Glastonbury.....

We woke up early in order to get to Glastonbury with enough time to relax before our show in the 5,000 capacity acoustic stage, we decided to take the word "acoustic" a little more to heart and did the show as a trio, we hoped we'd get a crowd that knew many of the classics and would enjoy the stripped down sing along....

We spent many hours of the day in crawling traffic, 180,000 people all burning to get there, one highlight was driving past stonehenge at a snails pace remembering running through the rocks as kids before they roped it all off, we wondered if those rocks were tougher than English Heritage thought, what with surviving a few thousand years or so.

We arrived at the site and were greeted by an amazingly friendly team of diligent worker's buzzing like happy bees in the blazing sunshine. What a change from the immense stress we felt arriving in 2003 for our main stage performance!

We noticed most of the other acts on our stage were full bands but these days we relish the chance to stand out a bit so figured we'd go the other way and I'm glad we did. As we line checked the instruments a large crowd began to gather and we could feel some serious electricity as they built up their static. We got ready to dish out a stripped down essential festive set....

Once we walked out for the show the tent was packed to the back and we all smiled to each other, having walked around the site earlier in the blazing sun we knew it was no mean feat for all those people to come to see us. We decided to play a set of what we consider stand out songs from the last ten years and this included one or two from the latest album, we played for an hour and built up towards a big spaced out finish with 72, to hear all those people singing along was really special and I think this moment meant as much to us as all those "moments" from our past, maybe more.... Lots of banter, lots of eye contact, lots of magic.

After the show we basked in the buzz for a little while with Edd and then headed over to see if the rumors at the Park stage were true..... Around ten thousand other people had the same info and we were all rewarded with a Thom Yorke secret solo show, punctuated by the inclusion of Johnny Greenwood, a setting sun and some Radiohead classics. Even Michael Evis was enjoying himself in the crowd celebrating the 40th anniversary of his baby!

A special night was had, many thanks to all the people who came to our tent, more please ;)

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