Blur & Jimmy Fallon - Tender YTV

05/05/15 YouTube Video

It has been a while since I heard this song and upon hearing it today, it rekindled a flame in the back of my memory somewhere. Memories of good times and sing-a-longs with friends. It is nice to hear it done acoustically and I am not sure exactly if Jimmy Fallon adds much apart from the awkward high vocals but he is enough of a legend just getting this video recorded and posting it online for everyone to hear. Coxon soloing on the resonator guitar was my personal highlight. I hope you dig it as much as me. Enjoy!

Gutted :(

Just a quick post to say how annoyed I am with how impatient I get when purchasing concert tickets for the next gig. A few weeks ago now I purchased a ticket to see Tonight Alive (pictured below) for a concert on the 1st of October and just yesterday I received a notification off of my SongKick app telling me that Laura Marling will be playing Birmingham Symphony Hall on the same date. Sooo annoying that there wasn't even one days difference between the two artists because even the amount that I want to see Laura Marling, I still want to see Tonight Alive. I think their album is a proper killer which I think I have mentioned in a previous post and I think they will proper rock the crowd. Their tickets are not sold out yet but they should be, they are that good.  I just hope Laura does more dates in my area. Please.

 

 

 

Thank You HMV

Recently I have been making the most of HMV closing down (or whatever they are doing) to get discounted CD's. In the picture, the top 8 albums are from HMV and the bottom few I bought from Amazon but I figured I would include them because I got them around the same kinda time. I have definitely been getting into more rocky based genre of music recently, with the Tonight Alive album which is one I have been particularly lovin, Biffy Clyro, Kids In Glass Houses, and I'm proper looking forward to giving the Sound City and Slash album a good listen. From the looks of them both, there sounds like a few great collaborations and both albums produced by awesome musicians, you cant really go wrong :)

Back to the Tonight Alive's What Are You So Scared Of? album, it has been one of my more played albums so far. It has been one that has spent a long while on my Amazon wish list and the push I needed to get my ass in to gear and buy it came from a music mag (forget which one) that had an article reviewing a few different Australian rock groups latest releases and they were really bigging these guys up. A nice thing about this album is it ends with 4 acoustic tracks: What Are You So Scared Of?, Safe & Sound, Let It Land and Breaking And Entering. It just ends the album on a bit more of a relaxed feeling which I find refreshing.

Plenty to keep me busy over spring break.

I am also super excited to be going to Reading festival this year. I just bought my ticket this morning. I will no doubt do a post about it in the near future.