Talk about a firestarter way to kick off the weekend!

With only days to go, INDIE18 is shaping up for its biggest festival to date as the three-day event at Deer Farm, Mitchelstown, Co Cork gets ready to open its gates.

Here's all you need to know this Tuesday morning.

The festival takes place on the August Bank Holiday Weekend at Deer Farm, Mitchelstown, Co Cork.

And the resulting video is lovely.

Consider the bar for proposals raised, everyone.

Ireland’s Alcatraz-style visitor attraction unveils its €5m revamp this weekend as the country gets set to bask in bank holiday sunshine.

A bit of quiet there for a song.

There’s nothing that Irish people love more than a good old sing-song at the end of a night out - and if it’s as Gaeilge, sure, all the better.

MUSIC NEWS: Netflix subscribers now have access to two worthwhile music documentaries: Keith Richards: Under the Influence, in which the Rolling Stones guitarist talks about his new solo album and the sounds that have inspired him over the years; and Time Is Illmatic, the film that tells of Nas’s classic 1994 album, and his background in New York that gave rise to it. 

FILM TIPS: There’s no doubt which film will be filling the cinemas this weekend, with The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 already attracting huge crowds since its opening yesterday. Away from the big cinemas, Triskel Christchurch in Cork has Nightcrawler from Sunday, and Irish film Out of Here.

Their do-it-yourself approach has won many fans and helped Delorentos win the coveted Choice Music Prize. Now with a major label on board they tell Ed Power about exciting times ahead.

MUSIC NEWS:

New album and gigs lined up in Glastonbury, Dublin and Mitchelstown-

It’s not happening until August but already early- bird tickets are selling faster than ever for an outdoor music festival estimated to bring in €2m to a North Cork town.

Villagers, Little Green Cars and BellX1 take to the stage tonight for this year’s Meteor Choice Music Prize.

We've teamed up with MUZU and Meteor to bring you a live stream of tonight's Meteor Choice Music Prize Awards from 7.30pm.

Tonight will see the eighth annual Choice Music Prize awarded to one of ten Irish acts, half of whom have been nominated and/or won the gong before.

Irish music fans have the chance to vote for the Meteor song of the year for 2012 after the shortlist was announced yesterday.

MUSIC NEWS: Ex Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl has announced the latest of his supergroup projects, the Sound City Players.

Irish people are apparently looking to the internet to answer to that age-old question "What is love?".

Hard Working Class Heroes is a forum for new acts to showcase their music and meet with agents and managers, says Eoghan O’Sullivan

Guinness has today announced details of eight more music events taking place in pubs in Cork, Dublin and Belfast on Arthur’s Day.

A major music festival planned for Mitchelstown, Co Cork, in August is expected to swell the town’s coffers by up to €1.5m.

Head to the Dunmore East Bluegrass Festival in Co. Waterford from the 25th – 28th August with authentic bluegrass music, fine dining, jamming and dancing day and night.

IN weather more likely to make one sing the blues, the world renowned Guinness Cork Jazz Festival got into its swing in venues across the city yesterday.

A MAJOR music festival and a 36-hour, non-stop endurance race are to take place on the Cork/Limerick border over the August Bank Holiday weekend.

IT HAS been a weekend for everybody.

WITH the economic slowdown, the entertainment business is also feeling the pinch. But one music venue is bucking the trend.

WHILE the flapping sails of hundreds of yachts will provide a massive spectacle off Crosshaven in July, there is also plenty of events lined up to entertain the landlubber.

Meteor award winners Aslan are to help raise thousands of euro for sick children, it emerged today.

Dublin-based band Delorentos are favourites to win this year's Choice Music Prize.

THE world’s fastest dancer, theatre premieres, comedians and music sessions will form part of a nine-day festival planned for Clonmel, Co Tipperary.