Glastonbury Diary: The Eskies light up Worthy Farm

Around the same time as Corbyn-fever was making its away though the Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury, Irish band The Eskies were lighting up The Avalon Stage.

"The tent was absolutely packed and the crowd were giving us such good vibes," says Sean O'Reilly, speaking to Hot Press from The Eskies Nerve Centre near Worthy Farm. "We played at Glastonbury last year but the Avalon Stage is just this huge tent and the crowd were going wild, we were thinking to ourselves, “Jaysus this is brilliant.” To back playing at the festival was an honour."

"We took the ferry over and drove," Sean tells me. " Only when he arrived did we realise the scale of the festival. There's a hill on one side which goes around the whole perimeter and when you look down you realise just how much of an operation it is. It's like a mini city down there."

Did the lads get to see any other acts while they were there?

"We missed the headliners last night because we were playing our own set. Then during our set in the afternoon, Busted were on after us and parked their van in front of our car. So the lads had us stuck back in the Avalon Stage for a while!"

Fending off boyband fangirls, Sean did manage to catch Liam Gallagher's set, where he delivered a beautiful rendition of 'Don't Look Back In Anger'.

"He did the song completely acapela, just the drummer with the shakers out and Liam with the maracas. It was magical."

Their own shows firmly out of the way now, the boys will be spending the day sampling what else is on offer at Glastonbury. But the festival circuit rolls ever on for them this summer....

"Ah we're playing close to a million festivals this year," Sean says with a weary laugh. "Mostly in England and Europe. Very little in Ireland unfortunately. We're just back from a stretch in The Netherlands where we'd played 13 shows in 10 days. Now we're just going from festival to festival for the next few months. Very little stopping in between!"

As you were lads...