Glastonbury 2011: How was it for the bands?

Rumer How was your gig? There was a lovely atmosphere. ­Normally I get nervous, but I thought the people were so friendly and warm. For me that’s pretty amazing to say, because I’m always so ­paralysed with nerves that I don’t usually enjoy it. I’ve learned that tens of thousands of people in the audience are nothing to be afraid of. Photograph: Katherine Rose/Guardian Guy Garvey, Elbow What do you like about Glastonbury? It tops up your belief in people for a whole year, I find. Everyone’s mates here. I woke up at 6am and got ­chatting to a surgeon. We found a box of wine and glasses so had a drink, and we were having a very grown-up conversation, then this bloke came along who’d been up all night and says: “Do you remember that episode of Fawlty Towers?” and just started pissing himself laughing. We joined in because he was so out of it, which made him laugh even more. Nowhere else in the world would you get that. Photograph: Katherine Rose/Guardian Dan of Caribou What’s your advice for having a good time? Don’t watch too much music – or even any music. Just head to Shangri La and the Stone Circle. Wear something stupid, wander aimlessly and meet people. Photograph: Katherine Rose/Guardian Annie Mac , DJ What’s your tip for larging it? When the weather is this extreme, the only thing to do is be as extreme as the weather; people just get obliterated as it’s the only way to forget that you are wet, cold and muddy. So cider. Go in on the pear cider. Photograph: Katherine Rose/Guardian Miles Kane How did your performance go? Mindblowing. It was so early, 2.15pm, but apparently you couldn’t get in to the John Peel tent. Then the set was building up, and we’ve got this song called Come Closer that goes “ahh, woah”, and when we finished the crowd kept singing it, so we kicked back in just off the cuff, because it felt right. Photograph: Katherine Rose/Guardian Patrick Wolf What are you wearing? A shirt made from a pair of curtains and posh riding boots that are good for any trial or tribulation. I was ­going to have a costume change ­during my set but I was encouraged to do ­another song instead. I’ll wear multiple ­costumes backstage to make up for it. Photograph: Katherine Rose/Guardian Professor Green What’s the best performance you have seen? Chase & Status last night in the rain. I was here last year for the first time. The weather was beautiful and I felt a bit cheated. This year’s been the complete opposite and I’ve had a much better time. People’s spirits are higher. Photograph: Katherine Rose/Guardian Emily (left) and Stella of Warpaint What’s the weirdest thing you’ve seen? Stella: We saw a man wearing a tutu walking with his girlfriend who was wearing the same outfit. And a hill of woodchips which had a father and son asleep on it. Photograph: Katherine Rose/Guardian Bobby Gillespie (right) with Mani, Primal Scream What is it about Screamadelica that is so right for Glastonbury? M: It’s one of those albums that ­captures a certain moment in time, an ideology, and runs with it. B: The first festival we ever played was Glastonbury. It was ’92, less than a year after Screamadelica came out, and it was the biggest crowd that we had played to at that point, 30,000-40,000 people. So I don’t want to say we’ve come full circle, but it’s appropriate to be back. Photograph: Katherine Rose/Guardian Graham Coxon How is playing the Park compared to the Pyramid? It was pretty much the same! The Pyramid is huge, but what was most different this time was seeing faces in the daylight. It’s an odd feeling: you stare out at the crowd but hardly notice a thing. I was rooted to the spot, like a rabbit in headlights. Photograph: Katherine Rose/Guardian Caitlin Rose What’s your Glasto look? These are my sister’s Hunter wellies that I jacked from her about a year ago, and she only let me keep because I broke them. Hunters have got pretty popular in the States. Photograph: Alicia Canter/Guardian Charlie, Noah and the Whale What’s the weirdest thing you’ve seen? One guy I saw earlier looked like he was still trying to get home from last year. I think there are probably a few of those already. Photograph: David Levene/Guardian James Blake What do you like about Glastonbury? It has an amazing feeling about it that you would only get in this country, especially with the mud. We have a national attitude to just get on with it. Photograph: Katherine Rose for the Guardian Joseph Mount, Metronomy What have you learned? I saw Angus Deayton at the bar last night, and I learned that makes me more excited than seeing the Edge backstage. Photograph: Katherine Rose for the Guardian