Best Metropolitan Festival

Growing in number, The Metropolitan Festival is an event for those who are averse to camping. These festivals use the existing live music structure of a town to put on a multi-venue event that is either sold on a show-by-show basis or as a one-wristband-for-all-concerts basis, either way the line-up is selected a single group of organisers passionate about bringing their favourite bands to a town. But which had you ditching the tent and opting for the high street instead?

Other contenders:
Birmingham International Jazz Festival (info)
Dot To Dot - Bristol (info)
Dot To Dot - Nottingham (info)
Grassington Festival (info)
Hellfire (info)
MTV Liverpool Music Week (2008) (info)
Liverpool Sound City (info)
London Word Festival (info)
The Great Escape (info)