This year’s Deep South Festival was packed with dancing, arts and crafts, food and, most importantly, music from nearly every genre you could mention.

From chart busting bands who have topped the charts over the past few decades to school groups and young musicians getting their first taste of life on a stage, the Deep South Festival managed to cram it all together over the course of three days into one field.

Over in the main tent, 90s indie icons Dodgy played a lengthy set, packed with more hits than possibly you would remember, and went down a storm.

They mixed classic songs with new material, all of which was cheered on by the crowd.

Before they came on, the crowd were entertained by ex-Coral frontman Bill Ryder-Jones and his band, all wearing Colby FC football kits and the young sensational singer/songwriter, 12 year old Tom ’Mouse’ Smith.

Saturday saw the legendary UK ska act The Beat give their all with a non-stop, high energy set which had the crowd jumping. Ranking Roger gave a tireless performance as he sang hits like ’Mirror In the Bathroom’ with such force that it seems incredible that he was topping the charts in 1980.

Local rock, folk and brass bands filled the many other small stages around the site

Organiser Chris Carr said that he was delighted with the festival this year, despite being hit by windy and wet weather which threatened to put a dampener on proceedings.

’Obviously the sun came way too late for us this weekend. Despite that we still had a great turn out.

’What can you say about our headliners? They went down exactly as we imagined and as we hoped they would.

’The Beat were amazing, and just full of energy, and Dodgy, on Friday night, had a great time. They had a great time with the crowd and were blown away. They loved the island and were asking afterwards if they could come back here again.

’The bit I get a kick out of the most is the smaller bits around the festival site.

’We have a band called Tender Rage, who have played with us now for five years, and they are still only kids. To see them grow up with the festival is brilliant. That is why I do it and why I push it.’