
When Jamie xx took to the stage for the second night of Lido festival, this was probably not the weather he had in mind: relentless rain, the best of the British summertime, which had doused Sampha, Panda Bear and John Glacier’s performances throughout the day.
Not that it was going to stop him. The man himself, real name James Thomas Smith, took to the stage twice – first for his much-anticipated B2B with Skrillex, then with Nia Archives – before his own headline slot that evening.