The remote's "mute" button got plenty of exercise after I decided life was too short to listen to any more of Zane-bloody-Lowe's incessant name-dropping, and his tedious boasts about knowing the first few songs each band was going to play, but not spilling the beans so as not to spoil the surprise (so why tell us you knew, you twat?).

Ahem.

I wouldn't describe Mark Radcliffe as smug, more like a man weary of life, wondering what he was doing there, reading the autocue with dead eyes, and speaking the words he read there in a dead voice. Clearly a man just Doing The Job.

On the plus side, Elbow were truly life-affirming, and though I'm not a fan, I thought Jay-Z's subtle nose-thumbing at Noel Gallagher was a truly elegant, dignified riposte to the Manc lout's arrogant pre-festival comments.

..apart from a snatch of Editors so cannot comment other than to assume Jo Whiley can't have been there this year, as her name would have popped up by now....mind you, since Peely shuffled off this mortal, she has to be up against someone really good to truly demonstrate her, um, range.

"Let's dance to Joy Division, and celebrate the irony" sing the Wombats. The irony of what - that they've used the title of one of the greatest pop songs of the 1980's (Love Will Tear Us Apart) for a facile, irritating, throwaway, shameless cash-in? Yeah, f**king hilarious (and no,I don't care that Peter Hook has endorsed them by playing on stage with them).

Jo "look everyone, aren't I amazingly sexy for a 40-something mother of three" Whiley has made her humourless-deputy-head-desperately-trying-to-be-cool-and-down-wiv-ver-kidz presence felt over the weekend, unfortunately.

I can't agree about Mark Radcliff - I like his understated, witty on-screen persona, a real antidote to the overheated Regional Accents R-US combo that is Annie Mac/Nick Grimshaw.

Did the BBC really have to wait until nearly midnight on Sunday to reveal to the viewing public that Leonard Cohen had refused to be filmed - how bloody annoying was that?!

...I like Mark Radcliffe. A lot less luvvie-ish than the rest of those awful hosts.

Saw bits of The Wombats set and yeah, they were awful. Not heard a band knock out so many irritating tunes in one set! I couldn't face the horror of The Fratellis, The Enemy or The Pigeon Detectives, changed channel when any of that lot were on.

Neil Diamond was quite entertaining really and Elbow were very good. I'm not a Jay-Z fan either but that 'Wonderwall' bit
raised a chuckle.