Leeds Festival 2018.... Day Three!!!

For the final day of the festival I had a full tinsel outfit planned. I actually got the shorts from Pretty Little Thing and the jacket from Nasty Gal but they are pretty much the same tinsel so matched really well. They have a black background with rainbow strands of tinsel all over. I struggled to find a top that looked right so made a last minute decision with my Jaded London spike sequin top as the colours in it were a perfect match. It was raining again so I decided to wear my glitter baker boy hat again to try and shield my face a bit and I’m so glad I did, it also matched really well with the ombré lilac wig I wore. I wore my mermaid shell earrings and a black sequin choker. As it had rained loads that morning I decided not to risk wearing my docs even though they would’ve gone perfectly. But I didn’t want to ruin them in the mud, so I reluctantly wore some clear wellies with some glittery unicorn socks underneath.

Tinsel Jacket - Nasty Gal

Tinsel shorts - Pretty Little Thing

Sequin top - Jaded London

Baker boy hat - Topshop

Wellies - Primark

Shell XL Earrings - No Basic Bombshell

Choker - Primark

For my make up I wore pink glittery eyeshadows and a metallic lipstick. I wore my all in one light up face jewel which I think has got to be one of the best inventions ever. I also wore some smaller face gems under my eyes and the colours matched the other gem perfectly. I added a few extra gems to the side of the main face gem and used my liquid lipstick to do some dots and lines under my eyes. I then added some glitter to some of the lines for some extra sparkle. I also wore my light up all in one body jewel on my chest, then did stripes of purple, pink and multicolour glitter around it.

Eyeshadow (sugar plum pocket candy eyeshadow palette) - Lime Crime

All in one light up face jewel - Festival Faces Group

All in one light up body jewel - Festival Faces Group

Under eye face gems - The Gypsy Shrine

Glitter - Ebay/B&M

Liquid lipstick - Primark

The rain hit hard all morning so again we ended up leaving the tent later than we’d planned, but eventually we had to brave it. We managed to get to the main stage to see some of Sum41 who were great and Mike Shinoda joined them on the stage for the last song to do ‘Faint’ a Linkin park cover which was a real moment. We then headed over to the Radio 1 stage to catch some of Sigrid before heading back to see Dua Lipa. I was really sad as she clashed with Pale Waves who are one of my fave new bands but as I’ve seen them a few times and hadn’t seen her we thought we’d see her instead. She was really good live and had dancers throughout making it a fun pop performance and something a bit different to the rest of the acts on the bill. She had massive singalongs (mostly from the girls) especially for ‘IDGAF’.

We then went over to the Pit for Blood Youth who were on early, so we got to see more of N.E.RD than we thought we would. We arrived in time for all the bangers and they were really good. Another annoying clash was Deaf Havana and Yungblud. We saw Yungblud at community festival and he was great and I love his album but Deaf Havana are one of my fave bands so we had to go for them. They played a lot of songs from the new album that’s just been released, I loved hearing the new songs live but it would’ve been nice to hear some of the older stuff too especially for a festival set, and unfortunately it was quite a short set. I’m hoping they announce another tour soon so I can see a full headline set again soon.

We then went to the festival republic stage to see Spring King, a band that always bring the energy. Even though the tent wasn’t that full they got everyone starting mosh pits. We then caught some of Beartooth in a very packed pit. We headed over to the main stage for Kendrick Lamar who ended up being about half an hour late. It decided to start chucking it down during this time which put a bit of a dampener on the night. We was unsure if he’d play past the usual finishing time as he was late and we realised afterwards that he did in fact cut the set short, as Reading got quite a few more songs. We left near the end to catch the end of Kate Nash and only actually missed one of Kendrick's songs. He is really good live but it is a shame when acts can’t come out on time, especially if it means the set gets cut short, even more so with a headline act as a lot of people would’ve gone especially to see him. 

In the evening I finally got to wear my amazing light up fur jacket. It is a cream short fur coat with a hood, in a super soft material and has lights running through the inside of the coat with battery packs on either side, so it will never run out. It also has two settings of still and flashing multicoloured lights. I also had my light up gems on my face and chest, so was literally lighting the fields up!

Light up coat - Festival Queens

All in one light up face jewel - Festival Faces Group

All in one light up body jewel - Festival Faces Group

Overall the festival was great, although the crowds do seem to get younger each year (or we just get older) it seemed even younger this year and there seemed a different vibe. The people in general seemed different and to be more there for the rap/dance acts on the line up. The line up has got a lot more diverse the last few years but it was dominated more by that sort of music with acts likes Post Malone/Travis Scott which I really just don’t get, they all sound the same, like they’re autotuned to sound like there singing underwater. Maybe this is really just showing my age but I just don’t get it and these were the acts that were getting the huge crowds in, whereas although some of the bands were still getting the crowds there were so many bands that didn’t seem to have much of a crowd at all. I get that this happens and times change but it is a little sad that this is the case when reading and Leeds was always about these indie/rock acts, which is also why I always went to this festival. As much as it’s nice to have variety on the line up I think it would also be nice to stick to their roots too, as there are so many festivals out there now with very similar line ups and not as many that do cater for just the indie/rock genre. I’m hoping they can make up for it with next year’s line up and I’m hoping the tradition of the ‘secret set’ act headlining the year after happens with Bring Me The Horizon!!

Leeds Festival 2018.... Day Two!!!

Saturday’s weather forecast was saying the dryest of the weekend so I decided to wear my silver sequin flares for this day to try avoid ruining them. I teamed them with this fabulous rainbow cape from Topshop that has tassel sequins hanging down and a big rainbow heart on the back. I wore a rainbow disc bra with a pink lace bra underneath, adding a splash of colour to the bottom with this fab feather bumbag. I accessoried with a diamanté choker and my fave rainbow earrings. I’ve totally been loving all the Brands that make the military/sergeant pepper style festival hats, but most of them are soo expensive. I get there’s a lot of work that goes into them but some of them you’d need to get a mortgage out to afford. So I decided to take some inspiration from these and try and make a similar one myself. I already had a military hat I could use so thought I’d decorate it, I added lots of ribbon/sequin trims, a mirrored effect trim for the peak and chain detail. I also found this great smiley face patch which I thought would look great to go on the top. I finished it off with some earrings I put on to look like buttons and a brooch on the front. It didn’t cost me that much to make and I was really pleased with how it came out and as it was rainbow colours it was perfect for this outfit. 

Sequin Flares - Very

Disc bra - Primark

Lace bra (underneath) - New look

Rainbow cape - Topshop

Dr Martens Molly Glitter Boots - Dr Martens

Feather bumbag - Topshop

Festival hat - Made by me

Rainbow XL earrings - No Basic Bombshell

Choker - H&M

I took some inspiration from blogger Sophie Hannah Richardson with this hat/hair combo and got a long blue wig. I’m absolutely rubbish at plaits or anything so got my daughter to do some fishtail and normal plaits on the wig before I went so I could literally just put it on. For my make up I did rainbow eyeshadow then went for a simple rainbow face gem design with gems and glitter tears under my eyes and pink glitter lips. I was really annoyed as half of the gems on my forehead fell off as I was walking to the arena and they seemed to disappear into thin air. So I’ve literally got one picture with the original design, then I had to try and move them along and reinforce them with some liquid latexx I should’ve known the individual gems don’t stick as well as the all in one gems. I also put a body gem on my chest and did rainbow glitter stripes around it to complete the look.

Festival hat - made by me

Wig - Ebay

Face gems - AliExpress 

Glitter - Ebay/B&M bargains 

So there’d been some rumours going around for a couple of weeks that Bring Me The Horizon were going to be doing the infamous ‘secret set’ slot. They had started a viral campaign to ‘join the cult’ with a telephone number you could call where you’d be put through to someone at a call centre then it would go all distorted and you’d hear a song sped up/played backwards, making for some weird/creepy messages. Although they didn’t put their name to the campaign it didn’t take fans long to work out who it was and people started getting into a frenzy, including me. Although they’ve only been gone a couple of years it feels like so much longer and I have been desperate for new music. There was also a website that appeared with a date ‘21st August’. With this being so close to Reading and Leeds I really hoped that the rumours  were going to be true as things were seeming to add up. So it turned out the ‘mysterious’ campaign was them and they launched the single ‘MANTRA’ on the 21st, this excited me even more and I after a questionable line up I was really hoping this secret set could make up for it. The secret set was on Friday at Reading so we kept checking hoping for news that it was them and to our absolute delight it was. 

So we knew we had a earlier start Saturday as we wasn’t sure how busy it would get if people also knew about it, which they usually do by this point. We ended up getting to the arena a bit later than planned but it wasn’t that busy so we caught the end of SWMRS then patiently waited. It was so amazing to see them burst onto the stage with new single ‘MANTRA’ and the whole tent was singing along. They bounced through their 8 song set which was full of bangers including ‘Can you feel my heart’ and ‘Throne’. The energy in the tent was amazing, it went far too quickly for my liking but was definitely my highlight of the weekend. I absolutely love this band and love how they’ve evolved and I am so buzzing for their new album. I’m so happy I managed to get tickets for their tour in November last week, I really can’t wait for it!!

We ended up seeing a few less bands due to the secret set but I didn’t really care. I was annoyed at a few clashes for the day though as it meant we didn’t actually get to see many bands. So we saw Fickle Friends a band I’ve been a big fan of for ages now, their songs are just such feel good summer tracks. We headed over to the main stage as our friend wanted to see some of Post Malone, I’m not that fussed on him and whenever I’ve seen him on tele live I thought he looked terrible, but we saw a couple of songs and he wasn’t actually as bad as expected. We managed to catch a couple of songs from The Wombats then headed over for Dream Wife in the Festival republic tent. 

Then it was The Kooks on the main stage, I’ve literally loved these since my teens so it’s always nice for a bit of nostalgic indie to relive my youth. The heavens did decide to open at this point and again we were unprepared without rain macs, but we were having such a fun time and a few proseccos down at his point, so didn’t let it dampen our spirits. We stayed at the main stage to see some of Travis Scott another person I really wasn’t fussed on but as there was a gap we thought we’d see what the fuss was about as he had a massive crowd. I just really don’t get this genre of music where it sounds so auto tuned and to be honest I thought he was absolutely  rubbish, or maybe I’m just getting old! We then caught a bit of Hudson Taylor before watching Nothing But Thieves in the Radio 1 tent. 

We went over to the main stage for Fall Out Boy whilst waiting for the headliners on the other stages, don’t get me wrong I do like them but I don’t think they should’ve been headlining again and although they are good live I’m not a massive fan of the newer stuff, so wasn’t too fussed on seeing it all. Wolf Alice and The Horrors were both headlining other stages which was another bad clash as we love them both, but as there was a slight overlap and the stages were so close we watched some of each of them. Ending with The horrors which again seemed to go too quickly, but I love how Faris has got more stage prescence since a few years ago, he definitely seems more comfortable with being on the stage and had a great energy. We ended the night with Big Narstie djing in the alternative tent.