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Mar 26, 2025 Web Exclusive By Dom Gourlay

Glastonbury Festival has today announced the Longlist for its Emerging Talent Competition 2025.

Among the 90 acts chosen are the 3 picked by Under the Radar. Here’s what UTR judge Dom Gourlay said about our 3 choices below.

atmos bloom

Elegant dream pop that’s reminiscent of Cocteau Twins, Melody’s Echo Chamber or Slowdive.’Time’ is a beautiful piece of music that has an evocative and timeless feel about it while highlighting atmos bloom as masters of their craft. Definitely deserves to be playing at an event like Glastonbury.

Air Drawn Dagger

Really incisive, emotionally driven, punk pop that’s both captivating and incendiary. Air Drawn Dagger’s distinctive vocals and taut musicianship ensures they stand out from the crowd, and should pave the way to a long and prospective future in music. For fans of Paramore, My Chemical Romance and Jinjer.

Chaplaine

Really interesting pop that veers between upbeat melodrama (‘Totally With You’) and introspective piano ballads (‘Sorry’) that show very different sides of an incredibly talented artist. Chaplaine has massive potential and will be a household name in the none too distant future if songs like “Totally With You” are anything to go by.

These acts will now be narrowed down to a shortlist of just 8 acts who will compete at April’s live finals for a slot on one of the main stages at this year’s Festival.

The winners of the competition will also be awarded a £5,000 PRS for Music Foundation Talent Development prize, to help take their songwriting and performing to the next level. Two runners-up will also each be awarded a £2,500 PRS for Music Foundation Talent Development prize.

The full Longlist can be seen HERE.

Listen to the playlist on youtube