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\n\t\t\tMEET ME BY THE MAIN STAGE<\/span>
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Ahead of Jorja Smith and Tems\u2019 co-headline set at All Points East this month, festivalgoers share the love stories born between muddy fields, late-night singalongs and chance encounters.<\/h3>\n
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Alright, punters \u2013 the date is finally here: the epitome of East London summer, the peak of festival season, the official day for ex-Hackney date spotting. The fun has been simmering since early May, as rising temperatures nudged us into London\u2019s parks for beers and a boogie. But it all feels like a slow build to this moment: August bank holiday weekend, aka All Points East<\/a>. The unofficial annual convention of the cool crowd, where Broadway Market strollers take an extra turn on their weekend loop and drift towards Victoria Park for a reliably stacked line-up.<\/p>\n

Festivals can often feel like a pool of overstimulating goodness. But as the sun gives way to stage lights and dusk settles, those vast crowds shrink into something oddly intimate. A real-life painting that\u2019s stayed with me since the 2024 edition: Tems on the West Stage, set against an orange, pink and yellow-streaked sky, an unspoken whisper of romance hanging thick in the air. Then comes the gentle brush of shoulders as you fall into step with someone moving to the same melody; the quiet solidarity of strangers belting out lyrics in unison, no competition necessary; the locking of teary eyes with fellow festival empaths. Needless to say, emotions run high. Still, romance often lives more in the possibility than the outcome, turning small, intentional moments into flickers of serendipity.<\/p>\n

With chart-topping soulstresses Jorja Smith and Tems announced as joint headliners for Friday\u2019s slot, ticket buyers were quick to christen the link-up Lovers Day<\/em>. From slow grooves to bluesy ballads, alluring Afrobeats to funky house bumps, there\u2019s a song to sing and a story to tell across both artists\u2019 discographies. With support from the likes of emotional junglist Nia Archives, smooth operator Odeal and Nigeria\u2019s \u201cstarrgirl\u201d Ayra Starr, they\u2019ll take over Victoria Park\u2019s East Stage and beyond, casting a love spell across the crowd.<\/p>\n

In honour of their return to East London\u2019s hedonistic stomping ground, we spoke to people who found love on festival grounds. Whether they met the love of their life, or simply one of them, these are the stories that prove that sometimes the best thing you leave a festival with isn\u2019t the merch, the memories, or even a new favourite artist, but the people who were always meant to find their way into your everyday life.<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t even get her name, we just yapped and laughed for ages\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

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It was Glasto 2022, and one of my girlfriends dragged us to go link up with a friend and her friends. It was one of those plans you go along with when you\u2019re a few days in \u2013 you\u2019re both a zombie and a higher being, you can\u2019t remember a life beyond worthy farm, you haven\u2019t said the word \u2018no\u2019 in days. So, fine. Let\u2019s go and spend the afternoon with these randomers and catch HAIM after. Well, I could NOT stop yapping with one of my friend\u2019s friend\u2019s friends \u2013 we just hit it off IMMEDIATELY. It was spooky\u2026 I remember she turned to me when a guy was offering round a bag of sweets and said, \u201cI\u2019m fucking starving but I do not know this guy, do you think I can help myself to more than one or is that social suicide?\u201d It was kind of sad because we all lost each other at HAIM\u2019s set a few hours later and I made my peace with not seeing the girl ever again. We didn\u2019t trade Instagrams, I didn\u2019t even get her name, we just yapped and laughed for ages. But, cut forward a few months and I\u2019m at my friend\u2019s house party \u2013 it was a day party and everyone was in bikini tops and shirtless.\u00a0<\/p>\n

I love it when London hits that point in August where we act a bit LA. I\u2019m walking down the stairs and I just hear a \u201cWHAT THE FUCK! STOP! I KNOW YOU!\u201d and it is HER!!!! My Glasto bestie. It turns out \u2013 despite growing up in Belgium and currently living in Tanzania \u2013 we had one singular mutual friend in the British uni circuit. It was the most unreal reunion ever. I love that my most romantic destiny is with a girlfriend who is still one of my favourite people years on and still makes me laugh so, so<\/em> much.<\/p>\n

\u2013 Bea, 28<\/p>\n

Farewell Indie Girl, Hello Club Kid<\/strong><\/p>\n

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It seems like everyone is finding healing on the dance floor right now but back in 2017 at Boardmasters festival, I fell in love with dance music. Fatima Yamaha, Patrick Topping and Hannah Wants were some of my first introductions to the Dance music world and what shortly became a major, domineering commitment of my life. The before and after of my sound as a musician is the before and after of that weekend. And seven years later, I signed to acclaimed dance music label Greco-Roman. That festival changed my life. I entered as an indie girl and left as a club kid.<\/p>\n

\u2013 India, 29<\/p>\n

Love Me Back To Life<\/strong><\/p>\n

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I\u2019ve been extremely sick with Long Covid. I wasn\u2019t able to walk, talk, or get out of my bed for like, four months. It was months of my friends having to come over and help me shower and cook. On top of that, my long-term life partner broke up with me, and then three weeks later, my lover \u2013 open relationship \u2013 also broke up with me, and I had a mental breakdown. Horrific, worst time of my life, but I can laugh now because I\u2019m on the other side of it. So, going to WHOLE festival in Germany with U-Haul Dyke Rescue was a turning point. <\/p>\n

My friend Lucy asked if I\u2019d like to come and take some photographs \u2013 that it could be a healing experience after everything. I just needed to return to life. Around that time, I reconnected with a girly that I met at Adonis last summer, her name\u2019s Ailbhe. I met her in the smokers and we got on, but nothing happened. While I was returning from the gates of hell she was one of the people who reached out to an insta story about wanting to get back into life, and was like, \u201cShall we go for a swim!\u201d. So pre-festival, we swam, and I sensed vibes\u2026 Kind of an accidental date? We were randomly at the same party the night after, SMUT, snogged by the front right speaker and then it was like, \u201cWell, I\u2019ll see you at WHOLE\u201d. <\/p>\n

It was cute, it was (kind of?) casual, and she reminded me we were in the midst of hot girl summer. On the first day of WHOLE, after we finish our U-Haul bits, she finds me at the Crane stage where I\u2019m with all of my mates, comes up to me, we immediately snog, everyone cheers. She stays with us the whole night. <\/p>\n

Now, WHOLE is a very queer, sex-positive festival, so when she dropped into convo the FLINTA Cruising Forest, it was kind of on the cards that maybe more than a snog would be the vibe. Instead, we went to the Beach Stage, which is literally a stage floating on the water, and we were having such a sexy time, dancing, grinding, we didn\u2019t even need the forest. Two days later, we had more snogs and went to see Bambi at the Trina Stage \u2014 hands down the set of the weekend. It was this really fucking beautiful, euphoric set, and Ailbhe cried when it ended because she was so moved by it and the moment. Post-WHOLE, we had a check-in, and obviously, I\u2019m in a situation where so much shit has happened this year, and I\u2019m kind of coming back to myself and doing a lot of deep inner work, trying to just re-stabilise my life, and she simultaneously is NOT a person who is off the wall, reactive, intense, love bomb-y. She\u2019s cautious! <\/p>\n

But we met up back in London, on the Thursday, a few days on from the festival, I shucked her oysters and made this crab pasta, and I was like, \u2018Look, I\u2019m going to be so real with you. I feel so unselfconscious, and I say this to you without any expectation of reaction or response or whatever\u2026 But I do think that you may be my soulmate,\u2019 which is obviously such a fucking intense thing to say to someone. She cried, and was like, \u201cYeah, I\u2019m feeling something like that too.\u201d It\u2019s an exciting time, and it\u2019s so weird because, in spite of all of that intense feeling of connection, which felt earth-shattering at WHOLE, I feel so serene about the whole thing. It feels very kismet. Divine. Serendipitous. Like powers a lot bigger than me were acting in that moment\u2026<\/p>\n

\u2013 Clodagh, 31<\/p>\n

Truth or Dare: Festival Edition<\/strong><\/p>\n

I had a guy lick my foot as a dare once at a festival but it was definitely not love\u2026<\/p>\n

\u2013 Juliette, 25<\/p>\n

Most Likely To Listen To \u201cNaive\u201d by The Kooks<\/strong><\/p>\n

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It was my first time ever going to a festival, I was 16 years old. Reading Festival. There\u2019s a silent disco, and every night, I would see this guy when the song \u201cNaive\u201d by The Kooks came on. Every night, he would come into my vision out of nowhere. And we would connect. We never even got each other\u2019s number. We were just always seeing each other when that<\/em> song came on. I really remember feeling like it was some kind of weird ethereal connection between the song and him and the moment, that sense that a music festival gives you, like you\u2019re in your own city, your own world and the bubble is like a society \u2013 it was as if I was seeing him again and again in a club within a city. Seeing him coincidentally and getting with him, every song, every time that song happened when I was 16 just always makes me laugh. He is to me, the \u201cNaive\u201d man.<\/p>\n

\u2013 Maya, 25<\/p>\n

A Festival of Firsts\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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At [Glastonbury] last year, I somehow, ended up by myself. I went and sat down to take a breather, and I saw this guy walk over. He has chips in his hands, and he sits down a little bit far away from me, but close enough that I can see him, and he\u2019s got this amazing smile and lovely eyes. He smiled at me as he sat down. In my head, I was like\u2026 \u2018should I go up to him? Should I not?\u2019 And my phone was dying, so I was like \u2018Great. This is how I\u2019m going to get in\u2019. I go up to him, and ask, \u201cHi, do you have an iPhone charger? My phone\u2019s dying, and I need to get back to my tent and I don\u2019t know how to get there\u201d, that kind of thing. He says, \u201cI don\u2019t. I have a flip phone,\u201d and he pulls out said flip phone. I was so enamoured by the fact that he had one, and we were talking about why he doesn\u2019t have a normal phone, and then we just started chatting about life and everything about him, about me.\u00a0<\/p>\n

We stayed there for four hours talking about our lives, and it got very deep, very quickly. His fears, my fears, things that we like about each other, things that we don\u2019t like \u2013 not about each other, but ourselves. It felt like this cosmic thing because the last concert that I\u2019d been to before I went and sat down at the festival was The 1975, and the last song they played was \u201cAbout You\u201d and it was all cosmic and a bit magical. Everything up until that point has been leading me there. Then we exchanged numbers as the sun was coming up \u2013 it was like 6AM or something at this point. He wasn\u2019t from London, but he was UK-based, and he was like \u201cI\u2019m going to come find you in London, Jas\u201d and I was like \u201cOkay, you do that.\u201d The festival goes on and then randomly, the next day, I bump into him \u2013 which is insane to bump into someone at Glastonbury because it\u2019s massive. We had a very brief chat, and he said, \u201cIt was really nice to meet you,\u201d and all this stuff. I\u2019m looking forward to seeing him when we get out of here. Bear in mind, nothing happened that night. No kiss, nothing. Whatever.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Anyways, the festival ends, and we go home. He then has another festival straight away, so I don\u2019t see him for another week, and then I go on holiday for two weeks, so we haven\u2019t seen each other in about a month. Then we meet up a month later. We went to the Photographer\u2019s Gallery, we went for some lunch and food \u2013 he was only meant to come for like three hours, we ended up spending maybe 12 hours together, and that was that. We carried on seeing each other and dated for a while, and it was lovely. He was one of the nicest men I\u2019ve ever met in my life, but it didn\u2019t work out \u2013 but it\u2019s a really nice story. He was the first man I ever told that I loved them, so it felt pretty special.<\/p>\n

\u2013 Jas, 25<\/p>\n

Loyle At First Sight\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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So, to set the scene right, a fresh 17-year-old \u2013 it\u2019s 2017 \u2013 I\u2019m at Reading Festival, I\u2019ve just found out my results for my Maths retake GCSE \u2013 she\u2019s got a C. She\u2019s over the fucking moon. It\u2019s Loyle Carner day, he\u2019s not really big yet, and so me and my friends got there kind of early. We were fairly close, and I remember when that man walked out on stage \u2013 I think I\u2019d only heard one of his songs \u2013 and genuinely like, I had feelings for him. I knew that that was it. This is my man. And since then, I have had a tendency to go for men who look exactly like Loyle Carner or are mixed race with freckles \u2013 and I blame him. Also, since then, I\u2019ve seen him perform multiple times and still get that same feeling I did when I was 17, looking into his gorgeous eyes and his beautiful freckles. I also discovered one of my favourite songs at the same concert at the same set of his at that festival, so it\u2019s all full circle really. It was meant to be.<\/p>\n

\u2013 (Another) Jas, 26<\/p>\n

Now or Never<\/strong><\/p>\n

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I was travelling a couple summers ago, newly single, kind of obsessed with Hinge, and I matched with this boy when I was in Bali, Indonesia. He was from Melbourne, Australia, and immediately, very much my type. We just started texting, and it turns out that as I was going to a part of Bali \u2013 to Changu \u2013 he was leaving as well, so it just didn\u2019t work out. We took each other\u2019s Instagram\u2019s and were like, \u201cokay, see you whenever, probably never\u201d because at this point, I didn\u2019t know I was going to Australia. It just never really materialised, [but] he\u2019d swipe up to my stories every blue moon. <\/p>\n

I didn\u2019t really know anything about him, and then I booked my trip to Australia. I was going to a festival that was happening over New Year\u2019s, and maybe a month before or so, he posted an IG story saying, \u201cI\u2019m going to be working at the festival, can\u2019t wait, year four of doing this\u201d or something. So obviously, I replied. \u201cOh my god, no way! I\u2019m going to be there too\u201d and he was like, \u201cNo way! This is our time to finally meet after having matched four or six months ago.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

So we start texting a bit more before the festival, but still have never really properly spoken. The festival is over two days, and on the first night, we were texting, he was really trying to meet up with me, but I was just having too much fun with my friends. I didn\u2019t really care that much about him. Like, whatever. Then during the day, the following day, the night before we met: the 31st of December \u2013 this is why it\u2019s such a fun story \u2013 he ended up trying to come find me at my campsite. We just couldn\u2019t. It literally was not working. <\/p>\n

There was no 4G, all this stuff, and then at 10 PM or 11 PM, right before it was going to be New Year\u2019s, he calls me out of the blue, and says, \u201cOkay, if we want to make this work, it\u2019s now or never. Otherwise, we\u2019re not going to see each other. You\u2019re going to go back to Europe, blah blah blah. We need to make this work if we\u2019re serious about this.\u201d And I was like, \u201cYou know what? Fine, let\u2019s do it.\u201d <\/p>\n

At 10:30 PM, I finally messaged him saying \u201cI\u2019m here.\u201d And for context, the Sugababes were playing, and it was \u201c[How I Feel] About You Now\u201d What is that? Wild Child<\/em> vibes? So we met with that song playing in the background. I\u2019m such a romantic, so of course, I remember the song, and literally within three minutes of speaking to each other, my friend who\u2019s more of an acquaintance than anything, she didn\u2019t know the whole lore about it, said, \u201cOh my god, surely this isn\u2019t the first time you guys are meeting.\u201d Because honestly, the second we met, sparks were flying. It was like two peas in a pod. Great, great vibes. Great energy. I was so happy, and we got on so well. He introduced me to all his friends, and then my friend ended up being with one of his friends because it was going to be midnight, so he managed to find a guy for her so that she wasn\u2019t alone. And at midnight, there was a DJ called Fisher that was going to do the countdown, and so when that happened, we went to the crowd with 30ish minutes to spare.\u00a0<\/p>\n

We were singing and dancing, and then this couple in front of us, asked, \u201cOh my God, can we take some videos and pictures of you guys? You are so cute. How long have you guys been dating?\u201d The sparks were so<\/em> there. At this point, we hadn\u2019t kissed yet. And I remember, it was just getting better and better. I was about to kiss him, and he was like, \u201cHell no! Gotta wait \u2019till midnight, girl.\u201d The countdown happened, and we kissed, and then the music started playing, and it was so perfect. We ended up spending all night together. <\/p>\n

I was only in Melbourne for three more days and he said he\u2019d take me out on a date. Two or three days later, on my last day in Melbourne, I took a train out to go to where he lives, and he picked me up in a car. We went for a drive and lunch, and it was just so cute. I felt like we had been dating for ages. It was that wholesome, sweet vibe. When I had to go back, he almost flew all the way to see me in Byron Bay. But then it didn\u2019t work out. I was so sad, and then I was lowkey \u2013 not heartbroken \u2013 but I was just pining over him, thinking about him for months and months after, and we kept in touch. <\/p>\n

Facetimed loads, and then in February or March, he texted me saying, \u201cBy the way, I\u2019m coming to Europe for a Eurosummer, would love to see you.\u201d Then he sent me his itinerary and was like, \u201cI\u2019m going here, here, here, here, here \u2013 come join me any time you want. Bring a friend. It would be great to see you again.\u201d So obviously, I dragged my best friend with me, and we went to Berlin with him and his friend. We spent three days together, got a cute photo in the photo booth. I\u2019ve honestly never quite felt this way about someone. We went to another festival together. We went to the Old Royal Naval, and he stayed at mine the entire time he was there, and that was that. Then he left, and it was really sad, but we still speak a lot, and he might be coming again at the end of summer, so very excited about that.<\/p>\n

\u2013 Marina, 24<\/p>\n

Besties For The Resties<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The year was 2018. My friends and I had a three-day ticket to Wireless. We\u2019d seen J Cole on the Friday, Future on the Saturday, but I keep getting lost. I keep losing my friends like every hour or so. I\u2019m calling and calling, and eventually, I just gave up. At one point, I was walking around listening to Rick Ross by myself. So, I then bumped into my friend, Connor, from NCS, and I spent a little bit of time with him, lost him, and then I\u2019m stuck in the crowd. I\u2019m looking around \u2013 I\u2019m looking at the floor at this point because I\u2019m 5\u20193\u201d, so I literally can\u2019t see above anyone\u2019s heads. This<\/em> is why I keep getting lost. I see these baby pink [Air Max] 95s walk past me and look up and I\u2019m like, \u201cHey.\u201d And she\u2019s like, \u201cOh my God, hey! I\u2019m lost. Where is everyone?\u201d So I\u2019m like, \u201cYou\u2019re friends with Connor, right?\u201d We end up going to find them together and just sit down and grab some food and whatever. Anyways, hours go by, and we have the best time. We take so many videos together, wandering around looking for them.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Eventually, we just end up enjoying the festival together, and we spent it all, together, including the following day. It\u2019s coming to 10PM, and we really need to leave now. We still haven\u2019t found anyone \u2014 mind you, I\u2019ve been lost since probably 4PM with her. As we\u2019re leaving, there\u2019s a bunch of guys standing by the exit, and at one of the food stalls, I catch one of their eyes, and I can see them talking about us. While me and Chantelle are just standing there on the phone trying to find our friends again, they walk over and ask us for our Snapchats. Pretty respectful, asking us if we\u2019re having a nice time and all that good stuff. Then they\u2019re like, \u201cOh you guys are lost, do you want us to walk you out?\u201d So these three boys walked me and Chantelle out, where we eventually find some of our friends\u2026and then one of those boys, Akin, ended up being my boyfriend. We\u2019ve been together for six years now \u2013 he\u2019s one of the girls.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2013 Annya, 25<\/p>\n

Besties for the Resties PART TWO<\/strong><\/p>\n

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We met at Wireless Festival in 2018 through mutual friends \u2013 by the second day, we\u2019d ditched our original groups (oops!) to go around the stages together as we wanted to see all the same acts\/were on the same vibe. That led to us booking tickets to Reading Festival on impulse a couple of weeks later, just the two of us and later then, Carnival weekend (which I had never been to before!). We spent almost that entire summer together and almost every other one since. We are very close friends to this day and can only thank Wireless for putting us on the same grounds that day! I\u2019d say maybe Hardy Caprio in October 2018 as he was our favourite artist at the time and we made a big night out of it and we still bond over\/sing his songs now even though he isn\u2019t really popular much. We also adored seeing Wizkid together at Afronation earlier this month. He was amazing and the first time we\u2019d been away together in a while so it was really special. Annya was involved in a pretty serious accident in August 2024 and is just regaining her mobility \u2013 that\u2019s made this<\/em> summer extra special. I could go on and on about our storytimes since that day as we\u2019ve spent the last eight years pretty much inseparable.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2013 Chantelle, 25<\/p>\n

The Pixies From The Festival<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Me and my partner Melody met three years ago at Glastonbury Festival. I had gone with a bunch of friends, and one of my closest female friends, Kelly, had been asked to attend the festival on behalf of the publication she worked for at the time on the condition that she do some content. So, on one of the mornings, she woke up and said, \u201cHenry, do you want to earn a quick 80 quid and be my cameraman for the day whilst I interviewed some girlies at the festival?\u201d And of course, obviously \u2013 I mean, fucking dream job, right? Walk around talking to girls at a festival all day.\u00a0<\/p>\n

So, we get into it, picking out people who just have a fun, cool vibe or are wearing interesting outfits, and we\u2019re at it for about three or four hours, and then Kelly turns to me and says, \u201cWe\u2019ve got time to interview one more person. You can pick them out.\u201d In the distance, I saw these two absolutely gorgeous blonde girls dressed like pixies, galloping in the distance. We ran over to them, and we got talking to them, and it turned out to be Melody and her sister. So Kelly asked if they were okay to be interviewed \u2013 Melody was kind of a mute at this point \u2013 and she was like, \u201cI don\u2019t want to do the interview, but my sister will.\u201d So Melody\u2019s sister does the interview, and it was really cute because she had made all of the outfits herself and gave a really, really good interview.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Before and after, I was sort of speaking to Melody, and I just thought she was the most gorgeous girl I\u2019d ever seen, like intimidatingly beautiful, to be honest. And I was chatting to her, a little bit of small talk \u2013 she was from East London, I just moved to East London. She was from Liverpool, I\u2019d studied in Liverpool for a few years. The chat was really surface level, and I just wasn\u2019t getting the vibe that she was into me at all. She actually later revealed to me that that\u2019s actually (somehow) her way of flirting \u2013 just giving an absolute deadpan stone wall zero reaction. So then we parted ways, thanked them, and that whole day I was kicking myself thinking, \u2018Why didn\u2019t I ask for a number?\u2019 She was so gorgeous, and I just picked up a vibe straight away, but I just didn\u2019t ask. That whole evening I was telling my friends that I\u2019d met this girl, and I was really gutted, and they were like, \u2018Ah, whatever.\u2019<\/p>\n

It turns out that as soon as I\u2019d parted ways with Poppy (her sister) and Melody, Melody turned to her sister and was like, \u201cI can\u2019t believe he didn\u2019t ask for my number.\u201d It was a whole thing. There was a guy who Melody was sort of seeing at the time, so I think it all happened exactly how it was supposed to happen if you ask me. Weeks down the line, Melody and Poppy would play on each other\u2019s Hinge, and Poppy was playing on Melody\u2019s and I had popped up. One of the pictures on my profile was from that exact day at Glasto when I interviewed them, and Poppy was like, \u201cOh my God, it\u2019s the guy that interviewed us at Glasto.\u201d She\u2019s like, \u201cNo way, swipe! Do the swipe!\u201d And then we\u2019re chatting, and I don\u2019t actually realise it\u2019s her until she says, \u201cI think you\u2019re that guy that interviewed my sister and me at Glasto,\u201d and then it was like, \u201cOh my God.\u201d I couldn\u2019t believe it. Like the Hinge Gods had placed this girl who I\u2019d spent a whole day fucking kicking myself for not getting her details of, and then she just came back to me. It was mad, and then we just completely hit it off.\u00a0<\/p>\n

We went on a date, and it was one of those moments where you\u2019re just so comfortable with each other, it feels like you\u2019ve known each other for years, and it\u2019s always been like that. Straight from the offset. Then it turned out that we\u2019d actually been in the same room multiple times over the years, which is really mental. I\u2019m not much of a person to believe tall tales and mysticism, but it really does feel like it was supposed to happen. It\u2019s like the universe gave me so many chances, and we got there finally. Last year, we all got to go back to Glastonbury \u2013 myself, Melody, and her sister, and my friend Kelly, who all met in that spot all those years ago \u2013 not as strangers anymore, but as close friends and partners. And now I live with Melody and Poppy \u2013 the Pixies from the festival.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2013 Henry, 29\u00a0<\/p>\n

Getting Dusty<\/strong><\/p>\n

The only thing that ever gets all up on me at the festival is the dust.<\/p>\n

\u2013 Dharam, 21<\/p>\n

Words<\/strong> \u2013 Aswan Magumbe<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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