GlastonBBC (day 2)

• 3:01 BBC2 have I Predict A Riot as their theme music. Lets hope that it's not accurate, huh? Lauren Laverne and Vernon Kaye hand over to Phill Jupitas hyping up Kaiser Chiefs at the Other Stage, although only after telling us that we'll get highlights from yesterday, so must be Somebody Told Me soon.
• 3:03 Na Na Na Na Naa sounds strangely clipped and ragged but enjoyable. They are playing in front of a banner saying 'Everything is Brilliant at Glastonbury' Their drummer appears to do much of the singing so that Ricky can concentrate on jumping around.
• 3:07 It's followed by Saturday Night with faltering voices already. Not sure about the red sunglasses either, but they are obviously having great fun and it's going down well. Actually, the glasses are very Gruff Rhys.
• 3:10 The crowd is surveyed from up close. Everyday I Love You Less And Less makes for instant clapping the beat. The intro stops after a couple of bars and a gap is made for the crowd to get even more worked up.
• 3:15 Away from them to the Kids' field. 'Children are the future!' The sound sculpture (ie lots of drums to make noise with) looks like great fun.
• 3:17 KT Tunstall less so.
• 3:20 'This is The Killers kicking some serious butt!' Yes, it's Somebody Told Me.
• 3:25 Discussion of Coldplay and the same hype from yesterday.
• 3:29 Apparently cover versions have been a theme of the festival so far. I don't remember hearing any.
• 3:30 Oh, apart from the one they're repeating now, The White Stripes doing I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself with the requisite intensity and Jack looking somewhat evil. Fail to see if The Guardian's claims that even Meg's knickers were red are true.
• 3:34 Kaiser Chiefs (who seem to avoid being The Kaiser Chiefs) were it, according to Vernon. I Predict A Riot features ricky running around hitting things. He then goes crowdsurfing, leaving the actually rather capable drummer on vocals for the end of the song.
• 3:39 A helicopter view of the other stage, with a huge puddle of water which a few people are walking across. The place is drying out though apparently. Mark Radcliffe is charmingly giving an overview of what everything is. We go to Athlete with Half Light, which sounds more than ever like it's being sung backwards.
• 3:43 Everyone is clapping with arms over heads. The song seems infinitely more charming somehow.
• 3:45 'We're going to play a few old songs, is that ok?' Unfortunately it's El Salvador and sounds painfully feeble. The fact that they've become so much more successful with their second album almost seems to be fair for a short while.
• 3:48 Lauren introduces what sounds like 'the brilliant Nouvelle Varg!' in the studio garden, a couple of guys in hats and two women. One starts singing in a rather wispy and pretty way over acoustic backing.
• 3:49 It's Love Will Tear Us Apart! Surely there should be a ban on covers of this soon, but this has to be one of the best and is really rather affecting.
• 3:51 The other woman starts singing in a high-pitched and even more wispy way and it all becomes too much. Oh well.
• 3:53 After a brief Mark Radcliffe in helicopter interlude (1/3 of the Other Stage field underwater!), it's back to Kaiser Chiefs for Oh My God. Coverage seems to be going better than anything yesterday by some distance.
• 3:54 There's a man in a red and yellow shirt who was in loads of crowd shots yesterday too! Unless it's someone else in the same shirt maybe.
• 3:55 Ricky drags a huge inflatable dinosaur offstage and into the crowd and shakes many hands (including the aforementioned red and yellow shirt guy.
• 3:58 Finish with a montage of the festival so far soundtracked by Doves, as everything seems to be these days. Surprisingly it's not Snowden.

• 7:00 The start of the evening's coverage is missed as in all of my dedication to Glastonbury I am watching the end of the tennis instead. Occasional flicking suggests that this means missing Echo And The Bunnymen doing a couple of songs, an interview with Razorlight, or at least as much as anything not including Johnny Borrell could be called that, The Coral doing Dreaming Of You and repeats of Kaiser Chiefs' hits from earlier. Their wellies/jeans combo seems more noticable this time for some reason. Keane play a couple of songs in front of a rather intricate backdrop drawing as well, with Tom sweaty and slurring words.
• 7:38 Inevitable defeat for Murray comes just in time to get Briggie Smales' Glastonbury gossip of the day, which includes the same story about The Killers leaving their bassist in a service station as was mentioned yesterday and something about the inflatable dinosaur which Kaiser Chiefs gave to the crowd, which has already been shown happening. Twice.
• 7:45 We go over for Everybody's Changing which is pleasant.
• 7:49 Kasabian are interviews and are as modest as ever. They plan to offer '2 hours of carnage' and 'no gimmicks man, no U2' encouraging Colin to take the piss out of Live 8. They are one of the most important bands in the world, because Arnie works out to them.
• 7:52 'Fuck Roy Keane, we're taking that chant today!' Tom from Keane trying to jolly along the audience is a bit painful at the best of times, although after Snowed Under when making a speech about how happy they are to be there he seems to have very slightly improved on the ultra cheesiness of V last year. Tim has cut his hair much shorter but still waggles his legs around stupidly while playing keyboards. They play Somewhere Only We Know and everyone sings along, although it doesn't sound especially glorious. Perhaps they are a little too good at replicating their records on stage.
• 8:00 'Just an hour into BBC3's coverage and already we have moments like that!' Colin enthuses. Great. Edith has gone off to watch Keane apparently but manages to make it back before the end of the link.
• 8:03 After the news, Colin has the 3D glasses on again, which are wearing a little thin. We go back to Keane for This Is The Last Time. Tom is still thanking the crowd too much and saying that the experience is 'ridiculous'. Bedshaped to finish which does just about nothing for me, perhaps it's just because of overplaying. Before leaving he slightly ruefully tells the crowd to 'enjoy New Order and that other band playing after them'.
• 8:13 Gorgeous George Galloway is interviewed and tells us that he's speaking twice at the festival. He is most looking forward to seeing The Proclaimers, because they sing in their own accents, unlike anyone else here of course.
• 8:17 Over to Interpol, and some buzzing and knob-twiddling which eventually turns into Not Even Jail. They are all very dressed up although not matching. Carlos' black shirt and red armband combo is ever-so-slightly questionable. There seem to be almost no flags in the audience, everyone with them perhaps already over at the Pyramid Stage.
• 8:23 It's Gwyneth! The camera watches her at the side of the stage for about ten seconds before she realises and tries ineffectually to hide. Interpol are sounding great and treat us to Obstacle 1 and Evil, complete with slightly unnecessary closing drum solo, finishing with PDA.
• 8:35 A slightly bedraggled David Tennant talks enthusiastically about The Undertones and Elvis Costello (with Colin still making fun of how long he played for as he did yesterday), before telling us that he's off to The Proclaimers too (cue much singing of 500 Miles again).
• 8:39 They have coverage from the Jazzworld stage! Amazing. Although nothing from the John Peel tent today, and it is someone from a well known band (Roisin Murphy). Well, at least it isn't Joss Stone, and she looks and sounds pretty fine. We get several songs uninterrupted, pleasingly.
• 8:56 We go to New Order right at the start of their set. They're having technical difficulties. They eventually begin with Crystal which sounds ok but a bit clumsy.
• 9:06 After a break for the news: 'live as you could possibly be!' is fast becoming even more annoying than the slug ident (whose presumed purpose of reminding us that we're on BBC3 is already fulfilled by sticking the channel name in the corner of the screen at all time)
• 9:18 We've had a few more New Order songs, through to Krafty. Someone in the crowd is holding a sign saying 'TOTALLY RANDOM BANNER'. Oh, how random and zany and wacky they must be!! The line 'this is where I wanna be and this is what I wanna do' delivered with great passion is the first great moment of their set. They tell us that they are going to 'go back 25 years to a song we wrote with our old group', which is a slightly awkward phrasing seemingly to claim it more as theirs. It's Transmission. Hooky has his legs planted wide apart like Status Quo or someone, Bernard shouts 'YEAH!' a lot.
• 9:25 Back to the studio for a big build-up to an incredibly dramatic, awe-inspiring moment. 'For only the second time ever as himself... it's Leigh Francis!!' Amazing.
• 9:27 The constant building up of Kasabian's set is getting a bit annoying. It's going to be one of the best of the weekend for sure!!! It will be the standard that other bands have to live up to! They come on to along an atmospheric buildup to ID.'
• 9:28 "GLASTONBRIAAAARGH!""
• 9:29 A large number of people in the crowd appear to still be wearing 3D glasses.
• 9:33 "OK you motherfuckers!" Kasabian's absolute determination to have an attitude is rather hilarious. Cutt Off is actually really good though, and live their stuff seems to feel a lot more natural and less gimmicky. Perhaps not the best of the weekend but enjoyable.
• 9:38 A grumpy-looking and drunk Ian McCullogh refuses to watch himself and goes to talk about football instead. We get The Cutter and then go back to Kasabian.
• 10:00 We're going to get some 'wholesome headliners' later. Well, Razorlight have never been that shocking...
• 10:04 New Order have Keith Allen come onstage. On a pantomine horse. And play World In Motion.
• 10:07 'INGERLUND!''Ah football, just the thing to get the Glastonbury crowd going as proved last year. It suits them much better than the Joy Division songs though to be honest and looks such ridiculous fun (especially once we get to the rap) that it's the most so far that I've wished I was there.
• 10:10 Colin assures us that he's got the setlist and even though they've gone offstage the set isn't really over, so we watch the empty stage for a while.
• 10:13 It is really over. They didn't play Blue Monday!
• 10:14 Back over at Kasabian... 'this is your bit! Fuck Paul McCartney!' they seem a little confused as to who is headlining this year.
• 10:31 Kasabian have finished, after an enthusiastic encore. That was 'the performance of the weekend!' and 'as live as it could possibly be!' of course. Roisin Murphy, somewhat dressed down compared to earlier, is interviewed and more of her songs shown.
• 10:36 On BBC2 New Order are playing Love Will Tear Us Apart complete with 'YEAH!'s, 'RRRRRRRRRAH!'s and 'COME ON!'s. It's rather embarrasing, and Nouvelle Vague did a better job earlier frankly.
• 10:40 New Order on both channels, but both are songs not shown yet.
• 10:43 Phill Jupitas apparently didn't realise that New Order played Joy Division songs live now. Where has he been? He gets interrupted by some real live members of the British Public, then passes over to Lauren Laverne who is live in front of the Other Stage where Kasabian are just starting to play Club Foot. Hang on a minute...
• 10:46 New Order are joined by Ana Matronic in a pick robe for the not-quite-irretrievably rubbish Jetstream.
• 10:54 Turn over to BBC2 midway through Coldplay's first song. Oops. Stay with the rest of the coverage without keeping track of things for here because, well, it's Coldplay. And the BBC's coverage has at times made the rest of Glastonbury seem like just a sideshow to The Biggest Band In The World™ anyway.

They are wearing their new uniform of all wearing black apart from white trainers and look reasonable, Chris' hair is a bit of a mess though. The camera angle makes him look particularly bad when he screws his eyes up towards the end as well. They play almost all the best songs from X&Y and a good choice of older ones too, although I could have done without Warning Sign and Trouble or Shiver would have been perfect.

Politik sees the first (and best) lyrics change, to ''Give me weather which doesn't harm, Michael Eavis on Worthy Farm, give me mud up to my knees'' and its climax is totally breathtaking. A hint of their supposed adoration of Kraftwerk is maybe shown in White Shadows' ''zwei, drei, fier!'' intro, which if I remember my German rightly is better than U2's Spanish counting. The only slight weakness in the main part of their set is the reliance on an ambient synth wash over everything which gets rather annoying. A switch over to BBC3 between songs is handled deftly, and the only part of their set not shown is the first half of Swallowed In The Sea, lost to the news. This is probably a good thing for Coldplay as it stops the TV audience being put off their new album by such amazing lines as 'you cut me down a tree and brought it back to me and that's what made me see where I was going wrong'. Speed Of Sound doesn't feature Chris' Crazy Frog impression now but does have a glorious shout of 'Crazy Frog where are you now??' in the middle. He does a lot of gazing skywards throughout which doesn't quite seem right.

Acoustic versions of Til Kingdom Come and Don't Panic are lovely, and Chris makes an effort to give some attention to Guy, Will and Jonny. Well, mainly Jonny, but he does love him. They play a version of Kylie's Can't Get You Out Of My Head which surprisingly manages to simultaneously sound like rather a faithful cover and a new Coldplay song. Unfortunately Chris' intro manages to emphasise the having a laugh element of this rather than the paying tribute to someone who can't be there aspect. 'We heard that Kylie was going to be headlining but now she's got... her thing'.

Fix You is a closer that almost anyone would wish to have, and the light show for it is amazing, even right up to having some half-arsed fireworks near the end. Sadly Chris chooses to go for silly lyrics instead of the actual emotive climax and turns a perfect moment into a damp squib of an ending. Oh well. It's still charmingly nice when they come out and bow afterwards.