High point of weekend Coldplay’s Chris Martin paying tribute to “absent friend” Kylie Minogue, with rousing chorus of Can’t Get You Out Of My Head on Saturday night, to the delight of crowd.
Low point Waking on Friday to find river carving way through site. Average rainfall for June fell in just seven hours and fire brigade had to pump three million litres of water off Worthy Farm that day.
Surreal moment Keith Allen coming on stage dressed as matador riding pantomime horse during New Order’s World in Motion. New Order hadn’t a clue what was going on.
Shambles After arriving 20 minutes late, Pete Doherty of Babyshambles threw his harmonica into audience, tried crowd-surfing, failed and toppled drum kit.
Spat of weekend Michael Eavis blaming neighbour for a water blockage: “We can’t tear other people’s farms about, that’s the problem. I said to my neighbour, we need to put a really big drain through the railway line.”
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Exaggeration Brendon Benson, Detroit rocker, comparing Glastonbury to Vietnam because it was the grimiest, most hardcore rock festival in Europe and didn’t have proper changing rooms.
Hard sell Organisers of all-woman night-time carnival said: “If Marilyn Manson and Mae West were to visit they’d be hanging out at Midnight’s Carnival drinking almond tea with Charles Dickens.”
Endurance award Man wearing Wolverhampton Wanderers scarf set up his pitch on main stage in same place he has done every year for last 12.
Snub of weekend Michael Eavis said that never again would he make any effort to get U2 at the festival. “I’m not doing the U2 thing again. They’ve got to phone me now, I can tell you that.” Instead he suggested the likes of Kaiser Chiefs, Razorlight and Bloc Party could be headliners of the future. Get your bets in now.
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Whinge of weekend Several festival-goers complained about noise limits introduced this year. A festival spokesman admitted there was a “bit of a turndown”. Levels were enforced by council patrols, to disappointment of many. But this has succeeded in getting council off festival’s back.
Hard cheese of weekend Every year BBC has own luxury camping area, but no electricity on Friday meant their lavatories weren’t working.