Festival Frolics: Spain's Greatest, Primavera Sound 2011.

Irrefutably the Iberian peninsula's best aestival weekender, this year's Primavera Sound also, coincidentally, happens to boast perhaps its best line up yet and purveys a signal of intent. The booking bar has been substantially raised. Imagine your ideal slew of acts never to have slumped to commercial compromise, congregate the lot of them on the azure shores of Barcelona and you've a basic grasp of quite how unparalleled an experience Primavera Sound provides. From 90s darlings PJ Harvey and Jarvis' newly reformed Pulp to bright young Brit things The Vaccines and James Blake, blinding blogosphere lights Emeralds, Kurt Vile and Gold Panda to Dots & Dashes stalwarts Caribou, Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti and Salem Primavera Sound really does have something for everyone, predominantly because anyone and everyone of note's already been booked. Including Sufjan Stevens. Impeccable toilets, San Miguel on tap and enough sun to power Michael Eavis' solar panels for a decade only add to the sheer supremacy of the festival. Taking place from 26th-29th May, the single nuisance is that there's sure to be omnipresent clashes worse than that Glastonbury dilemma of 2009: Blur or Black Eyed Peas.*

The full line up (deep breath and place a cushion beneath your jaw) looks something like:

Aias * Ainara LeGardon * Animal Collective * Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti * Arto Lindsay * Autolux * Avi Buffalo * Baths * Battles * Belle & Sebastian * Berlinetta * Big Boi * Blank Dogs * BMX Bandits * Caribou * Carte Blanche * Caspa * Cloud Nothings * Comet Gain * Connan Mockasin * Cults * Cuzo + Damo Suzuki * Dan Melchior und Das Menace * Darkstar * Das Racist * Deakin * Dean Wareham plays Galaxie 500 * Del Rey * DJ Shadow * DM Stith * Ducktails * Dúo Cobra * Echo & The Bunnymen performing Heaven Up Here & Crocodiles * Einstürzende Neubauten * El Guincho * El Mató A Un Policía Motorizado * Emeralds * Explosions In the Sky * Factory Floor * Field Music * Fleet Foxes * Games * Gang Gang Dance * Girl Talk * Glasser * Glenn Branca Ensemble * Gold Panda * Gonjasufi * Grinderman * Half Japanese * Holy Ghost! * Incarnations * Interpol * Islet * James Blake * Jamie XX * John Cale & Band + Orchestra perform PARIS 1919 * John Talabot * Julia Kent * Julian Lynch * Kode9 And The Space Ape + Kode9 Burial Set * Kokoshca * Kurt Vile & The Violators * La Célula Durmiente * Las Robertas * Les Aus * Lichens * Lindstrom * Low * Lüger * M. Ward * Male Bonding * Matthew Dear Live * Me And The Bees * Mercury Rev perform Deserter's Songs * Mogwai * Money Mark * My Teenage Stride * Nisennenmondai * Nosoträsh "Popemas" * Odd Future * Of Montreal * Oneohtrix Point Never * Ornamento Y Delito * P.i.L. * Papas Fritas * Pere Ubu plays "The Annotated Modern Dance" * Perfume Genius * Phosphorescent * Pissed Jeans * PJ Harvey * Pulp * Rubik * Salem * Seefeel * Shellac * Simian Mobile Disco * Sonny & The Sunsets * Sufjan Stevens * Suicide * Suuns * Swans * Tennis * The Album Leaf * The Annuals * The Black Angels * The Fiery Furnaces * The Flaming Lips * The Fresh & Onlys * The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion * The Monochrome Set * The National * The Soft Moon * The Suicide Of Western Culture * The Tallest Man On Earth * The Vaccines * The Walkmen * Thelematicos * Toundra * Triángulo De Amor Bizarro * tUnE-yArDs * Twin Shadow * Ty Segall * Warpaint * Wolf People * Yuck

Tickets, priced at £130 can be acquired here, whilst the Primavera Sound official site is almost certainly better equipped to quell any questions you may have regarding the festival.

* Joke. Obviously. Probably. We saw Blur...