We may only be a few sets into the day, but when hard rockers Boston Manor made their entrance on to the Radio 1 Stage, it could easily have been the last set of the night with the uninhibited abandon of the mosh pits!

Ten years after their first experience of this festival as punters, the quintet shook the stage they once gazed up at to its very core! Repping their Blackpool heritage with fierce pride, the journey that this young band have been on since those first hometown shows in clubs and cafes is epitomised in this stage-shattering performance, with riddling guitar lines that bore an infectious virility, the edges licked with white-hot screams.

Whether the sheen in the air was haze or sweat, nobody could tell – nor did they seem to care, as each lively chorus swept them along for the ride of their lives. The piercing electricity of ‘Funeral Party’ descended into utter chaos, as ‘Bad Machine’ brought hundreds of crowd surfers flying towards the barrier; the fiercest wall of death of any band across the weekend came screeching out of a sense of utter wild revolt; and, to top it all off, a circle pit that spanned the entire width of the tent accompanied the anarchistic ‘Lead Feet’.

Quite frankly, everyone else can head home – Boston Manor have undoubtedly won this year’s festival by a country mile!