It was bling, brash and a bit out of place, the world's biggest hip-hop star playing a gig at a Somerset dairy farm. "My name is Jay Zee and I'm pretty f****** awesome, he declared, to a crowd who may or may not have agreed. (It would have been hard to ask all 50,000 of them.) "Bounce, bounce, bounce," urged the man who had sold 10 zillion - or was it 50m? - albums. Some bounced, others didn't, as the ground was still a bit sticky from Thursday's rain.

The British music press had blamed the US millionaire for bizarrely slow ticket sales. They had also dug up Noel Gallagher of Oasis to deride the idea of a rapper headlining the Saturday Pyramid Stage slot at Glastonbury Festival, as if only white guitar bands were welcome. Jay-Z duly entered, in an unnecessarily big coat, to the refrain of Gallagher's hit, "Wonderwall". Oh, the theatrics.