Hellfest is the biggest metal festival in France — four days of metal, rock and punk in the village of Clisson, near Nantes.

Clockenflap is Hong Kong’s biggest music and arts festival — an eclectic, harbourfront weekend with one of the world’s great skylines as the stage backdrop.

The Montreux Jazz Festival is one of the most storied events in music — two weeks of jazz, soul, rock and pop on the shores of Lake Geneva.

Burning Man is unlike any festival on earth — a temporary city of 70,000 built in the Nevada desert around art, self-expression and radical self-reliance.

Wacken Open Air is the holy land of heavy metal — the world’s biggest metal festival, in a tiny German farming village.

Primavera Sound is the tastemaker’s festival — the coolest, most eclectic lineup in Europe, right on the Barcelona seafront.