DJ DIARY: Glasto from the insiders

Poorly ankle!

Annie Nightingale, Friday 10:00pm

I thought I would be the first person here this year. I travelled down on Tuesday night and when we got to site on Wednesday it was absolutely beautiful weather, cloudless blue sky. I did the first show on Thursday night which went very well. All these breaks fans came down, the place was rammed and it was an incredible night. I had my dream line up of Adam Freeland, JDS, Soul of Man and Aquasky, so the night was perfect.

And then I fell down a hole (I since found out the at several Radio 1 people had fallen down the same hole) and twisted my foot really badly. Luckily I managed to get off site half an hour before the first spots of rain started to fall and the most incredible lightning created the back drop of our journey back to our hotel.

Then the rain really started to fall and the pain in my foot began to increase and I was lying awake wondering what I was going to do and how I was going to get back on site. It turns out the tent we did the show from was hit by lightning...so we really were on fire that night!

Had it happened whilst we'd been on air it could have been disastrous. So today, I’ve been laid up in the hotel with my foot hurting, waiting for a physiotherapist who never arrived. I found out that there were 1500 sprained ankles at Glastonbury this year!

Smiley faces all round

Briggy Smale, 9:20pm, Friday

When I finally made it through the mud (and the lake!) to the studio I found that Jo Whiley had been pulled off air because there was no power so I didn't get a chance to do my piece about what the bands were looking forward to this Glastonbury.

We're all going to be seeing smiley faces which should be really trippy.

However, I interviewed Ricky from The Kaiser Chiefs who is doing an audio diary for Newsbeat. He was a bit gutted as he didn't get to do the live performance on Jo's show and he'd been photographed by Vogue whilst covered in mud with really bloodshot eyes.

I've also been hanging on for the Killers today but got a call from their manager saying that they were late because they stopped at a service station and then, an hour after they left, realised they left the guitarist there. So, they had to go back for him. I'm going to see Fatboy Slim tonight. He's already given me a pair of these amazing 3D glasses that create smiley faces around the lights.

He told me that he's spent twice as much money as he's earning to put on this show tonight and that 20,000 people are going to have these glasses so we're all going to be seeing smiley faces which should be really trippy.

My pint in the John Peel bar

Annie Mac, Friday 7:20

My afternoon has been eventful. The beginning was slightly traumatic as I arrived here with one of the bosses from Radio 1. We were directed to a different car park that was two and a half miles off site because of all the flooding.

So we had to trudge over muddy fields with all our bags for the weekend. My bag is a pull along suitcase as I'm staying in a hotel and I got lots of looks of disdain from the punters.

It hasn't rained all since this morning thankfully. I went to the John Peel tent and I introduced M83 which was really cool and everybody was really receptive. After that I went and had a pint in the John Peel bar which has 7 and 12 inch records all over the walls with quotes from him written on them.

Then I came back and had three pints of cider, and now having had the BBC dinner I'm probably going to fall asleep.

Beware the floating sleeping bags

Edith Bowman, Friday 12:30pm

I woke up this morning in my tent surrounded by water! I am camping in the hospitality area backstage which is right at the bottom of the valley.

Needless to say my sleeping bag was very moist, but I was pretty thankful that mine wasn't one of tents that was floating past me when I got out.

I'm not really going to be able to see many bands this weekend because I'm doing the BBC TV coverage but I'm really looking forward to hearing Doves, Bloc Party and a guy called Declan O'Rouke who is playing over on the acoustic stage

Revellers stay cheerful despite mud

Kevin Geoghegan, Friday 5:00pm

After being woken up at 5:30 this morning by thunder and lightning, I actually got on site a couple of hours later to find where we were meant to be broadcasting from was underwater.

We had a walk around the site and saw people chasing their tents which were floating away from them. A tin of beans actually bobbed past me. Luckily the rain stopped a couple of hours ago, but of course it's left a lot of mud. However, everybody seems to be having a really good time.

I've not met a single person who's been frowning

Nobody's complaining, people have had to buy wellies and new tents but I've not met a single person who's been frowning or had anything bad to say.