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6 Music Festival hit Camden this year and you know what that means: musical greats, the best new artists and a whole load of stellar performances.

You can revisit all the action; but if you've missed anything so far, here are some of the biggest performances we've been treated to...

With four Grammy Awards and one chart-topping album in the bag, they don't come much more acclaimed than Brittany Howard. The Alabama Shakes singer brought her stunner of a debut solo record 'Jaime' (an album that none other than Guy Garvey has described as "a masterclass in song writing" and a "tour de force") to Camden to close out Friday at the 6 Music Festival.

Howard has called her album "a new beginning," saying that despite being a decade into her career she felt going solo was like "an introduction" and that she was "showing everything I can do". Combining folk, roots, a whole load of soul, some irresistible funk and the odd bit of scuzzed-out guitar, her sublime outing at 6 Music Festival showed just what a singular talent she is. And that's not even mentioning her truly joyous rendition of '(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher'.

• Watch Brittany Howard's full 6 Music Festival set

Introduced by Nemone as "an artist who just when you think they're at the top of their game pushes the boundaries again" and "a consummate performer who never fails to deliver live, with incredible range and longevity," Saturday at the Roundhouse at 6 Music Festival was closed by Irish icon and Moloko hitmaker Róisín Murphy.

Murphy's music is all about losing yourself, whether that's in the trance-like electronica of songs like 'Narcissus' or her more disco-y hits, which have inspired the dancing of troubles away. You know that as soon as Moloko's solid-gold classic 'Sing It Back' hits, you leave all your problems from the week behind you before you hit the dancefloor. You couldn't hope for a better Saturday night headliner.

• Watch Róisín Murphy's full 6 Music Festival set

Poet and hip-hop extraordinaire Kate Tempest thas won fans in everyone from John Cooper Clarke (the pair toured together) to legendary hip-hop producer Rick Rubin (who produced Tempest's latest LP) and it's easy to see why. Really, how many other artists can say they've won the Ted Hughes Poetry Award, had a Sunday Times bestseller and been nominated for a Mercury Prize (twice)? Very few indeed.

Tempest was introduced by Mary Anne Hobbs with some pretty high praise, with the 6 Music presenter saying: "There's no other artist on Earth that can put one word in front of the next so masterfully." And on the strength of her poignant, engaging Sunday closing set at 6 Music Festival, you can't deny that the sharp pen and delivery of Tempest's is rivalled by very, very few.

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It's daunting enough to step into the spotlight after decades in a band, especially when the group in question is, as Chris Hawkins put it, "one of the most important bands of our time". But that's exactly what happened at 6 Music Festival on Saturday night, with Radiohead's Ed O'Brien making his UK solo live debut.

"We're going to be playing a lot of songs that you don't know," O'Brien (going by the moniker of EOB) warned near the start of his 45 minute set. With his album out in April, we got a taster of what to expect: from the hazy, funked-up psychedelia of 'Shangri-La' to the more stripped-back and ruminating 'Sail On'.

After successful lone stints from his fellow bandmates, O'Brien's 6 Music Festival set solidified his own place as a sublime standout artist in his own right.

• Watch EOB's full 6 Music Festival set

"It's such a pleasure to be here tonight... as part of our residency," Nadine Shah joked to the crowd at the Roundhouse on Friday, during the first of two sets at 6 Music Festival this weekend - a mini-stint that led to her being introduced by Shaun Keaveny as "our own Phil Collins", referring of course to the time the Genesis man performed in both London and Philadelphia for Live Aid.

Prior to Shah's 6 Music Festival appearance, Amy Lamé called the Tyneside singer-songwriter a "force of nature," lauding her as "beautifully and brutally honest in her music and her life". This assured presence and poignant lyricism was fully evident on the Roundhouse stage. With a new album coming in June, Shah showcased latest single 'Ladies For Babies (Goats For Love)', a highlight from the set, while also accidentally dedicating her Peaky Blinders song 'Evil' to her mum - an honest mistake, she later clarified - oops!

On Sunday, Shah kicked off the International Women's Day line-up at the Roundhouse, introduced by Steve Lamacq as "someone at the top of their game".

Sometimes you know a star in the making straight away when you see them and that's exactly what happened when Lammo first encountered Shah during an intimate gig at the back room of the nearby Bull and Gate in Kentish Town many years back. She's now about to release her fourth album, a record described by Steve as "incredibly perceptive, thought provoking but still very personal". Her second set definitely lived up to such praise.

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"You all know me, my name's Daniel Bedingfield," was Mike Skinner's dead-pan introduction to the Fest crowd on Friday night for a special DJ set. That's just how little of an introduction the garage icon needs. And if you know anything about Skinner, then you don't doubt that he knows how to whip up a party.

Opening with The Streets' classic 'Has It Come to This?', Skinner served up banger after banger during a mile-a-minute set. The highlights? Almost too many to mention. Perhaps mixing Giggs' 'Lock Doh' with 'Fit But You Know It', or cranking out Cardi B's 'Bodak Yellow'? We even got a taster of Gorillaz's 'Clint Eastwood', Nelly's 'Hot In Herre' and 'Renegade Master'. Blissful.

• Listen to Mike Skinner's full 6 Music Festival set

Speaking to Mary Anne Hobbs on 6 Music in January, Savages frontwoman Jehnny Beth laid out plans for her debut solo record, teasing: "If you like Savages, you’ll like this record." She was certainly correct, and showed the same kind of intensity and commanding stage presence that garnered her acclaim with the post-punk band.

However during the same chat with Hobbs, she noticed some similarities between her forthcoming record, titled 'To Live Is To Love' and out in May, saying: "It’s a bit more eclectic, and a bit of a rollercoaster." She's right on that count too, with many of the tracks showcased during her 6 Music Festival set showing different aspects and dimensions to her sound: from the tender 'Flower' to the synthy and dizzying 'How Could You?'.

• Watch Jehnny Beth's full 6 Music Festival set

Over the course of the past year, black midi have proven themselves to be among the most exciting guitar bands in the UK right now with obtuse, unwieldy and unpredictable experimental rock that enthrals as much as it confounds. They're big favourites of 6 Music's too, with debut LP 'Schlagenheim' handpicked as Shaun Keaveny's album of 2019.

the band certainly lived up to the high praise. Festival sets could so easily see acts succumb to compromise, performing to a crowd that may not be accustomed to them. But not black midi and not at 6 Music Festival. All guitar noodling and jazzy wig-outs, the London four-piece were unflinching in their artistry from the very offset, switching between hypnotic meditation and unbridled chaos.

• Watch black midi's full 6 Music Festival set

Kojey Radical has been labelled - and for good reason. He's as accomplished at introspective rhymes ('Feel About It') as he is club tunes ('Cashmere Tears'), while his music also incorporates house (the MJ Cole collaboration 'Soak It Up Lyrics'), neo-funk ('Can't Go Back') and smooth R&B ('Sugar'). "He has superstar written all over him," Mary Anne Hobbs proclaimed while introducing Radical at 6 Music Festival on Saturday evening.

Amid all the genre fusing, though, came a truly poignant moment, with Radical paying tribute to his late friend Harry Uzoka before performing 'Eleven', a song he penned while grieving. "He was the one who helped me get into music and believe enough to have me standing here today," Radical told the crowd. "I don't believe in remembering people in silence, I believe in remembering people through celebration." The song closed with Radical savouring the roar of the crowd, looking and pointing upwards.

• Watch Kojey Radical's full 6 Music Festival set

Camden means a lot to The Selecter. Despite forming in Coventry, North London was the place they were based when their career really kicked off. They were even present at some of Camden's most iconic gigs (Supporting The Specials and Madness in 1979, witnessing Madonna's first UK show in 1983.) As Pauline Black told us recently: "Camden became like a second home to us in the early days."

Introduced at their Saturday opening set at the Roundhouse by Shaun Keaveny as "legendary 2-tone pioneers who were made to make you bounce," The Selecter delivered on what we've come to expect from them over the course of their 40 year career. They brought the energy, they brought the groove, they brought the righteousness; and they certainly did it in style.

• Watch The Selecter's full 6 Music Festival set

Just like The Selecter, Kelly Lee Owens' music is designed to make you move. 6 Music's Nemone, who shared a stage with the Welsh electronic musician on a late-night bill at Fest on Friday, recently summed it up, saying: "Kelly cleverly combines drones, 808 beats and her own live vocals into unique sonic experiences every time she’s on stage... She moves as if the music emanates from within her and is being created in the moment."

On Friday, Owens captivated with an intricate mix of juddering beats, thudding bass and hypnotic rhythms. The perfect way of kicking the weekend at 6 Music Festival off.

• Listen to Kelly Lee Owens' full 6 Music Festival set