Festival Review: Frequency Festival Day 2

On the second day of Frequency Festival, the first artist we saw on stage was German Ivo Martin. It was a chill start to another very hot, sunny day, making it important for festival goers to seek out the shade and stay hydrated.

Ivo Martin was followed by Zoe Wees on the main stage. She is a great singer and had a coherent visual concept, along with a band. During her set, she talked about what made her write certain songs, drawing the crowd even further in. 

For a lot of visitors, the band Jeremias on the Green Stage was the next highlight. At the same time, at the main stage, Lost Frequencies started his set. He did a lot of jumping on his white DJ-desk and engaged in dance with the fans. Not long after, we switched stages to see Dean Lewis. At this point, a thorough summer rain poured down on the crowds. Strong winds came up and broke a part of the Green Stage. Luckily, the workers were quick to fix this, so his set was only delayed by 20 minutes. When Lewis finally got on stage, he smiled a lot and overall seemed very pleased with the crowd. Though he was bound to his microphone stand while playing the guitar, in singing breaks he walked closer to the fans, who rewarded him with loud screams. The vibe during this set was amazing. 

Next up, we caught Timmy Trumpet, another DJ, and out of all DJs, the most entertaining one. Next to playing his trumpet, he danced a lot and threw out fun gadgets like masks with his name on it for the crowd’s entertainment. In comparison to the other DJ sets, he mixed a lot of popular songs. That way, everyone, both young and old, had something to sing and dance to. 

Making our way back to the Green Stage, one of our personal favourites was about to perform: Louis Tomlinson. The rain, at this point, had already stopped, and the temperature was just right for dancing and letting loose. And so the crowd did, from the first moment that Tomlinson entered the stage. It wasn’t the biggest festival crowd, but definitely one of the loudest. Tomlinson smiled a lot and overall often engaged with the fans, whether it was answering a sign or just pointing to fans who he saw were having the time of their lives. He started his set with powerful songs like ‘Kill my Mind’. Then he also put out covers of One Direction songs, and he even played one of our personal favourites, ‘Copy of a Copy of a Copy’, which he did not play at most of his festival shows. He also covered ‘7’ by Catfish and the Bottlemen. Finally, during ‘Silver Tongues’ he got down to the barricade, which he didn’t jump into once, nor twice, but four times! He was having a lot of fun and took a sassy walk back on stage. 

Finally, most of the crowd made its way back to the main stage, where the German rapper Cro was performing. If not for his spacy panda-mask, it would have been hard to spot the rapper, because of the intense stage activity during his set. The stage decorations constantly changed from a jumping house to floating flowers and more. Unfortunately, that took the attention away from his performance. We ended the second festival day early here, but it was only the second day; day three was yet to come!