THREE teenagers from Bradford on Avon have beaten more than 2,000 other bands for the chance to play on an exclusive stage at this year's Glastonbury festival in June.

Sam Nadel, 18, Joe Taylor, 18, and Adam Newton, 17, formed their band BlackBud 16 months ago and the trio are this week coming to terms with being pursued by record producers and some of the biggest names in the music business.

The band had already been promised a slot on the Avalon Stage at Glastonbury this year but have now gone up a notch in profile after winning a national competition on Saturday.

Festival organisers ran the contest to win a chance to play on the New Stage in front of an audience of approximately 5,000.

Around 2,500 bands entered, which was then whittled down to 200.

BlackBud was among the six finalists picked to perform at Pilton Working Men's Club, where Glastonbury lighting and sound crews were on hand to support the bands.

After each band had finished a 20-minute set the judges, led by Glastonbury organiser Michael Eavis, went off to deliberate but returned just 10 minutes later saying they could not pick a winner and BlackBud and The Subways had jointly won the competition.

BlackBud manager Grant Newton said: "We took about 20 people with us and the atmosphere at the competition was electric.

"When we found out we'd won there was this crazy bank of photographers taking loads of pictures of the band and Michael Eavis had his arms around the guys telling them how much he liked their music. It was just an unreal experience."

The New Stage has starred signed bands in recent years, like Grammy and Brit award-winning band Coldplay. Camera crews from BBC2 and journalists from music magazine NME were there to capture the moment and footage from the competition is likely to go out on BBC2 as part of the channel's coverage of the Glastonbury Festival.

Mr Newton said: "The phone has literally not stopped ringing since we won with agents and producers and lawyers calling interested in the band.

"It's just amazing we haven't sent out a single demo and have just played lots of live gigs.

"We are a truly home-grown band and to have come this far is fantastic."