Glastonbury. The highlight of the festival season, and with an attendance of over 150,000 people plus some of the biggest names in music, it’s no surprise that it’s one of biggest and most sought after musical events in the calendar.

With this is mind, you can see why it’s such a huge achievement for Access to Music students Neil Horne and Callum Baker to both get to perform there this year with their respective bands. I caught up with them both to find out where they played and what performing at Glastonbury was like.

Neil Horne who is currently in his last year of the Creative Music Producer course at the Bristol centre and his band Sub Universe won the chance to perform through the Q Magazine Glastonbury Emerging Talent competition and were given two slots at the festival.

The played the Queens Head on the Friday which also saw the likes of Dan Le Sac and Scroobius Pip, Jason Mraz, Noah and the Whale and the Wombats, and the Dance Lounge on Sunday which hosted performances by Chipmunk, Goldie Lookin Chain and ex Access to Music student, currently taking the scene by storm, Ironik.

Proclaiming to sound like the ‘henchest thing to blow up your stereo!’ Sub Universe call their sound rap and rave, with influences from bands such as The Prodigy, Jay-Z, Massive Attack and goldie. I asked Neil from Sub Universe about their set, he said ‘I think out of our tracks people got into Stars and Computer Game, especially when we switched into a heavy Dubstep/bassline remix of it!’ Their Friday set seemed to go down well too ‘we had some hardcore ravers at the front just loving it!’

Callum Baker, who has just completed the Performing Musician course at the British Academy of New Music and is about to enter the Artist Development, has had similar success- playing, not one, not two but five stages at the festival, including Mandala (Greenfields) and the Vagabonds stage. When I asked him what it was like to play such a big festival he said ‘The atmosphere of Glastonbury was amazing, almost like another world, it was quite surreal at times’ One of their performances was at 3am on Saturday morning but despite the desperately late night Callum said ‘there was a rammed crowd- it was quite frantic!’

Callum recently joined Unity and Devision after they saw him play with his college band Sarajevo. He was originally just covering for a bass player but it now seems to be a permanent fixture.

And as if Glastonbury wasn’t enough for these two bands they both have their plates full for the foreseeable future. Sub Universe are planning a mini tour for the end of the year and last week got Radio One play on Kissy Sellout’s show, Kissy then went on to put it in his top 5 unsigned tracks. Their E.P. Computer Game is out now on iTunes.

Unity and Devision are continuing the festival season and performing at Big Green Gathering and Out of the Ordinary and are hoping to be in the studio soon recording some fresh tracks with their new bass player.

Check out Sub Universe on their myspace

Check out Unity and Devision on their myspace