lovely to meet up with you too matt!
i've been the last 3 years. i think the music's been getting steadily better/aligned with my personal tastes (less of a reliance on warp-ish IDM, and more techno and electro).
the mud didn't matter so much to me. if yr on enough drugs (and if not, why not? etc) then it's all much of a muchness. in fact, better rain than the scorching temperatures of last year, when it got truly dangerous because the water supplies stopped working.
speaking of which, despite the organisers constant claims that they'd vastly improved the water situation, me and a mate had to resort to digging the water tap for our camp site out of a hole in the ground! it was just a pipe lying on the floor that had got buried.
also, i say this every year but the place to be really is the sancho panza tent. it has by far the best, friendliest atmosphere and feels much more like a proper party: you get to know people in there.
all that psy-trance bollocks can fuck off though. it really is the nadir of dance music, and, visually, it's so horrifically ugly. if that's what people on those drugs want to look at, then there's no way that i want to be on those drugs.
the last 2 days have been shocking though. proper staring into the abyss stuff. still, there's no such thing as a free lunch, is there?