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Competition: Win Two Tickets to MACFEST
We previously brought your attention to the very exciting festival, MACFEST taking place in Ballymoney on Saturday 24th August. The line-up features Little Bear, Best Boy Grip, The Ard Ri Band and...
View ArticleWin a Pair of Tickets to Transmit (Amidships and More)
Courtesy of our good pals at @ Pure Savage, we have a pair of tickets to give away to one lucky reader for their upcoming show at Limelight 2 this Thursday 5th. The show will feature; Amidships In...
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Spotify Competition
Chordblossom have partnered up with our good friends over at Spotify to bring you an ace competition. We have four premium (6 month) accounts and four sets of headphones to be given away. These will...
View ArticleReChordblossom ⁞ #001 – Audiobooth
At Chordblossom, we often get music submissions that have been recorded on phones and other devices, badly. We have to tell most of these people that it would only hurt their name if we published...
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Competition: Win two tickets to GLOOMFEST
On Tuesday 29th October Vanilla Gloom are putting together a delightful Halloween party featuring some of the best local talent around. Sadly the band have called it a day however there will be sets...
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Chordblossom Kickstart 2014!
We are pleased to announce that our very successful Kickstart competition is back for 2014. Aimed at giving a local band or solo musician a much needed push towards breaking out. Our past winner’s...
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Competition: Ed Zealous Album & T-Shirt
We kind of felt bad for all our loyal readers on Friday when we announced the return of our Kickstart competition. A massive competition for local musicians but what about the rest of you I hear you...
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Competition: Making Monsters – Attention EP
One of the bands making the most noise off our shores at the minute is the power rock of Making Monsters. The Derry band have been on some significant UK tours already this year and are set for a busy...
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Competition: Win Two Day Passes to Sunflowerfest 2014
The end of the summer is nigh and with that comes the last summer festival of 2014, Sunflowerfest. The organisers have very generously given us the opportunity to offer one lucky person, two day...
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Chordblossom Presents Kickstart 2015
It is that time of year again where we try and give one lucky band or solo musician some great prizes to boost their prospects in 2015. We are of course talking about our annual Kickstart...
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Chordblossom Presents Kickstart 2016
2015 was an extremely busy year for Chordblossom as we worked even harder to promote musicians from Northern Ireland. 2016 is barely a few weeks old but we are keen to keep that momentum going and...
View ArticleKickstart 2016 – Shortlist
This year we received over 90 entries to our Kickstart competition which is quite frankly astounding. What made it even more special was that a lot of the bands or musicians were new to us and the...
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Win: Tickets to Emerald Armada’s St Patrick’s Day Show
For most Northern Irish music fans St Patrick’s Day in recent years has usually involved heading down to whichever venue, The Emerald Armada have taken over. The highlight was undoubtedly last years...
View ArticleBrand New Friend Win Kickstart 2016
Over 90 musicians & bands from Northern Ireland entered the competition back in January and through a series of judging panels, the huge number of quality entrants was whittled down to just four....
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Chordblossom Presents Kickstart 2017
We are pleased to announce that our highly anticipated competition for local bands and musicians across Northern Ireland is returning for 2017. As usual, we will be offering the eventual winner of the...
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Chordblossom Presents: Kickstart 2018
We are announcing a little later than normal but we are delighted to confirm the return of our Kickstart competition for 2018. As ever our focus is on giving bands and musicians from across Northern...
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Chordblossom Presents: Kickstart 2019
We hope the phrase better late than never will come to mind as we announce Kickstart 2019. For a variety of reasons we toyed with the idea of putting the Kickstart programme on hold for a year....
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Chordblossom Presents: Kickstart 2022
It was a difficult decision not to run Kickstart in 2020 and 2021 with the competition being an ever present feature in our ten year history. But the pandemic with all its challenges and restrictions...
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Chordblossom Presents: Kickstart 2023
Our Kickstart competition always brings us a lot of joy and the 2022 edition was no different. We discovered some wonderful hidden gems and watched on like proud parents as Heart Shaped and Susi Pagel...
View ArticleKickstart 2023: Shortlist
We are down to the final stage of the 2023 edition of our Kickstart competition. We had an incredible longlist of twenty artists and our external panel of music industry experts have spent the last...
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