Chemical brothers

Kings of Leon and Kaiser Chiefs confirmed for August bash

Malta to see three-day music festival start this June

Rage Against The Machine and The Verve also set for Scottish festival

The reunited indie legends to join Radiohead in Denmark

Opening night also sees The Coral welcome Noel Gallagher onstage

The OJ singer joins likes of Macca, Ray Davies and Kaisers Chiefs this month

Maps and Amplifier join Macca, Ray Davies and Kaiser Chiefs in Camden

It’s easy to be a bit snide about the Klaxons, as some of the fartish blather that greeted their Mercury Prize win proved. “Myths Of The Near Future” (was that the title?) wasn’t the best record on the shortlist, to my mind; I’ve played the Arctic Monkeys and Amy Winehouse albums more, if that’s any measure. Third best is still pretty good, though, and while I wouldn’t go so far as to say that the Klaxons were a truly futuristic band (one or two commentators claimed this after the Mercury win. I’m not even sure what “futuristic” means any more with regard to music, but never mind), I certainly like their ideas, their sense of intelligent mischief, and the suspicion that these are men who listen to a much more interesting range of music than their indie contemporaries.

With everyone tooled up on cider, rum and whatever else they've got stuffed in their pockets, the mood at End of the Road was little short of ebullient this evening: not that you'd know it from Midlake's set on the Garden stage.

The Texan five-piece co-headline the first night and dedicate closing number to organiser Simon Taffe