The day of our concert me and my friend got up incredibly early in the morning! We love concerts and gigs so of course we were naturally very excited and raring to go. We had seen one direction live 3 times previous to this concert so knew that it was destined to be an outstanding show. However, we had never seen them in front of this many people; we had been to the UAN and TMH tour and even saw them perform live in Wembley Arena at the 'BBC Radio 1 Teen Awards', but never in a venue as large as a stadium!
As I had been to a stadium for a concert before, I knew we would have to get there early and line up all day as we had standing tickets so didn't have a reserved seat and of course, we wanted the best view we could get and thank goodness we went early because it was chaos!!
The security and stewards around the stadium were all very informative and happy to help us get to where we needed to be and when we did (finally) we were faced with at least 50 metres of weaved fencing to line up in; and that was just for our section! We waited to get into the stadium for roughly 10 hours, thankfully it was a lovely day and we were able to sit in the sun chatting to other people who had the same plan as us.
When we were being let into the stadium the security were very calm and the whole time very organised, making sure groups of friends didn't get split up and the flow of fans being let through the ticket checking gates was steady to ensure everyone was safe. When we got into the stadium we showed our wrist bands and were allowed into the section where we would stand for a further 2 hours to wait for 5 Seconds of Summer to come on stage as the support act. We got ourselves a very good place with a few fans we had met earlier, which was a couple of people back from the barriers at the side of the middle stage. As you can see from the pictures we had a perfect view of the show.
We had an absolutely amazing night and of course both 5 Seconds of Summer and One Direction performed perfectly. The entertainment before, in between and after acts was also great: with music playing along with relevant videos and adverts, the whole stadium joining in with dancing (including the light and sound men who got the audience very excited) and the spectacular fireworks show at the end of the night.
It was such a crazy night filled with lots of love, laughing and loud music!
