Well, we've reached the August Bank Holiday weekend, one of the busiest weekends for live music in the UK.
For Mean Fiddler, of course, the Bank Holiday weekend is the Carling Weekend with the Leeds and Reading Festivals welcoming thousands of music fans for the last big festival of the year. The two festivals share much of their line up - with Linkin park, Blink 182, Placebo, The Darkness, Blur, Beck, Doves. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club and Metallica among the main stage highlights.
Up in Scotland, Glasgow's Gig On The Green, previously a sister festival to Leeds/Reading, has been taken over by the T in the Park promoters this year. Taking place on the 24 August the event includes the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Electric Six, PJ Harvey, Queens of the Stone Age and the Foo Fighters.
Also in Scotland, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe reaches its climax this weekend with much of the UK's art community flocking for the final weekend of theatre, comedy and drama. Music wise DF Concert_s T on the Fringe continues with key gigs from Sum 41, The Polyphonic Spree, Placebo, Grandaddy, Interpol and The Rapture. Meanwhile the last weekend of the music programme staged by Edinburgh radio station Forth One will feature Just Jack and a tbc gig from Ocean Colour Scene.
Back in England it is the Notting Hill Carnival in West London of course, with a family day on 24 Aug and the main carnival on 25 Aug - soundsystems galore across the Carnival route.
Finally in Liverpool Creamfields counts Massive Attack. Paul Oakenfold, UNKLE, Gus Gus and Mint Royale among it_s line up. A review of all of them next week.