Britain is a dreary place with wet weather and armies of people queuing up to start moral panics about someone somewhere bring offended about something sometime. Britain in summertime, however, is a brilliant place with events every weekend determined to squeeze the last bit of fun, laughter and hedonism out of you.

Let's hear it for festivals! We may say horrible things about them sometimes but that's only us pretending to be all cynical and curmudgeonly.

Really we love them, so we're going to bring you a series of previews throughout the summer. These guides serve two purposes. Firstly to get you excited and improve your quality of life by getting you out of the house. Secondly, to help convince festival organisers to give us free tickets! And we don't even have to compromise our creative credibility since (a) we genuinely love festivals and (b) we have no creative credibility.