Music Festival
Benicassim
Why
There are a few reasons the Festival Internacional de Benicàssim – just Benicàssim to its mates – is one of Europe’s most enduringly popular weekends for artists and music fans alike. There’s the pretty town of Benicàssim itself, a 20-minute stumble away from the main site. There’s the irresistible Mediterranean beach next to the town, with the sapphire sea just waiting to absorb all hangovers and offer respite from the microwave heat of the day. There’s the fact that the music doesn’t really get going till the sun goes down, and then doesn’t really stop until it comes up again. And – though perhaps not for everyone, this – there’s the fact that the young, cosmopolitan crowd are so Iberianly cool that they think nothing of getting naked in the unisex showers and engaging in general chit-chat about this and that while washing their this and thats, not necessarily noticing or caring that they and everyone around them are naked. Oh yes, and there’s some music that goes on – which just happens to be one of the most consistently strongest line-ups in all of indiefestivaldom.
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