WE are broadcasting live from Creamfields in Liverpool, said Radio One DJ Annie Mac on Saturday morning.

Sorry, I didn't realise Daresbury had moved to Liverpool - is it all part of this hideous plan to create Greater Merseyside that we keep reading about?

Or is it simply that anyone from down south hasn't got a clue about anything north of Watford?

Not that I listen to Radio One you understand. No my eldest son who was off to Creamfields on Saturday had been tuning in to poor deluded Annie's show.

He had paid the princely sum of £65 to attend the festival and was really looking forward to it - telling me who he was going to watch until 4am.

My festival days however are well and truly over. In fact they never really got started - I seemed to have missed out on the whole sex, drugs and rock and roll scene altogether.

So I was hoping for a quiet weekend - nothing more strenuous than tuning in to X-Factor before heading off to bed early.

Sadly the 65,000 people partying at Creamfields seemed to have other plans.

Despite living in Grappenhall - several miles from the Daresbury venue - and having my double-glazed windows firmly closed, I could still hear the music - an insistent beat loud and clear.

I was only too well aware of when it was 4am as I was wide awake.

I'm sure I'm not the only one. It happened last year and here was another bank holiday ruined for many of us.

Heaven forbid how people who live in Daresbury and Moore cope - do they all go away for the weekend?

Either that or they must just give in, don their wellies and join them because any hope of sleeping would be out of the question.

I dislike going away on bank holidays as it's expensive, crowded and you spend half the weekend either queuing in traffic or waiting for a plane while some baggage handler decides to go on strike.

However, if Creamfields insists on holding festival number 11 in the normally peaceful village of Daresbury next year, I might well have to think about getting as far away as possible.

Either that or get some sleeping tablets.

Better still, Annie could get her way and they could take it back to Liverpool where it really belongs!