hit me. harder. im feeling rewired.

So I went to Kasabian on wednesday at the O2. You know how you always tell yourself stadiums will ruin a band. absolute bullshit. they were in their fucking element. I didn't how much i liked kasabian until i saw them. maybe they just had to prove to me they hadn't become pretentious and bothersome. yeah i just said bothersome. fuck you. they've got charisma. every good band needs a wee bit o' charisma. I think i really just like kasabian fans. there was no bloody annoying indie kids there. bloody indie kids. undo your top button you knobs. ugh. some mental moshing. some crazy kats in the audience. just a generally good night had by all. and miles kane popped up again. supporting kasabz. in cute little white jeans. god i love that man more than words. he set up a good night. crazy atmosphere. that man brings the party. so to wrap things up, im now a super kasab fan. hardcore like. well not that hardcore. like i wouldn't get a kasabian tattoo or anything stupid. i may go as far as a t-shirt but that might be taking the piss. so yeah i'm not a hardcore fan. im barely a fan truth be told. but let's just pretend i am for now yeah.

embracing my inner Parisian right now. it's all plaits and baguettes. not as far as a beret though. that'd be too mental for me. I feel like i should be walking round art galleries taking notes. and then run in to a mysterious stranger in a duffle coat. who keeps appearing in various points of my life.  if only life was a french film. sigh.

so I went to to my friends gig t'other day. it was lovely and amazing and all that, but how the fuck does everyone get so talented. i want some talent. why don't i get any. these people can play instruments and sing and still be absolutely lovely people. i can barely even remember to feed my cat. what is this? when/if i get to heaven (unlikely) i am going to request an audience with god and take up this matter. he could have at least graced me with manageable hair or something. or a pet dinosaur. i'm not asking for much.



all i want for christmas is a fucking dinosaur







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I've waited hours for this. I've made myself so sick..

So I went to the arctic monkeys t'other night and I've made many a realisation:

1) Gigs are solely about the atmosphere and barely about the music. 

2) The vaccines are a good support band but could you be bothered. 

3) London is actually a charming place and 

4) All boys are dickheads. That ones a bit more of a general point. Not quite specific to the evening but whatever. It's true. 

To explain, I went to that massive arctics thing you know. In the o2. And I have made a previous post expressing my disappointment at their performance but this was something entirely different. It was ELECTRIC. Everyone was loving it and there was such a big buzz. The people who went actually went to see the arctic monkeys and the arctic monkeys alone. So the atmosphere changed everything. It was brilliant and everyone there was just lovin' life and I got like 8 other people doing the classic McConville guns. Boom. They call me one move. One move McConville.  They did some CLASSICS that got the crowd going crazy and then for their last song they did it again. Miles. Kane. Ahh straight up babe no lies. Love him. Despite all the shit about the arctics not being a 'stadium band' they fucking killed it. It was beautiful. 

The vaccines were supporting them.. I've previously said in theory I like the vaccines. But I realised why I don't love them. They're a support act. In a couple of years when they've properly developed and they have more range they'll be a good band but I got bored of them when they were just a supporting so they're clearly not quite there yet. But they are super good. And they've just recorded a song with Albert Hammond Jr of the strokes called Tiger Blood so hopefully they'll have embraced their stokeness and it will be pure gold strokes-vaccines magic. 

So London's lovely. I've decided. last saturday was just one of those nights where I revelled in the marvels of londoners and I shall tell you for why, as everyone left the o2 we were stuck in the station and everyone was just having chats and then a man got out his guitar and started playing wonderwall. It was lovely. And everyone in the station just joined in. So enthusiastically dancing round the station proves london's top. Top. And then on the train home it was just a lovely atmosphere. Just sharing beer and stories with strangers made my night. And you get some babes on the saturday before halloween. Credz to simon who was dressed full on as Gaddafi, the poor lamb had lost his friends and had no idea where he was but he just looked like cllaaasssss. True there was a downside to my journey. Originally where I was sat there was a woman next to me. She was next to the door that goes between carriges and her husband was stood next to her. Dressed as a butcher. So she wasn't looking on top of things and I really pitied her. Until, she vommed. Literally everywhere. All down the door and all. And her husband just stood there going 'it's alright. Noone minds, don't worry about it babe, nobody's angry, no one minds'. I FUCKING MIND. I MIND. It smelt so vile the woman infront of me started gagging. The man dressed as Dumbledore nearly shat himself with repulsion. It was naassttttyyy. I ran away. So she gets off the train I'm at the other end of the carriage talking things over with simon and boom someone opens the door. The sick cascades and spreads out. It's like a river at this point. And the man just walked straight though it. Ughhh. Vomvomvom. Literally. 
Another thing that I found bloody annoying that night was the bloody indeh kids. Up to their old tricks again. Don't go to a concert and just stand there being more concerned about how you look than having fun. Undo your top button and roll down your skinnies and for once just go crazy. Because it has to be more fun than swaying with a pint pretending to know the words of a song written about people like you. 

The last one I won't go into much detail about because you get the general idea: more teenage angst. Plus heartless dickheads. All i'll say is man up you pathetic nonces. 

Got a street style blog coming and one about Blood orange. so boom my brothers. 

WE SHOULD HAVE EACH OTHER TO TEA. WHAT. WE SHOULD HAVE EACH OTHER WITH CREAM. 

Because everybody knows the things she does to please.

I'm so late on this blogging bandwagon i've pretty much fallen off, but it must be spoken of. The. Stone. Roses. Are. Back. I wont lie, I cried after I found out. Well it was while I sat in my room listening to their glory days, but I wanna be adored and I am the resurrection are enough to induce tears at the best of times and then she bangs the drums is a full on emotional break down of happiness. They were the band who changed the face of english music with one gloriously exciting album and one that went a bit tits up in the eyes of the reviewer. They inspired bands like oasis and the maccabees and they were leaders. They led the next generation of music. and yeah some people might say they were given too much credit for a band with such a little discography but everything they did was golden. Despite the mass consensus I think their second album was alright, it had some tunes on it, i love tears and ten storey love song. so fuck you. And yeah i'm excited about the rumoured new material because I do actually think it'd be good, and no I don't really care if the only reason they're doing a reunion is for the money, because no matter what their motives they are actually a good band. The stone roses were never really about the talent anyway, they were about a movement in music, about something fresh and new and exciting. They were about living.  so boom. take my bullshit sentiments.

Something else that you'll all hate me for is my obsessive and actually quite scary love for The Velvet Underground. I'm just at that kind of time where The Velvets and The Cure are all i'm listening to. Truthfully they're often accompanied by tears of classic teenage angst, but that's irrelevant. The one right now is Femme Fatale, Nico is an amazing inspiring and just plain beautiful woman, and her odd little German voice makes the song so perfect. I feel like a lot of the velvets songs aren't quite done fully but this one is an exception, it's perfect and whole and wonderful. And the lyrics are brilliant. and it's just perfect.

ugh at life. Ugh at times when you remember exactly why you hate literally everyone. Take that full on angsty shit.

Went to an arctic monkeys concert last night, so more on that soon.. wooo.






A


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and in the end..

Oh pretentious blog title. Nice one.
So here we are, got some nice new tunes for you you lucky buggers.
Firstly, The Filthy habits, They're nice and good. Listen to them here and then go and become a crazy fan because everyone loves a crazy fan.

I like them because I don't feel I have to write much about them and their musical influences and the merits of their bass lines because you just listen to it and you understand it all anyway. There's nothing complex and confusing, it's just straight up good tunes. LOVE.

Another band which are a bit of a contrast to The Filthy Habits is "She's Out of My League" Their music is well cute and my friends in it. But that's not why I like them. Like they're good like. Go search them on Facebook and become a fan because then you'll be cool like me. Well that's probably not really an incentive because i'm not cool, but my point still stands. So go listen to some tunes. They'll make you happy. They have a new song called it all becomes clear which I am currently listening to, I literally love it. It's got solid lyrics and a lovely tune. So boom.

It's indie rock n roll for me. It's all I need. Well that's not strictly true. I'm also pretty sure I need food and shit like that. But the point is I love the killers, like pie. I use that simile way too often i'm probably hurting pie's feelings. I don't love their contemplative moody shit. Because you know I expect a little more from Mormons. I am down with sam's town but anything past that is a piss take mate. Hot fuss is a babe of sorts. and it has THE tune glamorous indie rock n roll on. That song just does some thing to me. It evokes feelings and emotions I didn't know I had.  Admittedly there is a lot of killer haters these days. I don't get it, two years ago the killer's were THE band to love. They were all hip and sexy. I mean their steady decline of good songs can't have helped but Brandon Flowers is a babe. I think people think it's cool to hate them. I mean it's not as cool as hating coldplay but it's still quite cool. I'm not a big fan of Brandon Flowers solo shit because it's too meh but classic killers always kills it. lol.

Well winter was a surprise wasn't it. Wasn't expecting that so soon.

Alriighty my brothers I shall leave you now safe in the knowledge that what you read here today has changed your life for ever. Or at least you read it.
Drive faster,
Aislinggg
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Remember Yesterday..

It's that well good singing man. You know. You don't know?  YOU SHOULD KNOW.  He's lovely. Farhan Mannan like. Super style. He's cute in a really awkward way..

go to here and watch this.. please please please..

I really think it's musical genius. He sounds like long white clouds, that band I love more than pie.

I love awkward singing people.. The video is quite weird but cute like, I LOVE his dancing. <3

I reckon he's going to be big, so should you wish to be all hipster and cool, then you should start becoming a massive fan of him now and in a year people will be like "OMG I just LOVE Farhan" and you can be all like "Pssh, I loved him last year when he was obscure" and people will probably hate you. Or you could just love him now and tell everyone about him and they'll all be like "OMG thank you so much for telling me about him. My life is now drastically better!" and you'll get loads of friends. Well thats the aim. If not you can get cats and sing them his songs. At least something would love you.

Also he's a lovely chap so you should love him.



Everyone knows why my soul is hurting. Bloc party. Without Kele. How can you have Bloc Party without Kele. I'm really upset and i don't think The other three can do it. They're all really good musicians probably better than Kele, but they have absolutely no charisma. Why cruel world? why?

Well that's all.
I think I might go and cry while listening to Flux.
A thousand tears.
A whole river of them.



A




Also don't judge my dubstep moves you haters.

I don't hate for the thrill. I hate for the feeling.

People getting stressy. People stating their hate. I'll be honest, I like it. I like it when people are angry, it shows that in this world of mass produced madness there's still feeling, there's still something that we can't stand for and we must be heard. But don't you dare tell me I hate for the thrill of it. I don't in anyway enjoy being angry, I don't start arguments to have fun, It does not entertain me to come across something I do not tolerate. So never say I hate just to hate, because I hate because I have to. I wont sit back and let something very wrong happen. If someone is being in anyway intolerant, I will tell them, because if they don't realise that prejudice is wrong then they wont have a guilty conscience and as we all know, the conscience is the making of a man. I'm intolerant to intolerance. Race, religion, gender, sexuality. I don't care, People should be free to be free. Yeah, I don't like the conservative party but I don't dislike Tories.

And this brings me on to the christian rant of the month. I don't mind Atheists. At all. In fact, I applaud them, they have clear, thought through points and they weren't afraid to say "actually, do you know what? I think man came from monkey" even when the people at the time were willing to take them to court for 'Slander' against God. I think it's an amazing feat, but I do not condone anti-God protestors. It's fine to think he doesn't exist and to have your own beliefs but to belittle believers and worshipers and to question their intelligence is just plain wrong. Many of the generalisms made bout Christians, and in particular Catholics, are wrong. People think I must be homophobic because I'm a believer. Well I can assure you i'm not, nor is every other Catholic. Yes there are a few who use the bible to condone acts of disgusting, mindless intolerance. But thats not the fault of the bible as much as the fault of the interpreter. I don't take the Bible as Gospel (if you pardon the pun). Infact I don't even believe half of it. Maybe it's meant to be symbolic but i'm fairly agnostic on the old testiment, God just seemed so angry.

oh and don't piss me off because i'll end up writing a really long angry bitter blog about it and you don't want that, do you?

I love musicals. I said it. Especially those by Andrew Lloyd Webber. Don't judge the drew.. cats is a musical MASTERPIECE not even a lie..

Thats all.
I'm Angry.
Like the birds.

V festival, The Vaccines and Very difficult alliteration that I struggled with for a really long time in an attempt to sound witty. cool.

I went to v festival. It was proper lovely. The ultimate chav festival apparently. I don't care I loved it. Obviously Eminem was amazing but thats sort of expected from him. I think the best thing I saw was Kele. I love him more than cats. Nearly. The vibe was just beautiful and there were so many people there because it was in a tent and it was raining but literally everyone was loving it. He was mental, and when he played Tenderoni I was just like, Lovin' Life. Arctic monkeys were beyond disappointing to speak the truth, if I wanted to hear bloody moody contemplative songs I would have stayed at home and listened to Dido.. Well I wouldn't, because I hate Dido. But it seems like they actually despise their fans. They are not entertainers in any way.. They didn't even play Old Yellow Bricks, San Francisco, Dancing Shoes, Balaclava, Red Light Indicates Doors are Secured or many other classic tunes. But they did have Miles Kane out for their last song so all was forgiven. I just love Miles Kane, he's such a wonderful wonderful man..

Last week I only went to see the Vaccines, and although I do drive a single handed personal vendetta against them usually, I thought they were alright actually.. Like they're entertaining. And the guitarist only looks like Matt Baker! I might be a bit too keen on past Blue Peter presenters. But the Vaccines weren't bad. They are just an evolved version of the strokes, but I've finally realised that because I love the Strokes I should surely love the Vaccines.. There songs are so short. Thats good I have a short attention span. So I digress, I guess the point was I wish to remove all previous hate and start a new. good. brilliant. sorted. I. Love. Fullstops.

I had a crazy dream t'other night. I was a wee fish in the sea and Jarvis Cocker fished me out and took me home. I was in his home watching his life. It was great. Until he ate me. Is it weird that I enjoyed that? I think probably..

I saw Dr. Faustus yesterday. It was brilliant. At one point Arthur Darvill looked at me and we shared a moment, In fact I know it was love.. True true love... I LOVE HIM

lalalalalalalalalalalalalalala

Being a massive loser..

Takes a lot of effort. To. Much. Potter. So anyway, I should have written a new blog agesss ago but i'm the KING of procrastination. A title i'm extremely proud of. Been on holiday, which is nice. but before I went I saw pulp. I just love them. I could marry the music. I love britpop and pulp is really the finest bitpop in the land.  Sometimes i'm so overwhelmed by the amount I love pulp I just want to eat the whole of china. Jarvis Cocker is such a performer. I like pulp because other than the bum incident and the whole spider-man accident, They didn't really get to media focused like what oasis and blur done. Pulp is just plain tunes.

There's riots going down. A lot of them. I mean I get that these people need to be heard and that;s why they're doing the vandalism but leave Nando's out of it. I love my tender peri-peri chicken. Perhaps more importantly however, the rioters burnt down the Sony DADC warehouse in Enfield, Which will have serious repercussions (not really sure what that means) on PIAS. Which is bad because it means Indie record labels will be in the shit and new artists will be fucked. Thats not really good. Also rumour has it the entire inside of the electric ballroom has been destroyed, I hope it's not true. That'd be awful. Although they did manage to attack Liam Gallagher's shop in Manchester. He's a bit of a prat.

It's quarter past two in the morning and I sort of need to pee but it's dark outside my room and I can't be arsed to go to the toilet. My gums run out of flavour. I don't want to throw it away though. My life is slowly going down hill. Where's my cat?

Oh pass me some of that Long White Clouds genius. No really I need it.

Oh dear Lord it's happened again. I've become attached to a band and I can't let go. and it's long white clouds. It's amazing you'll understand the minute you listen to James Dean's Eye's it's musical genius and you want to be their bestest friend because they just seem like really lovely people. It's so hard to describe because they're really unique and they just sound so fresh, I want to marry the music. I wish that was allowed. *sigh*

James Dean's Eye's is THE track of my summer. It just feels so personal. I'm hearting this right now.  Go listen to them. Now. Do it. Stop reading this. It's worthless.

http://www.thelongwhiteclouds.com/       Shhh.

Actually don't stop reading this. You're ears aren't fully open if you're yet to hear Tyrannosaurus Dead. They do all that lovely guitar music that I do so love. They have TALENT and I hope they're going to be big, because if they're not the world is unjust and I will become a wailing banshee that lives on the beach and eats the bark from dying trees while shouting obscenities at strangers. Might have over thought that one, but I will stand by my word. They sound a bit like the Valentines or something. The Guitar sounds strokish. As in the strokes. Not as in molestation. Is molestation a word? I'm swaying towards no. Anyway, Go check them out, you'll be well chuffed when they're all famous and you can say oh I remember them in the early days, all nostalgic like. People will think you're proper king.

http://www.tyrannosaurusdead.blogspot.com/

Go there ^

Now.

I'm off to live the precarious life of a nerd,
Kthnxbi
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Unspoken Public Transport Rules.

Yes. I brought it up. Yes I do understand the meaning of 'Unspoken' but, No, It is in no circumstance Okay for you to take your shoes off on the bus. It's a rule, True it's never been written down, but it's a given. To avoid further confusion here's a list, a list of the other unspoken public transport laws.
1) I'll just re-itterate DO NOT TAKE YOUR SHOES OFF. I hate feet and I hate bacteria and I hate bad smells. So keep it in your shoes.
2) Don't eat loud or smelly food. It's not alright and everyone will hate you.
3) Don't have a conversation across the bus. Sit next to each other or don't talk at all.
4) Never. I say never. Play your music out loud. I can almost certainly guarantee that it's a heinous crime to my earholes.
5) If you think there's a chance you may urinate then don't get on the transportation vehicle. I know it sounds obvious but once a woman quite literally decided to pee. On three separate seats.
6) Don't administer any form of injection. There's a chance i'll vom on you.
7) Please, I appeal to you, Please don't stand up before the bus has even stopped if it's the buses final destination. Every single other person is also going to get off there. Will 1 minute extra honestly change your life?
8) If someone else has already pushed the button. Do not push it again. Ever. It kills me after the fifth bloody 'PING!' of bus stopping enthusiasm.
9) Control your bloody children. No it's not cute, they're actual gremlins.
10) KEEP YOUR SHOES ON.

Kthnxbi.
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Dare to dream? Die in a hole.

Someone once said to me, "all you need is dreams" I often come back to that sentiment in my mind, Because it's bullshit. All of it. It's all well and good for people to make statements that have such Romantic twists and deep thought out meaning, but honestly think before you say things because IT may sound like a nice inspirational one line but YOU just sound like a prat. If all I need is dreams then why can't I put on my resume "Dreams that one day she'll marry Matt Smith". Because thats not going to get me a job. Is it?
There's so many deep emotional quotes about dreams and they are looked upon as new age treasure but in reality a dream is standard to everyone. Dreams aren't all achievable with the right application either, another lie that we feed in to society from a young age. If people who start bands for example only have a dream and no talent, then they'll sound shit. Yeah maybe they'll have a good lyric or two but other than that the guitarist wont be able to play for shit and everyone knows you need a solid rhythmic guitar solo to get the audience going. If the only thing our good doctors and nurses had were dreams then we'd be in a very sorry state, "Yeah sorry I accidentally punctured your lung when I was attempting to take your pulse but can I interest you in a dream I had about a friendly cactus as you slowly die?" Sounds good to me. If you want to dream you need to comprehend the brilliance of hard work and apply some hint of reason. I have nothing against ambition, only the emptiness of false hope dreams can instil. Call me cynical.
Anyway, why waste your life dreaming. If you spend everyday thinking about he future and how things might work out you'll never enjoy the best of life. The little affirming moments that make your day will one day be the little moments you tell your grandchildren about. Like the crap gigs you go to that have the best atmosphere or cocking up a crossword and then finishing it with words that were never meant to fill those spaces. It sounds like the shitest thing but it's not, it's the feeling of knowing nobody else put those words in that space, and for a little while you have something that purely yours.

Yeah my life must sound enriching.

The sun has come out. Many people appear pleased by this fact. Don't get me wrong I don't like winter but really, is the amount of current U.V rays necessary? I'm pale. Awful pale. I know a ginger less pale than myself. Once I got burnt walking from a building to a car. It wasn't even a considerable distance between said places. I HATE the sun with a burning passion, one that could convert hydrogen to helium causing nuclear fusion (yes that was a sun related physics joke, and what?). So why it had to come early I cannot comprehend.

Finally I wish to say: SUBMARINE IS THE BEST FILM EVER. It will be a British classic. Richard Ayoade star of the IT crowd directed it, it's his debut film, Alex Turner did the music and the cast appear to be fresh off cbbc, (the best place in the world) with the main roles being played by Craig Roberts (Tracy Beaker, young Dracula and i'm in love with him.) and Yasmin Paige (Ballet shoes, sarah jane adventures). The film Is just pure brilliance, It's classically British and it's so easy to relate to. The main character isn't the stereotypical American teen movie hero, he's just like any 15 year old boy, he thinks bullying is wrong but he joins in, he does stupid things but for the right reasons, and he acts how you would expect him to. It's a film thats makes you experience hilarity and then depression straight after, the range of emotions it takes you through is overwhelming and everything about it is well thought out but seems spontaneous. It's perfect because it draws attention to the little things in the way a young persons mind works. It focuses on things that are unimportant and overlooks the seemingly obvious. Submarine does what the brits do best. Takes the piss. Out of everything and everyone and it's okay because it's that classic british sense of humour. I honestly think it's the best film of this year. I do.

See youz
Ling
xx

MON THE BIFF.

Because you can't have it all, Stuck in the middle, reason one and all, I was born on a horse thats all. 

Yes it is the lyrical wonders of Biffy Clyro. I can't help the inspiration I felt after seeing them last wednesday at their teenage cancer trust gig. It was for a good cause and Simon Neil looked absolutely beautiful so all in all it was a good night. Oh yeah and their music did happen to be bloody brilliant. Lovely lovely set, Lovely lovely scottish people and lovely lovely charity work. Biffy Clyro really do represent the brilliance of modern music. Every now and then you get a few gems that you know will be timeless and Biffy Clyro are definitely one of those rarities, they have range, talent and appeal. Their lyrics are beautiful, symbolic and touching and their music is technically wondrous and you can relate to it so well. <3 It's musical genius with the added bonus of a sexy scottish accent. 

Something thats really got me shaking my fists lately is the constant drone of the 'indie kids'. No, I'm sorry but dying your hair red and claiming you "so totes love that uber cool band neon trees" while your last status update was the twelfth JLS lyrics of the day does not make you indie. STOP CALLING YOURSELF INDIE. I'm angry inside. So angry. 

I like cats.

Attention seeking Profile pictures will in future cause yourself embarrassment (if there's justice) So stop. Dear lord stop. I don't care that you have 21 likes on your photo, your face looks like you were slapped by a shark. A massive shark. With a unicorn horn. And the fact that it must be changed at least twice a day in order to annoy every normal civilian to the point where they remove and block you, Is painfully absurd. Morons.

Something i'd be really interested about seeing is "The Cult of Beauty: The Aesthetic Movement 1860 - 1900" At the Victoria and Albert Museum. It's an exhibition focusing on the development of the perception of beauty and the artistic movement that revolutionised the dull ugly materialism of Victorian Art. The exhibition is full of photographs designs and dresses from the past documenting the rise in the social ideal of aestheticism and its consequences on daily life. What I find the most interesting upon searching the exhibition is its portrayal of female visual beauty and the change in what society finds attractive, With earlier painting depicting ginger haired, more masculine women and the later years gradually began to shift to darker haired, soft featured women. It think beauty and aesthetics are perhaps to highly depended on in modern society with our eagerness to judge someone immediately from the way they look. I just reckon we need to be more accepting because although you may not find particular traits or features aesthetically beautiful, someone will. It's a common ignorant belief in life that looking good will make you happier, more successful or even better off on the whole. This can't be true at all, because some things are actually more attractive than external beauty, and if you are fortunate enough to hold one of those traits then you are more beautiful than anything. 

Thats all fo' the now 

Aisling

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The Valentines? Yes please. Oh and I went to a Wombats concert.

So on monday night I went to see the Wombats at Hammersmith Apollo and before I start I have to say I really hate Hammersmith as a venue, I just don't like the way the place is set out and the way the sound waves bounce of the wall makes it quite obtrusive. Anywayz The wombats were brilliant, they had amazing stage presence and the audience were LOVING it which is always a good sign. Most of their audience has gradually got a lot younger with all the 'cool indie kids' beginning to love their music, they've lost the older audience they had with "Boys, Girls and Marsupials' which is really a shame to be honest.  They did a mix of their old and new stuff which was good seeing as the haven't released their album yet so it could have been extremely tedious if it was all new stuff. The set ended with 'Lets dance to Joy Division' which was bloody brilliant way to end a lovely evening.
My only concern was the support acts. In hindsight the first one wasn't that bad, they were lovely (possibly swedish people) Called Team Me, They were sort of loveable which is an odd way to describe a band but they really were. However it was the second support act I had trouble with, I didn't catch the name, But apparently nor did anyone else, I've been trawling the internet with approximately no results, But in honesty I couldn't give a jilly because they were so so very awful. They sounded like every other female indie/pop artist under the sun which I was not loving. The drummer appeared to have an arm spasm causing him to constantly point at the ceiling and the lead singers face was completely covered by her hair which was plain distracting. At one point I got extremely excited when she said they were to do a song called 'elves bus' only to be crushed by the realisation she'd said 'Hour glass', I was gutted truth be telling.
It was an overall brilliant evening despite the drunken girl in front of me, although I have to admit guessing which song she'd flat out collapse in was mildly entertaining.

Other things i'm loving this week include the brilliant and hilarious 'Valentines' band, They have brilliant music and a hilarious blog which makes them brilliant and hilarious I do conclude. Their song 'We are the Band' Blew my socks off and it is beautifully catchy and so unbelievably true and it has a charming beat :) They are my music crush for certain. You NEED to read their blog you will be pissing your self with the giggles. Their facebook page is mildly humorous too (if by mildly you mean bloody comical genius) and I do in fact fancy their way with words, if that be possible. I think I may be in love with them.

In other news Charlie Sheen may be a God of sorts, Yes of course its sad give him some pity blah blah blah but has nobody else read his interviews and thought he was like some kind of mutation? I think he's just so amazingly odd that we should make some kind of statue in his honour? No, just me then? Cool.

Sopio Cards came today :) Wahey! If you're like "What's sopio" then I pity you a bit. It's Alex Day's (Nerimon's) marvellous card game thats just to hard to explain yet wonderful. To be honest, The rules are fairly incomprehensible but I care not. They are AMAZING. I've never loved Nerimon more except the time he opened the video with "Hello, Sexy" And the "Hello youtube, Do you want me to do a video for you?" one, That was quite splendid.

On a final note I've been loving my James Blake this week and Jagga's been a recurring hit. If you're unsure as to who I speak may be, then google/youtube them. Lovely.

Now I shall return to my dull and monotonous life.
Luvz Yuz
Aisling
xxx
Oh and Tom - Dave Days. Happy?

Modern Music And Brit Pop.

So, while the 80's had The Clash, The Cure and Guns n Roses, The 90's had Nirvana, Blur and oasis and The 2000's saw the Queens of the stone age and Biffy Cylro form, This humble decade that is to be, so far has accomplished next to nothing. With a quick internet search revelling the only band formed in 2010 to see any form of success so far being the wanted, so I went and listened to one surprisingly awful track called "All time low" which I must say has to be the all time low of modern music if you'll pardon the pun. I was shocked by the lack of diversity in modern music. The main artists being Lady GaGa and Rhianna is fine with me. I can understand the appeal of their music but it seems more than that, it's the media controlling the industry which is frankly absurd. Lady GaGa makes this point so well, Strip her of her weird clothes and publicity focused stunts and videos and you're left with just another good tune and a crazy lady in an egg. I think what she has achieved is marvellous, her sudden rise to fame is something to applaud her on, but it shocks me that people think what she's doing is so amazingly new. People have been wearing weird clothes and doing crazy things for such a long time, Kiss, although I may not be their biggest fan, were quite something. Not to mention Queens video for "I want to break free". The modern concept off weirdly wonderful has become far too driven by a desire to turn heads, I bet Lady GaGa doesn't even know what the message behind her choice of clothing is. I do praise her for the nerve to do it, But she's not the first and she'll by no means be the last.

An era of music I absolutely adore has to be Brit Pop when it was at it's finest. Somebody told me to watch a feature length documentary on the rise and fall of Brit Pop called "Live Forever" and it was bloody brilliant. It explores not only the musical side of the Brit Pop revolution but the political and cultural sides too. It features The Gallaghers, Damon Albarn and Jarvis Cocker talking about the era from their perspective which is really amazing. The documentary itself is hilarious yet so educational to exactly why such a great part of music died so young and the Gallaghers are on amazing form. Brit Pop is such a brilliant time in music as so much of it is about things that Brits can really relate to. It really pushed for alternative music to enter a more mainstream audience and the way it was accepted was electrifying. When it comes down to the battle of brit pop however I have to take the side of Blur, because they were in fact a better band with more complex instrumentals. Oasis as good as they were wrote stadium anthems whereas Blur wrote solid music focusing on just that, The music. Of course thats not all Brit Pop is about. The politics of the era where amazing too, we saw the beginning of new labour a government so pressed on change that they used pop culture to force their ideology through, And it worked. Being a Labour supporter myself I feel that this is what politics is about, it's about talking to the people in their own language through their idols and musicians. I feel like the down fall of Brit Pop was inevitable though. Without the support of America in the arts we would achieve nothing and America didn't quite get Brit Pop, it was all about Britain and policies and the issues the people of Britain were experiencing, so it's not difficult to understand why that didn't appeal to Americans. And while America kept producing new exciting sounds the people of britain became more drawn toward the dead Pop tunes we have today that have every ounce of originality sucked from them. So although Brit Pop may have been short lived it made a lasting impression, just take a look at the ticket sales of wireless this year where Pulp are doing a reunion concert, For which i'm crazy excited, They alone show that the buzz of brit pop is still happening and it is in fact timeless. 

Finally I want to say watch out for some amazing bands hitting the alternative scene:

Sleigh Bells - listen to infinity guitars it's so brilliant, You'll be humming it for weeks. 

War paint - They're going to get even bigger than they are. It's some crazy all female experimental art rock. 

The Phoenix Foundation - after 10 years success in New Zealand they're hitting the British indie- rock/pop scene. Coming in with all that experience means they are going to be huge.

Thats all for the now, 

Lovely Love,

Aisling 

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Valentines Day.

Not going to lie here, Valentines day is a nice idea. Showing someone you love you appreciate them is a nice thing to do, But once a year? Are you having a laugh? And anyway valentines day should surely be a little more about the religious festival rather than the commercialised, egotistical extravaganza we all know too well. Shouldn't we be celebrating Saint Valentines sacrifice for love? He died not only for marrying couples who weren't meant to be married, but for being an active christian. I'm sure the martyr to love wouldn't be best pleased with the festival that has become a reminder to all the single people that yes, they will die alone with 18 cats. 

I have been spending the build up to valentines day listening to possibly the best love song by the Beatles, it was clearly written while John Lennon was in his jealous days and I think the fact it's lyrics are so nasty and the chords are a jolly blues progression makes it so real and so easy to listen to. It's called 'Can't do that' and it was first released on the B side of 'Can't buy me love'. The guitar solo is said to be heavily influenced by Wilson Pickett which really comes through. It's written around the theme of sexual paranoia and jealousy and it bears so much resemblance to modern day romance. It's also really catchy and oddly enough I think it was their best song. Although i'm not really the biggest Beatles fan this is maybe one of my favourite songs of ever. 

Something else you may be interested in is a singer called 'Zowie', I'm not really all that into her music, but she is really good. Some people are comparing her to Lady GaGa but she's nothing like her, I think she's got her own style and sound. I do find her lyrics quite dull and repetitive but people in search of a good beat will quite like her, she's a bit to glam pop for me though. 

Well thats all,
LOVE,
Aisling
xxx

Mystery Jets 09/02/11

Last night me and my friends went to see the Mystery Jets and it was quite possibly one of the best concerts i've ever been to. They were really impressively good, but what really got my attention was the second support act, They were called Fiction and they were absolutely brilliant, you could tell they were passionate, and most their songs are mainly focused on the music not the lyrics like most modern bands are today. However the most exciting thing about them was the drumming, There were two drummers who alternated between keyboard and drums and they played standing up. That really reminded me of a much milder version of Maureen Tucker of The Velvet Underground and it was absolutely inspiring, I honestly wish them all the best and I reckon they're going to be big later this year. 

Another thing I was fascinated by this week was memes. My sister showed my some on monday and I can't stop looking at them now, I'm wasting my life. 

My favourites are:

Courage wolf:

Y U NO guy:

Socialy Awkward Penguin:

And Foul Bachelor Frog:

Yes this is why l will fail all my gcse's. No I will never regret it. 

Well thats all for now really. Because my life is so dull that I have nothing else to say. I shall leave you on this note:

 

LOVE,

Aisling 

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