For all us to be hanging out, away from home,
where Mum and Dad's not going see what you're up to, is fantastic.
Being able to just let loose for a weekend.
It was the best feeling ever.
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You get that mind-set of, "It's not going to happen to me."
And then, boom, just like that.
It happens.
Woke up in the morning, got a festival ahead of me,
you know, what better feeling?
Group chat's still going, everyone's absolutely buzzing for it.
We got changed into our clothes and our wellies,
and put glitter all over ourselves,
because apparently that's what you do at festivals.
I have all this stuff and I've got to lug it all the way to the gates.
Right, take the essentials.
I heard Simon shout, "Lacie!"
Turned around, and there they all were.
Simon's tent was actually next to ours.
Cracked out, opened the beers, and started hammering the drink.
I mean, we'd only just got there,
we were all absolutely happy as Larry.
From a very young age, me and Jordan got together.
He was one of my really close friends
when I first started infant school.
Yeah, it was kind of like a quick bond, really.
I remember the first time I met him in school,
we were at this after-school club doing a band rehearsal.
I don't even remember what he said,
I just remember being in stitches with him, every time we spoke.
He was just lovely and bubbly
and he just put a smile on your face when you saw him.
He was just really kind and definitely
a very good friend of Chris.
Chris, hands down, he was the glue, he was like a magnet,
everyone loved him.
He was always there to make a joke,
he was always there to be the star of the show.
The general craic was...what was going to happen over the weekend.
What kind of filthy states we were going to get ourselves into.
Of course, we were talking about the music.
And, ultimately, the drugs and whatnot
that perhaps we can get hold of.
Someone brought up the idea of pills,
and, you know, I didn't really think anything of it.
At a festival, I knew people did that, it was kind of a norm.
There was quite a lot of talk about it, obviously, young lads,
they want to do what they want to do.
You could hear people disappearing off for two minutes on the phone,
and then disappearing again for another ten minutes,
and coming back and everyone just suddenly changing and being, like,
all right, everyone's suddenly just got a burst of energy.
Where's this come from?
So, yeah, we had a little whip-round,
we said, "Who can put in? Who wants some?"
It was, like, everyone wanted their own little fix.
So, yeah, everyone just started chucking money in.
It was in a bag. I'm not sure how many you got exactly.
Like, 20, for so much money.
They were, like, a greeny-blue colour.
Really small, with an Adidas logo on it.
We just decided, yeah, we'll take them all together.
Just to say, if we take them together,
at least we're going to be riding it together.
About half an hour, 40 minutes, it's in your system.
You start to feel yourself, you know,
slowly building up to this effect.
Simon said, "Do you want one?
"You can be on the same wavelength as us."
So I took one and thought, "Yeah, let's have fun, like everyone else."
It changed from everyone being drunk
to everyone being dead chatty and, like, loved-up.
Everything was the most amazing, beautiful thing you've ever seen.
And I remember sitting on Chris' knee,
and he was hugging me and was singing and dancing.
It was kind of nice to feel out there and just free.
I'm in a field with a group of my friends.
Really happy, you know, what more could I want?
Like, life is great right now.
I was in a tent with Chris,
and I was just really tired and I just wanted to go to sleep.
And I actually remember kind of rocking...
Not rocking as such, but cradling myself, cos I was really cold.
And I said to Chris, "I don't feel all right, I don't feel OK."
And I was panicking.
And I didn't need to panic,
I'd just never done it before, it was all new.
And I remember Chris holding my hand.
And he was, like, "We'll be OK, Lace, we'll be all right."
The next thing I remember is just the waking up.
It was really early in the morning.
Maybe about four or five o'clock in the morning, something like that.
All I can hear is this grunting.
I heard heavy breathing.
It was actually Chris, struggling to breathe.
Chris' eyes were open, as if he was awake.
He was making these grunting sounds as if he was in pain.
I didn't really know what was going on.
And I heard people shouting and screaming.
And that's when I ran to get help.
I heard over the radio that
a first aid team arriving had found Christian in cardiac arrest.
Those two words, "cardiac arrest", they really focus your mind,
because that's not what you're expecting to hear
on a Friday morning in a field in the middle of the Lake District.