After intense deliberation by the Festival's First Hardcore Listening Battalion, the unsigned band finalists for the Jazzworld and Dance stages have been selected.
Blackbud and The Subways who played at last years festival after becoming joint winners of the Unsigned Competition, went on to have massive success in 2004.
The names of the acts competing at the finals for a slot on those stages in March is as follows -
JazzWorld
Dragonsfly
Kristian Bediiako's World Fusion Band
Moya
Paddy Milner
Reem Kelani
Unnati
Dance
The Bellagios
Chemical Dub Theory
The Fabrics
Genesis Elijah
Luminous
Twee
The John Peel and Acoustic Stage Listening Divisions are still digging deep into the hundreds of cds, and should announce the finalists in a few weeks. Watch this space...