HE may think himself a demi god, but Johnny Borrell certainly showed his true worth as he made V Festival.

The front man of Razorlight and former band mate of Pete Doherty and Carl Barat was the highlight at Saturday's Staffordshire event after a day marred by rain, rain and more rain.

Wearing his trademark white skinny jeans, Borrell gave so much on stage passion with old tracks Golden Touch and Vice that even with newer material including America, In the Morning, Before I Fall to Pieces the crowd could not help but belt out every word.

My lack of voice is testament to that.

But these likely lads were not alone in making V Festival another memorable event.

Bloc Party's performance on the main stage on Sunday made the day for me.

Despite only releasing one new track this year they too lifted the crowd by really delivering the goods.

Radiohead were of course the iconic act.

Meanwhile, We Are Scientists got into the swing of festival spirit by arriving on stage on mini bikes. A class act.

It's always great to happen upon new bands, and the Young Knives were just that.

The sensational Paulo Nutini drew a huge audience into the Virgin Mobile Union stage and sent shivers up the spine of quite a few, I'd imagine, with Last Request.

Aside from the rain, which gave us a real excuse to jump in the mud in wellies, it was an incredible weekend - the alcohol flowed, the people were amazing even if the odd one did go round hurling mud at passers by.

Roll on next year - although a bit less pop would be good.

Girls Aloud teetering around in their stilettos and the rubbish churned out from Hard-Fi showed that pop certainly was the unfortunate anomaly at this year's V Festival.