Field Day 2013: The Hipster Edit
And by hipster we mean "when viewed through the eyes of Instragram". Alexa Chung, Solange, man-knots & Mount Kimbie are the order of the day at the festival in Victoria Park, London.
Jenn SelbyEveryone who was anyone was stuffed inside the tiny Laneway tent to see our favourites Savages perform their rebel-rousing set of stomp-along post-punk. From this Instagram picture, you could be fooled into thinking they were thrashing through Silence Youself on a paper bag. But alas – it is but a clever hipster manipulation of light to disguise the fact we were SO FAR AT THE BACK, all we really saw was the back of a man’s head and a steel pole. Standard Instagram behaviour.
Jenn SelbyIt’s just NOT a hipster diary unless you include at least one Insta-snap from the bogs in the VIP area. The coolest place to hang out, apparently, if the length of the queues were anything to go by. Hence the existence of this picture. Nice view, incidentally. And one potentially embarrassing incident averted.
Jenn SelbyYes, yes there were a lot of leather jackets, sheer-bottomed maxi-skirts, fringing and tie-dye on display at Field Day, but if we had to pick the most rife of festival trends, it would be the man knot, demonstrated to perfection by this chap, who we snapped looking particularly fabulous as he fled the main stage to dive back into VIP.
Jenn SelbyThe Hipster hive was truly awoken when the far superior Knowles sister Solange took to the main stage. The in-crowd were seen kicking up dust and booty-shaking along to the monochromed neo-soul maverick as she bounced through a set of hits from her EP True. Spotted in the crowd…?
Jenn Selby… Only the hipster Queen of Cool herself, Alexa Chung, commanding her equally cool minions as she body-rolled through Losing You. Plus, #YouKnowItsAHotTrendWhen her new man (an unidentified leather-clad rocker we spotted her smooching in front of us) was also sporting a man-knot. You can just about make him and his hair out in the right-hand corner.
Jenn SelbyBut if we were truly to choose a Field Day hipster hero, it would be this guy, who bucked the man-knot trend to sport a satin waist coat teamed with peddle-pushers and a puffer jacket. So far ahead of the curve, he was lost on us all. Legend.
Jenn SelbyAh-ha! Caught in the act. Hipster reviewers − clearly not getting a lot of reviewing done − in the VIP area at Field Day. Unless you count reviewing the bar as reviewing, of course. Or the grass. Which was pretty plush, evidently. Obviously we were working. And not reviewing the bar. Or the grass.
Jenn SelbyDaniel… When I first saw you… Hmmm hmmm hm hmmmmm hmmm hmm something in youuuur heart. Because hipsters never, ever know all the words to anything. Still. Styling it out to Natasha Khan with some excellent lip-synching behaviour. Which definitely came into play as the set mainly consisted of hits from Bat For Lashes’ 2012 album, The Haunted Man.
Jenn SelbyAnnnnnd that’s as far as our hipster edit took us, mainly because our phones died (because of all the selfies, Vines, Instagramming, failed tweets etc, etc) and the rest of the shots were hap-hazard, blurry images of the inside of our bags and/or our feet. We also saw Four Tet and Animal Collective, who, as far as we can remember, were ace. So instead, I’ll leave you with yet another brilliant man-knot example. Seriously. Hot trend. They were everywhere. Read our in-depth Field Day fash report on that here and get loads more snaps from Field Day and beyond here.
