Rainbow Unitard - Minga London
Sequin bumbag - Skinnydip London
Lace kimono - Primark
Light up trainers - Ebay
Feather/pompom headdress - Made by me
Layered Necklace - Primark
Pompom ring - New Look
Glitter - Ebay
Floral face tattoo - Claire's accessories
I searched high and low for a matching untitard for Mia but couldn't find one so we made do with a tie dye swimming costume and bright tutu to give her a 80s look. She also wore her light up trainers and sequin bumbag. She wore a Pompom headband and fairy wings, what kid doesn't want to be a fairy! She wasn't as keen to wear lots of glitter after the first day as she didn't like it when she had to take it off, so I kept it subtle with the face tattoo that matched mine and Alice's.
Rainbow swimsuit - Tammy girl
Tutu - Claire's accessories
Light up trainers - Ebay
Fairy wings - Claire's accessories
Sequin bumbag - Next
Pompom headband - Primark
Floral face tattoo - Claire's accessories
As we were actually for ready for a reasonable time we decided to head to the arena earlier to go to 'Bump' the rollerskating disco rink. I thought it was amazing they had a popup rink as I've never seen this at a festival before and it's such a great idea, especially for something to do with kids. I love rollerskating anyway so I was excited to go on, Alice has never really skated so she decided to sit it out after dragging herself around the rink once holding on to side! Mia and I had a good skate around, and it was really fun. It was £5 for a skate for as long as you want, £7 for an all day wristband or £12 for the weekend and as it included skate hire I thought it was quite reasonable. We just went for an all day band as Alice didn't want to skate much.
The first band we watched were 'Blood Youth' at The Giant Squid stage, they were one of the heavier bands of the weekend and although I'd only recently listened to them I really enjoyed the set. They have a similar sound to 'Beartooth' a band I really like, so I'll definitely be listing to them more and would like to check them out live again. We then headed over to The Quarry for 'Lucy Spraggan' the tent was so busy with people spilling out that we couldn't even get in, so we just listened from the outside. After that it was 'Sundara Karma' again it was really busy so we couldn't see much but did manage to get into the tent. They're a band I've really got into over the last couple of months but it was the first time seeing them, they were really good live. They have such a fun summery sound and had the crowd singing along. I can't wait to see them again next week at Leeds festival. There was also a paint fight going on at the Y Not sign during the day. We didn't fancy getting involved as we didn't want to ruin our outfits or get covered in paint, but I managed to get a snap where you can kind of see the coloured paints/powder in the air, it did look really pretty from afar, and less messy!
We then headed over to the main stage for 'Ratboy' I've seen him a couple of times and loved his set so was really looking forward to seeing him again. He has a great energy running around the stage, he hasn't released many eps yet so I didn't know too many of the tracks but the ones he has got a really great reaction with people singing along. I can't wait for him to release his album which I'm hoping will be in the very near future.
We then whizzed back over to The Quarry for 'The Sherlocks'. A lot of the bands started as other bands ended so we had to do a lot of running about from stage to stage. As expected the crowd was huge so we didn't have a chance of getting in the tent so we just listened from the outside. I've really liked them since last year and have seen them quite a few times. They always play a great set and the crowd really gets going jumping around. Again I'm awaiting their debut album with baited breath and hope it will be coming very soon. I'm gonna try and catch them again at Leeds if there's no clashes but will also be going to their headline show in Nottingham in September, so hope there's some new tracks released for then.
Then it was another run back to the main stage for 'Circa Waves' I always love these guys live, their songs are so summery and always get a great singalong. The sun was even out, setting a great scene for our band of the day, well of the weekend 'Catfish and the Bottlemen'. They are literally one of my favourite bands and I always love their live sets. Their songs are amazing and the crowd goes mad for them. It's always such a great atmosphere and everyone just seems to be enjoying themself. With a mix of tracks from the debut and second album it was a great setlist and a huge highlight of the weekend. Mia even tried to have a singalong and a dance, I was glad she enjoyed them as I might've had to disown her if she didn't!
After that we should've gone to see 'Moose Blood' but we are stupid and totally forgot which we were absolutely gutted about when we realised our mistake, fail!! So we ended up finishing the days bands with 'Noel Gallagher's high flying birds'. I have seen Noel a couple of times and sometimes got bored with the set at times, but as it was a shorter set it was actually really good. He played a good mix of his own tracks aswell as Oasis tracks. Obviously the Oasis songs did get the crowd going a lot more with massive singalongs, but the crowd were singing along throughout and I did really enjoy the set. I have seen Oasis before at Heaton park years ago and nothing could top that but it was nice to hear the classic tracks live and they still sounded great!
We had waited all day to light up our trainers as we all had them on, but just our luck by the time we went to turn them on our batteries had run down and only Mia's worked. So we had to get her to dance about and show off her lights in the crowd. We tried to go back to the rollerskating rink as we had only skated once that day but they said it was too late for children to go on, Mia was gutted but her sad little face made them feel sorry for us and they gave us a free skate for the next day so it all ended well.
We then headed over to one of the shisha cafes for a sit down and ended up playing scrabble, so rock n roll! We were near the Quarry where 'Mike Skinner's' dj set had been moved to so we could hear that, we had a little wander over after but it was so busy and we had a very tired little 10 year old so we headed back to camp and rested our heads ready for the final day!
Day three of the festival will be up shortly!
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