Saturday is sunny and the colourful crowd are dressed up and ready to rock, with The Doctor (from Doctor & the Medics) in the MC position for the weekend. As usual, the sets are short and target the hits, so there's plenty to sing and dance along to - Saturday opens up with The Blockheads (Ian Dury's backing band) (Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick), Peter Hook & The Light playing classic Joy Division and New Order songs (Transmission, Blue Monday and Love Will Tear Us Apart).

The Trevor Horn Band hit the stage next. Trevor Horn is certainly the man who defined the sound of the eighties with his masterful production of a shedload of hits for Frankie Goes To Hollywood, Grace Jones and too many others to mention (Video Killed The Radio Star, Living In the Plastic Age, Two Tribes etc) and with 10cc's Lol Creme on guitar and guest vocalist, 'X-Factor' winner Matt Cardle, who made a great performance of Frankie Goes To Hollywood's 'The Power Of Love'.

Bass player supremo Mark King brought Level 42 to woo the crowd with classic '42 tracks (Lessons In Love, Running In The Family) with Doctor & The Medics (Spirit In the Sky) playing a short but emotional set following the passing of a dedicated fan, after a long illness.

6 Music Presenter Tom Robinson brought his own brand of politicism to the stage with 'Glad To be Gay' (50 years since the passing of the Sexual Offences Act in 1967) and a great acoustic version of '2-4-6-8 Motorway. Pub/Punk Rocker Hugh Cornwell, founding member of The Stranglers, performed with The Rewind All Star backing band and played 'Golden Brown' and finished with 'Always The Sun'.

Scottish sweetheart, Clare Grogan (Altered Images) bounced onto the stage to play (I Could Be Happy, Happy Birthday), with Brummie, Roland Gift's set next, playing 'Suspicious Minds' and 'Johnny Come Home'. Kim Wilde  looking glamorous, joined on stage by brother Ricky, playing the hits including 'Kids In America', Chequered Love' and others.

For the finale tonight, a double headline from across 'the pond' with Village People (YMCA) up first and Sister Sledge (We Are Family, Frankie) to close Day 1, getting the crowd moving with great songs and choreography.

The Blockheads



Peter Hook & The Light



The Trevor Horn Band



Matt Cardle



Level 42



Doctor & the Medics



Tom Robinson



Hugh Cornwell



Altered Images



Roland Gift



Kim Wilde



Village People



Sister Sledge



Sunday

Sunday gives us Dr (of Dr & The Medics) MC'ing again, and greatly loved by the crowd. In between sets, DJ Rusty Egan is back on the decks too. Its a cooler, cloudier day, but we get a bit of the wet stuff later in the day, so its out with the pac-a-macs for the evening.

But before anything, Rewind gets its first official wedding with Andy and Debbie Tideswell tying the knot at the inflatable church, with the sauciest vicar you could imagine... think Frankie Howard on steroids and you might be somewhere near! Congratulations Andy & Debbie x

Mr & Mrs Tideswell

Johnny Hates Jazz start off the day (Shattered Dreams, I Don't want To be A Hero,  Turn Back The Clock, which is dedicated to Rusty Egan who discovered Clark Datchler and nurtured his talent), Junior Marvin's Wailers giving the crowd some more of a laid back reggae vibe. The Orchestra, (including early ELO member Mik Kaminsky) playing some classic 70's ELO tracks (Horace Wimp, Mr Blue Sky).

Next up is British Electric Foundation (BEF), brainchild of Heaven 17's Martyn Ware, with a series of guest appearances from Propaganda's Claudia Brucken (Duel and a cover of Kraftwerk's 'The Model'), Owen Paul, (Favourite Waste Of Time), The Farm's Peter Hooton with 'Altogether Now', Jaki Graham with 'Set Me Free', The Sex Pistols' Glen Matlock belting out 'Pretty Vacant' for the crowd to pogo along to, Heaven 17's Glenn Gregory with 'Let's Dance (Bowie) and 'Temptation', with the finale and all the guests back on stage for tribute to George Michael with 'Freedom'.

John Parr follows with 'The Best A Man Can Get'.. yes, it is the song from the advert and 'St Elmo's Fire', followed by T'PAU's Carol Decker (Secret Garden, China In Your Hand). Bursting onto the stage to 'Thunder In the Mountains' (as the weather worsens), Toyah Wilcox manages to outperform many of the acts on stage today, looking stunning in a gold sequinned dress and running around like a teenager, rocking out to Martha & The Muffins' 'Echo Beach' and 'Its A Mystery'. If any act playing Rewind in future wanted a lesson in how it's done, they'd better go and see Toyah and 'have whatever she's having'!

Haircut 100's Nick Heyward is up next for a more laid back set of 'Whistle Down The Wind' and other 'Haircut' tracks, and plugging new album 'Woodland Echoes'.Belinda Carlisle (Circle In The Sand, Heaven Is a Place on Earth, I Get Weak) as the rain gets heavier.

By the time Status Quo land for the final set of the festival, it is pretty miserable, everyone is wet, and the macs are out, but it doesn't dampen the spirit of the crowd as they rock on with a classic set of Quo hits.

Junior Marvin's Wailers



The Orchestra



BEF, Claudia Brucken



BEF, Owen Paul



BEF, Peter Hooton



BEF, Jaki Graham



BEF, Glen Matlock



BEF, Glenn Gregory



John Parr



T'PAU



Toyah



Nick Heyward



Belinda Carlisle



Status Quo