Reading Festival! Sunday

Sunday was the last and most eventful day at the festival and one of my favourite bands 'The Kooks' were playing so I was SO excited :)

Sunday was supposed to start off with watching 'Emily's Army' (just because my name is Emily too) but instead we got nachos for breakfast (healthy right?) and watched the end of 'Flyt' and the start of 'The Royal Concept'.

I think it was about half one when I went on twitter and found that The Kooks were going to be at the signing tent so off we went to a merch stall and got ourselves a 'Down' T-Shirt and waited in the line for The Kooks. I was so excited I was shaking. When we got there we weren't allowed to take photos and we were only allowed to take one thing to sign which sucked, but, we could take photos as long as we weren't on the platform they were sat on so I waited till the end and tried to take a photo of them all as they left. Unfortunately they decided to stand up and leave at different times but I don't care I still got a photo of them up close :) They signed my T-Shirt and it is now my favourite thing in my wardrobe (I'm not going to wear it don't worry). 

After all that excitement we watched the end of Jungle's set which ended nicely I think with sounds of the jungle.

Then we went to the Alternative stage to watch Sean Walsh but ended up watching Paul McCaffrey too who was funnier than I thought he would be. Sean Walsh's set turned a nice way when everyone decided to clap along with him.

At 4:30 we went and watch Maverick Sabre on a whim and found he was really good.

The plan was to stay at that tent now until The Kooks started so we watch Schoolboy Q which I kinda liked even though I'm not really into that sort of music.

6:30 was the time The Kooks started playing so I got into the centre of the crowd as soon as I could. I don't really like crowds but I had decided I would cope so I could see them. However, the crowd that was forming for them was sooo big it was out of the tent and people kept pushing so I decided to get out and ended up watching from the outside quite away back so I barely heard them. There were people climbing up the tent posts and on the sign for the tent so I was glad I got out to be honest. But it doesn't matter that I didn't see them properly because I've got tickets for them when they play in November (I'm so excited).

The Sunshine Underground started playing in the Festival Republic tent so we went and watched them and had a good dance. 

Then it was time for The 1975 which we watched from outside the tent but they were still fabulous. They played all my favourites, 'The City', 'M.O.N.E.Y' and 'Chocolate'.

We finished the night sat watching Blink-182 who I don't think we as good live but we still had a good time singing along to 'I Miss You', 'Feeling This' and 'What's My Age Again?'.

Reading Festival! Saturday

Saturday was the second day of my Reading Festival adventure and turned out to be a lot busier than the Friday (in a very good way).

The first act of the day we went to see was The Hell. As you can tell it wasn't really a 'pop' band but I actually really like their music. I also like them as a band because they are so over the top with their the way they are and to be totally honest it makes me laugh. The sort of over the top where they bring a blow up dinosaur to their set and when someone popped it on accident and they demanded that security got them removed (they guy didn't actually get thrown out).
Then it was off for a calmer band, American Authors. To be totally honest we only went because I love the song 'Best Day Of My Life' but I have to admit I am falling for their other songs too. They finished their set with that song and it was one of the best feelings where a tent is filled with people sing the same words in harmony to each other.
At 15:05 it was time to excitably trot over to the main stage where I stood in awe of the whole of Peace's set (while getting continually knocked by people going into and out of the crowd). I think this had to be my second favourite performance of the day.
Back over at the Festival Republic tent it was time for Wolf Alice who blew me away to be honest. I somehow managed to get really close to stage and all my thoughts were taken away by the magic they produce live.
17:25 was the time that Foster The People started although I don't think we ended up watching most of the set as we were eating I think.
Then it was time for my favourite act of the day, Chvrches. I saw them live last year too which was magical but this year all I did was dance and sing my socks off to every song and I couldn't have asked for a better live performance by them.
Chvrches were followed up by Bombay Bicycle Club which was the point where some girl wiped loads of glow in the dark paint on my face. The music was great and I sat outside the tent watching them play.
To finish the night we stood at the back of the crowd watching the Arctic Monkeys (which was very far back). The crowd for the Arctic Monkeys filled the entire space in front of the main stage which was amazing. I was stood on the very edge of the crowd with a hot chocolate. Lush.

Reading Festival! Friday

This weeks post are going to be short and sweet since I am going to be busy but I thought I would just do a roundup of the artists I saw at Reading etc :)

Friday was the first day of the festival but it took us ages to get in for some unknown reason so by the time we got in we had missed most of Gerard Ways set on the NME/BBC Radio 1 stage. From what I saw he was still fab.

 We then walked over to the Festival Republic Stage to see Hudson Taylor and The Districts who I hadn't heard of before but turned out to be pretty good. T

Then we went off to have a good look around the shops since there was no one we wanted to see and I ended up getting some really nice silver rings while Deaf Havana played on the main stage.

 At 16:25 it was time to head over to watch Twin Atlantic (amazing as always) who belted out the favourites from the last and new album like Crash Land, Heart and Soul and Free. 

After that we settled down to watch Catfish and the Bottlemen with tea while a man was getting naked in the tent because the band dared him to. We also stayed to watch King Charles and his beautiful hair perform. 

We then ran over to the main stage to watch the beautiful Vampire Weekend play some of their most well known songs like Contra, Diane Young and (my favourite) Step. 

After moving out of the way and taking shelter by the disabled platform we watched Paramore. As they were playing the system went down so there was no sound but they got the mic working so Hayley song a song and accompanied by the audience and it ended perfectly with the sound slowly coming back as they finished the song. Unfortunately we didn't see the end of the set (or them play Ain't It Fun) because it was time for Metronomy! Their stage was a pretty pink cloud and the audience was serenaded with their electronic delights. After such a great performance it was back over to the Festival Republic Stage to watch the end of the Palma Violets set.

I am so sorry I haven't included any photos but they were all really bad so I'd best not.

Also next week I shall have normal posts to put up (they won't be holiday diaries or whatever) 

I hope you enjoyed the recount of my Friday at Reading, 

em,

Good Luck!

Hey guys! 

Sorry for not posting over the past few days like normal but I have been busy finishing off the tidying I have to do in my bedroom and seeing my friends and getting ready for Reading Festival tomorrow and trying to lock up my worries about results day in the back of my mind (which I have realised was not the best idea afterall). I will start posting again next week as normal when I get back from Reading but in this post I just want to say good luck to everyone receiving their GCSE results tomorrow.

I know I could say don't worry but it is inevitable that most of you will like I am now but my advice is to talk to someone about your worries because it will make you feel a lot better (even if it is just your cat or something) and to try and keep yourself busy tonight and don't watch the news! The day before the A-Level result were given out the news was going on about how grades have dropped which worried me even though I'm not doing them so it's a good idea to not listen or watch the news so you don't end up fretting even more, regardless of what they say.

So good luck! And I shall write more next week :)

em, 

Summer Playlist

What is summer without a good summer playlist? All of those songs which remind you of the summer when they are played after the summer is over? I love it when I remember my summer through the songs that I played and heard constantly, but, for me, my summer is normally defined by the music I see and hear at Reading Festival. In case you don't already know, Reading hasn't happened yet and I have found some songs that have really implanted themselves in my head. I think what I need for the songs to make it to my summer playlist is the fact that they sound cheerful, they are danceable (it doesn't matter if you can dance or not) and that you can sing them as it makes its fun. They aren't really new songs but I haven't really listened to them before so they are kind of new to me:

• Animal - Miike Snow
• Let Me In - Grouplove 
• Entertainment - Phoenix 
• Little Secrets - Passion Pit
• Anna Sun - Walk The Moon
• All I Know - Fenech-Soler
• Live Those Days Tonight - Friendly Fires
• Flakes - Mystery Jets
• We Are The People - Empire Of The Sun

If you check out my Soundcloud, you can listen to most of these songs on a playlist I have made (Summer Playlist '14)

em,