The biggest surprise of the day isn’t the weather, which is what you might call glorious, apart from a late afternoon cloudburst that at least gives me the excuse I’ve been looking for to hide under a table, perhaps the only sensible response to an appropriately thundery set by Ben Harper and the aptly-named Relentless7.

“Somebody better get me a fucking elevator. I’m fucking 60!” Here’s Bruce Springsteen huffing and panting into his microphone, during “Out In The Street”. He's just pulled himself up from a prone position at the top of a set of steps that lead from the stage to the pit, and the audience beyond. Later, during “Born To Run”, he’ll actually end up on his back at the top of those stairs, calling to Miami Steve Van Zandt to help him up.

Eavis says curfew-breaking show was 'absolutely spectacular'

See the legends perform A Day In The Life at Hard Rock Calling!

The world mourns the King of Pop who died this week, aged 50

Though rumours of him being joined by old bandmates CSN aren't fulfilled

Johnny Depp does Dillinger in Michael Mann's pristine gangster biopic

The King of Pop has died at 50

With just one calendar month to go until Uncut's favourite event of the summer, we'll be bringing you daily artist previews, news updates and prize giveaways as we count down to Suffolk... Today: The Gaslight Anthem's guitarist Alex Rosamilia took a couple of minutes out of the band's hectic touring schedule to tell Uncut about their just announced slot at Latitude 2009...

It’s been five years since director Shane Meadows and his long-term on screen collaborator Paddy Considine last worked together. That was for Dead Man’s Shoes, a violent revenge drama that took Considine’s natural, wired intensity and amped it up to an uncomfortable degree. Considine tends to specialise – for Meadows, at least – in charismatic, explosive figures and while his run of movies together with Meadows has proved thrilling and memorable, you might have cause to wonder where they could take their collaborations next.