Wigan epic Britpop legends The Verve played a storming set last night (July 12th) to bring the opening day of the T In The Park festival to a close.

The band recently played the final slot at the GLastonbury festival, and looked to be in premier live form as they unveiled a set littered with classics. Frontman Richard Ashcroft was on typically antagonistic form, dedicating "The Rolling People" to "Tony Montana, Tony Soprano and all the haters".

The band were in furious form, with Nick McCabe's incendiary fretwork the talk of the campsite. The Verve had no doubt been irked by a lead column in The Guardian, which suggested that the group's 'lad rock' style was now completely out of date. Ashcroft made reference to this by saying "Thank you, greatest live audience in the world - that's something Guardian writers wouldn't understand".

Further on in the set, Ashcroft puzzled the crowd by asking "Which lead singer of a '90s band told me he was now a mod? 'I've been baggy but now I'm a mod.'"

Any ideas? In Clashmusic.com's opinion it could be any of them, but Damon Albarn would be a logical guess. Don't forget, you can leave a comment below if you know who the mysterious frontman is.

The band finished with new single "Love Is Noise" before heading to the exit with no encore, leaving the thousands of ecstatic music lovers in the crowd creaming for more.

More T In The Park coverage as it happens.

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