Every Summer one act "totally destroys Coachella". You see the phrase in news headlines, tweets, and Instagrams and each year I get sad that I cannot take the phrase literally - Krewella obliterates Coachella's existence is a better story than someone from Buzzfeed getting overexcited by HAIM.Anyway Coachella isn't alone: between the months of June and September thousands of fields get demolished by indie bands, rappers, and DJs. This weekend it was the turn of Lovebox - a festival in London where the likes of A$AP Rocky, MIA, Juce,and Nas played to thousands of hot, sweaty, half-naked music fans and, apparently, a lot of artists "killed it".
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SOME OF THE ARTISTS THAT "KILLED IT" AT LOVEBOX
You can tell the festival was a success because almost every act on the bill killed something. It wasn't just the artists getting involved, either.
LOVEBOX KILLED SOMEONE'S FEET
LOVEBOX KILLED ONE GUY SO MUCH HE THOUGHT HE WAS WATCHING SCUBA
AND LOVEBOX KILLED ONE GUY'S TINDER GAME
All in all - everyone had a great time watching people kill or being killed.We were also at Lovebox hosting our own stage - which included people like The Horrors, world cup superstar Woodkid, and Hercules & Love Affair. Here's the best things we saw through our photographer's camera lens and here's the best things we can remember in our own words.
THIS GUY
I don't understand exactly how this guy's ensemble came into being and I don't think I ever will. I'm imagining him meticulously eyeing the ASOS festival range, looking for inspiration, before deciding that festival fashion is the worst thing to happen to British live music and deciding to don a pair of Calvin Klein's and a satchel instead. But in reality he has probably got really hot, somehow misplaced his entire wardrobe, and is now spending today feeling pretty confused because this photo is now on the internet.
JUCE
Photo by Charlotte RutherfordJUCE are the best girl group in Britain. They played the festival on the Saturday, proved that they're as incredible live as they are on record, and almost definitely made most people in the audience dream in an alternate reality where all friendship groups colour co-ordinate their outfits.
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MIA HAS THE BEST LIGHT SHOW SINCE COLDPLAY
A couple of years ago Coldplay gave every crowd member at their show a wristband that would light up and flash different colours. MIA is doing a similar thing - except instead of a small wristband she's handing out huge foam batons which are great because (A) they're bigger and (B) they're better. As a result her show at Lovebox - and Glastonbury, where she also handed them out - was full of brilliant colour.
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