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The UK's most legendary festival is fast approaching - festivalgoers will start arriving from Wednesday 26 June and the music and festivities run until Sunday 30 June.

Sidetracked with Annie and Nick has been celebrating the festival in a BIG way. Sidetracked by Glastonbury includes special visualised episodes in the build up to the festival, and during the festival they will be live from Worthy Farm on 6 Music, bringing you all the latest gossip. Plus they’ll be recording their post-festival debrief as they leave the site on Sunday.

Annie MacManus and Nick Grimshaw have been to Glastonbury many times and they’ve been sharing their top tips with the Sidetracked listeners.

If you’re not going to the festival don’t worry because you can watch it all live on iPlayer and follow the fun on 麻豆官网首页入口 Sounds too - but if you are heading to Somerset soon, scroll down to read the top tips from the team, plus special guests Shania Twain, Emily Eavis and Mike Skinner…

It can be tempting to obsess over the line up and set up a schedule for your day to catch every single artist you want to see - but there is so much to watch at Glastonbury, it’s better to accept that you’ll never see it all and go with the flow.

Nick says: My biggest singular piece of advice would be: don't try and plan too much, don't worry about it. And I know this is the sort of annoying thing that people on TikTok say but try to be present. So don't be like, we've got to get over there to go and see that person - there are crowds, it can be really busy and you can end up being late. I think if you try and overplan it, it's going to be stressful - even if you don't see all the bands, you'll still have the best time.

Annie says: I completely, completely agree. You've got to treat it like childbirth. It best not to plan anything. Just go with the flow, be present, breathe, and go with your body. And the thing about Glastonbury is that it's so vast you will never ever take it all in one go. So you have to look at it as like you might even see one corner of it, but the thing about Glastonbury is that corner will suffice for the entire weekend. It's so good. So don't try and conquer it.

If you’re about to be outside for five days straight, you have to be ready for what the conditions will be. Check your local weather forecast and bring provisions - suncream, hats, raincoats, wellies, whatever you need to protect yourself from the elements. And if you don’t know where to find the best weather updates, you could try the Eavis method…

Nick: Do you have a weather person or are you just checking 麻豆官网首页入口 Weather like us?
Emily Eavis: We have a local cheese maker who has a really reliable weather forecast.

Believe it or not, there are over 100 stages at Glastonbury, so make sure to explore, don’t just stick to the biggest ones - you can always watch performances from those stages back on iPlayer!

Annie says: You could go to Glastonbury and not see any music. You could spend your entire time in the craft field - which is my favourite field by the way, I love to paint a ceramic mug every year. You have to paint the mug and then you're supposed to go back and pick it up. Have I ever picked up the mug? No! Will I pick up the mug this year? Who knows!

Nick says: But really, when you come to Glastonbury, you could have the best time and no offence to everyone performing this year, you could have the best time and not see a band. Do you know what I mean? You are not hanging on who's headlining to make sure you have a great weekend, which is why I think it's so brilliant.

Glastonbury is a special place, full of legends and spiritual traditions. The festival is overlooked by Glastonbury Tor, and the site has a small stone circle (not an ancient one, it was built in the 90s!), and watching the sunrise from there is a Glastonbury rite of passage. And make sure to sample some local drinks - watch the programme below to see Nick Grimshaw introduce Shania Twain to her very first pint of cider!

Nick: It's sort of like the West Country version of champagne... Cider is the drink of the festival, I feel.

Shania: Well how could I not try it? I'm getting in the spirit, it's giving me a taste of the experience.

It’s no surprise to anyone that the toilets at festivals can be pretty grim - hundreds of thousands of people using outdoor loos is never going to be nice! But if you’re worried about finding your way to the toilets in the dark, Annie has a suggestion for you…

Annie says: I was anxious about having to get up in the middle of the night and walk over tent wires to go to a manky toilet and probably see someone that I knew in the queue when my makeup was all over the place or whatever. I went through a phase of needing a wee two or three times a night - imagine having to do that at Glastonbury! So what I did is I bought an adult's porta potty, which is a toilet made of plastic, and it's got a lid and then you just take out the bucket and you empty it. And I bought two shower curtains and some garden twine and we built an en suite. A very DIY gross en suite. And I probably used it twice in the whole weekend, but the fact that it was there meant that my anxiety was gone.

There is such a huge wealth of live performances at Glastonbury: music runs on the main stages from lunchtime through to nearly midnight - but it doesn’t stop then. From small bars with acoustic stages, to the many dance stages in Shangri-La, there’s so much more to see even after the headliners finish.

Mike Skinner says: For me, the after hours is what Glastonbury is because if you just stand and watch a band in the day, you can kind of kid yourself that you’re at any festival. But when the headliner finishes, when Paul McCartney stops playing on Saturday night and you get that mass exodus up the hill, you don't get that anywhere else in the world.

Annie says: At night you can go into somewhere so perfectly designed that you walk in and you're like, is this real? What's going on? The NYC Downlow is such a good example of that, especially because you've been up a hill for about 45 minutes to get there and you've been queuing, and then you've see this huge, beautiful cityscape of a Manhattan skyline that looks completely real. And you're queuing up outside of Manhattan Club, and then you walk in and it's like you're in a proper New York club and you're just like, what the hell is going on? And you have to just go, you just have to allow yourself to go with it.