We’ll be giving you behind the scenes peeks at just what we get up to on the run up to the festival too.

Its gonna be tricky though, but each and every one of you could be a record breaker – hows that for cool?

Chimneypots Online Managing Director, Phill Mitchel says “I had no idea that there was such a person as a Young Carer, but after hearing about the festival and the amazing things these courageous and inspiring young people do every day, we wanted to do something to help out. If giving away a mountain bike makes a young person happy and helps change their life for the better, we are very pleased to be involved in such a small way.”

If you would like to know more about Chimneypots Online, visit their website www.chimneypotsonline.co.uk

We’re building this years right now… the most tech filled, super studio yet!

Year 1 – Studio in a tent

Year 3 – Studio in a small trailer

Year 6 – Media Van Studio

Year 9 – OB Trailer Studio

Year 10 – OB Trailer Studio with NEW mixer and other cool stuff (its still being built)

Here it is then, the video of the week. Kai and Natalia (from Southampton) on BGT

How would you like a workshop with these guys at YCF this year? ask them all the inside gossip about the show, the stars and Pudsey (the dog not the bear)

If you have a video you would like to suggest for our video of the week, tell us about it and send a link and we’ll feature it on the YCFM page.

Blending elements of Hip-hop, Rock, RnB, Acoustic, Funk and Jazz, Varsity Point aims at creating a unique style of music so rarely seen. With the fundamental features of Hip-hop and Rock, Varsity Points music provides a fresh, up-beat originality in the world of contemporary music. Whilst founded in Hip-hop and Rock, Varsity Point’s eclectic background of musical elements means they dont slot into one particular style of genre. However, this also allows them to push the boundaries of conventional genres.

Founded as a duo, Varsity Point’s creation arrived in 2009 after Jonathan ‘Jonny’ Max and Alphonso ‘Phonzay Low’ Lowhing became close friends after meeting at their University’s Varsity basketball try-outs. It was after a couple of years and a couple of musical experiments that they were able to discover and focus on the avenue of music they wanted to pursue.

After a couple of months of working together the duo were being noticed by a variety of established names and began working with a variety of producers and artists. In 2011 they successfully released their debut EP ‘The Freshmen Year’ and have since created an acoustic version of their music and are currently gigging. This, including ventures such as ‘THKDZ’ (a group made up of VP and various other UK artists) has shown how diverse, committed and driven these two artists are. – #TeamVarsityPoint

LADY GAGA CAME TO PROMINENCE FOLLOWING THE RELEASE OF HER DEBUT STUDIO ALBUM THE FAME (2008), WHICH INCLUDED THE HITS “JUST DANCE,” “POKER FACE,” “BAD ROMANCE” AND SOLD OVER 15 MILLION COPIES WORLDWIDE. THE ALBUM EARNED HER SIX GRAMMY NOMINATIONS AND TWO WINS AS WELL AS A SLEW OF OTHER AWARDS RECOGNITION, INCLUDING A RECORD SETTING THIRTEEN MTV VIDEO MUSIC AWARD NOMINATIONS. GAGA IS THE FIRST ARTIST IN HISTORY TO CLAIM FOUR #1 HITS FROM A DEBUT ALBUM (“JUST DANCE,” “POKER FACE,” “LOVEGAME” AND “PAPARAZZI”).

SHE IS ALSO THE ONLY ARTIST IN THE DIGITAL ERA TO TOP THE 5 MILLION SALES MARK WITH HER FIRST TWO HITS. GAGA BROKE THE RECORD WHEN HER SINGLE “POKER FACE” REACHED 5 MILLION IN SALES AFTER HER DEBUT SINGLE “JUST DANCE” ACCOMPLISHED THE SAME FEAT THE YEAR BEFORE. SHE HAS OVER 1.3 BILLION COMBINED VIEWS OF ALL HER VIDEOS ONLINE. SHE IS ALSO A STAPLE IN THE SOCIAL NETWORKING WORLDSRCH WAS HERE. SHE’S ONE OF THE BIGGEST LIVING PEOPLE ON FACEBOOK WITH OVER 33 MILLION ‘LIKES’ AND IS #1 ON TWITTER WITH OVER 9.5 MILLION FOLLOWERS.

HER THIRD STUDIO ALBUM, BORN THIS WAY, IS SCHEDULED FOR RELEASE ON MAY 23, 2011. THE FIRST SINGLE FROM THE ALBUM, TITLE TRACK “BORN THIS WAY”, SET A MUSIC INDUSTRY RECORD BY BECOMING THE FASTEST SINGLE IN HISTORY TO REACH SALES OF 1,000,000 COPIES (FIVE DAYS AFTER ITS FEBRUARY 11TH RELEASE). ONLY THE 19TH SINGLE TO EVER DEBUT AT #1 ON THE BILLBOARD HOT 100 (ISSUE DATE FEBRUARY 26,2011), THE RECORDING WAS LADY GAGA’S THIRD #1 ON THE CHART. ON ITUNES, THE SONG DEBUTED AT THE TOP SPOT IN 14 COUNTRIES, INCLUDING THE U.S., AND HIT #1 IN ALL 23 ITUNES STORES WORLDWIDE ITS FIRST WEEK OUT. “BORN THIS WAY” WAS GAGA’S 7TH SINGLE TO HIT #1 AT TOP 40. THE SECOND SINGLE FROM THE ALBUM, “JUDAS” HAS ECLIPSED 500,000 IN SALES AND LADY GAGA’S LATEST SINGLE, “THE EDGE OF GLORY,” WENT STRAIGHT TO #1 ON ITUNES IN ITS FIRST DAY OF RELEASE AND STAYED THERE FOR 3 DAYS.

GAGA IS WELL-RECOGNIZED FOR HER OUTRÉ SENSE OF STYLE AS A RECORDING ARTIST, IN FASHION, IN PERFORMANCE AND IN HER MUSIC VIDEOS. HER CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE MUSIC INDUSTRY HAVE GARNERED HER NUMEROUS ACHIEVEMENTS INCLUDING FIVE GRAMMY AWARDS AMONGST TWELVE NOMINATIONS, TWO GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS AND THE ESTIMATED SALE OF 15 MILLION ALBUMS AND 51 MILLION SINGLES WORLDWIDE. BILLBOARD NAMED HER BOTH THE “2010 ARTIST OF THE YEAR” AND THE TOP SELLING ARTIST OF 2010 RANKING HER AS THE 73RD ARTIST OF THE 2000S DECADE. GAGA HAS BEEN INCLUDED IN TIME’S ANNUAL “THE 2010 TIME 100″ LIST OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE IN THE WORLD AS WELL AS FORBES’ LIST OF THE “THE WORLD’S MOST POWERFUL CELEBRITIES” IN THE WORLD. FORBES ALSO PLACED HER AT NUMBER SEVEN ON THEIR ANNUAL LIST OF THE WORLD’S “100 MOST POWERFUL WOMEN.”

That’s curiosity for you. It’s a good instinct to have. Without it, this Vancouver-based musician would never have left her Mission, B.C. hometown for the life of a singer-songwriter — a career that’s so far produced an acclaimed debut album (2008’s Tug of War), a MuchMusic Video Award nomination, two gold-certified singles (“Bucket,” “Tug of War”) and — to top it all — two 2010 Juno Award nominations for Best New Artist and Songwriter of the Year.

She also wouldn’t have Curiosity. That’s her new EP, a collection of heart-on-sleeve pop songs about, fittingly enough, life’s biggest curiosity — love, and all the complications that come with it. Its sound — a blend of confessional lyrics, sweet acoustic gems and straight-up pop — is just as strangely fascinating, not least of all to Carly herself. How she stumbled upon one of its main inspirations is still something of a wonder.

She was doing what she does – writing music – when something truly curious sneaked up on her. That thing was a song called – what else? – “Curiosity.” Like much of her new EP, it was crafted with long-time collaborator, writer/producerRyan Stewart, and it’s about a girl (“or me,” she laughs) hung up on a bad boy, a guy she knows is no good, but she’ll never stop thinking about. The subject is a universal push-and-pull, one the singer-songwriter even tackled on “Tug of War” (a tune that went on to beat the likes of Nickelback to win the 2010 Canadian Radio Music Award for Song of the Year). But “Curiosity” came rushing out differently, with pop and snap and a bubblegum chorus harder to shake than the bad-boy she’s crowing about.

“I was singing it in the mic, to demo it out, with these guts that I didn’t know I had. And it was exciting. It was like a braver version of me that I never had experimented with before, at least not out loud to people,” she says.

Carly didn’t know what to do about the new song. It felt so natural. She thought about it constantly — at home in Vancouver, while doing a promotional tour of Japan, and then back again. For eight months, she and Ryan wrestled with it. She wondered: “How would this fit on my record?”

Sure, she’s always spinning the likes of La Roux, Kimbra and Dragonette on her stereo, but this is a girl whose roots are in folk. As a little girl, her dad would sing her to sleep with James Taylor classics. As a fledgling musician she ran an acoustic night at a Vancouver cafe. Even during her 2007 run on Canadian Idolshe was auditioning with her own material and covering Janis Ian. And then there were all the songs she’d promised herself she’d showcase on album No. 2 — jangly and cozy folk-pop creations more Natalie Imbruglia than Kylie Minogue.

Those tunes are still there in force. Still, Carly decided that when it came to “Curiosity,” it was love. Pop had just as much a place on her record as folk. Ryan was just as “stoked” about the song as she was — and so, the real fun began.

The songs rushed out, a whole 35 of them written — with most of the record made at Ryan’s Wine Cellar Studios in Vancouver, then mixed by Dave “Rave” Ogilvie(David Bowie, Nine Inch Nails, Jakalope) at Mushroom Studios. And Carly’s friends and family were along for the whole process, the singer inviting them to listening sessions — baiting them with new tunes and fresh popcorn — so they could help her pick the sweetest of the bunch.

“Talk to Me” finds the 25-year-old getting her flirt on in a summer song clicking with handclaps. On the flip, “Just a Step Away” is, to Carly, the definition of a “beautiful old fashioned love song” — a piece she adapted from a tune her father wrote for her step-mom on their wedding day. (“He cried and loved it and it was so sweet,” she says.)

“Both Sides Now,” Carly’s modern cover of the Joni Mitchell classic, bridges the styles she’s embraced on Curiosity. “It’s exactly the combination that I’m hoping is the theme of the album,” says the self-described “flower child of pop.” “I was definitely thinking Joni Mitchell meets dance,” she says of the album’s sonic palette with a giggle. “That’s exactly what I want this record to be.”

And then there’s lead single “Call Me Maybe,” the hit that pulses with the same jumpy energy as a new romance — the very thing Carly’s singing about. It’s a track that reunited Carly with her “Sour Candy” duet partner, old friend and tour-mateJosh Ramsay of Marianas Trench.

“He was so stoked. He’d been trying to get me on the pop train for years,” she laughs. Since debuting in September, the single has been picked up by radio stations across the country. It started out as one of “a gazillion” song ideas Carly and her long-time guitarist Tavish Crowe are always tinkering on, but when Josh turned up to add his writing and production magic, the piece was completely transformed. “I showed it to Josh and in no time he added crazy amounts of Josh genius to make it sound pop and I had no idea how he had done it.”

And “Call Me Maybe” shares something with every other song on Curiosity. Underneath the occasional wash of kick-drum and synth, these are all songs sung from the heart. “It’s just me on my guitar in my bedroom writing journal entries,” Carly says of her creative process. “Everything is true for me in this,” she explains. “You can’t sing about love if you haven’t felt it, and you can’t sing about hurt if you haven’t experienced that, too. It’s almost not fair to your audience.

“That’s probably why when I listen back to the record, it’s all about love and chaos and those fun messes,” she says. And what could be more curious than that?