Making its 20th appearance this year Bourges' Cosmic Trip has brought together a very strong line-up & all for a mere 40 euros for the weekend (the benefits of a large number of sponsors).

The newly reformed Kaisers, Switzerland's Jackets & Monsters, American luminaries The Cynics, Spain's Doctor Explosion and up and coming youthful US duo Archie & The Bunkers are all part of the truly international bill over 5-8 May in the centre of France.

Ticket purchases & all the other information you could want are available here.

If you're after some top quality garage rock 'n' roll in the warmer climes of Spain this spring then the Green Fuzz Festival could be the very thing for you.

Preceded by the Green Fuzz Day in March (with performances from The Missing Souls and The Cavemen amongst others) the event is back for a second year towards the end of April with a top notch international line-up featuring the likes of The Jackets, The Anomalys, The Baron Four and The Teamsters. 

As small events go this is pretty small as there are only 300 tickets but that should obviously make for an enjoyably intimate weekend. All this goes on in the Basque region so you're probably looking at a flight to Bilbao and then travel onwards south.

Further details can be obtained here as time goes on & at some point the events website may display 2016 instead of 2015.