Thursday evening at Glastonbury offers a different sort of entertainment. If you're in the mood you can rave in headphones at the silent disco or hang around outside Jo Bananas blanket stall and enjoy their unfaltering commitment to round-the -clock techno. But, elsewhere, it's slim pickings for a crowd who've come to enjoy live music.
So when news spread that Simian Mobile Disco were doing an impromptu/secret/last-minute set at the Queens Head tent (why the name? It looks nothing like a pub, it's just a big tent) the crowds descended. But here's the thing. SMD were responsible (with the help of Justice) for the anthem of Glastonbury 2005, We Are Your Friends. Had they provided last night's crowd with a show-stopping dance set, as everyone expected , 2007 too would have been theirs. Instead -after what seemed like an interminable delay - James Ford went solo and offered up a rather odd selection of tracks that consisted mainly of 60s psychedelia and Spanish guitar music. It didn't go down well. Swearing was to be heard as people exited. It seems despite its reputation as the time and place where "anything goes", Glastonbury still isn't the time or the place to rake through your old vinyl selection and get experimental.
