I’ve had a great time today at Underage Festival. It’s nice to go to a festival where you aren’t muscled out the way by ‘grown-ups’. Here are some of my highlights:

1. Two over-enthusiastic fans who had climbed the king pole of the NME Tent during Foals' set being lectured, schoolteacher-style, by a crew member ("Get off the pole. OFF THE POLE! OFF THE POLE!"), and Yannis’s pleas for calm ("Come on kids, be good! Be nice to each other!").

2. Seeing Pull In Emergency getting very excited backstage about getting free things.

3. Meeting Tim Burgess from The Charlatans. I’m the one on the left, in case you didn’t know.

4. Glasvegas' set in the (strangely empty) NME Tent, which was nothing short of amazing. It was everyone else’s loss…

5. Florence of Florence And The Machine out-crazying Frank Gallows when she performed in the Top Man Tent. Screaming ‘FREEDOM!’ after removing a bangle, she proceeded to throw her keyboard player around the stage. Less good were the hordes of punters who turned up to hear ‘Kiss With A Fist’, and then left, not bothering to listen to the rest of the songs.

Now I’m off to Summer Sundae. to watch the relentlessly cheerful Those Dancing Days (again…), but if next year’s line-up is anywhere near as good as this year’s, I’ll see you all here next year!

Words and pictures by NME's guest blogger James Edwards, 15