Britain and Europe's poshest music festivals

Is the music festival as scene of warm beer, ear drum shattering amplification and mud splattered oakley sunglasses wholesale mayhem fake oakley sunglasses under threat?

With Britain's Eton educated Conservative prime minister, David Cameron, spotted at Cornbury aka Poshstock this year, Glastonbury tickets costing upward of $300 and yurts and hempseed smoothies present at even the most ordinary events, all the evidence is there.

At these popular upscale music oakley sunglasses wholesale and culture fests in Britain (the country seems to specialize in them) and Europe, guests fake oakleys are as well bred as the organic cows minced up for the burgers, the music avoids topics of social revolution and the booze may be bubbly, but it also tends to be French.

Cornbury Music Festival, Oxfordshire, UK

Britain's Eton educated PM David Cameron was spotted behind sunglasses at Cornbury this year. Could this be the ultimate sign of a non divey festival?

"A homespun melting pot where music lovers share pies and a glass of champagne with superstars, toffs, rockers, crooners [and] Morris dancers."

That's how Cornbury describes itself.

Known as "poshstock," especially since British Prime Minister David Cameron was spotted there this year (albeit apparently hiding behind a pair of fake Ray Ban sunglasses), the festival places great emphasis on comfort.

With accommodation options including yurts (yes, the surprise accommodation hit of the decade has even made it to this bastion of the British establishment) and fully furnished cabins, you feel as if you're checking into a charming little boutique hotel here, rather than attending a three day open air music festival.

Yoga workshops are available, should you suffer any back strain catching a glimpse of acts including Van Morrison and The Proclaimers.

The VIP tent has plush sofas and a hair salon if you get too out of sorts.

Cornbury Music Festival; every July; day tickets from 15 ($23); +44 (0)844 581 0777

Festival No 6, Portmeirion, Wales

"Your weekend will be spent in the most stylish . setting imaginable," declares Festival No 6 without modesty, true, but also without too much exaggeration.

Festival No 6; every September (13 15 in 2013); tickets from 170 ($265)

Aphrodite Festival, Paphos, Cyprus

Held in the grounds of the city's medieval castle, Aphrodite is a global highlight on the opera lover's calendar.

Singers might hit the high notes but you shouldn't get carried away by all the extravagant emotion depicted in the opera performances the prevailing mood here is genteel, just in the way it isn't at, say, the Bloodstock Open Air heavy metal festival in Derbyshire, UK.

Highlight of this year's Aphrodite lineup is the Donizetti opera L'Elisir D'Amore, performed by the Opera Future Verona.

Pafos Aphrodite Festival; every September (6 8 in 2013); tickets from 25 ($33)

Galtres Festival, North Yorkshire, UK

"We British love our stately homes," says the 45 year old director of this Yorkshire event, James Houston.

"Give us a fine tune, a glass of something nice to cheap oakley sunglasses drink and a posh house, and we're the happiest folk in the world."

Thus is the posh festival ethos perfectly articulated.

Apart from the venue, Duncombe Park stately home, the culinary approach here is about as starkly different from the lukewarm beer and equally lukewarm food of what some would regard as a properly grimy festival.

Everything is resolutely local, seasonal, "artisan" and Fairtrade, from the tea and cakes from the Deliciousness Tea Shop, to the Full of Beans coffee and the really rather annoyingly titled Boogie Breakfasts.