Rob Da Bank's Bestival Top 10

The lovely Rob Da Bank - King of Bestival - has given me his top 10 band tips for next weekend's Bestival Festival!

From the man himself:

CARIBOU

NEON INDIAN

SKREAM

SBTRKT

THE FLAMING LIPS

GIL SCOTT HERON

BETH JEANS HOUGHTON

FEVER RAY

THE PRODIGY

BEARDYMAN

Want to hear some of their tracks (including a track Neon Indian has remixed)? Check out the Trident Perpetual Festival Bestival Playlist on SPOTIFY... HERE!

All Time Low at Rock En Seine

Alex from All Time Low answers fans questions from Twitter at the Parisian Rock En Seine festival!

Rock En Seine - all the photos!

Check out all the pics from my trip to Rock En Seine (with winners Tanya and John) by clicking HERE!

Rock En Seine - the video report!

My video report from Rock En Seine!

Trident perpetual Kiss in paris

The people of France at Rock En Seine get all romantic with this running perpetual kiss..

Trident Perpetual Question at Rock En Seine

Thank you to the people at Rock En Seine for this lovely perpetual question :)

Video interview with Newton Faulkner

Nicest man ever.

Video interview with Howard Marks

Legend.

Trident perpetual festival en Paris

Hanging at Oui FM in Paris

Monster monster!

There's quite a few people here

Barbe a papa

Candy floss in French translates as "dads beard". Nice

French style

In general, Rock En Seine is quite serious. Compared to the daft fancy dressed merry fools you can chat to at British festivals (men in dresses, girls looking like fairies, friends arriving as ghostbusters etc), this event is much more "concerty". Doesn't mean I didn't do my darndest to find at least one mad looking Parisian however. Sweet fro bro :)

Main stage at rock en seine

Filling up nicely as The Temper Trap get going.

Final morning sight seeing!

And we managed to get over to Notre Dame. That's the lovely thing about some of these trips - not only do winners get to go to cool festivals in foreign countries, but there's a whole other side of fun-holiday-abroad that's include too! Excellent!

Oh and..

Bumped into my friend Matt yesterday! He plays in a Parisian metal band called Admirals Arms and is working at the festival at one of the stalls. Handy to have him act as a translator when I'm bundling up to strangers and asking them to kiss each other... All will be explained later on ;)

Final day at rock en Seine

... And the sky is ready for us! Yesterday was another great day at the festival. I met a load of English people who are regulars at the fest - and say they prefer it to all the usual events back home. The organisation of the stages here is brilliant - one starting as another ends - allowing for everyone to go watch all the acts and also have some time to go get the tasty grub. Prices are pretty high - but that's a pound-versus-euro thing as opposed to a French festival thing. I'm going to create a special food report for you as it's so tasty here. :)