Update

With applications to Universities on the go along with an obscene amount of gigging, things have been pretty crazy recently; hence the lack of activity on here.

I’ve had a pretty amazing month or two though! At the last update I did, I’d just interviewed the Ghosts. Since then I’ve seen:

• Dry the River
• The Killers
• The Traps

 I also got to interview The Traps which was beyond cool (another famous-ish contact to add the list haha). After their gig downstairs, I interviewed the lead singer outside in the beer garden (although it wasn't much of a garden). It was such an amazing interview and I’m unbelievably happy with how it went. I recorded it on my phone so it would be easier to transcribe but oh my god it’s SO embarrassing listening back to myself. I sound annoyingly obnoxious and I’m like ‘ha yar totally cool’ every few minutes. The venue was so cool, I loved the Flapper. After the interview, I celebrated with copious amounts of vodka and a good dance to Nirvana and System of a Down – what a great fucking pub.

• Spector (best gig ever)
• Mystery Jets

 I’ve saved the best news till last. Last week, I interviewed Swim effing Deep OMG. Before their gig supporting Mystery Jets at the HMV I got to meet Austin and Higgy. I left sixth form early to go to Town because I had a plan of getting them all individual presents. Luckily I changed my mind because I realised that was kind of weird. Instead, I got them one of those cute iced hearts from the German Market with ‘Birmingham’ written on it. It’s funny because while I was at the German Market, I walked past Austin and Higgy who of course had no idea who I was (yet) but nevertheless I smiled at them like some crazed fan girl. I don’t think they recognised me later on … or maybe they did and were like why is that weird Cheshire cat interviewing us.

After a bit of an issue with phone malfunctions, I finally met Max the tour manager, who was interestingly French and looked a bit like Hagrid, and he led me and Nicola (the blonde girl in all the photos aka my best friend and assistant) to the Old Crown pub in Digbeth. By that point I was at the brink of fainting with nerves/excitement. There was no need to be nervous at all; it was all so amazing. Austin, Higgy and their friend were eating pizza just being cool. Nicola videoed it all so I technically have a video of Higgy eating haha … creepy but kinda cool. The whole situation was really surreal because I love their music so much. They've clearly got personalities worth loving too. I can't believe how genuine, funny and intelligent they were. Incredible band, incredible interview. I love what I do so much - I get to meet amazing people without coming across as a crazed stalker - fucking brilliant. 

Summer Music

What a fantastic summer for music it has been!

I went to an amazingly unique festival called Wilderness - watch this space for a published review. It really was the epitome of cool, weird, and hippie - definitely a must for next year. Guess who managed to have a chat with their favourite big haired musician, King Charles, again! I actually managed to keep calm, despite the fact that I was melting inside due to his pure sexiness #fangirling! He even called me a 'silly girl' because I hadn't got myself a ticket to see him at reading. He also declared that he was on the hunt for a girl to kiss - PICK ME CHARLES, PICK ME

The Stone Roses have been the soundtrack to my car journeys ever since I was little, so to actually have had the chance to see the Mancunian legends live at V festival was a personal summer highlight. The Stone Roses, The Killers, Miles Kane and Noel Gallagher were absolutely fantastic. They made all the difference to V festival, which otherwise had a pretty shit line up compared to previous years. 

I don't even think I can bring myself to talk about Reading and Leeds. I am BITTERLY jealous of anyone that got to go and listen to the entire contents of my music collection in one place. I embarrassingly burst into tears when I saw Fearne and Gregg's coverage of the festival on BBC3 where they showed Green day's (badly kept) secret show. Alt-J, Jake Bugg, King Charles, Tribes, The Cure and almost every other band were amazing to watch on TV and I'm certain even better to watch within the festival atmosphere. I definitely won't be making that mistake again - Bring on Reading 2k13!!