Describe In Three Words: Style versus substance.

Remarkable Moment: The opening five minutes. They're half an hour late (a video screen wasn't behaving itself) but when Muse eventually land their metaphorical spaceship on the main stage, it's a very special moment.
A few are grumbling that their music is vacant, that this is no more than one man brandishing his manhood, that Muse are all technique but no actual substance. But this reporter doesn't care. When the lights are that bright, the sound that loud, the visuals that spectacular and the riffs as ridiculously over the top, how can you not immerse yourself in such drama? Surely showmanship, huge noise and BIG FLASHY LIGHTS are what headline slots are all about?

Crowd Reaction: Maybe tramping about in the mud for twelve hours is beginning to take its toll, but the biggest crowd of the day seems a tiny bit underwhelmed, considering.

Oxegen Rating Out Of Ten: 8