Maximo Park played the Main Stage at 1500 on Saturday.

Usually such dashing chaps, those Maximo Park boys. Strange, then, that they should turn out at the biggest festival of the summer so underdressed.

Resplendent in bobble hat and black heavy metal t-shirt, frontman Paul Smith explains: "We were at a metal festival in Slovakia." They didn't fit in so they bought the t-shirt. There's a metaphor in there somewhere.

"Everybody tries to look fancy on stage so we're rebuffing them."

Thankfully, the music is well-tailored. 'Now I'm All Over the Shop (deceptively named, that one - its delivery is super-tight) manages to rock out pleasingly, despite the occasional rock-opera style piano licks.

They rattle through the rest of an impressive set, finishing with the ever-popular, ever sing-a-longable Going Missing. Sterling stuff.


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