What this festival has grown in terms of community and open-to-anything gig-goers is bigger than any line-up, subjective opinions on music and new-year fatigue. It is a music-lovers’ event in the truest sense of the word and needs commending for that – we need more festivals like it.

For its birthday year (not yet a teenager) Rockaway Beach cemented so many of the things that has made it one of my annual unmissables, and pushed it forward into exciting new places. It’s mix of nostalgia and zeitgeist-catching new acts has earned its place in the upper echelons of music festivals, and may it stay there for many years to come.