Wildlife Festival

After booking my ticket way back in January, my first festival of the summer has finally arrived! It's Wildlife weekend in Brighton!

I think Brighton is probably one of my favourite towns in England. I like the vibe down here, the coastline, the food, live music and the typical English seaside town feel it has.

This is the inaugural Wildlife festival, co-curated by Rudimental and Disclosure. I feel proud and inspired by these two bands. Putting on their first festival. It’s really cool.

I arrive to Brighton on Friday lunchtime and cruise around the to find my hostel, some lunch and a pub to watch the tennis in. My hostel is right on the beachfront and near the pier. I have 2 groups of people in my dorm, 4 lads from Birmingham and 3 people from Belgium. The lads are coming to Wildlife as well, but the group from Belgium and going to a Skinhead reunion… I still have no idea what they were doing that weekend.

As the festival didn’t begin until 2pm both days, I had the mornings to explore Brighton and take a walk along the beach front, before catching the festival bus to Brighton Airport – where Wildlife is taking place. They’ve actually shut the airport for the weekend.

Bands on Sat
Mark Ronson – Uptown Funk
George Erza – Budapest
Rudimental – see soundtrack

Bands on Sun
Years and years – King
Disclosure – I have no idea

NB: there were a lot more bands then this, but this is who I wanted to see

I was going mainly for Rudimental, so everyone else was a bonus really. Wildlife was pretty awesome. It was really colourful, there were huge tents set up for different acts, then the main stage, a nightclub style area (a dance floor that played music you’d hear in a nightclub), a rides area, loads of food stalls, drink stalls, merchandise, and lots of toilets.

Food stalls
I couldn’t get over how good the food was here; even the typical burgers and pizzas were of good quality. There was Indian, Italian, a bacon, stand, Mexican, Chinese, stir-fry, doughnuts, toasties, a cake stall (!!!!), fish and chips, and so on. Both days I had chicken pad-Thai from the same stand. It was just so good. I also had a little afternoon tea one day and enjoyed a slice of cake chocolate cake and cuppa.

On the Sunday I met Yolanda and her house and walked down to the festival with her friends. I also met up with someone from TMP who joined us, sitting in front of the stage with the music.

The Sunday crowd were a lot more chilled out and relaxed and opposed to the Saturday crowd. It was also extremely windy and cold on the Saturday.

The only thing that really annoyed me was that you had to buy the _7 programme to find out who was playing when. There wasn’t any other way. It just seemed like a rip off. Otherwise, Wildlife was fabulous! And I highly recommend it to anyone


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