Friday 4

Kepa’s sound is difficult to describe. Accordion driven with the rhythmic backing of the txalaparta plus bass and guitar. Add in the occasional use of a hunting horn and you’ve got a really interesting sound.

Kepa is a consummate performer. He connects to the audience well, despite an obvious language barrier. He gets the audience on their feet and dancing, even if some are not sure what style they should be dancing in. Most opt for the bouncing up and down style, although outside of the tent in the field there’s definitely more movement.

Kepa Junkera’s highly enjoyable set comes to an end and I’m heading back to the Radio Two Stage for the rest of the Oyster’s set.

It’s become a more conventional gig, all of the audience are facing the band, the lines of dancers have broken down. Whether this was by accident or design, it’s impossible for me to tell.

What is easy to tell is that those lucky enough to have got into the Radio Two Stage for this rare performance have obviously enjoyed themselves a great deal. You can tell by the looks of radiance on many of the faces that they have been witness to a truly awesome set.

Once over, there are the inevitable calls for more, a call that can’t be acknowledged. Following the set, I manage to grab a word with the band’s bass player, Chopper.

Interview over it’s time to go back to Stage One to catch a performance from the quirky Neil Hannon band, The Divine Comedy.

Hannon is a fantastic singer songwriter, not many other artists can claim to have got a song about a coach company into the national chart. He has a devious mind and in the Devine Comedy, the band to translate that into music.

Left field? Perhaps. I see him more as the greatest modern example of creating music to watch girls by. There is a major qualifier here. Unlike other styles that fall into that people watching category, Hannon sets traps.

You’re just jigging along, tapping your feet when all of a sudden you are just snapped out of it by an exceptionally well placed lyric that detects a weakness in your thought process and gives it a sharp twang.

The location on the billing is absolutely fantastic. It’s not just that the Divine Comedy are the headliners, the are just so the right band for the end of a warm, classic English Summer’s day.

The point is it’s been very hot. People have been drinking soft drinks because of the heat. Merry is where people are at, whether through drink or through the performances, and the Divine Comedy are connected to that.