Who: Femi Kuti

Where and when: Pyramid stage, 12:15pm

Dress code: An elegant all-white with red trim one-piece body suit for Kuti, lime green trousers and floral shirts for his band, considerably less for his three dancers.

What happened: Following Rolf Harris's opening performance, it was the turn of someone to represent one of this summer's big themes: Africa. Who better for that job than Fela Kuti's son Femi and his 10-piece band, including five horn players (but no vuvuzela player), plus three barefoot tush-shaking dancers. With their leader chipping in on sax and keyboards, the band hit an Afrobeat groove and stayed there as the sun shone. The Nigerian star was the coolest man there and, like his father, he carried a political message, too, representing a theme of the festival itself quite different from Harris.

Who's watching: The epic crowd for the antipodean song-and-dance painter thinned out considerably, leaving those who looked no strangers to the odd evening of world music.

High point: "Free your minds and your asses will follow," to paraphrase Fabio Capello's message to the England team; Kuti's dancers, on this evidence, have long since found mental emancipation.

Low point: The danger of the dancing crowd peaking too early – and Kuti: he plays again on the West Holts stage tonight.

In a tweet: For the hottest Glasto in ages, Femi Kuti brought some much-needed African cool.