Parklife!!

Anyone who lives in Manchester (and several others from other reaches of the UK) knows about Parklife.

Originally a festival for the students of Manchester and hosted in everyones favourite park, Platt Fields, it has grown in popularity, commanding bigger acts and bigger stages. Platts Fields couldn't contain it (and was almost destroyed last year after thousands of wellies turned it into a mudbath) and so the aforemention festival moved to Heaton Park in North Manchester.

The weather decided to perk up for the occasion, my friends from Surrey made the ardous three hour journey squished together in a single car and after an excitable first night in my new flat, we headed off to Parklife - the bonus of my new flat is I am less that 5 minutes from the nearest tram!

Before the carnage began!

We arrived sweltering in the midday heat after several hours (an accident on the tram line has caused serious chaos for all festival goers) and were greeted by a queue that stretched as far as the eye can see. Consider the gates had been open for well over 5 hours, we were not best pleased.

 

Several of our party in the words of Simon Pegg, went 'the pub to wait for this all to blow over' and in doing so, discovered an entrance on the other side barely being used by anyone. We got into the festival and well, the rest is a bit of a blur! 

 Suffice to say, the music was good, the company excellent and I can't wait do it all over again next year!