This year's Glastonbury Festival may have gone off without a hitch, but several of the main acts and headliners were really nervous about performing.
Radiohead played a stonker on Saturday night, yet Colin Greenwood from the band told Radio 1 all the lads were really concerned about their performance:
"It's Glastonbury isn't it? It's like every person's wet dream to participate in the best festival there is. So it's amazing. I get agoraphobia with all the people, and claustrophobia at the same time because there's all the people in the same space. But it was great!"
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When we caught up with the Manics, Nicky Wire was getting concerned because he couldn't find his hairspray and eyeliner. He told us Billy Bragg had left them a toilet roll saying 'no hard feelings' after he slagged them off for bringing their own toilets a few years ago, and James Dean Bradfield admitted he too was bricking it:
"The most nervous I've been for a festival in a long time. Kind of like rapid degeneration of the nerve system through too much alcohol and cigarettes. Perhaps it's just getting old. I don't know."
Moby missing out?
Moby closed the festival, but before he took to the stage he told Radio 1 he was a little disappointed because he hadn't had a chance to go out front and actually enjoy the festival. At some point, he'd like to experience Glastonbury as a punter:
"This is my third time at Glastonbury, and every time I've come here I've just come here performing. Sometimes I feel like I'm missing the full experience. I do hope at some point to come back with a tent and spend three days not as a performer but as a punter."
"The Glastonbury experience backstage is, I think, markedly different than the Glastonbury experience if you're actually camping here and seeing bands."
Fatboy Slim goes mellow
Fatboy Slim decided to stay the whole weekend at Glastonbury.
He played a hot and sweaty set in the Dance Tent on Friday night to loads of happy faces, and yesterday afternoon (Sunday) he decided to play an impromptu set on the Radio 1 stage.
He told us about his new album, which is due out next year, and he said it was pretty mellow, more like a Massive Attack vibe - something you can chill and relax to.
Norman also told us that Damon Albarn had done a track for him. Damon and his family stayed with Fatboy in Brighton. Their kids - Woody and Missy - played together, while the dads knocked back a few beers and got to work on the track:
"We were both really, really drunk and we kind of la-laad the song... normally you do that and you get the melody line, then you write the lyrics and you sing it."
"But we decided that the 'la laa laa' we'd done was good enough, even though we had no idea of what it was actually saying. Some of it made sense. I think it's going to be called 'Putting it Back Together'.
Don't mention '95 to Noel
Noel Gallagher was also down there hanging about and was reflecting on previous Glastonburys when Oasis had played. There was one year in particular that stands out for him, and not for the right reasons:
"The one in '95. You're playing in the dark and the crowd are miles away and they didn't know any of the songs, and it was freezing cold, and our ******* singer got ******* Robbie Williams on stage with us which put a dampener on the whole thing for me!"
"I hate seeing that photograph. I'm trying to get my head pixellated out of all the photographs, but my lawyers are looking into it!" he joked.
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Glasto too nice for the Darkness
The Darkness kicked off the festival with a bang, rather than the usual slow build-up. They loved playing there but can't get to grips with the whole hippie vibe.
They reckon there are far too many flag and hat marquees and tie-dying centres, but they were willing to suggest some changes:
"I would have the Healing Field changed into the hurting field - a masochistic arena! There's a little bit too much goodwill. After a while it gets a bit sickly. It's nice and everything, but there's a little bit too many privileged hippies wandering around like they own the place, which they probably do actually!"
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