"One day we're gonna live in Paris.."

So yesterday I found out i'd won tickets to see Friendly Fires at the Roundhouse in London for the iTunes festival :D
But its next week....I have no money to travel there with and anywhere cheap to stay seems to be booked up already.
I'm soooo annoyed right now, i've been waiting agggeees to go see them and Ed's crazy dancemoves and now it doesn't look likely, plus i'm going away for a break next week.....sometimes life just seems a little unfair :(
Well here's them live just to remind me of what i'm gonna be missing out on..

Arctic Monkeys perform new material..

Since hearing and subsequently downloading 'crying lightning', i've had it on repeat and i've grown to like it more and more over the past few days. When I heard a live version posted on youtube at the beginning of the year however, I wasn't too sure about it so wanted to wait for the studio version before criticising it and I think this is how I feel about both, 'secret door' and 'potion approaching'.





Out of these two, the first is my favourite and although the music itself sounds great - I especially love the nostalgic feel of secret door - I think Alex's vocals seem pretty weak. Obviously he's not the greatest singer around and they're my favourite band so I don't wanna diss, i'm not too keen at the moment.

Roll on 24th August so I can stop being negative about the new stuff ^-^

I ran away with the circus....

A few weeks back I went to see the amazing Take That for the first time at the 55,000 capacity Manchester Old Trafford cricket ground, previously home to concerts by the likes of Radiohead, Arctic Monkeys and Foo Fighters .

I've loved Take That since I was little, watching the (somewhat cheesy) videos of their concerts and trying to copy the dance moves, so when they reunited in 2006, I was soooo happy. Since then they've become more of a 'man band' but they never fail to put on a spectacular show and I don't think i've ever seen one as amazing as this.

They arrived on the b-stage in the middle of the crowd, surrounded by balloons to be revealed. The show was complete with a raining stage, a huge mechanical elephant, trapeze artists, unicyclists, 50ft flames rising from the stage, fireworks......by far the best circus show i've ever witnessed!

The giant mechanical elephant carrying Take That to the main stage

The atmosphere was absolutely overwhelming. Hearing 55,000 people singing along to every word, seeing everyone with their hands in the air during the anthem now associated with Take That, 'Never Forget' - it was all an experience i'll never forget...

Now after a month touring the spectacular across the UK, finishing up at the world famous Wembley stadium, Gary, Mark, Jason and Howard should be taking a well earned rest before starting work on their third album since their return and hopefully it won't be too long before I get to see them again, although they're gonna have to pull something truly magnificent out of the bag to top this one.. More of my pics here; http://www.flickr.com/photos/10176570@N03/

“My thoughts got rude, as you talked and chewed on the last of your pick and mix…”

Last night I heard Crying Lightning, Arctic Monkeys’ first release from their upcoming third album, ‘Humbug’ to be released on 24th August 2009.

Its rather amazing, they've really grown with their songwriting since the debut :)

Single availiable from iTunes now and physical version released 17th August......enjoy :)