LIMF 2017

Liverpool International Music Festival 2017

LIMF weekend at Sefton Park - Europe's biggest free music festival! I went today the last day it was on, it started on Thursday night at the Palm House. Big names again this year for the line up with Gorgon City, Corinne Bailey Rae, Jax Jones, Becky Hill, So Solid Crew, Naughty Boy, Cast, JP Cooper, Kate Nash & many more! 

The weather wasn't great today, I did want to go yesterday & the line up was better - it was still good though. I went to see Becky Hill & JP Cooper before it started raining. Didn't get there till 4 with my mum.

As we were walking to the central stage we caught the end of Jessie Reyez who was really good & definitely someone to look out for in the next year.

Becky Hill

Can't say I was a fan of Becky Hill when she was on the first serious of The Voice but she's actually really good & like the stuff she's come out with. A bit awkward when she asks "Are you alright Liverpool looking a bit stationary & quiet."

They've got a new "VIP area" this year which I think is £50 for a wrist band so you can be closer & you can go to different events that you need to get tickets for. 

JP Cooper

JP Cooper was also really good but we left as he was starting his last song as it started to rain & I decided to take my umbrella out my bag as I didn't think it was going to!

Corinne Bailey Rae & Cast were the last 2 acts on closing the festival which we would've stayed for if it didn't rain. LIMF happened to be on the worst weekend this year, every other weekend the weather has been so nice & sunny! It was still good though, hopefully the weather is good next year when it's back with even bigger & better artists!

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LIMF 2016

Liverpool International Music Festival 2016

Sefton Park - The Wombats

This weekend was Europe's biggest free music event LIMF - Liverpool International Music Festival. It's on a lot earlier than it usually is as the past couple of years it's been August bank holiday around my birthday. I didn't even realise it was on till this weekend! I don't think it was advertised that well, even though there was hundreds of people there this weekend I think there could've been a lot more. I think more people would have went if it was on the usual August bank holiday weekend.

I went today after work to see The Wombats who happen to be from Liverpool! I've been wanting to see them for years but never got the chance so of course I had to go see them in my home town for free! I wasn't going to miss this opportunity. I nearly ended up going to see them on my own but went with my mum. I could tell she wasn't enjoying it especially with people smoking around us but she said she wanted to come with me to experience it.

They were so good & could tell they were loving it as well being back home when they haven't performed here for a while. They were on 7:15-8pm played a 45 minute set with all the hits that everyone knows, Kill the Director (apparently this about my favourite film The Holiday. it's no Bridget Jones?), Tokyo, Greek Tragedy, Let's Dance to Joy Division etc & even a song from their new album called Emoticons. They really need to come back with some new music. They are so underrated!

Amazing atmosphere as always. The line up just gets better & better every year. They had Sigma last night.  Ms Dynamite, Wretch 32, WSTRN & loads of other big acts on yesterday as well as loads of great up & coming acts. I wanted to go for the day yesterday but had no-one to go with the weather was so nice as well! Today they had Lianne La Havas (on before The Wombats who I wanted to see), Anne-Marie, Kwabs etc. Looking forward to see who they have next year!

Real Leather Jacket - Zara

Necklace - New Look

Dress - Topshop

Leather Boots - Zara

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Photos taken with my Samsung Galaxy S5 phone.

A stroll in the park

Me & Kelly decided to walk to Sefton Park, which took around 45 - an hour (I'm not sure we forget to check the time when we left Kelly's) & try out the Liverpool CityBike hire. It's like the one they have in London which started in May this year. You register online & say how long you want to rent the bike for with different tariffs, day, week & annual memberships. You create an account where you then get given a membership number & pin. There are bike stations dotted around the city with a machine for you to enter your membership number & pin then you select a bike & off you go for the time you you chose to hire it.

Kelly created an account, when we got to the park we picked up our bikes to hire for an hour & cycled around.

Top - Miss Selfridge

Belt - Vintage Mum's

Shorts - Lee, Mum's vintage

Nikes Free Run+ - Florida Nike outlet

Backpack - Roxy Kelly's

We just cycled around the whole park which was really fun! I'd never been round the whole park & haven't been since last year when I went to LIMF festival but didn't really explore just stayed by the stage.

Not too sure what this, the writing on the on it made no sense whatsoever

That's cupid on the top!

The palm house! Which is a Victorian glasshouse that has plants from around the world. It's really nice inside I had my year 11 prom in there.

Sefton Park is such a lovely park with a lake in the middle of it that has ducks, & swans. It has a kids play area, tennis courts, bowls, fountains, ice cream parlours. It's really nice if I lived closer I would probably go every with Frodo & go for a run but it's not close to my house since it takes so long to walk & like 15 minutes in the car.

We road down to Lark Lane which is famous for all the different cafes, pubs & restaurants which is a favourite for students as a cheaper alternative to town but I've never actually been her before! We also found out that city bikes are not for the pavement at all & not good for riding up hill either & definitely are for the road in the city! We were too scared to ride on the road though.

I think this bike hire scheme is a really good idea especially to help with pollution & traffic within cities. It's good for people who may not be able to afford a bike or don't have somewhere to put it if they lived in like a flat or apartment. It's also good for people who park & then get the train into town instead of getting the train they could ride a bike which would work out much cheaper for them & the bikes have a lock attached to it so you can lock it up securely at your work. However to make it a success that they want they really need to sort out the roads & make them safer for cyclists. We actually have 4 bikes in our house & have a city bike but I'm too scared to ride on the road of getting ran over. If they made the cycle lanes wider & drivers were more cautious I'm sure more people would take up cycling. 

It was a nice day not too hot with a cool breeze. Bit of a sweaty back with a backpack but nothing too horrible like the past couple of days. It took us around the same time to walk back to Kelly's but we decided to go a different way. It was a really nice I enjoyed it we will definitely be doing it again!

Julie

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