Glastonbury was and is a great festival.  It is like no other.  I felt utterly spoilt by the choice of music and entertainment on offer.  Neil Young looked old but put my fitness to shame with his energy.  Watching Blur was like taking part in a mass karaoke session.  Animal Collective threw me into a state of euphoria.  Then, of course there was our show...

Nothing much needs to be said about our performance, some of which can be seen on the BBC website.  It was terrifying, but the excitement kept me going.  A lovely crowd of strangers and friends cheered us on to keep us happy.

Backstage, we met Huw Stevens and Tom Robinson, both BBC radio DJs.  These two are heavily involved in promoting new music, largely from unsigned acts.  Their BBC Introducing project was launched in response to John Peel's and his institution's untimely death, and it has been growing steadily since.  The BBC Introducing programme is supported by a network of local and national radio stations, and they have stages at events such as Glastonbury.

It had been a year since we contacted Tom Robinson, who gave us our first ever radio play.  Back then we had a conversation over the medium of blog, where he gave us some pearls of wisdom to help us navigate through this most uncertain and exciting time for the music industry.  A year on, having built ourselves some more confidence, we talked in person at some length about how to 'make it'.  Tom Robinson is firmly of the opinion that a good band is master of its own fortunes.  Indeed, he feels that there is no need to be signed to a label.

This is a man with considerable experience in the music world, and sees the shake-up of the traditional industry structure to be a blessing for the lowly, unsigned band.  Today, it costs very little to distribute music, over the internet, or in making a short run of CD-Rs.  He suggested that we needed to build the fan-base, one by one.  "Play in your fans' living rooms!", he said.  He gave us more ideas on how to go about promoting ourselves - simple things that are obvious, but never occurred to us.

Tom Robinson, in short, inspired us. Maybe it's not about getting signed.  It's really all about fans.  We're gonna find you.