Here we’ve rounded up as many ticket giveaway competitions  tickets as we can find, so if you haven’t got €240 spare maybe lady luck will be on your side. Get entering!

* Updated with some new giveaways *

Drinkaware Weekly Giveaway
Every Friday between now and August 27th, Drinkaware will be giving away a pair of Electric Picnic tickets.

ESB Picnic Power
20 pairs  of tickets up for grabs on their festival website.

Heineken Music
A pair of tickets to giveaway every Friday.

Myhome.ie ‘like’ Competition

Hotpress / Myhome.ie

Phantom

Entertainment.ie Tickets & Pampering

Entertainment.ie Tent

Pigsback.com / Drinkaware.ie

Watch this space for updates – I’ll add new competitions to this list as I find them. Also stay tuned to the radio – there’s loads of giveaways being broadcast that I can’t link to from here!

The full schedule for next weekend’s Indiependence Festival is now online – check the festival’s webpage for the full line up.

Now onto this week’s competition and this week’s question!

Which beer brand sponsors Indiependence?

Competition is now closed.

To win one of the two pairs of weekend camping tickets up for grabs this week email theguesslist[at]gmail[dot]com with ‘Indiependence Giveaway #4‘ (please note the number) as the subject line and be sure to include your answer, name and address.

This week’s competition closes at 9m tomorrow, Saturday July 25 and two winners will be drawn at random from all correct entries. The Competition is open to over-18’s only, judges’ decision is final and winners will be notified by email. Good luck!

Good news for organisers and punters alike – Indiependence has secured an on-location campsite for the duration of the festival this August bank holiday weekend.

This week the festival organisers announced that they will not charge any extra for the campsite. Anyone with a €59 weekend ticket purchased from ticketmaster, even where these tickets state “weekend non-camping” will be given access to the campsite. The site is adjacent to the festival arena and car parking facilities are less than 5 minutes walk away.

All €59 weekend tickets purchased from ticketmaster will allow access to the campsite. Any festival goers who bought €39 day or special offer early bird tickets will be able to access the campsite by paying a supplement on arrival at the site.

Now onto this week’s competition and this week’s question!

Which Indiependence headliners recently released the album ‘Dark Days/Light Years’?

Competition is now closed.

To win one of the two pairs of tickets up for grabs this week email theguesslist[at]gmail[dot]com with ‘Indiependence Giveaway 3‘ (please note the number) as the subject line and be sure to include your answer, name and address.

This week’s competition closes at 9am next Thursday, July 23 and two winners will be drawn at random from all correct entries. The Competition is open to over-18’s only, judges’ decision is final and winners will be notified by email. Good luck!

And remember, we still have 2 pairs of tickets to giveaway to followers of @guesslist on twitter. Watch out for your cue to win – we will give the first cue to win at some stage over the next 7 days…

First and foremost congratulations to our first week’s winners Joe and Fiona!

We’re giving away another two pairs of tickets this week, details are below.

As Indiependence does not have an official festival campsite itself, a number of private groups have stepped up to offer accommodation for punters over the August Bank Holiday Weekend.

TO Park is a privately run new camp site that will accommodate 300 festival goers over the August bank holiday weekend. The site encompasses some proper flushing toilets, breakfasts in the mornings and a free shuttle bus daily and at night to and from the festival site located just 4 miles away. The cost of weekend camping at TO Park is €20 per person with your festival ticket.

To book your camping place at TO Park, just contact Ballyhoura Development on O63 913OO or e-mail your details to info[at]ballyhoura[dot]org. All you need is the number on the back of your festival ticket and your credit card or laser details, your credit card and laser will just be used to hold your spot as you will pay on arrival at TO Park. The site will open at 6pm on Friday July 31st and close at 6pm on Monday August 3rd.

Meanwhile, the four star Charleville Park Hotel is located just 30 minutes from the Indiependance festival site and they are offering a special festival offer for the weekend. For just €90 per person sharing, you will get two nights Bed & Breakfast with access to the leisure centre and spa facilities. The hotel will also be providing a free bus service daily to and from the festival. Contact Charleville Park Hotel on O63 816OO for details or log onto charlevilleparkhotel.com – please quote your festival ticket number when booking.

Now onto this week’s competition and this week’s question!

“Which famous Cork venue has a stage named in its honour at Indiependence?”

To win one of the two pairs of tickets up for grabs this week email theguesslist[at]gmail[dot]com with ‘Indiependence Giveaway 2‘ (please note the number) as the subject line and be sure to include your answer, name and address.

This week’s competition closes at 9am next Thursday, July 16 and two winners will be drawn at random from all correct entries. The Competition is open to over-18’s only, judges’ decision is final and winners will be notified by email. Good luck!

And remember, we still have 2 pairs of tickets to giveaway to followers of @guesslist on twitter. Watch out for your cue to win…

* Competition is now closed and winners have being notified. Thanks to all our entrants! *

Summer’s well and truly here and that, of course means music festivals. While a plethora of events will be vying for you attention this year, few can claim to have as much bang for your buck as the Indiependence Festival taking place over the August Bank Holiday weekend.

From its humble origins as a free open air town event to an award winning showcase for the very best in emerging Irish talent, 2009 sees Indiependence take to a new green field site on the outskirts of Mitchelstown, Co. Cork, complete with three stages, the Bavaria Stage, the Cyprus Avenue Arena  and The Red Bull Village all packed to the brim with must-see acts including Super Furry Animals, Ocean Colour Scene, Fight Like Apes, Delorentos, The Blizzards, RSAG, Fred, The Frank & Walters, Villagers and many many more.

Mitchelstown will be the epicenter of a party on the August weekend, with all bars in the town granted a bar extension to keep the festivities rolling into the small hours.

The ethos of the festival has always been to promote good music and provide value for money for the punter. With this in mind two-day weekend tickets for Indiependence cost just €59, while day passes cost €39.

With thanks to Shane and the gang at Indiependence, Guesslist has 10 pairs of weekend tickets to give away between now and July 24. Starting today we will have weekly giveaways every Friday on the blog to win one of two pairs of tickets. Meanwhile, over on our twitter account (@guesslist) we will invite Twitter followers to stake their claim to one of two pairs sometime over the next four weeks.

To get things rolling here’s this week’s easy question:

In what town is Indiependence held every year?

To win one of the two pairs of tickets up for grabs this week email theguesslist@gmail.com with ‘Indiependence Giveaway‘ as the subject line and be sure to include your answer, name and address. This week’s competition closes at 9am next Thursday, July 9 and two winners will be drawn at random from all correct entries. The Competition is open to over-18′s only, judges’ decision is final and winners will be notified by email. Good luck!

More information on indiependencefestival.com | Event page on last.fm

British garage rocker/singer-songwriter Holly Golightly is playing in Dublin’s ALT on Thursday the 28th of May, and courtesy of Forever Presents, we’ve got two double-passes to giveaway.

To be in with a chance to win, just drop a comment below with the answer to the following question:

(Q) Holly Golightly is the name of a character from which classic 1961 movie?

Competition will close on Tuesday 26th May at 12 noon. A winner be picked in a random draw from all correct entries.

About Holly:

Holly Golightly was born in Kensington, London, in the same hospital that Jimi Hendrix died in. As a toddler she grew up in a bohemian household and was raised on a diet of psychedelic rock and soul.

Holly kicked off her musical career in the legendary garage band Thee Headcoatees, having never sung a note before that. She spent four years as a Headcoatee before breaking away to release her first solo record, The Good Things, in 1995. Where the Headcoatees sound was a blend of girl group sounds and three-chord garage-rock with all the original songs coming from the pen of Billy Childish, Holly’s solo sound is more a blend of pre-rock electric blues, folk rock. Holly primarily writes all her own material, which are interspersed with a wide range of covers of songs by such artists as Willie Dixon, Ike Turner, Lee Hazelwood, Wreckless Eric, and Bill Withers.

Holly Golightly is definitely the most interesting and diverse artist to come out of the Billy Childish school and is certainly one of the better singer/songwriters of the post-grunge era.

Since her debut, Golightly has been extremely prolific, releasing 12 long play albums including a few collaborations and over fifteen singles for a wide variety of labels. She has also toured America eight times, but has never had proper distribution, until now.

Although Holly’s sound has remained remarkably consistent throughout, each record has a quality that sets it apart from the others. Some highlights include 1998′s Serial Girlfriend, which is a collection of home-recorded tracks and work in progress, make for a diverse and unusual compilation.

In 1999, the album In Blood came out, dueting with Billy Childish, where the two sound like a scuffed-up Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazelwood. Her personal favourite is “God Don’t Like It” from 2000 which still forms a large part of her live set today. In 2001 she also collected up all thirteen of her singles and E.P’s (at the time) onto one double album called Single’s Round-Up.

Over the years Holly has made guest appearances on various other bands projects such as Mudhoney, The White Stripes, etc. Holly sang on the track “Eye On You” on Rocket From The Crypt’s 1998 album as well as appearing riding on a giant rocket fuelled lipstick for their video of the top 40 single “Lipstick.”

After playing several shows with the White Stripes and bringing the band’s attention to the analog delights of Toe Rag studios in East London, they asked Holly to duet with them on the track “It’s True That We Love One Another” which then appeared on their huge album Elephant.

Her 2003 album, Truly She Is None Other brought Holly a wider audience thanks to the exposure of the White Stripes as well as keeping the die-hard fans happy. “Tell Me Now So I Know” from the album also featured as the title track to Jim Jarmush’s film Broken Flowers. In 2004 she released her album Slowly But Surely another collection of self penned songs with a few covers thrown in for good measure, this album was produced by Liam Watson at Toe Rag Studios in London. In the last year Holly has put together a compilation called My First Holly Golightly Album based around the bands live favourites including rerecording of some of their early tunes as well as a re-issue of her second album Laugh it Up.

2007 saw an increase in activity and acclaim once again with Holly starting the year with an album of songs she recorded at home with long time friend and US touring companion Lawyer Dave. The album is called You Can’t Buy A Gun When You’re Crying and is a much more stark album than the usual Holly stuff but it’s packed full of great tunes and weird ideas.

Her new album, the sublime Dirt Don’t Hurt is due out in October 14, 2008 and is her best yet and should help to establish Holly as one of the most unique and eclectic singers around.

Multi-instrumentalist Matt Elliot will be bringing his intriguing mix of dark folk and lush electronica to Dublin on April 9th.

Known also for his role as the founding member of The Third Eye Foundation, Elliott’s music has drawn comparissons to the likes of Tom Waits and The Bad Seeds.

Courtesy of Foggy Notions, We’ve got two double-passes to giveaway, just comment below with the answer to the following question:

(Q) Where is Matt Elliott from?

Competiton will close on Wednesday 8th April at 12 noon. A winner be picked in a random draw from correct entries.

While most people were struggling to transcend the electronic aesthetic that had become associated with the city, Matt married sampling and electronics with acoustic instruments, song and voice for the critically acclaimed album The Mess We Made (Domino Records, 2003).

Now, having left Bristol altogether and settled in rural France, Matt continues to release albums that have variously been described as folk, vaudeville and chanson francaise.

His fiercely independent approach has won him many admirers, and Elliott has completed remixes for Mogwai, Thurston Moore, Blonde Redhead, Tarwater, The Pastels and Yann Tiersen amongst others. Matt also continues to collaborate with long-term friends Hood, and lends his playing to many more records as guitarist, drummer, clarinetist, violist player and programmer.

Tickets are currently onsale, priced €12.

www.myspace.com/mattelliottandthethirdeye

The ‘loudest band in New York‘ are back in Ireland next Tuesday, March 31st; a must-see band for fans of noise and shoegaze and general sensory overload!

I was very impressed with APTBS last year when they made their Irish debut in Andrews Lane; lots of hellish customised sounds, guitar thrashing and tripped-out visuals making for a memorable evening!

Support on the night comes from the excellent Sweet Jane and US psych-rockers Dead Confederate.

Courtesy of Foggy Notions, We’ve got two double-passes to giveaway, just comment below with the answer to the following question:

(Q) What’s the title of last year’s debut album by A Place To Bury Strangers?

Competiton will close on Monday 30th March at 12 noon. A winner be picked in a random draw from correct entries.

This clip gives some idea of the hellish noise APTBS conjour up in a live setting: