The Festival Show is a brand new programme from IMTV which mixes it with punters and acts at some of Europe's major music festivals this summer to bring you all the backstage gossip and crazy goings-on in the campsites. In this, the first installment, we get our wellies mucky at the most famous outdoor extravanganza of them all, Glastonbury 2008 - The Futureheads tells us just what they got up to at past festivals and the Pigeon Detectives confess how it feels to be playing to such an enormous audience. We also get up close and personal with Jape and The Brian Jonestown Massacre and let Irish indie upstarts Ham Sandwich loose on the unsuspecting festival goers...

Released in September 07 - the cd single also comes backed with The Beatles cover 'Getting Better' and this fantastic video to 'Be Good or Be Gone'

Messiah J & The Expert site Morrissey, DJ Shadow, Aesop Rock, Portishead, The Zombies, Rakim and Wu Tang Clan as just some of their musical influences. Bloodrush is taken from their album 'What's Confusing You?", released in 2003.

Music video taken from the Ash album 'Twilight Of The Innocents'. Directed by Jeff Thomas.

Delorentos' debut album - In Love With Detail was released this year to fantastic critical acclaim. Heralded as one of the best Irish debut albums of 2007, by the Irish Times Newspaper, the band are now booked solid with home & away gigs til the end of t

Hybrasil are a bunch of mates from Wicklow who provide us with excellent indietronic. Hybrasil have played with bands like The La's, Republic Of Loose, Alfie, Frank and Walters and Idlewild. This is the When I'm yawing video, a track from their second EP.

Love & Confusion is taken from Mundy's Live & Confusion CD/DVD, which exceeded platinum sales in Ireland. Recorded at a packed out Vicar Street in October 2005, Live & Confusion captures the magic and energy of Mundy in concert and distils the excitement

This unique blend of pop/electro/electronica mix is here to stay for Neosupervital.

Imagine The Beach Boys having a jam with the Human League, accompanied by Kraftwerk on the decks and Ben Folds making the cocktails.

Fun, smart, danceable and fresh.

The Cake Sale, featuring Gary Lightbody and Lisa Hannigan. The Cake Sale is a band featuring a loose and expansive collective of musicians and writers who have combined to create a 9-song CD of the same name on Oxfam Records.

Delorentos go from strength to strength with the release of their Realise EP. They've set up a mini site to accompany the track - check it out at http://www.delorentos.net/realise.

City Lights is taken from The Frank & Walters' Latest Album - A Renewed Interest in Happiness.

A fresh, original and funny video focusing on a high octane Darts competition in an Irish pub.

The Walls was formed from the ashes of the Stunning in 1998. They've supported the likes of U2, Bob Dylan and the Red Hot Chilli Peppers as well as touring regularly at home and abroad.

Stasis is a collective of visual artists, DJ s and producers. This podcast covers a recent event they threw in Tailors Hall, Dublin.Stasis throw a monthly event at the Pod Dublin, and also at the Bernard Shaw pub. The music used in this podcast is LOD: Sabado Gris.

BLUE is a beautiful track taken from Eoin Coughlan's debut Album BLOOD IN VEIN. It was featured in the recent Irish feature film Speed Dating.

Dark Room Notes are a smart and stylish young band, exciting and exhilarating with sophisticated tunes to boot.

The Walls was formed from the ashes of the Stunning in 1998. They've supported the likes of U2, Bob Dylan and the Red Hot Chilli Peppers as well as touring regularly at home and abroad.

Excellent and funny video for the Something Outta nothing single by Dublin Lads - Messiah J & The Expert. Directed by Dan Scott Goldstein, this video also features Lida Egri on vocals. For more info go to www.messiahjandtheexpert.com

Delorentos' Debut Album, In Love With Detail", went to number 7 in the Irish Charts. This video for Eustace Street was filmed in the same month that the band played 30 gigs! Hardworkers or what?

A Renewed Interest In Happiness is The Frank & Walters fifth studio album and their first in six years. Released on the anniversary of their fifteenth year in music, it encapsulates all that we have come to expect and admire from them. It is probably th