By Ian Youngs BBC News Online entertainment staff

Radiohead struggled to win over the crowd on Saturday

When the hangovers have gone and the cows are grazing around the Pyramid Stage again, this year's Glastonbury will be remembered as "the well-organised one".

With improved security inside and outside its ring of steel, the festival has proved its problems can be kept under control - and so a new chapter for the festival has opened.

Its opponents will no longer be able to complain about dangers for local residents.

Although there were more than 30 offences outside the site over the weekend, the situation was much better than 2002, when angry drunken ticketless fans gathered in the nearby village of Pilton.

For the 136,500 people inside the fence, they will remember the good music and great atmosphere, with the security implications for them being a few more guards and a lot less crime.

After fears that the increased control could drain the mythical "Glastonbury spirit" faster than the contents of the portaloos, ticket-holders - both veterans and festival virgins alike - came for the same old reasons.

The ballroom in the Lost Vagueness field hosted dance workshops

They came to have a weekend of fun in a place where the real world seems a long way away and some of the best bands in the world play in your front garden. The (mostly) sunny weather helped, too.

Top line-up

The music was good, although it was not a landmark line-up. The headlining bands were arguably past their best - but showed why they were still in rock's top division.

Radiohead, who topped the bill on Saturday night, were noticeably cheerful but struggled to make their newer, less crowd-friendly songs connect with the audience.

The atmosphere was strangely soulless for half of the show as their recent electronic excursions failed to set the Pyramid Stage alight.

But the best of their new songs - and some old classics - were saved for last, when they really began to click with the crowd.

They had been trying to persuade another artist to play Creep, though, so they did not have to - and Sunday headliner Moby duly obliged by using the song to close the festival.

A jazz band entertained diners in the silver service restaurant

On Friday, REM's Michael Stipe and his jangly skeleton dancing proved a hit despite the fact that their commercial success has waned in recent years.

Not surprisingly, the biggest cheers were for the old classics - but they were not just a nostalgia trip.

Scissor-kicking

Lower down the bill, The Darkness - hilarious 80s-style stadium rockers - were the most talked-about new band after opening the festival with a scissor-kicking set at 1015 BST on Friday.

Streams of campers stumbled out of their tents to investigate this affront to musical taste - and the band's appearance will hopefully set a precedent for the opening slot to become only slightly less prestigious than the top of the bill.

The Darkness could be headlining next year - if the novelty does not wear off.

Reggae veteran Jimmy Cliff was another name on many lips after a Saturday afternoon set that captured the mood in the bright sunshine.

He was this year's oldie to be given eternal cult status - in the past, Glastonbury has revived the careers of Tom Jones, Rolf Harris and Tony Bennett.

Need a G&T and some washing done? See the Laundrettas

Up-and-coming Irish band The Thrills, Texan pop clan The Polyphonic Spree and The Flaming Lips - complete with dancing zoo animals and squirts of fake blood - were other highlights.

But a short wander from the main musical stages was well worth the effort.

One of the must-see attractions was the surreal Lost Vagueness field, which has been expanded and made a prime feature of the festival.

It is where performance art meets cheesy glamour and earthy humour - all within the set of a David Lynch film.

Casino

In this field, the silver service restaurant, for which you need to be dressed to the nines, was packed every night, while the casino next door also did a roaring trade.

Festival-goers could take dancing lessons in the red velvet-lined ballroom, and all the American-style diner was missing was cherry pie.

Luxury trailer: Yours for �80 per night or �50 per hour

If you wanted to sleep in style, the Paradise Lost Trailer Park offered caravans for hire for �80 per person per night, or �50 per hour, as long as you observed the house rules that included "trading of livestock is at the discretion of management" and "no bare-knuckle fighting after 10pm".

For people missing reality TV, I'm A Hippy, Get Me Out Of It! - where seven people were locked in a caravan for 12 hours - took place after auditions on Friday.

If watching all that tired you out, you could retreat to see the Laundrettas, offering hand-washing, gin and tonics and general pampering "because we like dressing as 1950s clothes and being bored housewives".

That is not to mention the freak show tent, the giant exhaust pipe sculpture or the church with a boxing ring in the middle.

Delights like those in the Lost Vagueness field were at the centre of the festival in the 1980s, Michael Eavis said, and their return proved Glastonbury had not lost touch with its roots.