For the first time in 31 years, The Stones are back at a UK festival. And boy, do they pull out all the stops. Kicking off with fireworks (take that Muse!) it's a big stage show, the works, and in their 15-song set they wow us with the big hits (opener 'Start Me Up', 'Satisfaction', 'Brown Sugar'), a few more obscure (if they can ever be obscure, It's THE STONES) back catalogue numbers ('You Get Me Rocking', 'Rough Justice') - and a couple of special guests.

As we revealed on our blog earlier, the young 'uns got involved. Paolo Nutini came on to duet nobly on a cover of Robert Johnson's 'Love In Vain', while Amy Winehouse got her on her knees to play her part in a simmeringly sexy cover of The Temptations' 'Ain't Too Proud To Beg'.

As is custom at their live dates now, they went out to a tiny stage in the crowd and belted out a few classics, including disco classic 'Miss You' and a euphoric 'Honky Tonk Women'.

It's all bloody brilliant actually (we'll even say that Keith's two numbers were sweetly sentimental), but being the consumate professionals that they are, they were never going to blow it, were they? Yes, it was less challenging than Muse last night, and not as humbly sentimental as Snow Patrol the night before, but neither of them can pack a set full of classics like 'Jumping Jack Flash', 'Sympathy For The Devil', 'Tumbling Dice' and countless others.

We never felt more like singing the blues. A perfect end to the weekend.

The set was:

'Start Me Up'
'You Got Me Rocking'
'Rough Justice'
'Love In Vain' (with Paolo Nutini)
'Can't You Hear Me Knocking'
'Ain't Too Proud To Beg' (with Amy Winehouse)
'Tumbling Dice'
'Wanna Hold You'
'Slipping Away'
'Miss You'
'(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction'
'Honky Tonk Women'
'Sympathy For The Devil'
'Brown Sugar'
'Jumping Jack Flash'

Best Song: 'Can't You Hear Me Knocking'

Best Moment: Amy Winehouse getting on her knees or the fireworks. It's a toss-up

When we blogged earlier that Keane would be the ones bringing the rock today, frankly we were taking the piss. And - ooh Keane you contrary little minxes! - they only went and took us seriously and sodding did it, didn't they? From the opening 'Everybody's Changing' through to a climactic 'Bedshaped' Tom Chaplin races up and down Jagger's Corridor Of Cartoon Cool, stoking the crowd into paroxysms of screamaging frenzy and looking not unlike the Head Of Year at Cholmondsley Featherington Upper turning into something of a spiffing rock star. And that they do all of this on a stage decorated like a Chinese take-away only adds to their stature. A surprise sensation.

Best song: 'Somewhere Only We Know'
Best moment: Tom: "this is a song about how we live in a world where we can all come to a place like this and celebrate music and yet we still go to war. What's that about? I dunno." All hail the new Country Joe.

At last, the indie. Although 'indie' in the broadest sense - The Fratellis are in essense a pub band, but their pub is enormous - imagine Wetherspoons buying out Buckingham Palace to turn it into a boozer. They are also, admittedly, The Band With One Song - for all the jig-along jauntiness of 'Baby Fratelli' or 'Henrietta', it's 'Chelsea Dagger' everyone's here for and it's a rousing finale of 'Chelsea Dagger' they get. Although no 'Creeping Up The Backstairs' for some unfathomable reason. What's up with that?

Best song: 'Chelsea Dagger'
Best moment: the impromptu ceilidhs breaking out across ther site during its chorus

Shaggy-haired busker type in a white shirt playing soft rock on the stage? For a second we're under the impression that James Morrison, having realised he was rubbish the first time round, has bullied his way back on for a second go. But no, it's Our Paolo - cut from the same MOR bedrock as Morrison but infinitely more fun - he comes on to the Rocky theme music, covers 'I Want To Be Like You' from The Jungle Book and generally rocks, funks and folks a fair whack harder. And appears to be as drunk as a rigger on shore leave too, for which we salute him.

Best song: 'I Want To Be Like You'
Best moment: Paolo's constant battle against gravity throughout

Franz Ferdinand were so wrong when they decided that music to make girls dance would be a kind of funky new wave indie jerk-pop. Nah, they should've been making blando warbly folk rock like James Morrison, who has the entire female population of the Isle Of Wight festival swaying and shimmying while their boyfriends look on with the same gritted teeth look of endurance they had when they agreed to go and see The Holiday. With all the most impartial will in the world it is impossible not to leave this set with the impression that James Morrison cannot die too soon.

Best song: 'I Believe In Rock'n'Roll' - which may or may not have been a Twisted Sister cover
Best moment: James introducing the band in under 2 seconds. That really was as exciting as it got

Like a woman resembling a tarted up docker's wife singing the sweetest Motown jazz yesterday (MRS Amy Winehouse, she had us know), there's something worryingly incongruous about a tatt'd up biker chick doing schmaltzy AOR soft rock songs while brushing her fingers moodily down her chest and going on about "give me back forever again". Yet that's Melanie C (who'll always be plain old Mel C to us) current schtick as she continues to work her way through every middle-of-the-road genre in the book to find out which one will sell best for her. Our money's on the Bryan Adams country rockin' duets like 'When You're Gone' or the disco rave bit of 'I Turn To You', Mel mate.

Best song: 'When You're Gone'
Best Moment: Getting stoned off our boxes and realising that the lyric "give me back forever again" is actually quite deep and moving if you, like, really think about it, man.