August Bank Holiday was a jam-packed weekend for dance music. Up north, there was Creamfields, down in London, the new L.E.D. festival featuring David Guetta and Calvin Harris was up against the established king of London dance festivals, Clapham Common's South West Four Weekender.

The line-up for this year's SW4 was impressive - Dutch master of trance Armin Van Buuren headlined Saturday's proceedings, which also featured the likes of Pete Tong, Erick Morillo, Sasha and Paul Oakenfold.

Leading the main stage on Sunday was Fatboy Slim - his only London show of 2010 - with other acts including Armand Van Helden, Zane Lowe, Carl Cox and, somewhat randomly, Push It duo Salt-n-Pepa.  

As well as attracting some great DJs, SW4 also benefits from its convenience. Easy to reach by tube, no muddy camping and two days of music rather than three, resulting in a crowd that seemed to largely consist of 20-something London professionals who couldn't get Fridays off work but still wanted a slice of the festival action. With this in mind, they'd all donned their 'trendy young Londoner' gear, which mainly involved hats, and headed down to south London to get rat-arsed in the sun (which held out for most of the time, minus the odd flash flood when artists performing under cover suddenly became incredibly popular).  

Not surprisingly, the bars were as heaving as most of the dance tents, and within a few minutes of arriving it became quickly apparent that drunkenness was the only way forward (although not to the point of the lovely chap who vomited inches from our feet as we entered the festival site). 

In keeping with the slightly more grown-up feel of the festival (under 18s were allowed but there didn't seem to be many around), the bar served such delights as ready-mixed cans of gin and tonic and mini bottles of Shiraz. Getting sloshed in the mud never felt so classy.

While Erick Morillo stole the show on Saturday, there were plenty of great performances on Sunday, with highlights including Kissy Sell Out's remix of the Round the Twist theme tune (LOVED that show!), a fantastic set from Carl Cox which saw the DJ Magazine Arena nearly bursting at the seams, and some great crowd-warming by Salt-n-Pepa and Herve.

The main man of the weekend, however, was inevitably Norman Cook. His song selection was bang on, with older hits such as Right Here Right Now and Star 69 going down a storm, and there was a poignant moment when he dedicated Dance The Way I Feel to the recently deceased Charles Haddon of Ou Est Le Swimming Pool. 

The backstage visuals complemented the set perfectly, with the appearance of a dazed looking Iggy Pop during He's Frank (Slight Return) proving particularly popular. The only downer really was the fact the whole thing was wrapped up at 9pm (yes 9PM!), although no doubt Clapham's bar and pub owners were pleased at the abundance of revved-up festival goers spilling out onto the streets at that time. All in all, a great event - and we were home in time for Family Guy at 10pm.