Where and when: NME/Radio 1 stage, Saturday, 3.40pm, Reading

Dress code: It's a trip back to the 80s - or, at least, a dodgy jumble shop from the 80s. Guitarist Will Rees is sporting guitar-shaped Elton John glasses, a pink suit and green Doc Martens, whereas singer Blaine wears an aqua-green blazer topped with a string of pearls.

Who's watching: A surprisingly laddish crowd, who seem up for getting lairy to, er, sensitive songs about knitting babies' shoes. Also, the majority of the site's teenage girls are here in full fluoro get-up. Must be those sexy aqua-green blazers.

In a nutshell: After cancelling a string of summer festival appearances, it's great to see Blaine Harrison back onstage (he'd been receiving hospital treatment for a condition relating to his spina bifida). But today is perhaps not the triumphant return we hoped for, marred as it is by terrible acoustics and a crowd who just don't seem motivated to take part in the noble art of chucking beer around and damaging their vocal chords. Sure, everyone goes wild towards the end for Two Doors Down, but we've been taking notes and, compared to yesterday's Richter scale-registering reaction to MGMT's big hits, it's barely a rumble.

High point: Blaine's vocals sound on the verge of collapse during a tender rendition of Flakes.

Low point: We tried three different locations but the sound still sucked the big one.

How hard did they rock?: Not very, unless your idea of rock involves a lot of distorted bass.