Live And Unsigned Partners With Future's MusicRadar

Online, January 7, 2011 (Newswire.com) - Live and Unsigned, the UK's biggest unsigned music competition for original artists is pleased to announce the UK's largest musician's website www.musicradar.com and the Future Publishing Group as its official media partner.

Live and Unsigned is aimed at finding potential recording artists and is open to all genres of music. Last year over 10,000 acts entered the competition, with over £100,000 in prizes to be won and the chance to play at the O2 Arena in London. MusicRadar.com is the UK's leading site for musicians with over 750,000 unique users per month across the globe, and 170,000 users in the UK.

The competition opens this month, and thousands of unsigned musicians will take part in auditions happening all across the UK with regional and area finals taking place from February to May. The grand final (Live & Unsigned Festival) will take place on 23rd July at the O2, with a live judging panel including Noddy Holder, Annie Nightingale and Ras Kwame.

MusicRadar.com will provide a Live and Unsigned related 'Live' channel which will be created on the website. Online now, the channel will feature information about the competition, live gigging content, 'how to' guides for bands, as well as updates and information as the competition progresses.

Live and Unsigned's Chris Grayston said: "I am extremely excited about MusicRadar's involvement with Live and Unsigned this year and the introduction of the Future group as a partner! Future is a world leading brand who is globally recognised and I know many of our acts will identify with having brought Future's music publications and used MusicRadar as a resource."

Mia Walter, Group Publishing Director for Future's Music portfolio added: "We are delighted to announce Future's partnership with Live & Unsigned. It's a great opportunity for our huge audience of active musicians to take part in this competition and MusicRadar.com's growing audience will play a significant part in growing the profile of this competition and encourage more musicians to take part."

For more information on Live and Unsigned visit www.musicradar.com/live or http://www.liveandunsigned.uk.com/