Post Slam Dunk Post (EH!)

Hello All,

I hope all is well and the bank holidays haven't killed you off!

FINALLY we went to Leeds to a festival called Slam Dunk  and it was a brilliant weekend. It was full of my babes, bands and Ben Barlow! Now with the biggest festival blues I'm writing about the best weekend in ages. By no means does my opinion of the festival and Leeds and what we done whilst there take into account how anyone else feels about it but as with anything on here I'm entitled to my opinion and this is mine, do however if you are into that sort of music check it out as festival as it was lovely and in such a nice location and easy to get to but here is my story of Slam Dunk Festival 2015.

We arrived in Leeds on the Friday afternoon full of amaretto and the urge to party party party. After by far the quietest train journey I have ever been on but me awkwardly shouting down the phone KITTY KITTY KITTY KITTY KITTY didn't help the quiet journey what so ever. We got lost after getting of the train and ended up paying far too much money for such a short taxi journey to our hotel. Our hotel was lovely, it was the Jury's Inn in Leeds City Centre, it was on Brewery's Wharf. It seemed far too posh for three ladies from Middlesbrough but it was spacious and had beds and to be totally honest that's all we needed from a hotel room. As normal after arriving the search for a meal comes in and we didn't have the foggiest clue where in Leeds we where. After a short walk and a couple of moans about my feet hurting me and my lovely friend Hannah found a Nandos and Burger King and food was finally eaten. Nothing exciting about our food choice as we didn't have much time and we needed to get changed for the nights antics.

 Once we fought over the beds, got changed, sorted out our make up and drank as much drink as we could before leaving the hotel we were off in search of the other. The other two were staying pretty central in Leeds in a travel lodge which was pretty nice. Friday mostly consisted of waiting in a que for either drinks, to go in the club or toilet. We went to the student union of Leeds Beckett which had a pre party called F.U.E.L on. It played all my favourite songs and had such a nice atmosphere from what i can recall but with it being the pre party for slam dunk it was massively over busy and it took us ages to get in and ages to que for drinks however it was an excellent night and a class pre party for what was to come on the Saturday.

Saturday morning however was not so fun, I awoke with a massive headache and a hangover that even the thought of a Yates all day breakfast couldn't cure but with slam dunk being that day I needed to recover from fast. We went in search of breakfast and orange juice but whilst deciding what to eat I decided I couldn't hack and went in search of the others to go and meet my fate of the day ahead. After some paracetamol and a burger I was fighting fit for the busy day of music ahead. The first band on our list was Bear Tooth, which is (after googling because I couldn't define them) a metal core band from the USA. I had never really heard of them and still don't rate them, they were good just not my cup of tea. We had some cocktails whilst watching Bear Tooth to top up this mornings hangover and last nights intake, they were mostly juice so the juice helped me cure the hangover. The second band we went to see were the one I most excited about seeing which was a British Pop Punk band called Neck Deep, they were fantastic and everything I expected. They made my weekend and I had the pleasure of meeting the vocalist due to an amazing spot from my friend who spotted him sneaking off into the crowd.

The next few bands we saw were Don Broco, Lower Than Atlantis and Taking Back Sunday which I had seen them all separately before but where amazing as always. Taking Back Sunday we only caught the last half of the set but they were amazing and brought back so many 16-18 year old me memories. The last band of the day was You Me At Six who mostly played a really old album called Take Off Your Colours. They always play well and always put on a good show but due to playing this album the set was incredible. A lot the songs I listened to through my teenage years and brought back a summer of 2009 feeling and it was amazing to think how old the album is. They played some songs they never play and some I haven't heard for years and they played with such ease. After the day we went to the after party which was at an arena round the corner from the venue. It was cold in the Arena and the drinks prices were so so high but they played good music and we hung out with friends from back home, so really what more could you want from an after party?!?

The Sunday mostly consisted of dying from a two day hangover and travelling back home and catching up a lot of lost sleep as not much sleep was consumed over the weekend. The train journey back was fast and mostly quiet as me and the girls were hungover and just wanted to listen to music. HOWEVER Leeds was an amazing weekend and I cannot wait to go back next year and do it all again but for now I have wait until V Festival in August to get my festival feeling back! here are some photos from Leeds which sum up the weekend but...
until next time stay safe and thank you for reading my update
all my love bee xo