WESTONBIRT Arboretum turned into a something of a time machine for the second selection of Forest Live gigs this summer, as three big names - all with turbulent pasts - took to the stage on three consecutive nights to entertain the audience with a fresh take on old classics.

First up, on Friday night, was Led Zeppelin frontman Robert Plant who, together with his Sensational Shape Shifters, embraced the balmy conditions in beautiful surroundings and let rip with both reinvented Led Zep classics as well as post-Zep tracks.

In the past, Plant has been famous for shunning his Zeppelin past, but things are altogether better now that he has embraced it. It is, after all, what the happy majority want to hear, and having kicked off with The Wanton Song, he interspersed some of his best solo work and covers, such as 'Spoonful', with some great crowd pleasers such as Black Dog and The The Lemon Song before rounding off proceedings with one of the most famous (and appropriate ) Led Zeppelin numbers, Rock and Roll.

On Saturday night, Westonbirt welcomed eighties New Romantic heartthrobs Spandau Ballet to the Forest clearing. Despite an acrimonious split and subsequent court action over royalties, the boys (now older and wiser) are back together and are seemingly more comfortable in each other's company than ever before.

Starting with ‘Soul Boy’, Spandau went on to play one of the longest sets that Westonbirt has ever seen, with the boys finally leaving the stage at 10.50pm, after nearly two hours of crowd-pleasing hits.

Not all of the songs on the set list were well known, but full credit to the band for continuing to produce fabulous new music – This Is The Love and Steal spring to mind - whilst also keeping the hordes of fans happy with more familiar numbers such as Highly Strung, Only When You Leave and Chant Number One. Of course the really big hits were left for the end - Communication, Lifeline, True and Through the Barricades - all led up to the final big sing along, Gold, bringing one of Westonbirt's most memorable summer concerts to an appropriate end.

A rather cloudy Sunday night saw us jump forward another couple of decades as supergroup 'McBusted' brought their anarchic energy to the stage for the final concert of the 2015 summer series.

With support from Louis Walsh's 'Hometown', the boys rocked the night away with plenty of hits from both McFly and Busted, as well as a few of their own, and quickly got the rather depleted crowd to their feet, bounding around and singing along.

Starting with 'Air Guitar', the boys filled the first half of the set with less well-known songs before launching into the real anthems - Air Hostess, What I Go To School For, Obviously, It’s All About You and Crashed the Wedding.

The McBusted encore of Five Colours In Her Hair, Shine A Light and Year 3000 brought an amazing Summer Series of concerts at Westonbirt to a close, but it was clear that the young crowd would have been happy to carry on dancing well past the 10pm finish.