6:10 AM Eugh. Early.

9:28 AM Bumped into Hendry at the services. Probably the last i’ll see of her all weekend…

9:51 AM Queueing off the M5, its like glasto of old. 5 hours 10 mins till kick off.

11:56 AM Beer o clock.

12:20 PM Definitely considering sacking off the queue for the nearest pub with a tv.

12:38 PM I don’t mine spending time in the traffic queue. Its just when there’s people i know who left later and got further that i get annoyed.

1:25 PM M5 #fail #glasto

2:04 PM Fuck. 9 miles away.

2:19 PM Queueing: 5 and a half hours. Time till KO: 45 mins.

2:58 PM Retreated to the last pub before glasto

3:25 PM That, was liquid football.

It turns out I did see Hendry later that day.

Thursday 24 June

1:33 PM Glade bar now does herbal shisha!

7:16 PM This is beautiful. #glasto

10:30 PM – 11:30 PM | 3 Daft Monkeys | Avalon Cafe

11:09 PM Why hasn’t anyone done dubstep folk?

Friday 25 June

1:50 PM – 2:40 PM | The Stranglers | Other Stage

7:30 PM – 8:30 PM | Mumford & Sons | John Peel Tent

8:14 PM Binging on fruit pastilles after an over long evening nap.

8:45 PM – 9:45 PM | Hot Chip | Other Stage

9:02 PM How can such a bunch of geeky looking brits sound so good? #hotchip

10:07 PM Small world syndrome.Lasses from borrowash that know james gent.

11:15 PM – 12:15 AM | The XX | The Park

11:41 PM xx

11:56 PM I think you need a girlfriend to really appreciate the xx live.

xX PHONE DIES Xx

1:00 AM – 2:00 AM | Annie Mac | The Hub

3:00 AM – 4:00 AM | Skream | The Hub

Saturday 26 June

5:00 PM – 6:00 PM | The Dead Weather | Pyramid Stage

5:17 PM Glad to hear the pyramid stage is back to full strength

8:17 PM I’m looking forward to my double dose of dreadzone tonight!

8:30 PM – 9:20 PM | Editors | Other Stage

8:33 PM Favourite flag so far- ‘clunge’

8:56 PM Are you ready for dread pon sound!

9:00 PM – 10:10 PM | Dreadzone | The Glade

10:15 PM – 11:45 PM | Muse | Pyramid Stage

10:46 PM Muse

11:05 PM First headliners i’ve watched on the pyramid stage for a LONG time.

11:16 PM Is it not fucking crazy but brilliant that 100k people are brought to one place at one time for the sake of music?

11:46 PM Where the streets have no name . #muse #u2

1:00 AM – 2:00 AM | DJ Doorly | The Rabbit Hole

1:49 AM Waiting for second dose of dreadzone. Dad getting crash course in dubstep.

2:00 AM – 3:00 AM | Dreadzone | The Rabbit Hole

3:26 AM Just seen security nab some thieving little scally bastard.

4:00 AM Crowdsurfing in the telecorp lost luggage dept

Sunday 27 June

3:00 PM Watching england

3:33 PM Should have watched the temper trap.

3:50 PM “goal line technology” soon to be trending on twitter.

7:19 PM Has adopted centre stage for faithless this evening. Since when was there a barrier before the front?

7:29 PM People have camping chairs in the goods circle #hardcorefestivalfail

8:00 PM – 9:00 PM | Faithless | Pyramid Stage

10:00 PM – 11:30 PM | Orbital | Other Stage

10:22 PM Its been 6 years but orbital are back on the other stage with avengence. 25 mins in. No break.

10:35 PM Oh my. Dnb remix of satan dropped live by orbital.

10:41 PM Orbital bringing their 04 set up to date with some genre hopping. Respect.

11:18 PM If orbital drop a dubstep version of the box i will wet my pants.

11:21 PM Dr who cameo orbital glasto

11:30 PM – 12:00 AM | The Levellers | Glade Stage

12:49 AM Silent dubstep. #filth

1:00 AM – 2:30 AM | Silent Disco DJ’s | Silent Disco

Monday 29 June

1:25 PM Hmmm. No breakfast, queue moving quickly past fast food vans. Should have made a pack up.

1:54 PM I don’t think i’ve ever waited for a buffet cart announcement with such anticipation.

5:04 PM Yay! Rush hour!

6:18 PM It took all of 5 mins at rush hour on our wonderful underground public transport network to transform me back to an angry londoner. Sigh.

And of course the green anarchy A flag centre stage (that’s me and my sister waving and raving away).

Definitely also worth checking out the extended coverage of the Orbital set. 33:24 is my moment of glory – well at least you can see the top of my head and my wrists.

All the glowsticks came out of nowhere – at the end of Orbital’s opening 25 minute salvo the crowd threw them all forward and it literally rained glowsticks. Would love to see how that looked from the stage!

Two years later and 12 days later I took this photo on top of Mount Kinabalu, Borneo just after dawn. It was also a Sunday. What a coincidence.