A night of rapping, jumping and awesomeness!

Ciao, 

Now I don't know if I have mentioned this before but I am a serial concert goer. I think it's a serious addiction, I need to go to some sort of Concert Addict Anonymous. I am lucky enough to have a Dad who has passed on his very varied taste in music to me and I am willing to listen to anything at least once! Again thanks to my amazing parents I normally get quite a few tickets to concerts for my birthday and Christmas. This year for Christmas I got tickets to see Viva Forever, Plan B, Emeli Sande and The Script - talk about spoilt. Plus before Christmas I bought myself a ticket to see Example and Pink...this has culminated in 6 gigs in 4 months. Busy busy bee.

So on 9th February I went to see Plan B with my brother and before I tell you about the main gig, I'm going to tell you about the only disappointing thing about the gig. Before the gig I was on Twitter and I saw a tweet from Rudimental about their tour supporting Plan B, I was so excited as I LOVE the stuff I've heard by them so far. Now I haven't listened to their stuff extensively as I am always revising albums for the gigs I have tickets for (I take my gig going very seriously) but I was very excited to watch them live. Sadly I was then very disappointed as me and my brother missed their set :'(

However, this was more than made up for by Plan B's amazing set! If you haven't ever listened to him than I will give you a little bit of background info. His second album 'The Defamation of Strickland Banks' is a great blend of rapping and soul singing which tells the story of Strickland Banks and his jail stint. It's a very good album which has many songs that I really love. Plan B has also just released a film which he directed called 'Ill Manors' which is all about London, council estates and gangs - very relevant to today's society. His third album is eponymous and is the music from the film and is much heavier on the rap side of things. The set was split into half; one for each of the albums, which I thought was a good idea as the two albums are quite different. It's hard to explain the feeling of crowds at massive gigs unless you've ever been in one but this gig experience was definitely enhanced for me by being in a standing section instead of the seated area, maybe it created a mob like atmosphere that matched the music...who knows. As well as Plan B's amazing style and presence, there was also appearances from Kano and a guy called Faith SFX who does the most insane beat-boxing I have ever heard! If you wanna see what I'm talking about watch the link below! 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCQKHPo6TqY

All in all I really enjoyed this gig and got so into it I was jumping around like a crazy woman, which if you know my story about breaking my foot at a Tinie Tempah gig two years ago, you will know this is a dangerous move for me! Plan B delivered an amazing set list and great performance and I would love to go and watch him again!

Ciao for now...

25 facts about me...

Ciao,

Well wasn't today absolutely frigging freezing! I went to watch two of my lovely friends play football for our uni and I was freezing stood in the middle of a field. I think I may have only just thawed out. However, on to today's blog, I've seen this blog around the bloggersphere and thought I would write one too. So here goes, 25 facts about me. 

1. I can speak 3 languages...well I suppose that depends on your definition of speak. But I am learning to speak both French and Italian as well as obviously speaking English.

2. I broke my arm when I was 7 and also my 5th metatarsal (the bone that connects your little toe to your ankle) when I was 19. 

3. I broke my foot at a Tinie Tempah gig. I broke it at the end of the second support act and couldn't stand, it took the medics ages to find me and they found me literally as the lights went down for Tinie Tempah. I am proud to say I only missed the first few songs of the gig as I pestered the medics to get me back out.

4. I go to LOADS of gigs. 

5. I have weird fears/dislike of anything teeth related. 

6. I love to read and at the age of 7 had the reading age of someone over double my age. 

7. I would like to have 4 children but don't really mind not being married.

8. I can be quite creative and love to make things or fix clothes.

9. I leave everything to the last minute. 

10. My favourite musical is Rent. If you haven't seen it, watch it immediately.

11. I have a real big thing about peoples hands, I always notice peoples hands. I don't think I could fancy someone whose hands I don't like. 

12. If I could be any animal I would be an elephant or as I called them when I was little ephelants. I love them.

13. I have a major girl crush on Beyonce, if I could have anyone's body it would be hers.

14. I am a perfectionist. 

15. I have awful AWFUL eyesight and have worn glasses since I was 8 or 9. 

16. I think I was born in the wrong era, I would have loved the eighties music scene.

17. Red is my favourite colour. I have so many red things. 

18. My dream car is a red mini.

19.  Despite being able to speak their languages and the fact that I am moving to France in less than 5 months I have only ever been in France for 2 days and I have never set foot in Italy.

20. I lived in the same house from when I was born until I was 19 and moved to uni.

21. I love working with children, they're just amazing.

22. I am a relatively patient person.

23. I believe in horoscopes and magpies...very superstitious about magpies.

24. I would love for my singing voice to be just a bit better so I could feel confident enough to perform.

25. I am very close with my family and I don't just mean my parents, brother and sister. I mean my cousins, aunties, uncles and grandparents. 

That was strangely harder than I thought. I'd love to ask somebody I know questions and see if they know these 25 things about me. 

Ciao for now...