Your chance to win the 2025 Battle of the Bands plus a 20-minute appearance at next year’s Festival Too!
Key activity information
- Venue: The Green, Hunstanton
- Date: Saturday 23 August 2025
- Deadline for entry: Thursday 7 August 2025
- Time: 12pm to 6pm
- Cost: FREE
Performance times
| Artists | Performance times |
|---|---|
| TBC | TBC |
About the event
The Borough Council of King’s Lynn & West Norfolk, Radio West Norfolk and Festival Too are organising a Battle of the Bands (BOTB) competition which is open to any band in the Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire and Lincolnshire area.
The band must have its roots in one of the 4 above counties.
The band should have at least 3 members. All genres of music are welcomed.
The entry form will initially require you to upload a recording of the band or provide a link to a You Tube video to assist the judges in assessing your entry. At a future date a high-quality recording (preferably in wav format) should be provided in order that your song can be played on Radio West Norfolk. In addition, you must undertake to carry out an interview with Simon Rowe on Radio West Norfolk.
All entries will be judged by an appointed panel of judges and eight bands will be chosen to take part in the Grand Final Competition Day.
On a large stage each band will play a 20-minute set with a strict 20-minute turnaround time in between bands. If you run over the 20-minute set up time, this will eat into your performance time. Sound equipment will be supplied, and a sound engineer is supplied.
Once all eight bands have played their 20-minute sets the judges will announce their chosen winner, who will then be invited back on stage to play one more song in celebration. The prize awaiting the winner is a 20-minute set on the stage of Festival Too 2026 in King’s Lynn!
Further guidelines will be issued to the 8 Finals Day bands. Throughout the whole of the competition, the judges/organisers’ decisions are final and must be accepted in good spirit by all bands. No challenge need be accepted, nor explanation need be given.
The BOTB Grand Final will be part of a music weekend in Hunstanton. Beats by the Beach will take place on the Sunday with headlining act WildBoys, so be sure to make a weekend of it.
We hope all your supporters will attend to cheer you along on the day. The event will be covered heavily on Radio West Norfolk, both in the build-up and afterwards.
Booking
Enter the West Norfolk Battle of the Bands 2025 below.
