Well, wherever you chose to spend the busiest weekend in music, we hope you had a good one. Positive reports coming in from all over this morning - with no major problems and lots of great performances reported at Creamfields and the Cross Central, Secret Garden, Leeds and Reading festivals (though thelast one was, as expected, rather muddy).
Of course 50 Cent and Finnish rockers The Rasmus might not agree the weekend has been a complete success after they both received less than positive receptions from the restless Reading crowd (the mud must have been getting to them). 50 Cent was booed off stage 25 minutes into his Reading set, having been pelted with plastic bottles and even a camping chair by a difficult crowd. The Rasmus also faced a hostile audience reaction, leaving the stage just one song into their set.
However festival-goers proved they could be positive too. They went wild for Morrissey, especially when he performed Smiths classics 'How Soon Is Now' and 'Shoplifters Of The World Unite', while the White Stripes seemed to impress, especially after they apologised for their no-show at last year's Reading Festival. The duo were forced to cancel their 2003 Reading set after Jack White was involved in a car crash. He told the crowd: "My name is Jack White, this is my big sister Meg, sorry we couldn't make it last year - we caught a cab this time".
Despite the mud, police report this year's Reading Festival went ahead without major incident. Similar news from its sister festival in Leeds which seems to have put its reputation for trouble and violence well and truly behind it, with an incident free chilled out event for the second year running.
Similar positive words from police in West London regarding the 40th Notting Hill Carnival. Although police are investigating whether a shooting in the area was linked to Carnival, most of the massive event, which attracted in the region of 250,000 people on its first day, went ahead without incident. Scotland Yard told reporters yesterday that arrests were down 30% on 2003 and added that they were "extremely pleased" with how it had gone so far. A spokesman for the Met told reporters: "Crime is low, reported crime is low, and people are still enjoying themselves. It is a great carnival atmosphere and let's hope the whole event is especially successful considering it is its 40th birthday."
On the Carnival's anniversary, Chris Mullard, chairman of the company that coordinates Carnival, told the BBC: "Everyone is over the moon that it has kept going for 40 years - it has really made a big mark on the London cultural map."