Despite showing up 50 minutes late for her headline slot at Bestival on Saturday night she put in a classy, passionate performance.

Winehouse, whose band donned sailor suits in keeping with the festival's nautical theme, immediately put a stop to the boos which began after the crowd began to fear another no-show.

This, her last official show of the year, followed a string of shambolic gigs and no-shows in recent months.

Although she interacted little with the crowd it was a flawless performance with the tiny star belting out numbers from her hit album Back to Black, a cover of Sam Cooke's Cupid Draw Back Your Bow, and a rousing Rehab for the finale.

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It was one of the highlights of the weekend at Robin Hill in Newport where 30,000 music fans battled wind and torrential rain but refused to let it get them down.

By Friday afternoon the site had already turned into a mudbath with campers desperately trying to put up tents in driving rain.

Collapsed tents, blown over by the gales, were abandoned, strewn across the fields.

Footpaths quickly became treacherous with people slipping and falling, often taking the person next to them down too. Fortunately there was always a ready hand from a stranger to pull them back up again – such is the spirit of Bestival.

Wellington boots which had become stuck in the six-inch deep mud littered the walkways. Many of their owners simply plucked the nearest one they could find and walked off with it as a replacement.

But the weather could not dampen the carnival atmosphere with many embracing the conditions by mud-wrestling and surfing.

All sorts of weird and wonderful costumes were on display after festival organiser, Radio 1's Rob Da Bank, came up with the theme of 30,000 Freaks Under the Sea.

Elaborate giant squids, jellyfish, walruses, submarines, shipwrecks and even Smurfs came out to play.

My Bloody Valentine created a wall of sound as the headliner on the main stage on Friday night and Underworld played the same slot last night. A youthful-looking Gary Numan and the Human League proved the 80s still rock with both drawing huge crowds.

Mark Webb, a 24-year-old planning officer from Southsea, said: 'I'm covered head to toe in mud, I don't know how many times I've fallen over and I've nearly lost my wellies but it has been an awesome weekend.

'I came last year when it was warm and sunny and I've had just as good a time. That is the thing about it, this place is so quirky and the line-up is always so good the rain hasn't stopped everybody having a fantastic time.'