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Read the blog below, but to get a feel for the band live at Glastonbury, you can viewÌý photos and listen to three songs from their live performance right here.

Photos of OK Tokyo on the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Introducing stage:

OK Tokyo performing live at Glastonbury:

Friday 22 June 2007

Bags are packed. I'm planning on surviving on a diet of dried fruits, nuts and rum.

Sweet mother of God the site is HUGE. It's a complete city of random wanderers. Amazing.

We spent about four hours tramping round the place trying to get our funky artists wrist bands from what seemed like an imaginary office. Thank the Lord for the rum!

Finally we found the campsite part that we're staying in. It looks like something from World War I and all the good areas have been pinched by cleverer bands and road crew.

So we found a nice little area of mostly made up of horse poo and pitched our tents. Ha ha... It felt amazing to get our tents up until I found out my air bed had a puncture. I'll be sleeping on the horse poo then.

The festival atmosphere is sensational and me and the Tokyo boys decide to go and see Arcade Fire (awesome), Arctic Monkeys (who Jonny officially renamed the Aztec Monkeys – it sounds better) and then Bjork (the best of the lot).

After a few beers and jolly jaunt in the mud we decide to call it a night as we've got a BIG DAY tomorrow.

Didn't sleep a wink. You cannot sleep on the floor, it doesn't work. We're absolutely surrounded by mud. There was no mud HYPE in the news, it really was that bad.

Still, the dried fruit and nuts are keeping me alive.

We saw a rather strange band, not sure who they were, but the lead singer looked like John the Baptist and he kept singing "I want to break you" in a chorus.

We're all thinking about the set a lot and Matty is just walking round and round in circles, actually I've heard him listening to the set on constant repeat with his iPOD - it must be driving him crazy!

It starts to rain again.

4pm - feeling a little more confident about things. Me and the boys have a little game of cards to try and settle the anticipation of playing at the best festival in the world.

It's only our third gig (as OK Tokyo) and we're all wondering what is it going to feel like walking out on that stage and playing the songs. Will we even remember the songs!? Argh. It's crazy.

4.30pm - we decide to head down to the stage to carry our stupidly heavy gear backstage.

Once we're at backstage everything starts to get amazing.

The ´óÏó´«Ã½ crew are so sensational to us and just treated us like legends even though we're just three unknowns from Reading. We got pulled to one side to do interviews for Radio One and that also helped to settle us down before we went on. I think that we just rambled a lot of old cobblers though. Ooops.

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Listen to the interviews here:

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DJ Huw Stephens comes and says hi. Lovely bloke and introduces us before we go on, but one of our backing singers is in the toilet - ha ha. We just go on anyway, who cares right?! It's a festival!

We break into our first song Sums and I can't really remember anything all the way through the set. But it was awesome to see fans from MySpace/ Facebook and to see that some knew the words. The crowd were amazing - the new park area of the site was ours.

It all went by in about 27 seconds. Straight back off stage back to do more interviews for Radio and TV. Talked more rubbish, poured beer over each other and started to RELAX. We rammed all the gear back in the van then went back to the camp to celebrate and toast our first Glastonbury gig.

On the way back to our tents we saw some hay by the side of the road so we all picked up massive bundles of it, thinking that we could create a carpet to our camping area. Genius. The hay was bone dry. It had the desired effect and it was actually better than real carpet.

However something went badly wrong. When boiling the water we got a little bit excited remembering bits from the set, so we started to dance and accidentally knocked over the gas stove. Immediately the hay went up in flames and within seconds we started a fire.

Matty in the panic picked up a bottle of rum and threw it on the fire. WOOOOOMMMMM. We were now dealing with a massive fire in the middle of a crowded campsite.

Jonny Tokyo. Man of 2007.

Next went to see The Killers, who put on an awesome show however you couldn't actually hear it. People chanting TURN IT UP at Glasto. Something a bit wrong there. Still, we went got some burgers and beers and then headed to a club round midnight.

What happened next exactly was a bit of a haze. I remember our photographer Chris Harris challenging everyone to a dance off, I climbed a massive pole, Matty Tokyo went 'missing' for about four hours, Jonny talked to everyone about Ancient Civilisations.

Saw the Chemical Brother lads and also Magic Numbers, Doves and loads more. I think we left the club around 9 - 10 am.

Got back to the tents and went to bed.

Next thing I knew, I was woken up on the toilet with people shouting "BREAK DOWN THE DOOR, HE NEEDS MEDICAL ASSISTANCE". Fortunately I said in time "No, it's ok, I just fell asleep".

Unfortunately for me, I was only in my pants and wellies. So I opened the door sheepishly to find about 20 people outside the toilet including an Emergency Response Team. I scurried back to my tent, ashamed.

Sunday 24 June 2007

Kinda surfaced a bit later. Told the lads about what happened. They cried with laughter in my face. Can't blame them really.

Then something bizarre happened - we decided to move our van from the stage area down to the car park near the exit so that after all the bands finished we could just leg it. However once we left the site nobody would allow us back on site as all the car parks had been shut.

Due to the events of the night before and to the fact that it was around about 6pmish we decided to head home before the traffic.

We had done everything that we wanted to do. We'd done Glasto and it was dream. Can't wait to get back there.