Campsite Day 1
I love festivals, despite that it has in recent years become more fashionable to go to them, with the fashions and the drinking taking over the point of a festival. The music. The main point of festivals to bring people together under one particular subject, which in many cases, is music. However that it does tend to get clouded with other nonsense and many people miss the point to why they payed such an obscene amount (very much so in Leeds Fest case) in the first place, to see musical artists live!
I suppose it annoys me a little that some festivalers go today just to 'get off their faces' or for use of a better term, get drunk, take drugs and generally make arses of themselves (usually with the use of ridiculous costumes, the amount of batman's and joker's and as for the girls...well it would make Wachowski brothers blush..if you got that joke then well done you, if you didn't then here!).
Now I can't be totally excused of that, I've been known to enjoy the odd tipple, especially while I'm at a festival. I go for the Music, and I happened to see quite a few acts while I was at the festival...which included on the main stage...(I've included videos for your amusement)
Main Stage
Calvin Harris - I'm Ready for the weekend
Kid British - Our House is Dadless
The Futureheads - The Beginning of a Twist
Calvin Harris was a treat to see, he puts on a good show, I'll be going to see him again. Same applied for The Subways and The Futureheads, they really knew how to get the crowd moving.
Doves and Kid British were two bands that I had never seen before, but I'll be definitely seeing them again after both of their sets. I think the only disappointment for me was The Coral, (thus why no video for them) only because after the previous two nights, they were a bit tame, so I trotted over to the "Calling Out" to see Dananananaykroyd, who were unexpectedly brilliant and a good way to finish Sunday's line-up. However I had my real fun at the "Glow" tent...
Glow Tent (Dance)Scratch Perverts - Stand By
Ken Evil - *no video*
Doorly - Bonkers - Dizzee Rascal (Remix)
All three of these were fantastic, it was the first time I'd really seen any DJ live, but it was a whole different experience to any gig I'd ever been to. In the Glow tent, it was so hot, I mean like tropical in there, and I'm not just talking about the heat, the atmosphere was electric and everyone was loving it, including me. Starting from the top of the list Scratch Perverts were a very uplifting way to end the entire weekend, including one of my favorite moments of the whole festival...
DJ: DO YOU WANNA GO OLD SCHOOL?!
ME: YEAHHHH!
*DJ PLAYS SUB FOCUS - ROCK IT*
ME: WOOOOOOO!
Oh yes that was fun...jump up and dance like a motherfucker kinda fun. Ken Evil was pretty good although I didn't really see much of his set and most of the time I was busy having fun taking pretty pictures of the strobes and lasers in long exposure on my A200. Doorly was my first taste of live DJ-ing and boy, it hit me like a shot of dubstep into my veins, did i like my first live dance music experience? I fucking loved every second of it. (Creamfield's here I come in 2011)
Apart from the music at the festival, I enjoyed all the other aspects of being there such as
- Trying hookah for the first time (flavoured tabacco)
- Watching (and laughing at) drunk people
- Eating New foods (BBQ noodles..how can I describe them...NOM NOM)
- Dreading going to the toilet (oh fuck...they were bad)
- Meeting one random guy (where's the guitar then? *evil smile*)
- Making a few new friends, SHOUT OUT TO THE LYON CLAN :D
- Helping my friend out of a mosh pit when his knee broke
(that one was a bit of a shitter)
Campsite Day 4
Yeah...I took that photo, while hungover from Sunday night's adventures. It was the same all over the campsite. 4 days and that was what was left of the material possessions of the lyon clan, who had left by the early monday morning. But when they left I hope they took away some good memories aswell, as I did from this festival. I met a fair few people, listened to some great music and generally had a great time. Only another 11 months until I can do it all again.
My Verdict: Fucking Worth the Wait.
MT
