Michael Eavis to allow fans to place a deposit on their place for next year's festival

In the interests of science, I've just had a look at all the blogs we filed at the festival over the weekend, and put together a chart of your favourites, based on the number of page impressions each one has had. Here's the Top Ten:

Early bird tickets for 2009 available at this year's prices

Hewlett helps adapt theatre show for new album

Lindsey Buckingham gets three of them working together on songs

But singer says: 'If you were to get a Blu-ray of the 'Archive,' you would get the best'

I guess if there’s an emerging newish music in Uncut’s world, it’s a kind of gauzy, harmonious strain of Americana typified this year by the Bon Iver and Fleet Foxes albums and, a little while back, by the second Grizzly Bear album. I trust you’re not sick of this stuff, because there’s another good one on the way.

'Stay Positve' stays on the road

21 years since the Paisley Underground group played the US

Just back from the Mercury Prize shortlist announcement which, as you might imagine, was a hotbed of hype and low-level grumbling about the 12 nominations. I was doing some media-slag punditry, a lot of which revolved around the high-profile absentees: Coldplay, Duffy, The Ting Tings, Kate Nash and the one which actually annoyed me, Portishead. But before I start ranting, here’s the shortlist if you haven’t seen it yet: