So the Glastonbury Festival is over for another year and thousands of music fans are facing that tricky challenge of getting their cars out of the swamp they parked it in, and then the always-longer-that-you-remember-it drive home. Just as soon as we track down the CMU reviewers who were there (we're assuming they weren't washed away - well, actually, one of them just phoned in, so we know they survived) we'll bring you their review.
In the end the weather wasn't so bad, but that rather large storm that landed on Worthy Farm on Friday morning not only knocked out the BBC's transmitters for a few hours, it also ensured the festival that followed was one of the muddiest yet. But the music fans there seemed to enjoy the proceedings nevertheless, even if they were returning to a mud covered water filled tent at the end of the day.
Glastonbury organiser Michael Eavis didn't seem too bothered by the mud: "Two inches on Friday morning was a bit of nightmare as you can imagine but the greatest thing is that it hasn't rained since - it's been fantastic. If you have wellies on it doesn't make any difference with the mud. It does stimulate the character a little bit as a kind of fun factor rather than boring continuous hot sun which makes people lethargic."
That said, he admitted that the storm made it "very difficult for the crew - especially for the electricians. They started here about 35 years ago and they're so good at their job they're been in Afghanistan and are going to Iraq supplying electricity from what they've learnt here. It's a fantastic training ground for crisis."
Looking ahead to the next Glastonbury (which will be in 2007 of course, 2006 being a year off, which the farm is going to need after this year's mudfest), and Eavis said he wouldn't be going out of his way to secure U2, one of the bands he had hoped to get to headline 2005. The NME quote the Glastonbury man as saying: "I'm not doing the U2 thing again. They've got to phone me now, I can tell you that. A lot of these new bands are creeping up fast. The best bands of this year have been Kaiser Chiefs, Razorlight, Bloc Party and there are so many of them out there who are racing up the scale. One of those are going to be headlining eventually. There's plenty of new stuff to choose from. If U2 give me a ring I'd be delighted - but I'm not going to ring them anymore."