Summer pop on the Seine

If for nothing else Rock en Seine tops the festival list for its beautifully unlikely venue, amidst the forrested gardens and stone-statued ruins and fountains of the old St Cloud palace.
You've never really bounced happily to a sweet summer tune, until you've done it in the shadows of a grand, tiered stone fountain that looks straight out of Lord of the rings.
Perhaps its the venue that does it.
Or perhaps its just the unpretentious mix of music that seeks more to please and enjoy, than be cool.
It surely doesnt hurt that the usual festival fare of beer and chips, is generously seasoned with temporary bistros, cous cous tents and quirkily amusing side entertainments.
Whatever the reason, I can think of few more pleasant ways to pass a sunny late summer Parisian sunday afternoon and evening, than sipping cold wine and beer, and bouncing like a sugar-fueled child.
Synths and falsetto in the sunshine...
dancing like a dork in the dark, with blow-up monsters and glitter confetti under the stars.