Melt Festival

Justice, M83, Richie Hawtin, Caribou, Rufus Wainwright, Bloc Party, Chairlift, Gossip, Lana Del Rey, Modeselektor, The Rapture, Yeasayer, Brodinski, John Talabot, Flux Pavilion. An impressively diverse bill for this German festival, held in the open museum at Ferropolis (known as 'the city of iron'), just 90 minutes from Berlin. Dance smashers such as French rock-obsessives Justice and minimal don Hawtin sit nicely up against more organic players such as Rufus Wainwright, Yeasayer and Gossip, with a healthy dose of underground DJs on the line up too. With 20,000 pundits it's big but not vast and the venue is located next to a large lake to splish splash in on hot days.