the Kalorama lineup has fully just hooked me so I'm gonna risk it. IFEMA is definitely a bit bleak and August in Madrid is hell but for that price I'm down to be a guinea pig.
I've been going to a fest in northern Germany for the longest part of the 2010s. In 2016 it rained so heavily, they had to cancel large parts of the programme, the tent stage saw 30cm of water, they brought in havary pumps from Hamburg used to drain sinking ships. The campsite went absolutely mental. People offered ferry services across the larges puddles on air mattresses, someone listed their tent as a "waterfront" property on an immo-website and someone surfed on a portapotty door across a puddle while security pulled them on a quad