adds something extra to their show in the festival. It can be comedy, nostalgia, interaction with the audience, or simply that “secret ingredient”, basically something that sets them apart from the rest of the artists as true entertainers of the masses. And a spark went off like fireworks in a performance that left the audience at the festival (and, as this nomination shows, the critics too) speechless, with incredible audiovisuals and a show that was different from what the group had been doing throughout their Spanish tour the last year. It is a practically singular experience, that a Spanish group is nominated for English prizes, and that Guille Milkyway will have to compete against bands like PET SHOP BOYS, MERCURY REV, Andrew Bird, THE DIRTY THREE, FRIENDLY FIRES, LILY ALLEN, MGMT, NOVELLE VAGUE, Patrick Wolf, TOM JONES, THOM YORKE, BON IVER and PJ Harvey, among others. Of course, a nomination is already a prize in and of itself, and the group’s fans can participate in the outcome by voting on the award’s website, as we explain below.

Also, the Indietracks festival - where the nominated concert took place, and which paid homage to Elefant this year for our twentieth anniversary – has been nominated in four other categories including “Best Small Festival” and “Family Festival Award”. We are asking LA CASA AZUL fans and Indietracks Festival fans to help out by voting for these prizes and allowing these small oases in the musical panorama to have their deserved starring role.

The first round voting ends on October 14th, so get to work because there’s only a week left!!! To vote, you can get to the page through the festival’s blog (http://indietracksblog.blogspot.com), or directly on the awards website (http://www.festivalawards.com) and even from the nominations webpage that the prizes have put up for their followers (http://www.festivalawards.com/index.cfm?section=awards.nominees&method=view&year=2009&eventid=2020#category_103). Additionally, you will be entered into a lottery to win passes to any of the participating festivals (and there are quite a few).

This is definitely big news, new international recognition of a figure who is making history within Spanish pop, and praise for unrepeatable songs that have crossed unimaginable borders and that once again make us dream. Congratulations LA CASA AZUL!!!!
 

LA CASA AZUL gets to the finals in the UK FESTIVAL AWARDS 2009! VOTE!!!!
picture: ?La Casa Azul llega a la final de los UK FESTIVAL AWARDS 2009!
20/10/2009