Longitude: opposite of Latitude or better known as a music
festival held in Marley Park every July. This year was my third year attending
longitude. The line-up this year was the best out of the past three years. The
main acts I was looking forward to seeing were Stormzy and The Weeknd. Then
other acts that I was looking forward to seeing were Dua Lipa, G. Eazy, Mac
Miller and Skepta. I’m going to break this post down into days.
Friday, 14th July, Day 1:
Longitude was quite easy to get to as our hotel had a
shuttle bus service that took us to Marley Park. On day one we arrived at half
two which wasn’t too bad a time as the gates opened at one. Longitude has
multiple check points upon entering, each one checking tickets, etc. Gate one –
no problem. Gate two – stuck in a line for twenty minutes. Gate three – knocked
over by people pushing, resulting in everyone running. Gate four – waiting for
twenty minutes to have my bag checked. Gate five – Waiting for twenty minutes,
barrier then knocked over resulting in the stewards not being able to hold
everyone back. Now this gate was the last gate that led in to the area to get
your weekend wristbands. As the stewards couldn’t control the amount of people getting
through there was just a sea of people all pushing to try get their wristbands.
Praise my boyfriend Dylan as he was the only thing that kept me upright, there
was no room for me to stand on my own two feet. It took us another 30 minutes
to get to the front to get our wristbands and that is with people pushing from
all sides. We probably looked like sardines in a can from above because there
was no room. When we were getting our wristbands put on the lady giving me my
wristband was crying from stress and there were men trying to reinforce the
counter as it was about to collapse. After being basically carried out of the
crowd to get into the concert it was no problem. I lost half my head of hair
and hurt my elbow bad but I survived. We got in at about half four. So, it took
two hours to get in.
Dua Lipa – The first act we went to see was Dua Lipa on the
main stage. Each act is on for 45 minutes so we somehow managed to get up to
the front to see her. Honestly, she is amazing live. We left just before the
end of hers to get to the next stage.
G-Eazy – We were supposed to be going to see Wiley but he
was delayed and I really wanted to see G-Eazy as well so we decided to leave
and head back to the main stage. Dylan genuinely thought that G-Eazy was black
and he wasn’t the only one as another girl came up to me laughing because she
thought the same thing.
After this we wandered around the Park and stopped into see
other acts on the Heineken Stage but didn’t have much time as we headed back to
the MainStage at seven.
Stormzy – We caught the end of Picture This but to be honest
I wasn’t too pushed about seeing them. We got to the midway railing for
Stormzy. We could have gotten further up but I wanted to be able to breathe so
we stayed where we were. As Stormzy was Fridays headliner he was on the stage
for an hour and a half.
Friday was the busiest day in terms of acts that I wanted to
see.
Saturday, 15th July, Day 2:
It was ten times easier to get in on the Saturday as they
had upped their stewards and barrier systems. It took us ten minutes’ tops to
get in. Once we got in we wandered around for a while. We went to the Dirty Old
Speakeasy to see some comedy acts and then found a photo booth and took photos.
Mac Miller – The first act of the day that we went to see
was Mac Miller on the main stage, one half of my favourite celebrity couple. He
sang (rapped) some of my favourite songs of his.
Skepta - We wandered around for another bit after him and
headed back to the main stage to see Skepta. Yet again we found a good space by
the middle barrier and choose to stay there. Skepta was a bit disappointing but
we will get over that.
The Weeknd – We stayed where we were after Skepta as The
Weeknd was coming on shortly after that. The Weeknd put on an amazing concert
and as he was headlining day two he had the same hour and a half as Stormzy had
the previous day.
Sunday, 16th July, Day 3:
There was no one we wanted to see on Day three but we like
to spend the Sunday wandering even more than before. We went to nearly every
stage and chilled. We ate lots of food. I found over €15 in coins at random
times during the day which funded most of my food. Mumford and sons was the
headline act on the Sunday so the crowd was slightly older than previous days.
We didn’t really pay much attention to Mumford and sons, leaving with half an
hour left in there set.
All in all, this year’s Longitude was the best by far.
Besides nearly dying the first day, it was an enjoyable experience. Looking
forward to going back for a fourth-time next year. But if they could maybe not
let all the fourteen year olds in that would be much appreciated.
Talk to you in the next post,
Xoxo, Amber.
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