Glastonbury Sun-day

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Last day of the festival and we're now pinning and desperate for our home comforts especially our bed after suffocating in the hot van. We packed almost everything away with the intention to leave after the last act and avoid the Monday traffic. I've only dealt it with it once and once was enough really.

The first main act we wanted to see was Goldfrapp at the Pyramid stage. They started off ok but like most acts, they were trying to flog their new material which didn't go down that well. It was a million miles away from their glam-rock electro anthems as their new album was ambient folk rock. The May Pole dancers were good though.

Headed back over to Dance Village curious to see Crystal Castles at the John peel tent. Just missed them by half a song but they sounded amazing with the singer doing a crowd surf. I got the feeling the set was cut short as we heard some nasty booing straight after.

Watched some cabaret act in the Pussy Parlure but missed the best bit when some guy hung a car battery from his nips then electricuted the chains hanging from them. As I said in a previous entry there were multiple tents around the village including El Rhythmica or the Salsa tent. Every time we went past it was blasting out hip hop and R&B with no one in there. Very much doubt it will be there next year.

Seeing the Presets were refreshingly good and seemed to be a completely different band when we saw them with the Rapture months ago. For two Aussie blokes, who looked surprisingly smart and professional compared to their punky sound, made alot of good noise and whipped up the crowd well.

The Whip also sounded good from the 2 or 3 tunes we heard and they even brought out Har Mar Superstar as their new showbiz mate.

The last slot for music was a difficult decision between three acts. After having to forego our tickets from last year we decided to see UNKLE Live. As soon as their 'live' logo came up I knew it wasn't the best decision as James Lavelle totally turned his back on anything dancey and went OTT on the rock stadium anthem thing. After 4 songs we were quite bored of them and noticed a lot of other people leaving the tent as well. No Ian Brown either.

The opposite tent had Derrick May DJing and played some old Detroit style house and some okay stuff but generally a bit dull. A load of glow sticks got chucked about but none hit Derrick unfortunately.

We headed over to the Other Stage for festy favourites Groove Armada. Only caught the last 2 tunes but realised we should have done them in the first place.

Getting off the festival site was a lot busier than last time taking 45 minutes just to get to the public road. Along the way we listened to Worthy Farm radio with the announced texts moaning about the queues to go. After that it was a breeze and had a nostalgic time to Radio 1 listening to the weekend's highlights. Bit gutted we missed MGMT and Kings of Leon.