So comes the time that Mandy and I leave the London and continue on our way across Europe. However, the last day, we ended up off with a bang by attending the BBC Radio 1 Hackney Weekend!
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| Intense tickets with our pictures on it so that we can't sell it. |
There was an amazing line-up of artists, great festival atmosphere and best of all, it was FREE! (Mandy: It was a painful process of refreshing the website to sign up for the free tickets for 40 minutes straight. Totally worth it.) I went with a few of my friends who also happened to get their hands on free tickets. Variety of music was there (Jack White, Calvin Harris, Will.i.am, Swedish House Mafia, etc). For the full line-up, check out http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/events/e9wmxj/performances.
Probably one of the best days in London I've had, we partied for a lot of the morning, sat on the grass and enjoyed the brief good weather and danced for the rest of the evening. The sets we watched in chronological order: Deadmau5, Annie Mac, Nero, Nicky Minaj, Calvin Harris, Swedish House Mafia, and finally Jay-Z. Jay-Z was headlining the Saturday show and absolutely killed it, bringing on surprise guests Rihanna, M.I.A and Kanye West. We left exhausted, but awestruck. The Hackney weekend is really getting me hyped up for Swedish House Mafia when we return to London. EXCITED!! Tomorrow we're off to catch a semi-early train to Amsterdam!
Mandy:
Unfortunately our plans to go to an after party did not happen. We were exhausted!! For some strange reason during the entire 10 hours we were at the festival I didn't not eat or use the washroom. Good because the washrooms were gross but probably bad for my body. I'll pretend it was an intense work out day. We wanted to take a before and after photo but were too disgusting for an after photo, haha. The journey back home was a bit miserable. A swarm of people all headed to the same train station trying to fit into one train AND it was raining pretty hard. Luckily we didn't catch a cold.
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| Before Photo |
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| Right after Deadmau5 |
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| During Annie Mac (best set of the day) |
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| Jay-Z to end the night |
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