January is the dreariest month of the year. The weather is awful, public transport is failing miserably and to top it off we are now all back at work. Perhaps the best way to get over the creeping fear and misery is to begin planning that summer get-away to a festival far away from this sodden British isle.
The UK may still be the true home of the festival scene, but for how much longer? Despite the might of Glastonbury, there are now some serious overseas contenders on the market, with the (almost) guaranteed sunshine proving appealing to festival-goers the world over. Already, many festivals have announced their line-ups for 2014, so if you need to focus on something other than the return to work, check out what we know about the foreign festival scene so far for 2014...