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With Just Jack and The Charlatans having meticulously cut down hundreds and thousands of entries from prospering British musical hopefuls, the voting has begun for the final six battling it out for an opening slot on the V Festival Stage both in Chelmsford and Staffordshire come August alongside the likes of Oasis, The Killers and Snow Patrol…

Just a reminder to let you know that the competition to win a copy of Rob Da Bank’s excellent book, A-Z of Festivals, will end this Friday (15th May) . We have five copies to give away, and to be in with a chance all you have to do is post a comment saying which festival you’re most looking forward to this summer.

The competition to win a pair of tickets to The Great Escape festival in Brighton ends 4th May (Monday).

The winner will get a pair of tickets for the entire weekend at this years Great Escape festival, and we’ve also got 4 pairs of tickets to just the Road to V gigs in Brighton to give away as runner up prizes. That’s 2 pairs to see Just Jack perform along with the first 5 Road to V finalists on 14 May and 2 pairs to The Charlatans gig with the other 5 finalists on 15 May…

As summer approaches in 2009 the only book you need to concern yourself with is Rob Da Bank’s A-Z of Festivals, a brilliant, informative and colourful guide to the worlds best festivals, perfectly accompanied by his wife Josie’s illustrations.

For your chance to win one of five copies we have, all you need to do is leave a comment here saying which festival you are most looking forward to this summer.

From Duffy to The Dø, there was just enough time for me to check out Brisbane boys Drawn From Bees who were Queensland’s winners of Garage 2 V. Leopard Lady is quite partial to their single ‘Long Tooth Setting Sun’, and the striking shock of hair on their lead singer…

We’re giving one lucky winner the opportunity to head to Brighton for this year’s Great Escape Festival where you can catch Virgin Media’s Road to V gigs featuring headline performance from Just Jack and indie legends The Charlatans. Not only that but you’ll also have access to all other gigs happening across The Great Escape between 14th-16th May and with a line-up including Kasabian and British Sea Power, you’re pretty much guaranteed a good time. Read on to find out how to be in with a chance to win tickets…

Grab yourself a pair of tickets to see the fantastic Peaches who marks her return to the scene with an appearance at the Ether Festival on London’s South Bank next weekend. All you have to do to be in with a chance to see the electro-punk princess is add a comment to this post. Then we’ll randomly pick one of you and set you up with your date with the lady herself (and a few hundred other people) next Friday - 10 April at the Royal Festival Hall…

UK viewers can now see Road to V on Virgin 1. They’re kicking off with a best-of show, featuring some of the highlights of the last few years of Road to V. They’ve also got exclusive interviews with last year’s winners Matt Tracker and The Rebs. They’ll be giving you a real feel of what it’s like to perform at V Festival, in front of thousands of fans. They’ll also be introducing you to Just Jack and The Charlatans – who’ll be acting as mentors for ten lucky finalists, and will let you know what they’re looking for in this years winners, so don’t miss it…

Road to V is well and truly back, and the response so far has been overwhelming. Registration has only been open for two weeks and there’s already nearly a thousand unsigned artists sign up for their chance to be the opening act at this year’s – now sold out - V Festival. Just as excitingly, there are currently over 5000 fans, registered on roadtov.com . And this year it’s the fans who decide who wins, so their comments and votes have never been more important…

This year on Road to V you can be seen as well as heard. Artists can now upload videos, as well as music tracks to really give fans a chance to check out what you can do. Even more excitingly, the very best videos each week will be shown on Virgin Media’s Video On Demand. […]

The search is on for the UK’s best new unsigned musical talent so fix up, look sharp! Road to V is back and this year is upping the ante. The UK’s biggest and best search for unsigned musical talent, now in its sixth year, is officially open for entries. So why take part? Two winning acts, as chosen by you, the fans, get to kick start the mighty V Festival this summer, in Chelmsford and Stafford, on Saturday 22nd and Sunday 23rd August…

This one’s for all you budding Aussie rock stars. V Festival Australia wants you to show us all what you’re made of. Pick a song from a V Festival Australia 09 artist, offer your own interpretation, capture your performance on camera, upload it to YouTube and the very best (or the worst) will be posted on the V Festival Australia website. The one the V Fest guys think is the best will get to be a rock star. You’ll get rock star treatment at the V Festival in your city where you’ll watch bands from dedicated viewing platforms, drink and eat for free and of course be on the guest list! Then afterwards you will fly to LA - the home of all that rocks…

The season of giving ain’t over peoples. We have two copies of Lady GaGa’s debut album The Fame to giveaway, what makes these special is that they’re autographed. Yep, signed by Lady GaGa.

The Kinks are back! And you can get your hands on a sought-after, not-for-sale promo version of the brand new Kinks CD box set. Picture Book is the ultimate Kinks collection - a chronologically-ordered set of 6 CDs. Compiled with the help of Ray Davies, this is a fantastic set of rarities, live versions and classic originals celebrating one of Britain’s most successful and influential bands ever. Without the Kinks - there’d have been no 90s Britpop.

Bringing you another CD giveaway contest. This giveaway is a special Chi-town giveaway as it consists of Chicago natives Kanye West and Common. This is a double CD giveaway as we’re giving away808s & Heartbreaks as well as Universal Mind Control.

Here to bring you another CD giveaway contest. This giveaway involves the looooooong awaited Guns N’ Roses album Chinese Democracy, which was officially released Sunday, November 23rd.

From Australia to Canada to the US to the UK - our league of aspiring music journalists have been treated to free tickets to Virgin Festivals in their part of the world in return for sharing their festival adventures with us on music.virgin.com. So a massive big huge thank you to all of our fantastic contributors who have been blogging like… bloggers for the better part of this year in the hope that they will win the awesome grand prize of trips to a Virgin Festival in every participating country throughout 2009, starting with Australia in March. It’s been a close and hard fought contest and even though it feels a shame that there can only be one winner (you’re all winners in our eyes - ahhhh) we’re delighted to announce the ulimate winner of the Global VPass…

What happens on tour, stays on tour - until now. I’ve got 3 signed copies of Justice’s Across The Universe (Live CD + Tour footage) to giveaway…

The summer is officially over, so this episode of Eleanor Conway Presents comes ‘atcha from the UK Festival Awards at the O2 indigo, London. Catch up with Eleanor as she chats to Rob Da Bank winner of Best New Festival (Camp Bestival), goes camping with Best Rock Act winners Biffy Clyro and Pete and the Pirates and chats to hat trick winner Michael Eavis (Glastonbury) as he dishes the dirt on Jay Z and next year’s line up.

Are you a Guns’n'Roses fanatic? Have you got a better weave than Axl? Can you wield your axe better than Slash? Well now’s your chance to prove it! Guns’n'Roses fans could win the ultimate prize to celebrate the launch of Chinese Democracy a party for you and 100 of your friends to hear the long-awaited album pumped out of the sound system of your local nightclub. Not only will you be the most popular person amongst your friends you’ll also be the proud first owner of the album in the UK and have one of those shiny platinum discs to hang on your wall as a trophy of your mighty accomplishment. If that doesn’t help you pull I don’t know what will…