Flowers In The Watering Can...: Music

Hey, I know it's been a long time blogging, it's literally been on my mind for weeks to get round to do my list of posts of what I want to tell you/show you. Every List in my room (that's a lot of lists) have about ten reminders each to get blogging.

One of my favourite bloggers, Kate from ghostparties - if you haven't heard of her then where have you been? She does a Currently Loving post every couple of weeks and I thoroughly enjoy reading them. They give you a little insight into what she has been up to and also obviously what she is loving at the moment, I will probably mumble on alot more than Kate does though! Check out her latest currently loving post.

From the 1980s version, Prisoner: Cell Block H series, they have remade a contemporary version called Wenworth Prision, an Australian drama. This now airs on Channel 5 in the UK on Wednesdays at 10pm, and it's amazing! This week will be the 10th episode but I totally recommend catching up, it's just so dramatic. Remember Bad Girls? It's kinda like that, but the Australian version. There is one woman, Jacs, who is just so cruel and tries to run the place but there is a new gal in the compound (the main character), Bea, who tries to innocently stand up to Jacs and put her in her place and ITS JUST SO GOOD. On the edge of your seat and eye locking good. Be warned - in one of the episodes there is a fair amount of lesbian action in. This is the episode that me, Tori and Sonia showed the other girls and they then questioned why we were bigging it up so much haha. So I definitely say you need to watch it from the begining, to know the whole story and you get to slowly understand why all the women are in there.

Last Monday, I had probably one the best nights out of my life. The whole night just went in our favour. I work at the O2 academy and my work friend, Lauren won guest list tickets to a gig of her choice. Because she cannot make the City and Colour gig, she decided to see Bastille and take me as her +1 on Monday, lucky me!!

We got to skip the queue and 2 free drinks each, perks of a great job!

To be honest we wasn't crazy excited to see them because we're not huge fans, but that changed throughout the night. The gig was amazing, Dan (lead singer)'s voice is exactly how it sounds on the recordings and the whole band is beautiful. Dan came out in the crowd for one song, he walked straight past us and I kissed him. Smack. Bang. On the cheek. You could tell he didn't want one but I was already kissing his sweaty, stubbly face to care. Lauren fell in love with the first support act Dan Croll, he is a real cutie with a great voice, we managed to spot him walking past the box office after the gig and got a cheeky picture with him. Swiss Lips, the second support, was also really good, thoroughly enjoy listening to them - I love finding a good new band! We also managed to get a picture with the lead singer at the end, he kinda of chin molested Lauren in one photo, bit weird...

We had a couple of drinks in Baa Bars after the gig and then left about 12 and Dan - Bastille's singer, was just outside O2 meeting people, so we stood in line had a 'cool and collected' conversation with him, unlike the lass before us that just sounded extremely obessed and creepy. We also got a picture each (apologies for the bad camera quality, my phone died but luckily Lauren's hadnt), he also signed our tops we bought! I woke up the next morning after a drunken night out in Leeds with maccies happy meal stickers on my forehead and in my signed Bastille top. Fab.

I visted Blackpool last weekend for a not so crazy weekend away with the fam. Totally random, I just got a call one day tell me we were going to Blackpool and staying over for a night. The train is just under 3 hours from Leeds which is ridiculously long, when I got there our b&b was full of partying Geordies - they bought me a Cider, cuties, I even got invited out. Instead we spent our time getting caught in a storm, walking around bpool in kids size Sealife ponchos, eating Pizza express, walking up and down the promenade and waiting an hour for the tram to see the illuminations, then having an hour journey on the roofless tram (it was so cold) looking at the illuminations. It was a really lovely evening! On the Sunday we went to the Pleasure Beach. I went on all the big rides, like a big gurl. The Pepsi max and the Tabagons were definitely my favourites, we only went on them once though :( how cute is this picture of me and my brother, Jack on the Tabagons, mum bought it for me as a present to remind me of home while I'm at uni, the softie!

The main goss of the day: we saw Angelica Bell from the One Show (she used to be a CBBC presenter) and BBC filmed us going onto the ghost train, and our thoughts after. Watch the One Show on 31st- Halloween to potentially see us ;) I'm so not looking forward to it!

I'm loving work at the moment, I have two brilliant jobs which is better than what I would have said last year when I worked at Subway. Warning: never ever work at subway. I've worked so much this past week, I'm excited to be home for a couple of nights to recuperate. I've been able to see Blue, Rudimental, Sub Focus, Cirque Du Solei and served a load of freshers these past couple weeks and it's been great because I enjoy my jobs and the people I work with. You should never do a job you hate, which I learnt last year.

Hello lovelies,

Last week me and Tori held our first tea party (hopefully one of many to come) for Danielle's birthday and it was absolutely fabulous! I won't go into too much detail as we have a separate post to come when we have all the tea party pictures from Hayls!

Hopefully that post will be up in the next couple of days, anyway, more onto London! Yay, so exams are finally finished! Even though I'm not very confident how they went, thankfully they are over for now and my skin can totally tell that I'm no longer stressed.

Luckily David bought tickets to see Muse in at the Emirates Stadium the weekend after my exams and we had such a brilliant time, a great way to de-stress... Well sort of. We stayed at the Tower Bridge Travelodge for 2 nights and had 3ish days in London. Be warned this is a heavily photobased post!

Saturday 25th May

We got the megabus from Leeds to London which took a grand total of 4 and a half hours, so literally took all of the day up. When we finally got to London we hopped on the tube to our accommodation, dropped our bags off and then had a lovely summers evening stroll down the Thames.

We ended up at the Tate Museum after a very long and painful walk, I stupidly didn't think that we'd be walking for 3 hours so put on my pumps which just killed my feet. By the time we'd left the Tate Museum it was nearly 10 o'clock and we'd not eaten. So decided to go across the Millenium Bridge as quickly as possible (David is petrified of heights which was hilarious) but then we couldn't find an open restaurant other than Pizza Express, which we aren't fond of. On hindsight, we probably should have stopped off there but we ended up back at the Travelodge eating Chicago Town for £9 a piece! £9!! But by that time we'd given up and was accepting any food we could find.

Squinty picture on the tower bridge

View from the Tate Museum

Sunday 26th May
We got up nice and early in the morning, took full advantage of the all you can eat breakfast, well David definitely did. We then had a lovely sunny morning walk to the Design Museum and then hopped on the tube to Camden Town and spent the sunny afternoon there. I love Camden, the busy market stalls and all the vintage shops, it's like heaven. I also made some really cool purchases there; a Wooden iPhone Case and a very cute Bunny top.

Louis Vuitton

Chanel

A very retro calculator

David didn't want a picture with his juice :(

Curisoity got the better of us, and this felt so strange!

Had to resist buying these :(

From Camden it was a mad rush to get back to the Travelodge to get ready and then we hopped back on the tube to get to the Emirates Stadium to see Muse, Dizzee Rascal and The 1975.

The Emirates is a HUGE open stadium, even though we had Executive Box tickets (very poshhhhh of us, well just a happy accident really) we stupidly didn't bring a coat, however luckily and stragely we didn't get too cold throughout the performance.
The 1975 were the first act to go on, I saw them about a year ago at Leeds Cockpit supporting Little Comets and have been in love with them ever since, especially the yummy lead singer. I'm so happy that they are finally making their way to the top and their music is being heard and appreciated. Going from the Cockpit to the Emirates Stadium is just amazing, they played a really good set and throughly enjoyed watching them again, hopefully it won't be the last time either. They have an album coming out in September which is agesss away, so in the mean time check out their newly released songs, Chocolate and The City which I just can't help but sing and jig (yes, jig) along to.

Dizzee Rascal came on next, which was a very odd choice of support act. I personally do like Dizzee and I do listen to his music however I don't think that the majority of Muse's fan would appreciate him, he is also rumoured to support The Stone Roses.... However he did a great job of pumping the crowd up ready for Muse to come on. I did really enjoy his performance and there was a time when I really wanted to see him a couple of years ago, I just wish I had the same hype for him then when I finally got to see him.

Then, Muse finally came on, and well they were just as amazing as the last time I saw them. When they came on stage, there was fire explosions (which temporaily helped warm us up, hehe) and there was just an amazing atmosphere in the whole stadium. It was also really nice to see the sun go down over the Emirates and see the change/difference of the show in the sun and then in the dark. Muse had such good production for this tour, a 30ft robot, a huge lightbulb with a hanging acrobat underneath and onstage actors for 2 songs, which made the whole performance feel that little bit more special, well it was the Emirates Stadium after all. It was just incrediable, I have a couple of videos on our Youtube Channel too if you want to check them out.

Monday 27th May
What better way to spend the sunny bank holiday than shopping in Oxford and Regent Street?
We were naughty Monday morning as we got up early for breakfast to have a full day out shopping and museum hunting, but instead after breakfast we had a ~~30min~~, ~~1hr~~, 2 hr nap because we were so shattered and just spent the afternoon shopping instead. Which worked out well as we now have another reason to go back soon!
After we napped and packed, we dropped our luggage off in Victoria Station. Luckily they have a luggage drop off place so we didn't have to carry everything around with us all day. From there we went straight to Oxford Street to meet Danielle, and headed straight for Topshop. Danielle doesn't stop going on about it when we're in Leeds, constantly telling us how amazing it is... and wow, how she was right. It's HUGEMONGOUS, they even have a cupcake and frozen yoghurt counter inside the shop it's that big. I used my 'let's go crazy' excuse to treat myself to a new lipstick and some sunglasses, which i'm very glad I purchased, even though the sun has cleared off.
We then checked out the HENCH Urban Outfitters next door, I had to leave because I just couldn't hack that I couldn't buy anything from there. We also went to Hamleys... Only the best place, ever. They even had a Hello Kitty section on at the time, must of known I was coming. Then on the way to the Lego section we managed to bump into THE LEAD SINGER OF MUSE, MATT BELLAMY!!!!! Oh god, me and David freaked out so much, Danielle didn't really know what was going on at first and then we followed him down the escaltors and he said Hello to me because I was grinning at him like a cheshire cat. We decided against saying anything to him 1) he was with his family and we didn't want to make a scene 2) we were shaking and freaking out too much, however now we really wished we'd just said our appreciation of the gig the night before.
After Hamleys we went for food at Garfunkel's which did look really nice, however it wasn't the best place we'd been to, Danielle and David weren't that happy with their meals and mine was average. So I don't really rate it at all.
Danielle then left us, me and David did a bit more shopping and browsing and then headed for the coach for a 4 hours coach journey home. Which turned out surprisely pleasant with 2 seats each and a table for whole journey, what a comfy end to a fabby weekend away!