Summer Loving

We all went to Oxegen last year so we have very little by way of moral high ground on this one. But this year will be different. This year there will be a Ryanair flight (god, very little moral high ground on anything today) at 6am rather than a Dublin Bus full of puking kids to bring us to our first festival destination. While nothing is confirmed and our agents are still negotiating with a whole host of possible sites, the bookies are shortening odds on the Melt Festival, outside of Berlin. Just check out the link and see for yourself. Line up is very electronic at the moment, but that is nothing but a plus these days. Prepare to shake your ass to Supermayer, Matthew Johnson, Tomas Anderssen (of "Washing Up" fame), Ellen Allien, Gui Boratto, Cobblestone Jazz, Booka Shade, and many more of the finest in all things minimal tech and electro. Add into the mix Bjork, Franz Ferdinand, Roisin Murphy and the undoubted tears which will flow when we hear Erlend Oye's sweet sweet voice for the first time live with The Whitest Boy Alive, the efficiency of the German rail network in getting us there, the €5 bottles of Yeltsin vodka and the hangover-curing German beers, and we are talking about one serious festival.

If this doesn't work out, leave the weekends of Exit, Sonar, Bennicassim, Eurockeenes and Pukkelpop free in case we decide to grace one of the above with our distinguished presence.