Who: Skream and Benga
Where and when: Dance West, 5.15pm
Dress code: Standard festival dance-tent clobber, right down to a scattering of white dreads. However, this being the appearance of south London's dubstep kings, there was a tiny cell of city dwellers sporting the odd afro and risking their Nikes in the Somerset mud.
What happened: For an hour and a quarter, a small corner of Worthy Farm was gripped with a rather more urban ambience. Ripples of applause greeted the shuddering sub-bass, with groups of young lads bobbing their heads in unison. The girl in the fairy costume might have been out of place, but skanked along quite happily none the less.
Who's watching: Inside the tent: the usual sub-species of the dance-music diaspora. Outside: A surprising number of ageing ravers and their offspring attracted by the lack of mud, including one cool dad and his two pre-teen kids, one in a Liverpool shirt, the other in a T-shirt paying tribute to Japanese noise-rock band Melt Banana.
High point: That would be Skream dropping his mighty remix of La Roux's In for the Kill. Cue mass singalong, a huge roar in the moment's silence that appears near the tune's end and an entirely understandable mayhem as the drum'n'bass finale kicked in. It's been heard several times already this weekend, so may well be shaping up as this year's unofficial festival anthem.
Low point: The momentary sound problems at the beginning of the set.
In a tweet: Skream and Benga – still the dubstep dons.
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