A sun-soaked Endorse It festival was the perfect end to a dreary week of grey skies and rain.

Local heroes Pronghorn set the pace on the main stage on the Friday evening, leading the crowd on an energetic romp through their rock-infused country tracks – plus a cover of Motorhead’s Ace Of Spades.

Endorse It veterans, Dreadzone, followed suit with a lively set of reggae beats, rock power chords and electro riffery, while Bosch Stacey started a rave from the Wildcat stage with a superb techno-drenched drum and bass set.

Earlier on, Flipron stepped the festival up a gear with a superb jazz-kissed folk-rock set.

On the Saturday, local legends The Guns Of Navarone brought a delicious ska flavour to the festival, shortly followed by King Porter Stomp, who quickly built up an appreciation society with their dub ska funk.

On the main stage, Sham 69 tore through their back catalogue of football chant punk songs with clinical efficiency, but it was only Hurry Up Harry, Ulster and Unite and Win that stood out.

Not even copious amounts of cider made the comedians funny on Scrumpy Sunday, but fortunately a heady mix of bands kept the crowds entertained.

Headliners Zion Train’s pulsating bass lines made ears bleed throughout their faultless dub dance set, while Tarantasism closed the Wildcat stage in a more civilised fashion with a unique funk and punk licked ska set and some medieval pipes thrown in for good measure!

However, it was a little-known band called Smokey Angle Shades who stole the show for me.

This unsigned, unkempt quintet played infectious, blues soaked rock ’n’ roll, around the Strummerville campfire and their Don’t Let The Moonlight In was arguably the song of the festival.