Brilliant Elbow set blows away Oasis blues (From Chelmsford Weekly News)

Brilliant Elbow set blows away Oasis blues

8:42pm Sunday 23rd August 2009

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MERCURY Prize-winners Elbow brought the biggest cheers of the night with a brilliant performance.

Oasis's no show meant their set was extended to an hour and a quarter.

And they made full use of it with epic versions of Newborn and set closer One Day Like This.

As the sun went down, they came to the stage with a string quartet and brass to perform a spine-tingling version of Starlings.

But the biggest cheer of the night came with a suitably barnstorming performance of Grounds For Divorce.

It is unlikely many of Elbow's fanbase were torn between seeing them and Lady Gaga, who is now completing a set on the Channel 4 stage.

The evening has already seen Katy Perry with what could be a festival first: a costume change mid set.

The American starlet proclaimed she felt a little bit English, before performing a cover of Queen's Don't Stop Me Now.

The half hour will see headliners Snow Patrol, replacing Oasis, Keane, MGMT and British Sea Power take the stage.

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