02 Wireless Festival Harewood House, Leeds As the O2 Wireless Festival opened on Friday, so did the heavens.

The torrential downpour meant wellingtons and plastic waterproof ponchos were the order of the day as thousands of people descended upon the magnificent grounds of Harewood House for the three day festival last weekend.

As well as three music stages, the event saw a plethora of trade stands and carnival rides.

Starting off proceedings on the XFM Stage were Bradford's very own Dusty Not Digital, or DND.

Opening their set with the stomping Ideals In Progress, the band romped through half-an-hour of inventively structured bottom heavy songs, based around gleaming metallic riffs and the Muse-influenced vocals of Luke Hirst.

Making their only UK appearance of the year, the stoner rockers Queens of the Stone Age performed tracks from their latest album, Era Vulgaris, as well as favourites such as Feel Good Hit Of The Summer and No One Knows, while French lounge-dance duo, Air were at the same time headlining on the XFM Stage.

The Queens were followed by the band the majority of this soaked crowd had waited all day to see - fellow US rockers The White Stripes.

Performing tracks from brand new album Icky Thump, the duo showed why their electrifying set has been so highly praised these last few years.

With their silhouettes menacingly resting on the red backdrop, their brand of simple yet twisted garage blues had the crowd singing along to such modern classics as Hotel Yorba.

Saturday saw one of the highlights of the weekend for Yorkshire festival goers in what was practically a homecoming gig by Menston's Kaiser Chiefs.

The Chiefs, led by Keighley born Ricky Wilson, have clearly slipped easily into festival band mode, and looked at home on the big stage with a large crowd in front of them.

Despite some of their lyrics decrying the general lairyness of modern life - see I Predict A Riot - the Kaisers do attract some idiots, and the beer cup throwing did at one point reach really annoying proportions.

But with their trademark bouncy sound on tracks such as Ruby and Oh My God buoying the crowd up, no-one seemed to mind for long, and the final result was Kaiser Chiefs 1, Idiots 0.

On Sunday, the sun finally decided to shine, setting the perfect backdrop to a more dance orientated line-up.

Main attraction, Daft Punk were preceded by Brazilian dance act CSS on the main stage and cult-hero figures, LCD Soundsystem.

LCD's breathtaking version of All My Friends, from new album, Sound of Silver, was going to be difficult to top, but the enigmatic French pair that make up Daft Punk managed to do just that.

The curtains lifted to reveal the robot-enhanced duo in what looked like a pyramid spaceship and a spectacular array of lights.

Opening with Robot Rock, the pumped-up crowd could barely notice the rain, which by this time had started to pour yet again.

Mind-bending lights combined with mixes of an array of their hits including Around The World with Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger and One More Time with Aerodynamic, to send some on their way home with a smile on their faces while others decided to stay and party for as long as they could.

James Rush and David Barnett