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Surprise guests The Pretenders with Johnny Marr on guitar. His guitar style is so distinctive that I recognised the sound before I saw his face. Makes you wonder if wires hadn't got crossed with the "Blossoms/Astley does the Smiths" guest slot and he was meant to be in that one..

"We've had a lot of rain and it's a bit slippery out there, but Pinas is enjoying himself."

I watched Lightning Seeds last night, brilliant set! You forget just how many good songs they had. Sweet look from Ian Broudie as they started "Life of Riley" (which some older readers will remember as the music between the goals on Match of the Day) as Ian looked at the guitarist...who is his...

Don't open your set with that one!

Not seen the whole set, but they seem pretty good. Enjoying "You Love Us".

Manics playing "Faster". I thought how old they look, but then, so do I.

Astley according to Wikipedia: "co-wrote "Mission Statement", a track for former Marillion singer Fish's 1999 solo album Raingods with Zippos.[38][39]"

I'd have gone to see it if I was there-I'm quite enjoying it! Rick's a lovely bloke and this is his second set today, so I'll forgive the voice.

8 for me. Probably just wishful thinking!

I think it was more desperation than "stupid".

That's awful news. RIP Cedric, you were my favourite Belgian.

One more vintage Queen's track to highlight how good Dave Grohl was as a drummer, especially 2:47 onwards: A lot of comments from that set say they were the closest thing to Nirvana, that line up. Myself and a lot of my mates agreed! Kinks were another big influence on them, which is awesome...

Ouch, that's mean! Essentially, they got a HUGE amount of goodwill due to the way they formed what with Kurt Cobain's suicide. Nirvana really were huge (and great). Nobody really expected anything from Dave, everyone thought bassist Krist would be the follow-up act. But Dave had been writing...

Absolutely banging set by Kellis on West Holts, wish I was there-like a hip-hop greatest hits!

But we have a song and everything! Fiddlesticks.

Free, eh. That sounds good. Is he any good, though?

Simon Day didn't, started out as a stand-up and met the others through working with Vic & Bob. There you go, Vic Reeves! Vic got his breaks through Malcolm Hardee. Now he was working class: "Hardee was born in Lewisham, South East London, near the River Thames, and came from a long line of...

Fast Show! Only went to East Anglia Poly. From Paul Whitehouse's wiki: "The pair (Higson & Whitehouse) began working as tradesmen on a house shared by comedians Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie, which inspired them to start writing comedy. They moved to an estate where in a pub they met Harry...

Not really, but a bit shocking for the era maybe?

Depends partly on if we've sorted out the first string, really!