Hey Guys! I have a bit of a different post for you today. This weekend I went up to Hertfordshire with Jack, my sister Emma and her fiancée Dan for Slamdunk Festival! For those of you who might not have heard of it, it's basically a one day festival - loads of different stages with all sorts of different bands but mainly on the more rock/alternative side! This year it was held in a couple of places up North and South (which I went to) was on Sunday. By the way excuse the pictures in this post - I was too afraid to take my proper camera to a heavy music festival haha! Easily to say it was one of the best days ever!
For those of you who know who The All American Rejects are, they were the headline band along with Kids In Glass Houses. However I also got a private show with the All American Rejects - can you believe it?! I couldn't! How it happened is the four of us walked over to the AAR Merch stand and found Tyson (the lead singer) stood there writing a note - when he was done we read it and it said 'first 5 people to write your names down get a private show at 4pm' needless to say the four of us quickly wrote our names down and couldn't believe our luck that we were there at just the right time!
We were so excited waiting! We had about an hour and half to wait and when it got to 3:45 we went back to the Merch stand to wait. Us and two other girls showed up and waited together for a bit before we were picked up by someone who took us into the building. We were lead around and then walked into a small classroom (the festival was held at a university) and sure enough, Tyson and Nick were sat inside waiting for us. I couldn't believe it! Tyson offered all of us a Monster and we pulled up some chairs and sat in front of them. We had a quick chat and then they started by playing us an acoustic version of Dirty Little Secret and Tyson got us to sing along with him - it was such a surreal experience! Then he played I For You which is one of my favourites, can't quite believe it happened still! After that we had another chat and got them to sign our Kids In The Street masks, and then we had to leave as they were having an interview and getting ready for their show later on! I felt like such a fan-girl and got a bit shy but it was still amazing!
So, my first festival experience was definitely one to remember!! The rest of the day was amazing as well, I managed to Watch Mallory Knox play, as well as Motion City Soundtrack, We Are the In Crowd and All American Rejects at their actual show. I'm a bit disappointed I didn't get to see Kids In Glass Houses perform but they were on at the same time as AAR! I also took a video of my private show with AAR over on my instagram @laurennnhobbs or there is the proper video and interview over on JagerUK's Youtube (link), if you're interested! Sorry for the text heavy post guys and i'll be back with some fashion posts tomorrow!
Lauren x
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