The weekend of sunshine came as a big relief to festival-goers and organisers at Glastonbudget after a wet and windy start.
The rain, hail and gales on Friday sent hoardings crashing down at the festival site, near Wymeswold, and organiser Nick Tanner could only hope things would improve.
But on Saturday, to everyone's delight, the sun came out and stayed for most of the weekend.
Over three days, from Friday until yesterday, dozens of the country's best tribute bands and some famous faces, including 1980s acts The Christians, Heaven 17, Howard Jones and ABC, performed to thousands of music fans.
While the chart-toppers performed their own hits, the tribute acts got the crowds dancing with a host of hits by favourites such as Queen, Abba, Madness, Michael Jackson, Oasis and Nirvana.
Festival-goer Steve Dakin, 37, of Loughborough, described Glastonbudget as "fantastic".
"This is my fourth year and I'm really impressed with the line-up this year," he said. "The music's been brilliant.
"Apart from Friday, we've been pretty lucky with the weather.
"There's so much going on and so many of the tribute acts sound just like the real thing."
Suzie Upton, 32, of Barrow-upon-Soar, said: "I love all of the music and this sort of festival is great for someone like me with a really wide range of tastes in bands.
"It's lovely since the sun came out but it was still fun in the wind and rain."
Lee Driver, 40, of Loughborough, was with a group of friends from all over the country, who were among the many revellers wearing fancy dress.
Lee, who was dressed as Batman, said: "You have to embrace the weather at festivals and Friday was windy and wet but it brightened up after that and it's been great.
"It's the nice mix of sunshine and good music and it's lots of fun."
Jade Russell and Miles Blackburn, of Braunstone, Leicester, were at the festival for the first time.
She said: "I came because it was cheap and compared to other festivals I've been to it's quite small, but I like that.
"It's a really nice atmosphere."
Miles, 26, said: "I'm most excited about the Guns N' Roses band but what I've seen so far has all been really good."
The turnout was about the same as last year, when 13,000 people attended over the weekend.
Nick said: "There was a lot of interest in Saturday's line-up with the 80s acts like ABC and Howard Jones.
"We also had two of the best tribute bands – Mercury, the Queen tribute band, and Michael Jackson act MJ UK, which are very popular.
"In terms of numbers we're about on par with last year, which isn't bad in this climate.
"We had rain off and on all Friday and then a tremendous black cloud came looming over which brought a big hail storm. But the main problem was the wind which sent some hoardings flying.
"It disrupted things a bit of Friday but we were only half an hour late opening the main stage, which wasn't bad."
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