1) The Price of Pints Usually when you go to a festival, everyone's complaining about the price of the drink. Not at Glasgowbury. Not only did the beer tent fail to use their alcohol monopoly to hike up the prices and make massive profits, they seemed to have taken their Delorean back to 2001 to work out how much they should be charging, leading everyone to walk around with shocked looks on their faces, saying 'Did you know a pint's only £2.50! Seriously, only £2.50! Even for cider!'

2) Rick McMurray From the minute Ash's drummer arrived on site mid-afternoon, he was out there in the midst of it all, dandering about with his girlfriend, saying hello to people and checking out the bands. ATL met him on his way to see LaFaro, and he seemed to be a regular fixture down at the Spurs of Rock stage. No swanning around in a VIP area for Rick Rock, and that's why we love him.

3) The Kids God help the mothers pushing prams and buggies over the uneven ground, but props to them for bringing their kids to the festival in the first place. Never before have we seen so many small people bopping around to live local music. Particular mention must go to Stuart Bailie's girls, who rocked their girlie festival fashion outfits of pink wellies and hoodies. And we LOVED the wee boy in the Queens of the Stone Age t-shirt who'd had an anarchy sign 'tattooed' on his neck by the facepainters. Cool doesn't even begin to describe him.

4) The Poke Van Every festival should have an ice-cream van selling cones and 99's. The amount of people we saw with vanilla all over their bakes…

5) The Majesty of The Sperrin Mountains When the sun broke through the clouds and created a tapestry of light and shade on the hill to the right of the main stage, it took our breath away.

6) Cahir from FWW losing his mind We're not encouraging violence or saying it's cool, but we did enjoy the moment Cahir O Doherty, lead singer with Fighting with Wire, let rip at a punter daft enough to lob a plastic cup onstage. After berating him in the breakdown of 'My Armoury', he then told the punter 'if you want to throw something, try throwing a punch (in the campsite) and see how far you get' when the song had finished. Turns out Cahir knows the guy and even considers him a 'friend'. He told ATL, however, that he needed taught a lesson. The lesson we learned? Don't mess with Cahir!

7) Ash's Special Portacabin To their surprise and delight, Ash had their own portacabin decked out, with an Arabian theme. Lanterns, drapes, rugs and hookahs, cushions and incense burners surround the band during their ATL TV interview, who look slightly bewildered by the whole thing.

8) Paddy Glasgow, in general. It's literally all down to him - if he didn't exist, we wouldn't be here. Yet he's chatty, upbeat and calm ALL of the time. The logistics of 2000 people and dozens of bands invading a field in Co. Derry doesn't seem to stress him out in any way - quite the opposite, really.

9) Deep Fried Funk The only thing missing from Glasgowbury was a little variation in the line up - the likes of Alloy Mental, Olympic Lifts or the Japanese Popstars would have shaken things up nicely. Which is why the DJs from Deep Fried Funk were such a welcome addition, even though their rave in the G-Sessions tent lasted a mere two hours.

10) Next year ‘There’s no pressure’ the organizers have told us. ‘You can only put pressure on yourself and we’re not doing that’ they claimed, confidant that this festival will continue to flourish. Given it is literally a celebration of nothing but Irish music and attended by just about the most enthusiastic festival crowd we’ve seen – we should all be eternally grateful people exist who are willing to work so hard just so people like us, and like you, can have a hell of a lot of fun.