VF's Top 10 breakthrough acts of 2011 - vote for yours!
Who was our favourite undiscovered talent of the summer?
Photographer:Shirlaine Forrest
Chris Eustace - 21 September 2011
You may only just be getting over the full horror of the long-drops, but with the UK Festival Awards lo oming, it’s time to focus on
the better memories of this festival summer.
One lucky fan who votes in the Awards will win a pair of tickets to
every winning festival in 2012, so just in case that last cider made things a little bit too hazy, we’ve had a look
through our reviews to find who got the best verdicts. Maybe it’ll help you out with yours?
Scroll to the
bottom of this article to vote in the UK Festival Awards.
With Best Headline Performance,
Anthem Of The Summer, and The Fans’ Favourite Festival three of the other categories
you can vote in, here’s who made the VF scribes take notice.
Festivals are a great way to seek out some new
favourites, and whether you already had the album and ran down to finally catch the band, or stumbled upon a new discovery,
here’s the best of the new bunch (including three of our Ones
To Watch from January) with a four-way tie to start things off:
7 = Yuck
Average Score: 8
Choice review: “An
exemplary swagger.”
7 = Anna Calvi
Average Score: 8
Choice review: “Matriarchal
and mysterious.” 
7
= Ed Sheeran
Average Score : 8
Choice review:
“Mesmerises with a slew of new material.”
7 = Dry the River
Average Score:
8
Choice review: “Folk-with-balls, it’s
beautiful-hardcore-gone-soft.” 
7
= The Milk
Average Score: 8
Choice review:
“They might just prove they’ve the bottle it
takes to shake up the industry.”
6. Dutch
Uncles
Average Score: 8.25
Choice review: “Sharply
crafted indie pop...much underrated.”
5. Bruno
Mars
Average Score: 8.5
Choice review: “Fun,
upbeat and hugely entertaining.” 
4.
Aloe Blacc
Average Score: 8.5
Choice
review: “His naturally warm presence and persona
are a hit from the word go.”
3. Warpaint
Average Score: 8.75
Choice review: “Effortlessly
cool.”
2. Crystal Fighters
Average Score: 9
Choice review: “A storm of
noise and limbs.”
And our best breakthrough band of the summer was...
1. Grouplove
Average Score: 9.5
Choice
review: “People jump to the tables and chairs to bathe
in a show soaked with the innocence of a free love movement of sixties psychedelica.”
Do you disagree?
Then vote for your favourite in the UK Festival Awards below:
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