James Bay delivers a performance to remember at Electric Picnic

With a grin that never wavered, felt-hatted chart hero James Bay shrugged off the threat of rain and delivered an ardent and upbeat evening set on the Electric Picnic main stage, writes Ed Power.

Bay has taken a lot of flack over his alleged matinee idol looks and the suspicion he was created in a record company laboratory by scientists determined to replicate the success of Ed Sheeran.