Refusing to throw in the incredibly soaked festival towel, Merlin Jobst spent last weekend watching the likes of Three Trapped Tigers, Brontide and Future of The Left in the fields of Gloucestershire.

Adam Elmahdi braved the quagmire like conditions at this year’s festival to bring you his highlights from Elbow and St. Vincent to Deap Vally and Apparat.

We check out the likes of Caribou, Brandt Brauer Frick and Niki & The Dove at Germany’s Melt! Festival.

With the sun well and truly set on this Lisbon based affair, Suze Olbrich looks back on the last day of Optimus Alive 2012.

With performances from The Cure, The Antlers and Katy B, Optimus Alive came to life yesterday.

Suze Olbrich heads to Lisbon for Optimus Alive, the annual Portuguese music and arts festival and finds Zola Jesus trumping a vocally deficiant Ian Brown – and a homegrown love for LMFAO.

Simon Tyers takes a steam train ride to the DIY indie world’s annual gathering, where he finds the Vaselines, Allo Darlin’, Summer Camp, oh and some parrots.

A selection of chart titans took over for Hyde Park on Saturday as part of this year’s Wireless Festival and Gen Williams was there to witness it all.

From Jose Gonzalez all the way through to Suede, Joanie Eaton takes us through last weekend’s Hop Farm Festival.

Again and again Primavera delivers on its promise of having one of the best line-ups of the summer, and Andy Slocombe will testify to the fact that this year is no exception.