Parklife Festival: Tom Misch, Loyle Carner, Run The Jewels and Frank Ocean - review

Here are a few highlights from the Sunday of the event:

Tom Misch

One of London's fine emerging songwriters and producers, Tom Misch helped get the festival going on the Sounds of the Future stage.

He brought some well needed funk to Parklife getting the crowd firmly on their feet.

Known for working with and being close pals with rapper Loyle Carner, he was born to produce jazzy chilled out guitar licks and that's exactly what we got.

Fan favourite Watch Me Dance was met with a huge reaction while the lack of hit Crazy Dream was a shame but really didn't matter. He smashed it regardless.

You'd be wrong in saying anything else, but Misch is the man and has a bright future ahead of him.

We can't wait to hear more. Bring on the album...

Loyle Carner

Coincidentally next up was Tom Misch's acquaintance Loyle Carner.

Since the release of his critically acclaimed debut record Yesterday's Gone, its been a massive year for the Croydon rapper.

But you got the feeling he was completely overwhelmed by the crowd, genuinely humbled that they'd turned out in their numbers - and rightly so.

He revelled through his emotive bars with passion and energy, opening with the atmospheric The Isle of Arran before storming through No Worries and Ain't Nothing Changed.

Carner - whose real name is Benjamin Coyle-Larner - worked his way through Stars & Shards before the moment the pumped up crowd had been hoping for.

Mr Misch was - of course - invited onto stage before treating us to the chilled-out Seamstress.

It all came to a close with NO CD. Loyle Carner - the Sunday highlight. No questions.

Run The Jewels

Hot on the heels of their third record Run The Jewels 3, rap duo Killer Mike and El-P brought three albums worth of material to the Parklife main stage.

Arriving on stage to Queen's We Are The Champions, the American outfit came out to ensure no-one started flagging behind as the sun set over Manchester.

With two huge zombie hands making the group's trademark fist and gun sign in the stage's backdrop, they made their adoring fans go crazy.

Stand-out moments included the likes of second album tracks Lie, Cheat, Steal and Oh My Darling Don't Cry.

They paid respect to the victim's of the Manchester attack and expressed his gratitude for the city's coming together.

Frank Ocean

With live shows a rarity for American soul and hip hop artist Frank Ocean, hundreds of fans took up the opportunity to catch him in the flesh in his second show since 2015.

It was hoped fears of a no show from the American soul and hip hop artist were put to bed after cancelling previous festival dates across Europe.

But as difficult as it is to say, it seems many were let down by the opening.

Arriving on stage 40 minutes later than penned, he opened with Solo - of which Ocean restarted what seemed to be four times after issues with "latency".

He then performed new track Chanel twice at which point it all seemed to be going pear shaped.

But Ocean soon turned things around.

Highly anticipated new record Blonde was his first album since 2012′s Grammy award winning Channel Orange - and the youthful crowd were treated to tracks from both.

Only his second gig in two years after a return in Denmark on Friday night, the likes of Self Control and Good Guy from Blonde were standout moments - as new songs took up the majority of the set.

But his the depth of his soulful vocals were incredible on Channel Orange's Thinking About You.

He smashed through Ivy and Pink + White before closing on Nikes.

A disappointing opening but the enigmatic soul soon made up for his mistakes.