Blur scoop top UK festival prize

Blur closed Glastonbury with a set on the Pyramid stage on 28 June

Blur's appearance on the last night of the Glastonbury festival has been named the best headline performance of 2009 at this year's UK Festival awards.

Blur frontman Damon Albarn was also named "festival fitty" at the event, held on Thursday at the 02 in London.

Other awards went to Kings of Leon and Florence and the Machine, recipients of the anthem of the summer prize and best breakthrough act respectively.

Glastonbury was named the best major festival at the annual ceremony.

The all-important prize for best toilets, meanwhile, left Scotland's T in the Park event flushed with success.

'Awe-inspiring'

The reformed Blur's performance at Glastonbury marked their first appearance at the Somerset event since 1998.

Steve Jenner, co-director of the awards, said it had been an "awe-inspiring" show in what he described as "another fantastic festival season".

As previously announced, Katrina Larkin received a lifetime achievement award for her role in establishing the Big Chill festival in Herefordshire.

The student-only Beach Break Live, meanwhile, was named best small festival, picking up an additional prize for promoter of the year.

The female equivalent of Albarn's eye-catching prize was awarded to Lily Allen.