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I have temporarily lost my mind, dignity and self respect (no surprises there, I suspect), but can't think of a physical item that I have lost.   I have seen two young women hand in a wallet heaving with cash notes into one of the Lock Ups once. The ladies had phoned a number which was a contact number in the wallet, and it was the owners dad. They told him that they'd hand it in to X lockup, and the dad rang one of his mates at the festival to tell his son where to get his wallet back.    One of my mates (who makes me look like an amateur on the drug taking front) found a very fancy (just newly out edition) mobile phone, and went staggering up to a police officer on horseback and gave them the phone to deal with.   I have another festival friend who will find 'something' at every festival he goes to (which is lots). It's mostly wallets or drugs. He hands the wallets back in to lost propertyr or a steward, but checks them for drugs and takes them out of the wallet if they have any in there, before handing over. That's not because he wants the drugs, but because of the potential fall out for the owners of the wallets.

I’m pretty sure I have never heard a single song by Olivia Rodrigo or Charli XCX, always seems weird when people talk about acts like this headlining Glastonbury but I guess that makes me old. Felt the same about Dua Lipa last year, I had just come off shift with Oxfam when she was on last year so stopped to see what the fuss was about, all sounded very samey to me, not my bag so went over to Idles instead. Will always seem odd for me to see acts who I would expect to be at Radio 1 big weekenders headlining Glastonbury though…doesn’t seem right.

Very start of June. Doubtful for most of them but it would be fun to see Lenny, GloRilla, Kaytranada and (obviously) D’Angelo at the farm!

I went to the manchester show, agreed very good and expect her to be in forums, institutes etc by end of the year.   Not sure theres much more to add, but it felt like the big hitters  blended in a bit early to the middle- whilst it was all good it felt more could be made from them ( it was a very static, admire from a far crowd rather than engage), and then by the end it was more gripping with songs that maybe had a bit more range but were lesser known to the room.   Also it was my first time visiting the white hotel, as a venue i thought it was great, sound was top,  the secret bottle bar in the floor brilliant as it killed the queues, a little window inside the venue where you could see the sillhoutte of the staff room, lovely quirky room.

then a poorly written un-attributed hash up of that, in the evening post next week.