She Drew The Gun wins our Emerging Talent Competition in partnership with Glastonbury Festival

The live finals of Glastonbury Festival’s 2016 Emerging Talent Competition, supported by PRS for Music Foundation, took place on Saturday night in Pilton.

Photo by Jason Bryant

After a wonderful night of live music, Merseyside psych-pop four-piece She Drew The Gun (http://www.shedrewthegun.com/about.html) were announced as the winners by Glastonbury organiser Michael Eavis. The band wins a slot on one of the Festival’s main stages, plus a £5,000 Talent Development prize from the PRS Foundation.

The judges – who included Michael and Emily Eavis, our Senior grants and Programmes Manager Joe Frankland, Glastonbury stage bookers and music business professionals – awarded second place to Glasgow’s party-starting R&B pop act Bossy Love, with third place going to London-based folk singer Hattie Whitehead. Both acts receive a £2,500 Talent Development prize from the PRS Foundation.

Photo by Ruth Kilpatrick

Photo by Ruth Kilpatrick

The free-to-enter 2016 ETC competition was entered by thousands of acts in January. Once the entries were in, a panel of 40 of the UK’s top music writers compiled a longlist of 120 acts. The longlist was then whittled down to a shortlist of 8 artists by judges including Glastonbury organiser Emily Eavis.

Previous Emerging Talent Competition entrants include hotly-tipped R&B singer Izzy Bizu (a 2016 BRITs Critics’ Choice and BBC Sound Of 2016 nominee) and fast-rising young rapper Isaiah Dreads. Last year’s winner was singer-songwriter Declan McKenna, who has since signed a management deal with Q Prime, who also manage Metallica, Muse and Foals.