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Vote for your favourite band from our shortlist of ten top acts. Everyone who votes could be in with a chance of winning tickets to Glastonbury 2010!
There are 12 coveted spots available at the Glastonbury Emerging Talent Compeition Finals in March. Our expert panel have decided on 11 bands to go through to the Finals. Now it's your turn to vote for who takes up the last place from our shortlist of 10 acts - these bands are depending on YOU! Everyone who votes will also go into a draw to win tickets to this year's festival.

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Alt Track
Alt Track
Driving drum and bass powered rhythms with synth and guitar adding plenty of punky muscle. With chaotic outspoken prose, Bradford's Alt Track sound like Joe Strummer re-born 30 years later with a frantic robotic backing crew. Scary.
The Beautiful Word
The Beautiful Word
The vocal interplay of Emily Bryant and Megan Clifton give this Brighton-based quintet a mellow soulful feel hinting at old school folk through The Sunday to the Unthanks. With some neat slide guitar and soft rhythms, The Beautiful Word hand-weave some gorgeous tunes.
Brascoe
Brascoe
Beat-powered grooves that mix jazz, soul, drum and bass, trip hop and electronic elements together for some exotic dance tunes. Amid the driving beats and swirling effects Brascoe's soulful vocal lead adds further emotional punch to their heady brew.
Dutch Uncles
Dutch Uncles
Manchester's Dutch Uncles play a guitar-heavy, tight and jerky brand of guitar pop. The complex interplay provide a strident backing that is part Eno-produced Talking Heads mixed Futureheads on Valium. All compacted into three minute songs with neat vocals. Can't be bad.
Paul Liddell
The Electric Riot
Serious synth-powered bass rhythms underscore the anthemic, air-punching anthems of The Electric Riot from West Sussex. Anchored by a throbbing groove, their downbeat vocal and echoey guitars make for spaced-out soundscapes and memorable one liners.
Faded Cadence
Faded Cadence
There's an authority and strange maturity in the plainly very young Faded Cadence's songs and arrangements. A two boy, two girl partnership from the West Midlands, they play stripped down Sigur Ros melodies with gorgeous multi harmony vocals and a heavy mellow feel.
Matthew Kilford
Matthew Kilford
Old style singer songwriting from Swindon with a vocal style that's truly striking and some cleverly-observed storylines that recall early Ben Watt with more than a hint of the old-fashioned troubled troubadour mixed with a modern eye for detail.
Mayhew
Mayhew
Fronted by Cathy Wilcock, Edinburgh's Mayhew have an international folky feel, mixing acoustic instruments, vibrant cello and violin plus perky guitar, to create a luscious backdrop for her soulful range. With a cosmic West Coast feel, they're well worth checking out.
Up!Down!Strange!
Up!Down!Strange!
From the cultural melting pot of Hartelpool, Up!Down!Strange! have reached an uncompromising crossroads of synth and chiming guitars, complex math rock and ska rhythms with a side order of psychedelic soul and somehow it all makes perfect sense. Go figure.
Volcanoes
Volcanoes
Beeston's Volcanoes have tongue-in-cheek humour and some fine pop songs that revolve around keyboard and guitar with all the lazy charm of The Coral and some cheeky interludes that recall The Wombats. witticisms and even vintage XTC.

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