Mourning Bestival 2014

I LOVE a festival and about this time every year I'm usually chatting everyone's ears off about BESTIVAL which takes place on the Isle of Wight (where I grew up) the first weekend of September. However, this year I am NOT GOING. Booooooo!! 

So in order to make myself feel better I thought I'd compile a list of my top 10 festival moments to remind myself of the good times :)

My 10 best festival moments (not in order)

1. Bestival 2013. Campsite singsong. When else is it appropriate to sing songs loudly (and badly) when no one else is. We thought we were the next big thing. 

2. IOW festival 2008. Finger puppets and gazebo. With a group of school friends and just after our first year away at Uni. Reunited. 

3. Bestival 2008(?). The muddy one. Cage against the elephant coming within 2cm of my face during the muddiest set ever and the conga in the mud. Robin hill took years to recover from that year.

4. Bestival 2013. Disclosure. Nuff said. Can't remember most of it, but it was unreal and far far superior to Fat Boy Slim's main stage headline set. 

5. IOW Festival 2008. Realising I enjoyed hip hop watching NERD! And Pharrell ;) pre Happy. 

6. Bestival 2006(?). Bestival-bumblebee fancy dress and none of us making it to the evening!! We were loving the catwalk though. My second ever Bestival and all of us from school went in! Monday morning was not a good time for us. 

7. Bestival 2012. The emotions of Emile Sande with Harriet! And Florence :) our 'treat' after a horrid summer. I'd not even finished my dissertation which was due the following week. Friday was a massive blow out!

Struggling the next day with some penguins.

8. Bestival 2011. Introducing my little brother to Solace then seeing him on a 'date' there two years later!! He was about 11/12 at the time :) such a good sister I took him for free tea and cake. Everyone should make the trip to Solace. Worth the climb. 

9. Bestival 2012. Jaguar skills in onesies with my brother and sister. What is now a 'siblings assemble' tradition. We've missed Samantha the past few though! 

10. IOW festival 2013. The Killers. Awesomeness. Unbelievable set, I peaked way too early due to sinking a bottle of wine pre 12pm but managed to make it to the end. 

And my top festival moment of 2014.... 

Fan girling throughout the whole of Fallout Boy at IOW!! Took me back to school days ... dance dance is a classic. 

So that's me. No Bestival this year so I'm missing clean bandit, disclosure, outkast, Annie Mac presents, Chic and just about everyone else that is awesome! Well now I just feel worse. If you're going enjoy it, and have a gin for me

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