We know that this is just one of many reviews from last weekend's Glastonbury Festival. Every tabloid has covered it, BBC channels was dominated by it and Q Magazine have even published a whole magazine dedicated to the event. However ABLE2UK was the only press company to gain access to the dressing room areas, on stage access and even have a chinwag with Oasis after there Friday's performance. With this is mind we hope we have captured your attention span and captured enough of your interest to read on..

FRIDAY

The weather teased the festival goers on Friday morning, just hours before dawn a cloud hung over every England football supporter when we were robbed from Euro 2004. Early visitors to Glastonbury watched Wooney kiss our chances good-bye on a giant screen at the site. Sport was helped pushed to the back of our minds thanks to the anticipated lineup at Worthy Farm.

We made our way down to the site Friday morning and bumped into Michael Eavis who was with his daughter and event organiser, Emily in the backstage compound. The area consisted of a VIP bar which was crammed with industry people from magazines, record companies and well respected disabled awareness Internet sites! BBC had their regular cornered off section where BBC Three broadcast live coverage and Radio One presenters presented live shows from, one of which was Vernon Kaye who's massive hair luckily hid a nasty bruise he had thanks to being hit by a bottle on Friday morning. The real action though was happening outside and the first act on our personal agenda was Nelly Furtado on the Pyramid Stage.

Nelly was one of the nine performances on the Friday. She was followed by Elbow who famously recorded an album track a few years ago with the

Glasonbury crowd. Giving Groove Armanda a miss we caught Badly Drawn Boy on the Other Stage which had earlier seen performances by The Rapture and hotly tipped new band, The Stands. To help journalists out, and this isn't going to go down well in the media circle, the press tent backstage daily displayed acts which shouldn't be missed and statistics about the festival which were printed in various newspapers. Apparently 45 journalists copied the statisics into their reports!

The press tent was also the home to the where The Chemical Brothers midnight gig rumor started. The dance act headlined the Other Stage whilst Oasis played the Pyramid. After their set the Chemical's played a second one at the Glade stage. Despite added rumors of Norman Cook joining them this wasn't the case. We left our dancing shoes back at our tent (well, luxury camping van if you must know!) and headed off to watch the Kings Of Leon actually on the stage itself with U2's manager Paul McGuiness. McGuiness had two of his bands playing on the Friday (PJ Harvey & The Rapture) and we asked him about the rumor about U2 playing at Glatonbury in 2005. He told us that nothing had been confirmed although he thinks they should do it and The Edge came to the site last year to 'check it out'. He also revealed that there is a strong possibility of a couple of very small U2 gigs in the UK this November which will promote the bands new album.

The final band on Friday was Oasis. Just two nights before we caught Noel and Liam play an amazing warm up gig in Poole The band stuck to the same setlist and were once again assisted by Ringo Starr's son, Zac on drums. After they played their last number, a version of The Who's 'My Generation' we bumped into Liam's missis Nicole Appleton who took us backstage to meet the band in the dressing room enclosure. Liam seemed paranoid that there set wasn't up to scratch and asked a number of people if they thought it was any good. Noel was enjoying a cold beer and Zac asked us how the ABLE2 book was coming along. Unfortunately Ringo was nowhere to be seen, although there was to be a Beatle on site within the following 24 hours. Kate Thorton was also there as she is best mates with Nicole.

With the news of the Chemical Brothers playing at the Glade we decided to jepordise getting pissed and follow our mates to catch the band. Now bearing in mind it was our ninth year at the festival you would had thought we would have known where the Glade was. It was just a ten minute stroll from the hospiltality bar, we knew this when we passed it - 24 hours later on Saturday night. As for Friday we manage a thirty minute walk, passing every market stall that was there, thousands of relievers and thumping loud music emerging from the Radio One stage. Eventually ending up where we bloody started from. So as for the review from the Chemical Brothers we are afraid that you need to check it out elsewhere. What we can report on is the atmosphere of Glastonbury Friday night - it was very good!! Hear ends Friday's review.

SATURDAY

Some mornings it's difficult to pull that duvet off. Saturday was one of those mornings. Imagine this, your head is buried in a a soft pillow and your body draped around a warm and cosey duvet You are awaken by the sound of aggressive rain outside your camper van and the memories of mud drenched Glastonburys come flooding back. You are fully aware that the following 24 hours are going to be sheer hell and even a Beatle can't make the day any promising. Our invite to have breakfast with Vernon Kaye at 8am looked as welcoming as being shipped

Did Paul buy that shirt at

Glastonbury market?

out to Iraq wearing a Union Jack flag and was certainly not going to happen.

We arrived at the site just before noon to the sounds of Sister Sledge blaring out of the Pyramid stage speakers. After grabbing a bite to eat we camped it up to watch Elton John's new favorite band Scissor Sisters. The New Yorkers managed to bring the sun out for a few minutes although an hour later Keane fans at the Other Stage were being drenched. Other fans of acts such as My Morning Jacket, Jack White's best buddies The Von Bondies and that smug little arse licker James from Starsailor were also treated to downpours. Ironically between acts the soaking crowd had to watch adverts about poor people suffering droughts in Africa from WaterAid!!!

Over at the Other Stage ABLE2's favorite, Damien Rice played a heart warming set which included his new re-released single, Cannonball. Because of Damien's laid back disputation he asked one of his crew members to get the sound engineer to play some mellow music prior to his stage appearance. Behind the scenes this caused a small spot of bother, although eventually a suitable track was found amongst the dance and techno tracks which were easily on-hand. After his set Damien was told by his manage that he had time to play three more tracks for his encore, although unlike most bands he opted just to play one - maybe he was hoping to catch Paul McCartney on the Pyramid Stage. At least it gave Basement Jaxx's road crew time enough to set the stage for the Beatle haters in the crowd.

Whilst the Jaxx's played we headed off to the Pyramid Stage once again to catch McCartney play a two hour set of Beatle classics. Although backstage there was a lot of bitchey conversations about how Paul McCartney was now a 'has-been' he provided the crowd with a spectacular set. Fireworks set the Sumerset sky alight and twenty cannons showered the assembled crowd with confetti and marked the end of his massive World Tour.

As the firework smoke cleared and the music stopped we made our way to Lost Vagueness, the only place to be seen at in the early hours. Passing the Glade stage (enough said!) and the long trek down the seemly never-ending path we eventually came to the nightspot. Lost Vagueness is like an adult theme park where anything goes. Opening at 8pm until 7am visitors can dress up and go to the casino, enjoy a lavish dinner and marvel at the cabaret acts. We were there for another reason however, to catch anarchy band Chumbawamba. The tent was absolutely packed to compactly despite the hour late arrival of the band and put the idea of the forty five minute sludge mudpacked walk back to our camping site to the back of our minds for a while.

After the madness had died down we headed back wearing our much needed unfashionable Wellies.

SUNDAY

Carl from the Libertines was backstage over the weekend and Sunday was going to be a pretty tough day for him. If it wasn't for his band member, Pete Docherty drug problems he would had played the Pyramid Stage this afternoon. Because of the temporary split Supergrass replaced the band and to add insult Carl was rejected stage access.

So U2 next year Mikey?

If things had been different Carl could had enjoyed acts such as Joss Stone, James Brown and Morrissey from the side of the stage. But he couldn't!

Despite the lineup on the Other Stage including The Zutons, The Divine Comedy and Orbital's final gig we took time out to explore the rest of the festival and started off in the Green Futures fields. We arrived just in time to witness the weddings

from the Greenpeace Soulmates tent. Over the weekend the tent throws out all the advice your parents once gave you and attempts to hook people up with complete strangers. Providing you get on with your new partner and you don't get murdered or assaulted you are given the opportunity to marry at 3pm on Sunday. Although serious weddings have taken place at Glastonbury in the past this particular ceremony will not screw up the rest of your life and lead to an expensive divorce.

Next we headed off to the hippy territory, otherwise known as the Healing Fields and the Sacred Circle. This is where you can wander around nude without being arrested, enjoy massages and make new friends. It's also the place where the most fucked up people hang out and has more illegal substances that has been shoved up Danilla Westbrook's left nostril!

Comedy was needed. So we made a trek through the market which sold clothes which you wouldn't be seen dead in and food which smelt as appatising as um, something not very appatising! (Sorry, writers block crept in there!) At the Circus and Cabaret field we stayed for a few acts which included some jokes about how bad the Yanks are, a member of the audience getting his kit off and a bloke balancing on a bike chucking chainsaws in the air. There were also various artists wandering around the field putting smiles on people faces. Our favorite being the spoof St. Johns Ambulance crew who were covered in bandages.

Sadly there was a very tragic ending to Glastonbury this year.Bill Howard was watching his son, Dominic play drums in his band, Muse. Shortly after the headline set Bill suffered a fatal heart attack and died onsite. The news broke Monday morning and was an awful way to finish a very enjoyable festival experience.