Bird Jaguar + Zac Harris, Gold Hill Fair, Shaftesbury

FOUL weather and plenty of mud - anyone missing the shenanigans at Glastonbury would have felt right at home in Shaftesbury on Saturday.

There were hardier souls than this reviewer who spent all afternoon in the drizzle soaking up some spirited sets, but the two that tempted me out of the bar staked eminently worthy claims to a far bigger stage.

Armed with only his guitar and a head full of dreams, 16-year-old Zac Harris chops out a fine guitar played as much for rhythm as melody and decorates his music with Shelleyan lyrics laced with perception well beyond his years. A cover of Pete Doherty's For Lovers draws an obvious comparison, but his vocal owes as much to Jeff Buckley and Terry Callier as it does the Whitechapel waster.

It proved an unlikely, but perfectly judged, warm up for the sunkissed (oh, the irony!) bliss beat of Bird Jaguar. Loaded with emphatic major chord positivity, crystalline guitar chimes and the kind of choruses that will spin you round the moon, the boys pulled grins out of the rain-drenched that no amount of super-strength cider could have produced. Assured and inclusive, they could soar sky high.