Hello everyone,

After a long and very detailed review of all our applications for the BritBus Tours, we have finally selected the bands & artists for our UK Showcase Tour. We take this responsibility very seriously and have listened to every single application - which is now well in excess of 3000. It was a HUGE task and has taken several months involving our internal A&R team and Music University partners in 5 countries.

If you have not heard from us by now, then I am afraid you have not made it onto the shortlist for the May & June Showcase tour.  If you have heard from us, please disregard this email.

It is such a difficult decision to make from such a vast number of awesome applications - but please understand there will be further opportunities for you ahead, including more UK showcase gigs and touring opportunities. This is by no means the end.

As we still have a few bands to schedule for the showcases, we will publish the FULL list of shortlisted bands in the coming days once all locked down. However, our ticket page on the website will list the bands currently confirmed.

Just because you have not been selected for this showcase tour, does not mean you will not be for the next. We continually refer back to the entries on the BritBus website to see the comments and reviews on your band entries and listen to any updates on your MySpace page. We will also accept new demos and band information on the UK Showcase Tour.

We have listed all the Showcase dates on the BritBus website and MySpace page - so hope to see as many of you as possible at our gigs. We have also created a list of events on our Facebook page: BritBus Facebook Group

Our touring and record label team will be attending all these gigs are very willing to meet with you and discuss the BritBus Tours , accept new demos and help provide some solid advice on how you can further your music career. We expect considerable demand for this opportunity to meet the team so would appreciate if you could let us know in advance. Our bus will also be visiting your city centre, so please do come along and say hello - we will send out details on this too.

On the night of the gigs, after the bands have played, we will also be running a Guitar Hero stage (our UK sponsors) and you are all welcome to come and play - at then end the tour we will be giving away 2 tickets (courtesy of Virgin Atlantic) to New York for the best player! We will also be giving away Guitar Hero World Tour games, plus the opportunity to win a Gibson Guitar...plus much more!

Tickets are available via the venue websites and our site at: http://www.gigantic.com/britbus

Finally, thanks once again for your support and look forward to meeting you in the coming weeks. Again, if you have not been shortlisted this time around, be patient, there will be more opportunities in the coming months as we add new tours!

We look forward to meeting as many of you as possible on the Showcase Tour.

Regards,

The BritBus Team