Primavera

The Flaming Lips, Pulp, Grinderman, Interpol, Animal Collective, Sufjan Stevens, Belle And Sebastian, PJ Harvey, Low, Battles. As foreign city festivals go this one is pretty much unbeatable. Not only is it bang on the coast in Barcelona so the view is superb and the weather flawless, this well-run event is rocking a brilliant line-up including Oklahoma's finest psychedelic alt.popsters TFL, Sheffield Britpop crew Pulp and Nick Cave's overdriven darkly textures, skronky blues-rock ensemble Grinderman, alnogside the elegant gloom-rockers Interpol and Baltimore-based post-psych innovators AC. www.primaverasound.com