Ginger DJ Rob

Image by Ginger DJ via Flickr 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 Parl...

Woke up to the sounds of Shakin' Stevens, and feeling a little worse for wear. It took us about 3 hours to have breakfast and get ready for our next site visit. The legendary toilets and getting higher with people's poop as they forget to flush and keep piling it on and upwards. At least the weather's behaving itself and when the sun's out it's warm. With very little energy we headed anywhere we could sit or lie down so the Cabaret tent was our first stop with Simon Munnery performing. Missed most of his comedy set so drifted around watching the side shows and street performers. At this point the Twitter plan was starting to go fail as everyone needed their phones charging at the Orange tent, especially Sony Ericsson owners like me. Unlike the chilled-like atmosphere outside, everyone was either paranoid their phone was going to be stolen or were desperate to get a charge point. We spent 20 minutes circulating then left in a huff: the Twitter experiment would soon b...