With the lingering threat of enough rain to warrant flash flood warnings, and the recent spate of high profile “Shame on us!” articles after some of the recent one-off Marley Park events, it doesn’t take long to realise that a lot of the enjoyment of gigs and festivals is entirely out of your hands.

A great band can only do so much to distract from torrential downpours, muddy fields and audiences slipping all over the place, and security can only do so much when the mood of a crowd curdles and there’s a nasty vibe left hanging in the air, as anyone who attended the Swedish House Mafia gig a few years back will attest to.

Thankfully, Day Two of Longitude didn’t suffer from any of those problems, with the clouds threatening once or twice but eventually gave up on drowning the crowd, who themselves were unanimous in just having a good time and not wanting any trouble. In fact, the biggest problem of the day was the pile-up of Sophie’s Choices throughout the day, as you’d be torn between going to two different but equally great acts that were playing at the same time.

Despite not even having an album released yet, Hozier did a decent set from the main stage at 3pm, opening with the crowd rousing “Take Me To Church”, then on through a number of less known and less memorable tunes before finishing off with “From Eden” which had just about everyone singing along.

The half hour gaps between acts gives folk enough time to go wandering if they feel like, with Tourist taking over the Heineken Stage at 4pm. Having released a string of remixes for fellow same day’s acts Chvrches, Sam Smith and Haim, as well as being signed to Disclosure’s label; it’s clear why he’s here despite having some heavier house influences. “I Can’t Keep Up” could very well be a Disclosure album track, but tracks like “Together” were keeping the happy-trance fans pleased.

Calling attention to the fact that he knows he’s only had one album out, and that it was only released two months ago, Sam Smith took over the Main Stage next, belting out his hits “Stay With Me” and “Lay With Me”, before moving on to some of his other album tracks, which aren’t exactly hit single material. Knowing that most of the audience probably wouldn’t know his stuff, he whipped the audience into a frenzy thanks to his energetic cover of Arctic Monkey’s “Do I Wanna Know?”, before tapping out with his own high-pitched earworm “Money On My Mind”.
Another band with just the one album released in the last twelve months – a theme that every one of the main stage acts shared for the day – and perhaps the only misstep of the day, on came The 1975.

Much like the apparent negative buzz surrounding Ben Howard on the Friday night, no matter how hard frontman Matthew Healy threw himself around the stage, the crowd were simply having none of it. “Chocolate” came and went, and everyone wandered off looking for something else to do.

In the tiny Red Bull tent, Jackmaster was successfully turning the woods into what felt like a 4am Brazilian after-party. We’ve no idea of any of his songs – Shazam couldn’t identify them, and a quick Google search of “Jackmaster +DJ” turned up four or five different artists, any of which could be this one – but the vibe was great and he got everyone dancing, and it was a nice little energetic shot in the arm between the bigger names.

Back to the main stage for CHVRCHES at 6.45 and where we’d remain for the rest of the night, they blasted out “Recover” to crowd willing to receive their undulating happy synths after the messiness of The 1975. Their album The Bones Of What You Believe was hugely well received, but most folk would still only know them for their breakout single “The Mother We Share”, which seemed to galvanize the entire crowd into one massive group hug. Awhhhh!

Penultimate act HAIM followed them up, and stripped back some of the happiness and replaced it with a more primal sexuality, with drummer Dash Hutton pounding away like a woman possessed. Their rock-chick, modern day The Runaways vibe was awesome to behold, as they dragged back some respectability for their track “Fallen” from that god-awful girlie-alcohol ad on TV, while the vivacious “Forever” and defiant “Don’t Save Me” reminded audiences that they actually knew all the words to these songs, even if they didn’t realise it.

Before we knew it, the night was reaching its climax. While on the other side of the park Le Galaxie was undoubtedly blowing their audience away, but up on the main stage it was time for some Disclosure. Kicking off with “F For You”, one half the original version, one half the Mary J Blige reissue, the English duo proceeded to blow the roof off (figuratively, obviously) as the sky finally gave way to the night, and the light show was what everyone with a cameraphone was waiting for all day.

Their album Settle has spawned six official singles, which they tore through with absolute vigour, but it was some of their album tracks that got a unified reaction from the crowd, such as “Confess To Me”, with Jessie Ware’s subtly sexy voice combined with those far-from-subtly sexy lyrics… it’s not unfair to say that the entire audience was suitably piqued. For their sole encore, Disclosure brought Sam Smith back out for “Latch”, which despite being released nearly two years go, is still one of the best dance tunes around.

And that’s your lot. Bring on Day Three!