Tom Dunne: Four destination music festivals to book now for a dreamy summer holiday

Need to beat the January blues? Tom Dunne suggests booking your next getaway — with a musical twist

The Burning Man seen during the festival of the same name in Nevada. Picture: Chase Stevens/Las Vegas Review-Journal via AP

Thu, 05 Jan, 2023 - 21:00

Tom Dunne is a music-lover extraordinaire who, as well as presenting radio and TV shows, can also be seen in the wild as the lead singer with Something Happens.

A surefire way, I am reliably informed, to lift the January blues is to book your summer holiday immediately. It gives you something to do now (search destinations), something to tell your family (“look where we’re going”) and something to look forward to. And, no small thing, it gives you time to save.

I learned all this some years back listening to Chris Moyles’ Breakfast show, then on BBC Radio 1. It was his January thing. Listeners flooded him with tales of their “best holiday ever” and descriptions of plans for the year ahead. Christmas trees were not yet binned, but summer was in the air.