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We’ve picked a range of festivals on which to feast your ears, eyes and any other body part that you choose to position accordingly. There’s a diverse range, from thumping dance music raves right through to sedate jazz festivals, and some which don’t focus on music at all. And all of them can of course be reached overland…

23rd - 25th July 2010
Soundwave Festival

Beaches, boat parties, bands and a few dirty baselines and you’re halfway there.”The Big Chill on the sea” Soundwave Festival in Croatia is a set to be big news in the European Festival season in 2010.
18th September - 4th October 2010
Oktoberfest

Beers, Bratwurst, lederhosen and comedy beards galore. Of course I want to go…
15th - 18th July 2010
Benicàssim

Get your passport, and your Bikini, you need a holiday…in Benicassim
20th - 23rd May 2010
Wood Fest

Easily your best bet for keeping your festival shenanigans low carbon this year, it’s Oxfordshire’s Wood Festival…
6th - 16th February 2010
Carnival of Venice

With lavish balls, spectacular costumes, and weird and wonderful masks, the Carnival of Venice held annually in February is unlike anything you’ve ever seen. A far cry from the shenanigans of London’s Notting Hill, this is a once in a lifetime cultural experience.
19th – 22nd of August 2010
FM4 Frequency Festival

From 19th -22nd August, Green Park in St. Pölten near Vienna will play host to 40,000 revellers dancing, raving, and moshing to their little hearts’ content. And you can be one of them, you lucky, lucky person…
16th-18th July 2010
Melt! Festival

The 13th Melt! festival will take place from the 16th – 18th July 2010 at Ferropolis aka ‘The City of Steel”, near Dessau in Germany and it’s all set to be one of the biggest and best European festivals of the year…
8th – 11th July 2010
Exit Festival

In association with 50 of Europe’s biggest music festivals, EXIT participated in a ‘leave no trace’ campaign, and will be doing even more to reduce it’s carbon footprint in 2010. Now that’s music to our ears!
21st-28th August 2010
Rototom Sunsplash

Not only is saying “rototom” in a thick Welsh accent highly amusing, but it’s a tip top reggae festival too, with sunshine and bass and booming beats…
17th - 19th June 2010
Sonar Festival

Beautiful people, beautiful weather, and sublime beats. You don’t even have to know what avant-garde means to enjoy this festival, because simply by being there you’ll be helping to redefine it…
27th - 29th May 2010
Estrella Damm Primavera Sound

The Bloody Beetroots? Superchunk?! Who are these bands, and what musical delights have they got in store for our innocent little ears? There’s only one way to find out…
3rd - 5th September 2010
Electric Picnic

Search for a journey from London Euston to Dublin Ferry Port (but that’s across the sea I here you cry, tell me more of this sea faring locomotive) and they’ll spill the beans like a tin of Heinz in a can crusher…
1st - 4th July 2010
Roskilde

Because the lovely organisers of Roskilde have identified that 80% of their footprint comes from transport, it’s up to the likes of you and I to make sure that 2010 is their greenest year yet…