Live music - Primavera Sound Festival

Parc Del Forum, Barcelona

For an Irish festival-goer, used to clamouring into a clammy big top not to see a set by a hyped newcomer but to hide from the latest downpour, Primavera Sound may well sound otherworldly.

Set in the sprawling Parc Del Forum, on the east of Barcelona, against a brilliant blue sea bedecked with yachts, it’s a little more picturesque than a muddy field in the midlands — and it’s 20C-plus every day.