Sincere apologies for the lack of posts but here is something I thought people might be interested in.
So back in the Summer I went to my first ever festival, Leeds Festival, and it was actually amazing.
I hope that my explanation of it and tips help out anyone who's heading to their first festival next year (I know its ages away but good to plan ahead!) and also to anyone who has never been to Leeds Festival before.
Basically all of my friends were going anyway, and I personally think that this is one of the reasons why I enjoyed it so much, despite the weather! My best friend of five years and I were sharing a tent, we had a great, big campsite with a huge gazebo and literally everyone I know was camping within a 5 minute walk of our campsite!
(If anyone is worried about camping then just don't, I was scared but you are too worn out from a day listening to music and a night partying to care really!)
Leeds Festival is huge. If you want a good spacious camping spot where you won't get drunken people stumbling back from the silent disco falling on your tents and "accidentally" nicking your stuff, then choosing one of the campsites a little further away (Orange/Purple where we camped) is definitely a good idea, and only adds an extra couple of minutes walking from the main arena (where all the music is!)
The music itself is brilliant and personally the BBC Radio 1 tent was my favourite with Bastille and Disclosure to name a few! Eminem on the last night was an incredible end to an incredible week followed by a further 6 hours of silent disco-ing into the next morning!
I was so over prepared with my packing but in the end, everything that I took came in handy - even the foil blanket because it got really cold at night and also sheltered my sleeping bag from the rain seeping in!
Overall, I would definitely recommend this festival to anyone, but just make sure you bring your wellies, a pac-a-mac, plenty of alcohol and a disposable camera and you will have the time of your life!
Lots of love,
Natalie xoxo
Here are a couple of pictures my friends and I took over the 5 days we were there.
(Silent Disco)
(Foals at the main stage)
(Before Foals came on stage)
(The foil blanket in use, also doubled as a great jacket potato costume!)
(Me, Diddy and Hannah at Clean Bandit)
(Haim were sick)
(The mud!)
(Me and Sophie on the Thursday night before the rain came!)
