5 Reasons to go to Slam Dunk Festival

Slam Dunk is a music festival which has taken places every year for the past 10 years. It takes place on the bank holiday weekend in May and is spread across three different places across the UK. (North, South and Midlands). I have been going since 2014 and I have never been disappointed. If you like good music, beer and people watching, then this is definitely the event for you.

5 reason to go to Slam Dunk;

• Good Music
  • My highlights this year were definitely Moose Blood (of course) and Mallory Knox. There are so many bands who attend there, you will never be short of music to listen to. Even going to see bands you don’t know could end up in a love for them! I never really listened to Of Mice and Men but as they were headlining, I decided to go and see them and I thoroughly enjoyed them!

•  Friends
  • What can be better than going to an event where all your friends are going? Everybody is in a good mood and excited and you all just have such a good time. There isn’t really that much more explanation needed here.
• People Watching
  • Obviously when you go somewhere where lots of people are there are going to be people who are dressed in the most peculiar way. But this makes a great people watching opportunity!

• Beer
  • Not much explanation needed here either. Beer is good 
• Fun
  • Overall, it is a fun day out and that is what is important. I can guarantee Slam Dunk will be one of your favourite weekends of the year.

Lower Than Atlantis + Moose Blood 8/12/15

If you know what it is like to see your favourite band live for the first time then you know exactly how I felt when I watched Moose Blood,  one of Lower Than Atlantis’ support acts, on Tuesday at Leeds Beckett Student Union.

I am a massive fan of LTA anyway, and when I found out they were going to bring Moose Blood along on their tour, I knew I couldn’t miss out on this.

Very nonchalantly, Moose Blood walk on stage and banged out ‘Bukowski’ (the first song I ever heard of theirs) to get the audience going. Of course, everyone immediately started to sing.

They made their way through a majority of their album, ‘I’ll Keep You In Mind, From Time to Time.’ (Cracking album). Although, I was disappointed that they didn’t play ‘Anyway’, which is my favourite song on there at the moment. However, it does always change, so I was more than happy with their set.

Man, I love Moose Blood.

As does my friend, Matt, who tried to (and still is) convince us that he cried 10 times during their set. Okay Matt, okay.

Once Moose Blood, was  complete, a big white sheet was placed in front of the stage, blocking the audiences view of what was going on behind that sheet.

LTA came on with ‘Get Over It’, their new song which Radio 1 are all over. And of course, the sheet came down and everyone was pumped.

I was a big fan of the diversity of the songs that they played, including Happy Birthday for Dec. The songs ranged from ‘World Record’ to ‘Criminal’. At one point, Mike Duce and his acoustic guitar were the only ones on stage and he did an acoustic version of ‘Deadliest Catch’ from their 2011 album, ‘World Record’. In the classic Mike Duce manner whilst playing guitar ‘solo’ he goes; “this bits boring, lets have another verse” and skips it so we can all start singing again. Once again, Man, I love Mike Duce.

All in all, it was another fantastic show. Every time I have seen LTA I have never been disappointed and I am always left wanting more.

Photo Credit to: Matt Jones

Moose Blood – Matt Jones

Lower Than Atlantis – Matt Jones

Don Broco – Plug, Sheffield 4/12/15

This was BY FAR the rowdiest Don Broco gig I have ever been to (and I’ve been to a lot)! The push up pits were bigger, songs louder and crowd a whole lot sweatier.

I wasn’t there for the majority of the support acts but what I saw of Coasts I really enjoyed and will definitely be downloading ‘Oceans’, which we all recognised. Where we had heard it I couldn’t tell you.

The atmosphere in Plug was incredible, everyone was excited to see whether Rob Damiani will be wearing his classic polo neck. (He wasn’t) (Sigh).

Whilst we were waiting, the guy behind me was talking to his friends about all my favourite bands (including Neck Deep) AND he was wearing a Moose Blood top. I highly considered turning around and befriending him as I found him so cool.

When Don Broco came on the lighting made them into silhouettes, which I thought was a nice touch and I was a massive fan of.

Something that I’ve never witnessed at a gig before (or ever in real life actually) was that a couple went on stage and got engaged! It was super romantic and I’m pretty sure they’ll remember that moment with fond memories. (Even if the fond memory was hugging Rob Damiani)

Playing songs from ‘Superlove’ to ‘Thug Workout’ (my personal favourite), Don Broco smashed every song as though it was their last. I didn’t expect anything less. And I won’t expect anything less when I see them next week at Brixton.

Until then Don Broco…

Photo Credit to Amie Blair. Check out her blog, excellent read! amielouiseblair.blogspot.com 

Photo Credit to Sam Morris. Fab picture.

Photo Credit To Amie’s Snapchat

Photo Credit to Amie’s Snapchat

 

Photo Credit to Sam