I saw Madness and Rick Astley at Lytham Festival and I can't wait to go back already

Lytham Festival was amazing and I had an incredible day.

The event opened with the band Kid Kapichi who I had not heard of previously but who got the crowd going for the rest of the event. It did make me laugh when the band announced that one of the songs was about robbing supermarkets but overall, I did enjoy their music and especially the deep electric guitar.

In between sets I went to treat myself with a pint from one of the festival bars. I ordered a pint of Brewdog lost lager and while I am not usually a fan of IPA type beers, I enjoyed it.

The Lightning Seeds were the next band to take to the stage. They opened the show with their first song ‘Change’ which got the Lytham crowd up singing and dancing.

I particularly enjoyed their second to last song, titled ‘the Life of Riley’ and I thought that the lead singer did a really good job of hyping the crowd up for seeing Madness later on by talking about how amazing they were during sound checks.

But the best song by a country mile that The Lightning Seeds did was ‘Three Lions’ right before the England vs Switzerland game was shown. The entire crowd was on their feet and singing as one.

I felt especially lucky to be able to watch the football on a massive screen in the middle of a festival crowd. Hearing the crowd cheering and shouting was amazing and the atmosphere when England scored was incredible.

I can’t say that I especially enjoyed watching the final penalties but the roar from the crowd when England won was so loud and it was an unforgettable moment. I was very happy to have been in the best possible location to watch England win.

After I had bought myself another pint, along with some chicken and chips, it was time to get onto the main acts of the day. Rick Astley and Madness. I was super excited to see Rick Astley live and to sing along to his iconic song, ‘Never gonna give you up’.

He came out and made lots of jokes with the crowd and got everyone up and singing along. I thought that the absolute highlight of his set was at the end, when Rick sang ACDC’s ‘Highway to Hell’, or ‘Never gonna give you up’ - I could hear the entire crowd singing along to that song and it was just the perfect concert atmosphere.

Finally it was time for the main act which was the Iconic band Madness. They came on stage to cheering from the 25 thousand strong crowd and began their set.

Even though I was not too familiar with Madness’s songs I thoroughly enjoyed myself. The songs I did know, ‘House of Fun’, ‘Our House’, ‘Baggy Trousers’ and ‘It Must be Love’ were fantastic. It was crazy to look out across the crowd and see so many people dancing to the music.

I thought that Lytham Festival was amazing and I would go again in a heartbeat.