Music stars of the future heard at Furniture Village

The UK’s largest privately-owned furniture retailer, Furniture Village (www.furniturevillage.co.uk), is bringing in-store the sounds of music stars of the future, by launching an initiative which offers unsigned musicians and bands the chance to have their songs played in its 40 branches across the UK - including the one on Sowton Retail Park - throughout the New Year sales period (January to March 2013).

During January 2011 alone over 400,000 people visited the Furniture Village website (over twice as many as attended the Glastonbury Festival in the same year), and over 30,000 visited a UK Furniture Village branch and therefore this initiative offers an unusual opportunity for musicians to be heard by a significant audience.

Interested musicians can apply to have their music considered for the playlist by visiting the dedicated page within the online Furniture Village magazine at www.furniturevillage.co.uk Each act or artist whose music is selected for performance in-store will be showcased online within the Furniture Village website, with links to their own sites and information for new fans. Bands and performers will also have their musical contributions prioritized for playing within Furniture Village branches close to their home towns or performance bases.

Charlie Harrison, Director of Marketing at Furniture Village comments, “We are emerging from the Festive period when the nation has had its fill of Christmas musical classics, and it seemed an excellent opportunity to revolutionise the traditional role of in-store music, and offer audio exposure for emerging talents to a new and significant market. This might just provide a big break in the new year for the next Adele, JLS, or budding Bacharach!”

As Stewart Anderson, creator of Unsigned Bands Online, (www.unsignedbandsonline.co.uk) a digital platform designed to promote such bands explained, “Nowadays unsigned bands and businesses alike need to network and find ways in which to benefit each other, in this market publicity for a band is a real currency and I’m happy to see such creative collaborations beginning to flourish.”

If you are the next Adele or One Direction, please visit www.furniturevillage.co.uk and send links to your website, MySpace page, Soundcloud profile, YouTube page, or any other way that you can be heard in action.