Yesterday was epic.

After a morning of some much-needed bacon muffins, coffee and cold remedies (been ill at a festival is pretty crap imo), one was getting rather excited at today’s line-up.

Edwyn Collins is said to be the fans’ favourite of this weekend. Having suffered a brain hemorrage a few years ago and still being on the road to recovery, morbid curiosity got the better of us all as we checked out the legend for his highly-anticipated set. Backed by Teenage Fanclub and although not particularly smooth in speech, his baritone was as wonderful as ever. Ed was also joined by Franz Ferdinand’s Alex Kapranos, and Ryan Jarman of The Cribs. His show was a complete treat.

As Edwyn tweeted yesterday morning, “not only am I playing with TFC today but there are more treats in store. I will always be lucky in my life, you know ….”

Mid-afternoon, our return to the ATP arena was well-overdue. Wild Beasts were to head-up the main stage. If I was young enough to have got away with peeing my pants with excitement, I would have.

The Mercury-nominated Cumbrians tore through an energetic setlist, getting even the most prissy of indiekids dancing in our sea of Christmas jumpers. Highlights were most definitely All The King’s Men, We’ve Still Got The Taste Dancin’ On Our Tongues and Hooting And Howling, not forgetting the epic lo-fi Two Dancers (every band needs a breather).

New York experimental rockers Dirty Projectors came on next after the most efficient soundcheck in history.

They were quite great (is this a Domino Records takeover day or what?), lovely and almost a bit twee.

The Piece De Résistance, Belle & Sebastian pulled a massive crowd for their show, having curated the entire weekend full of artists, activities and creative media. I’m not actually that big a fan, but I hear that they were quite fabulous (I was in the queue for Jenny And Johnny at the time…)

J&J are Jenny Lewis of Rilo Kiley, and her other half Jonathan Rice. I know, I know…another musical couple decide to form a band and whatever – actually, they were really good. Lewis and Rice complimented each other particularly well, producing a sort-of  romanticised Americana making for a much better set than I anticipated. Particularly as the room only probably filled up for krautrockers Franz Ferdinand who were next on the bill.

Frontman Alex Kapranos is a force of nature, and is rumoured to be playing a third performance today here in Minehead. The Glaswegian indie rockers are always a treat live, and they provided the raw kick up the arse that ATP needed. Many may be surprised that Franz were so well-received (they were the ‘surprise band’ announced on the day the festival opened) but I had no doubt that they’d go down a storm. All the setlist staples including Michael and Ulysees were there, however Take Me Out would have been the perfect addition. After a massive break, they came back on to encore with Holiday. Super.

Crystal Castles have to be one of my most-anticipated live bands. Strangely, eccentric frontwoman Alice Glass came on in crutches but proceeded to whirl and flail herself around the stage, screaming and yelping through tracks.

Courtship Dating was immense and Crimewave had the crowd on fire. Glass is chaos in a khaki jacket.

I have cheap Casio glitches embedded in my brain and my heartstrings have been plucked like Satan’s harp.

Saturday nights don’t get much better than that.