My first day event with friends!

Future Music Festival

We got there around 4pm. I decided earlier to wear the traditional Indian wedding outfit for today, since.. well since I haven’t worn it since India.

With friends. Random shouts of 'Aladdin' or 'Slumdog Millionaire' were thrown at me, as well as about 30 people asking for photos with me.

I didn’t know any bands. I really haven’t heard much of NERD or the Basement Jaxx songs.. I just wanted to dance.  There were about 8 or so areas you could dance in, which was a ridiculous good value for money. I wish I got here earlier to make the most of it.

Attacked by a beer can // Silent Disco Tent
First we lined up for Silent Disco. Someone threw a can of beer at me from behind but it hit the guy in front of us. That was cold. As a terrorist, i was offended. I sympathised with the guy whom the can hit, and he starts talking to us. His name was Parra. We all go inside, and everyone is given a set of radio headphones. Inside two DJ’s are playing, and you can switch between each radio whenever you please. This was good because if I got sick of one song, I could just switch the channel and dance with the other half of the crowd. When you took the headphones off, all you could hear were the cheers of the crowd screaming or singing along, but no music. It was awesome.  The whole time we were in there, Parra was chatting up our female buddy, so they weren’t really dancing. She nicknamed him Parasite after losing him.

Sublime Room
We trodded on to see NERD, but we were way way out at the back, so we heard nothing, so we went to sublime. Sublime was only ok.. the area wasn’t entirely packed, the music wasn’t energetic enough, and there were way more smokers than usual compared to the other places we got in (I cant remember who was playing). We lasted 30 minutes.

Silent Disco round 2
We went back into Silent Disco for round 2 (love this place) then went to see Basement Jaxx.. which I thought was average..again, I didnt know their songs and I really couldn’t dance to their pieces, but my friends seemed to like it. Would’ve preferred some dance music, or at least be in the mosh pit! After that it was over.

Dirty dust
All the dancing on the grass inevitably kicked up tonnes of dust and microsopic horse crap. Everyone got covered in a layer of dust. We went to the toilets and we looked like we just came out of a coal mine. Wiped so much crap off our sweaty skins.

Basement Jaxx
Squeezed our way near the front , but I didn’t really enjoy the act. I was still craving Silent Disco.

Coda
Waiting for the bus was entertaining. Everytime a bus didnt stop for us, the crowd went ‘awwwwhh!!’, then in between we would chant to the tune of “wheres your head at” – ‘wheres the bus at.. at at at.. wheres the bus at, wheres the bus at!!’.

I want to go again.