Previous headline performers have included Patti Smith , Ray Davies of the Kinks , Mick Jones of The Clash , the actor Michael Sheen , the writer Caitlin Moran , the poet John Cooper Clarke , the comedians Harry Hill and Alexei Sayle , the painter Peter Blake etc .

An official inquiry Scrutiny was chaired Hold by Lord Justice Edmund Davies .

For the first time , the championship Competition was won by non-Americans in consecutive years , as Laura Davies of England won in 1987 .