COLDPLAY ARE THE BEST

Michael Eavis has just done his press conference, covered by 6Music, and he sounds a lot more knackered than he usually does at this point in proceedings - very stuttering and faltering, which really isn't characteristic. The floods seem to have hit for six, really, and if he hadn't already announced there's no festival next year, we guess he'd be saying it now.

Picking his highlight, inevitably, he goes for Coldplay, enthusing over them that "there's something very clever and powerful" about them, and then, adding overstatement to hyperbole, that they're quite unlike anything else we've ever seen in fifty years of rock and roll. (Clearly, he's not heard Travis, then).

Prodded for suggestions as to who might be sat atop the Pyramid stage when the festival returns in 2007, he throws around names - "Kaiser Chiefs, Razorlight Bloc Party... one will be a headliner eventually." He also reckons he'd not turn down U2 if they asked to play, but "I'm not going to ring them any more." We're having hazy visions here that Bono will just turn up in two years time and commander the main stage, citing this and the power granted him by Billy Graham.

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