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If you’re heading to Benicassim this summer then you’ve got a little over a month to get familiar with the acts on offer. There’s a number of fairly obscure bands playing this year, so it is wise to get on Spotify or Last FM and listen to as much as you can before heading out.

My advice is to make a festival playlist with all the music you can find that relates to this year’s line-up, play it on shuffle and just delete things from the list you aren’t keen on when they play. That way you are left with a reasonable list of the more obscure acts to add to the ones you were always planning on going to see. Simple.

Benicassim festival is one of the best European music festivals around and this year it promises plenty more fun. However, we can offer a word or two of advice for people heading to the festival this year.

Make sure you get your return travel in order in good time because it can be a real chore getting out of Beni on the morning after the festival.

Coaches are a good idea because they go directly from the main campsite and although trains are a little confusing, they are a comfortable and quick alternative.

The most important thing is to make sure you’re going from Benicassim itself rather than from a nearby town because getting to that town on the day could prove trickier than you imagined.

There are bound to be a few people who are little bit disappointed with this year’s Glastonbury line-up, but if you’re one of them, you shouldn’t let it get you down. Instead, it makes sense to use this year to discover all the things about the festival you previously haven’t made the most of because there’s been too much great music.

For starters, you can check out the Healing Field and join in with certain forms of therapy. Then there’s Shangri La which demands a bit of attention. The Crafty Field, Green Futures and the Circus Field are always available and you can also sample the food and drink of various parts of the site.

Remember, Glastonbury is all about discovering new music as well as the things you’re already into, so take a gamble on some names you don’t recognise. When all’s said and done, there’s far more to Glastonbury than the big names on the big stages, which this year leave a lot to be desired.