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As the nights are draw in and we don an extra jumper or two, we find ourselves reminiscing about this year's festivals.

It wasÌý a pretty epic summer for Ö÷²¥´óÐã Introducing. Our beautiful tent popped up at Radio 1's Big Weekend, Glastonbury, T in the Park, London Mela, and Reading + Leeds in the summer of 2010... and after some of the performances we saw, I'm surprised the tent is still in one piece.

It was also a pretty epic summer for me, working at Radio 1's Big Weekend, Glastonbury, and Reading + Leeds, going on my own adventures to in Serbia, and In Germany, as well as and in London. It's fair to say I've experienced a fine selection of world class bands and DJs this summer, and some of the Ö÷²¥´óÐã Introducing artists are most definitely up there with my personal festival highlights (seeing Ricardo Villalobos absolutely smash it as the sun rose gloriously over a Serbian fortress wasn't bad, either).

I spent Radio 1's Big Weekend in the lovely Bangor assisting the director in his truck behind the stage (where he directs our cameraman who are thrown into the thick of the action), so managed to see pretty much every Ö÷²¥´óÐã Introducing performance.

My ears just couldn't resist being drawn into the layered sounds of Django Django, especially this track, Storm. Don't think I've seen one of those wooden fish instruments you scrape since primary school: [that'll be a . Ed].

The Joy Formidable were superb, looking assured and confident throughout, and I wasn't surprised to see them go on to play on later that summer. It was refreshing to watch a drummer fearlessly lead as the frontman in I am Austin, and I was quite enthralled by Tempa T's dubstep invasion, as well as his t-shirt (although it was rare that he kept it on):

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(By the way, if excitable half-naked grime MCs are up your street, why not check out The World According to Tempa T where he gets philosophical and deep on moral issues like Twitter. Boy Off Da Ting!)

At Glastonbury I had the privilege of working on Hello Glastonbury!, a Ö÷²¥´óÐã Four film about the Introducing stage, by first time director Rachel Davies. I'd definitely recommend you watch it if you want to live the Glasto experience through the eyes of artists on our stage.

It was a pleasure working with the D.M.E lads from Birmingham at Glasto, and was nice to hear some UK hip hop in the Introducing tent, despite them unfortunately being on the same time as Snoop Dogg on the Pyramid Stage! Out Like a Lion drew one of the biggest Glasto crowds, and you can see why with this performance:

I personally was seduced by the melodic folky sounds of Dry The River, who have some truly behind them, and Patch William provided the perfect Sunday afternoon soundtrack for a hot and sunny final day at Glasto.

The ‘dark, seductive and mysterious' sounds of Dark Horses complimented their artistic performance, but for me the real Glastonbury moment belonged to Lanterns on the Lake when they performed this wonderful track, You Need Better: