Not to mention the real Neville Staple (last year it was Chas'n'Dave) and a whole stage full of unsigned local bands you'll pretend you might go and see at some point (but never will).

Exactly why it's such a good thing that Glastonbudget exists can be summed up by those experiences which, at the time, made you want to turn round and punch your fellow festival-goer - no matter how blissed out you were at the time on pear cider and the mushroom risotto you bought from the hippies in the Green Fields.

Take as an example the woman at last year's Benicassim who, in the middle of a storming set by Morrissey which was slowly winning over even the beautiful people who'd been popular at school by using virtually only material from his hit 'comeback' album Ringleader Of The Tormentors, shouted, "Why's he playing this rubbish? Why doesn't he do the one about the double-decker bus?"

Or the time you went to see Oasis and they acted like they were bored, couldn't be bothered and that the whole playing-a-huge-stadium thing was a very, very tedious chore. Or the time [insert name of your favourite band here] insisted on playing only material from their as-yet-unreleased experimental world music concept album instead of a single song you knew the words to.

You see, at Glastonbudget no band ever gives the impression that playing in a very large field is a chore, and they always, always give you the one about the double-decker bus (or their band's equivalent). Because, just like on the nights they and their brethren play in the local pub at the end of your road, tribute bands can be relied on - nay, guaranteed - to play the same 'favourite greatest hits' set you've burned onto an 80-minute CD-R for the car stereo, and to look as if they're having the time of their lives doing it.

Which means that you don't care whether or not they're tributing a band you like because, by the very fact that the 'original' band are famous and popular enough to have a tribute act mirroring their every move, you'll know more of their songs than you thought you did and they'll play every one you can name without looking up their back catalogue on Google.

Unless you're so much of an obsessive that you've seen the tribute band several times already and are on first name terms with their bassist, in which case you'll still enjoy this every bit as much as the real thing. You will, just trust me.

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The Glastonbudget Festival takes place on 25-27 May 2007 at Turnpost Farm, Leicestershire. Tickets cost £47.50 for the weekend or £30.00 per day. Concessions are available for children and teenagers. For more information click here.