I saw Florence last night

And it was the best night of my life ever! It was soo emotional, I cried! There was just mass hysteria!

First of all I must say, brummies are soooooooooooo nice! I was street teaming and they were all really sweet and friendly!



Golden Silvers were incredible, they're just sooooo talented, 'Another Universe' was gorgeous:



Then. when they did 'True Romance' I was dancing manicly, definatley more manically than everyone else as I was so high on life and caffine but then I turned round and saw a big mass of red hair running and dancing towards me and thought 'Ooo that woman's going for it even more than me' and then after about 3 seconds realised it was Florence!






And then everyone started dancing as maincally as I was then, which was good :)

After about a 30 minute break Florence came and started with between two lungs:



Ahhh, the set just got better and better, I can't even describe how good it was, it just made me the happiest and most emotional that I've ever been in my life! It was really great how everyone else knew all of the lyrics, even to the new songs as well as me, everyone just loved her and went mental!





It was lovely how she sneaked in My boy builds Coffins with the album tracks, it's such a crowd pleaser and really warmed the crowd up. The new songs are incredible, hurricane drunk is beautiful and Howl is imensly dramatic. A random girl who loves howl grabbed me so that I could be closer to the stage too. Kiss with a fist involved the usually crowd surfing, she nearly fell on my head and her braclet broke.

For me though, I would probably say that the encore was the best bit, she did Blinding (an incredible, headbanging tune about dreaming of dead people) and everyone loved it as people had been requesting it throughout her set and then she did You've Got the Love and I cried because I was so happy.

After was a 'clubnight' thing and the DJ was really good, considering he told me his laptop was broken (when I requested the Skream remix of In for the Kill), so hats off to him.

Loads of people hung around after and we met Florence and we had a sing a long to Sex on Fire, ahhh it was awesome. I then had to run to the train station for the last train with no shoes on because my feet hurt so much, it was quite liberating actually, I sung Dog Days are over on the way :)

Here's a picture of me, Emily and Florence, the flash on my camera stopped working though, so it's a bit dodgey :S



I CANNOT wait to see her again, she's just the best, nothing can top her!

Katie
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2nd Blog of the day

Sorry, I wanted to post this bit seperate to the other blog...

Regina's artwork for her new album has been confirmed to be this:



I think it's quite cute

Also her new song 'Laughing with' is up on her myspace page, it's beautiful:
www.myspace.com/reginaspektor


I'm really excited about the new album (hence my last blog) as well as Florence's new album 'Lungs' here's the tracklisting...


'Lungs' hits the shops on July 6



STANDARD ALBUM
1. Dog Days Are Over
2. Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up)
3. I'm Not Calling You A Liar
4. Howl
5. Kiss With A Fist
6. Girl With One Eye
7. Drumming
8. Between Two Lungs
9. Cosmic Love
10. My Boy Builds Coffins
11. Hurricane Drunk
12. Blinding Bonus: You've Got The Love

SPECIAL EDITION ALBUM (Limited edition deluxe album)
Disc 1
1. Dog Days Are Over
2. Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up)
3. I'm Not Calling You A Liar
4. Howl
5. Kiss With A Fist
6. Girl With One Eye
7. Drumming
8. Between Two Lungs
9. Cosmic Love
10. My Boy Builds Coffins
11. Hurricane Drunk
12. Blinding Bonus: You've Got The Love

Disc 2
1. Bird Song
2. Dog Doys Are Over (Demo)
3. Falling
4. Hardest Of Hearts
5. I’m Not Calling You A Liar (Demo)
6. Girl With 1 Eye (James Ford version)

VINYL ALBUM

1. Dog Days Are Over
2. Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up)
3. I'm Not Calling You A Liar
4. Howl
5. Kiss With A Fist
6. Girl With One Eye
7. Drumming
8. Between Two Lungs
9. Cosmic Love
10. My Boy Builds Coffins
11. Hurricane Drunk
12. Blinding Bonus: You've Got The Love

Click here to pre-order 'Lungs' now.




I've also spoken to Flamboyant Bella this week and they say that their album is coming along nicely, it won't be out for a while but when it does, woweeeeeeee, I know for a fact that it's going to be fantastic!

That'll be all for today, I'm seeing Golden Silvers tomorrow night so I might take a few videos and post them in a review so keep your eyes pealed for it :)

Katie
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Ps. I'm listening to the Calvin Harris remix of Passion Pit's new single 'The Reeling' tuuuuuuuuuuuuunnnnnnnnneeeeeee

Indie is dead

Me and Emily came to this conclusion in a 'study' lesson. With the whole 80's revival going on it means not only is everyone prancing about in jumpsuits, leotards and batwinged tops but Disco is back! Electro, disco and rave is what it's all about de nos jours. I'm kind of happy about it, it's opened up a whole new musical world for. I'm listening to more electro than ever before, dub step, rave and I'm even starting to venture into stuff like Dizzy and Chipmunk!! My 'recently added' playlist is bursting at the seems with soulwax remixes, dub step remixes and The Prodigy. I'm finding it all really exciting. Everyone seems to be coming back with electro pop albums, Jack Penate, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs etc.....
Speaking of Jack, anyone heard his new single? Brilliant isn't it?! It's better than the first in my opinion. I can't find anywhere that it's being streamed yet, but here's a live vid of it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgOdlC5TS3I
Album wise I'm addicted to the new Golden Silvers album (True Romance) and also the new Prodigy album (Invaders must Die), it's perfect for the gym, it makes your workout go about ten million times quicker!

Also new Florence tune is a treat, although in my opinion, slightly overproduced, it's in true Florence style but still it's GREAT epecially with the whole rave revival thing happening, I think it has a real 90's rave feel to it, it'll be AMAZING to hear at a festival!

Here you go, have listen if you haven't already, I CAN'T WAIT for the video, I've seen the pictures, there's coffins, pigs heads, tunics and all sorts!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dMYxGrSLZg

and here's a link to see pictures from the video shoot:
http://www.authoritydesign.com/florence/rabbit/flovid_rabbit.htm
In conclusion, ditch boring Indie bands like 'The Pigeon Detectives' and 'The Enemy' and enter a new journey of dance music and electro pop music because that's where it's at right now. Listen to radio shows like 'Annie Mac's Mash up' and your head will be filled with new ideas!

I hope you're all having a lovely weekend so far, and to every who's got exams (like me) Good luck!!

Katie
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