It was a busy weekend for music events, of course, with three of the summer's major music festivals taking place, meaning the festival season is now well and truly upon us.
Rockness was launched last year and, organisers say, is now the eighth biggest festival in the UK, with some 35,000 festival-goers visiting the site on each of the two days of this year's event. Headliners this year were The Chemical Brothers and the Manic Street Preachers, both of whom apparently rocked. As previously reported, this year's Rockness was preceded by the Go North music convention, previously held in Aberdeen, but this year staged in near-to-Rockness Inverness.
One of the other two big music fests of the weekend was the Isle Of Wight Festival, which, of course, featured The Rolling Stones' first UK festival set for more than three decades, plus what we hear were jolly good headline sets from Muse, Kasabian and Keane. Yeah, that's right, a good set from Keane. Remarkable.
The third of the fests was, of course, the suitably heavy Download Festival at Donington, headlined by Iron Maiden, who were also rather good, by all accounts. Perhaps our sources at all these festivals were just far too happy being back in festival mode to act as a critical eye of what was on offer. Or perhaps everyone was just brilliant.