The Arctic Monkey's performance at Glastonbury picked up the best headline gong and Download picked up Best Major Festival at the UK Festival Awards at the Roundhouse in Camden last night, hosted by comedian Phil Jupitus . Camp Bestival picked up Best Family Festival, Cumbria's Kendal Calling won best medium sized festival and Bearded Theory, held in Derby, won best small festival. James Drury, managing director of UK Festival Awards, said: "In this, our 10th year, we had the most fiercely-fought competition for the awards adding "There were so many incredible festivals taking place this year that it's not surprising that 575,000 votes were cast by fans from across the world." Daft Punk's international hit Get Lucky won the anthem of the summer, beating songs such as Bastille's Pompeii and Imagine Dragons' Radioactive. Rudimental beat the likes of Haim, Bastille and Disclosure to win breakthrough act of the year. And Shambala Festival won the overall Greener Festival Award from a list of nominees that included the Croisant Neuf Summer Party, The Sunrise Celebration, The Cambridge Folk Festival and the Glastonbury Festival. And the full list of winners are ..... Public Voted Awards Best Major Festival: Download Best Medium-Sized Festival: Kendal Calling Best Small Festival: Bearded Theory Best New Festival: We Are FSTVL Best Dance Event: Creamfields Best Metropolitan Festival: Dot To Dot Best Family Festival: Camp Bestival Best Grassroots Event: 2000 Trees Festival Best Overseas Festival: Snowbombing (Austria) Best Toilets: Arctangent Headline Performance Of The Year: Arctic Monkeys - Glastonbury Anthem Of The Summer: Daft Punk - Get Lucky Breakthrough Act Of The Year: Rudimental Jury Voted Awards Best Line-Up: Latitude Concession Of The Year: Strumpets With Crumpets The Greener Festival Award: Shambala Festival Best Brand Activation: Virgin Media The Extra-Festival Activity Award: Wilderness Promoter Of The Year: Paddy Glasgow (Glasgowbury) Best Use Of New Technology: Barclaycard Presents British Summer Time The Outstanding Achievement Award: Fiona Stewart, Green Man Festival
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