Hey kids. Festival season well and truly started with a bang for me. Slam Dunk ruined me to the point where I’m still recovering… I need to recover quickly though as I have THREE day festivals this weekend. Someone send an IV drip to my house on Monday please. Also, if you’re wondering, I didn’t go in a mosh pit because we were too busy saving our perfect spots for the secret set that was Busted and trust me, it was SO worth it. 7-year-old Sophie didn’t know what to do with herself.

Okay so coming up in my diary this weekend, I have All Points East: Bring Me The Horizon, All Points East: Mumford and Sons and Camden Rocks: Deaf Havana. This post will be about APE but it’ll be a post combining the two days.

All Points East is a fairly new festival, only being in it’s second year, held in Victoria Park, London E3. It is a 10 day festival with 6 days of live music and 4 days of free events. The first weekend is “true” festival form of being 3 days long, whilst the second weekend is 3 standalone shows. The 4 days in the middle (Monday – Thursday) are known as In The Neighbourhood where the site is open from 10am until 9:30pm. Free activities include an outdoor cinema, live music, children’s theatre, yoga and a circus and are available to everyone, holding no age restrictions.

Okay so here goes. My top 10 picks for the two days are as follows:

1. Bring Me The Horizon – duh. I saw them at Alexandra Palace last year and oh my goodness, they know how to put on a show
2. Mumford & Sons – again, duh. They are hands down the best band I have ever seen in an outdoor venue and I will stand by this for my entire life. Unless someone else knocks them off top spot but I truly can’t see this happening any time soon
3. Nothing But Thieves – I know they had that little scandal a while back and I’m still not sure how I feel about them however I remember when they played during my uni’s fresher week and they could put on a good show
4. Scarlxrd – anyone remember Mazzi Maz the YouTuber (#Throwback I know)?! Turns out he’s a musician now and just came off supporting Bring Me on the American leg of their tour. Naturally, I have to check him out now… y’know for 15 year old me’s sake…
5. The Vaccines
6. Sam Fender – okay so this one’s a bit of a debate as he announced the other day that he’s on doctor’s orders to not perform (sad face) but he would have been on my list so it’s acceptable right?
7. Dermot Kennedy – he supported Nothing But Thieves at the aforementioned gig so it’d be good to see how far he’s come since as he was up-and-coming back then
8. Dizzee Rascal – it’s Dizzee, you can’t say no so get your passport and your bikini ladies
9. Pengshui
10. Dizzy

Follow me through the two days via our Instagram @burnthepagesblog as I’ll be updating as much as I can (depending on the amount of alcohol consumed)

Tickets available via their website: https://www.allpointseastfestival.com/tickets/

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