What started in 2018 with a party on a beach on Colombia’s Caribbean coast and in 2019 was shut down last minute by the authorities, necessitating a move to the organisers’ Rio Hostel in Buritaca, last weekend celebrated its sixth edition in the form of a fully-fledged long-weekend festival with four stages, up to 1500 people and a hell of a lot of good music.

It was an ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC festival, but rather than do a whole review* — which would be beyond my abilities of memory and articulation — it’s time to wheel out everyone’s favourite format: HITS and MISSES! You will have guessed already that the Misses were thin on the ground, and predominantly things that were my own bloody fault rather than anything to do with other people or the festival, but I’ll try to be honest about them nonetheless.

Before getting into it, I want to thank Benny & Guy, Ximena, the rest of the Rio Hostel team, Enrique & Raquel, Nicolas and Julio, Gwenan and Dana, all the Belgians, and everyone else who made this such an easy and memorable and fun long weekend.

(*of course I ended up writing a whole review and a half)