Road To V is one of the UK’s biggest competitions for unsigned bands with the incredible prize of being able to open V Festival. Road To V entrants this year will be able to upload music and videos for old fans and new fans to enjoy online.

Todays news is that each week the best videos will be shown on Virgin media’s Video On Demand service which allows bands to achieve huge promotion and potentially gain thousands of new fans in an instant.
Road To V has been running for over 5 years and the competition searches for great emerging talent to fill two of the slots at V Festival. Ten competition finalists will get mentored by some acts that have been there done that and will play at The Great Escape festival. The public will select the two winning bands that they want to open this year’s V Festival after a live show that will be broadcast on Virgin 1.