Circuit Fest Music & Skate 2013 in the Philippines

These past few years, music festivals have grown in popularity here in the Philippines. America has Coachella, we have Bazooka Rocks, Wanderland, and of course Circuit Fest.

When I found out what the line up for Circuit Fest was, I freaked out and I called my mom, desperately trying to ask for tickets for the festival. Not only was I a fan of almost all of the bands, Mark Salling was going to host it!!

This was my first music festival and I was lucky enough to go with some of my best friends.

My Concert Buddies!

The first band, A+ Dropouts started the festival at around 3PM, followed by Megan Nicole.

The next band was This Century and we were super excited! They played Slow Dance Night, Sound of Fire, Hopeful Romantic, Skeletons and some of their other songs.

Okay. I know that all these photos are of Joel Kanitz, their lead singer. I have two reasons for this, (1) my friend, Sharie, only took photos of Joel and (2) why wouldn't she?! Look at those arms and that hair and that super cute smile! They're super good live and I fully intend to go to their next full concert when they come back.

When The Downtown Fiction came on, that's when it started to rain but instead of putting a damper on things, it somehow made the concert more memorable for my friends and I.

After their set, Mark Salling finally came out and of course we screamed and fan-girled all over the place.

He introduced Willy Santos, a professional Filipino skateboarder who's based in San Diego, California. While I'm not a skateboarder, it was cool to see a Filipino who's making waves in the industry.

And of course Riley Hawk, the son of Tony Hawk. They were supposed to do the Mini Ramp Jam but because of the rain, it was moved til the ramp dried. Unfortunately, it never completely dried but they still tried to do as much as they could without getting totally hurt.

Before You Exit finally came on and again, major fan-girling on our part.

I have a super crush on Riley. Yes. I know he's 3 years younger than me, but love can conquer all!! Before You Exit is composed of the three McDonough brothers: Toby, Riley and Connor. They're all super cute and they reminded me of the Hanson brothers and sure enough, they sang Mmmbop!

We Are The In Crowd and Allstar Weekend came up after and they both rocked the stage! While I wasn't a huge fan We Are The In Crowd, they had so much energy that it was super fun to watch their performance.

I was so excited when Allstar Weekend played some of my favorite songs of theirs like Come Down With Love and All The Way.

When Mayday Parade came on, it was a full on concert, everyone was dancing and screaming! It was obvious a lot of people came to watch them live and their performance didn't disappoint.

Sadly, we weren't able to watch Yellowcard. We left soon after Mayday Parade since we had to go find a taxi home and we knew that if we waited for the concert to finish, it would be impossible to find one.

All in all, it was an awesome day! We had so much fun watching all the band and now we're fans of all of them, but of course I have my personal favorites and it's pretty obvious who they are.

Thank you so much to Domingo Ronquillo of Globe Tattoo for the amazing tickets!

Here's a video of Before You Exit's cover of Some Nights by Fun:

And this is This Century's MV for Slow Dance Night, one of my favorite songs of theirs.