Down might have seemed a bit out of place for me at a start, but the American super-constellation (with members from Corrosion Of Conformity, Crowbar, Eyehategod and Pantera) turned out to fit right in at the festival.
They set their own personal mark on the holiday by letting some really slow, gritty and dirty tunes crawl their way out of the swamp and onto the festival grounds. A festival grounds which was completely filled with people for the first time today (fittingly, as Down was the main act and last band of the day).

And there was good reason for the large turnout, the band was on fire! Not often have I seen such a good group dynamic; the way they played (in both meanings of the word) together could do nothing but force a smile on my lips. Throughout the 1½ hour they were on stage there wasn’t a dull moment to be seen.
Phil Anselmo hailed all his “...marihuana smoking friends...” with Hail The Leaf and Stone The Crow; the latter saw a loud sing-along start in the chorus, and a mild mosh throughout.
Towards the end of the show, in Bury Me In Smoke more precisely, Down decided to do the same trick as last time I saw them; with everyone changing instruments. This time they had guests however.
Pepper Keenan (who I had a hard time recognising at first, with his new-grown ZZ-Top beard) gave his guitar up to Mitch Harris of Napalm Death, and Kirk Windstein gave his to a girl who took photos of the band (Anselmo’s girlfriend?); after which he himself replaced Jimmy Bower behind the drums.
After this they packed up and left; well, most of them anyway. Anselmo had clearly not gotten enough, and stayed on to do some more singing with the very appreciative audience, where he performed a short a cappella version of Stairway To Heaven.

This was truly a great show; I impress myself with how many times I had to write “cool” down in my notepad.
The atmosphere, both off stage and especially on, was just right; and I daresay this was even better than when I saw them play in Copenhagen last year, on the Over The Under tour.

I’m not 100% sure about the setlist, but after checking my own notes against one on the net, it looks something like this...

Setlist:

Eyes Of The South
There’s Something On My Side
Lysergik Funeral Procession
N.O.D.
New Orleans Is A Dying Whore
Lifer
Nothing In Return (Walk Away)
The Seed
Losing All
The Path
Hail The Leaf
On March The Saints
Stone The Crow
Bury Me In Smoke
Stairway To Heaven (Led Zeppelin cover)