Thursday 5th February 2015 by Poppy Turner

18 foreign festivals you need to go to in 2015

Need a holiday? The best festival line-ups worth travelling abroad for this year

Rock Am Ring, Nurburg, Germany, 5 - 7 June

Bilbao BBK, Bilbao, Spain, 9 - 11 July

�ya, T�yenparken, Norway, 11 - 15 August

Coachella, California, USA, 10 - 12, 17 - 19 April

Groezrock, Kempen, Belgium, 1 - 2 May

Hurricane, Schee�el, Germany, 19 - 21 June

The Governor's Ball, New York, USA, 5 -7 June

Way Out West, Gothenburg, Sweden, 13 - 15 August

S�nar, Barcelona, Spain, 18 - 20 June

ATP Iceland, Keflav�k, Iceland, 2 - 4 July

Nos Alive, Lisbon, Portugal, 9 - 11 July

Best Kept Secret, Hilvarenbeek, The Netherlands, 19 - 21 June

Sasquatch!, Washington, USA, 22- 25 May

Roskilde Festival, Roskilde, Denmark, 27 June - 4 July

Outlook, Pula, Croatia, 2 - 6 September

Primavera Sound, Barcelona, Spain, 27 - 30 May

Festival Internacional de Benic�ssim, Benic�ssim, Spain, 16 - 19 July

Melt!, Ferropolis, Germany, 17 - 19 July

If you're weighing up whether to spend your summer travelling or going to festivals, look no further. We've cherry-picked the crème de la crème of this year's foreign festivals so you can combine your holiday with some of the best live music that 2015's got to offer.

From California to Norway, with headliners like Björk, AC/DC, Drake, Belle & Sebastian and Florence & The Machine, festival season outside of the UK is shaping up to be very exciting this year. With loads of great line-ups announced, there's still more to come.

Here are the 18 festivals you won't mind journeying to, especially if it means getting away from the rain, mud and general gloom of British weather (without having to miss out on all the music). You'd better get booking those plane tickets...