Sounds of summer

FOR some people, the idea of being one of thousands of campers packed like sardines for three days in a mucky field — and even muckier clothes — sounds like hell.

For the rest of us it spells the real start of the summer: music festival season.

The popularity of music festivals in this country has exploded over the past decade, with the “biggies” of the summer festival scene — Oxegen and Electric Picnic — consistently drawing huge crowds, year after year.