One afternoon, a couple of years ago, I sat with my mum, in the car, going into town. I can’t remember for the life of me which song came on the radio, but I can remember turning it up loud. Really loud. Cue my mum ‘Bloody hell, Rach. You’re a proper music head. Can’t we just have abit of peace and quiet’? That’s stuck with me to this day, and it’s still true.
My iPod is stuck in my ears as I write this.
Music is one of those great pieces of work where it gives you the opportunity to forget where you are, what you’re doing, where you’re doing it.
I get in the car, turn the radio on. Is still stand by the idea that there is nothing better than driving down a country lane, window down, bright sunshine, with music coming out of the stereo. After a stressful day at college, university or work, it’s like a little piece of heaven on earth.
Now, I have a pretty random taste in music. I was chatting to one of my mates recently about a song, and when I mentioned songs on my iPod, her reply was something like ‘I don’t really want to know what’s on there’. This is going from the girl who wanted Jedward to win X Factor, so she will remain nameless for her sake. Clicking Shuffle is guaranteed to give you a right concoction of tunes. Anything from Adele, to All Time Low, via Biffy Clyro to Florence and the Machine. Pussycat Dolls, Glee cast, JLS, Lil Wayne and The Saturdays are all on there too. If I had to nail down the kind of music genre I like the most, it would probably be rock/indie. Bands like Kasabian, The Features, The Strokes, Arctic Monkeys and Vampire Weekend are some of my favourite bands in the whole world.
One band, however, which takes up the most storage space, is Kings of Leon. 103 songs, 5 music videos, 115 photos. I’ve got a pile of magazines that they’re in, and I literally ran to HMV when the live DVD came out. It was my best friend who got me interested in them. There were some home movies which the guys had done whilst recording their fourth album, and she told me to go and watch them. I can still remember sitting in the corner of the living room a couple of weeks before Christmas in 2008, and having to cover my mouth because I was laughing so hard. Not long after I got hold of Youth And Young Manhood and Because Of The Times, and listened to them non-stop. I’d already downloaded some of the songs off of Only By The Night after recommendations from iTunes. Aha Shake Heartbreak is one of my favourite albums ever, and I couldn’t even begin to choose a favourite song because I have so many.
I never really understood how you could be so into just one band and, growing up, I always listened to loads of bands and artists. I still do. I can buy five or six CDs at once, but I’ll always go back to the old faithful.
It’s gone past the point of their music now, too. I’ve made some awesome friends through our mutual liking of them. I’ve bought albums and songs because they’ve been recommended by the band members.
At the end of June, I’m going to Hyde Park to see them play to 40,000 people. Their biggest solo show to date. Along with some of girls I’ve met through social networks and forums and my best mate, we’re going to have the time of our lives. That may sound extreme, but as someone who is obsessed with music, obsessed with the feeling she gets from music and the way it plays apart in her life, I don’t think it is.
I’ve never seen them live. I almost went to see them at Manchester, then London, then Leeds, but it never happened.
Because I’m slightly shallow, I’ve started looking at clothes to wear, (I thought it was best to get some fashion in this and it not turn into a total groupie-esque story) but I do live in England after all. Wellies, sandals, shorts, jeans, jumpers, vests. You name it. A Kings t-shirt is standard.
I found a quote a couple of days ago: ‘Mix tapes are like pictures, but without sound. I think music makes you love a person.’
I couldn’t have put it better myself.
My iPod is stuck in my ears as I write this.
Music is one of those great pieces of work where it gives you the opportunity to forget where you are, what you’re doing, where you’re doing it.
I get in the car, turn the radio on. Is still stand by the idea that there is nothing better than driving down a country lane, window down, bright sunshine, with music coming out of the stereo. After a stressful day at college, university or work, it’s like a little piece of heaven on earth.
Now, I have a pretty random taste in music. I was chatting to one of my mates recently about a song, and when I mentioned songs on my iPod, her reply was something like ‘I don’t really want to know what’s on there’. This is going from the girl who wanted Jedward to win X Factor, so she will remain nameless for her sake. Clicking Shuffle is guaranteed to give you a right concoction of tunes. Anything from Adele, to All Time Low, via Biffy Clyro to Florence and the Machine. Pussycat Dolls, Glee cast, JLS, Lil Wayne and The Saturdays are all on there too. If I had to nail down the kind of music genre I like the most, it would probably be rock/indie. Bands like Kasabian, The Features, The Strokes, Arctic Monkeys and Vampire Weekend are some of my favourite bands in the whole world.
One band, however, which takes up the most storage space, is Kings of Leon. 103 songs, 5 music videos, 115 photos. I’ve got a pile of magazines that they’re in, and I literally ran to HMV when the live DVD came out. It was my best friend who got me interested in them. There were some home movies which the guys had done whilst recording their fourth album, and she told me to go and watch them. I can still remember sitting in the corner of the living room a couple of weeks before Christmas in 2008, and having to cover my mouth because I was laughing so hard. Not long after I got hold of Youth And Young Manhood and Because Of The Times, and listened to them non-stop. I’d already downloaded some of the songs off of Only By The Night after recommendations from iTunes. Aha Shake Heartbreak is one of my favourite albums ever, and I couldn’t even begin to choose a favourite song because I have so many.
I never really understood how you could be so into just one band and, growing up, I always listened to loads of bands and artists. I still do. I can buy five or six CDs at once, but I’ll always go back to the old faithful.
It’s gone past the point of their music now, too. I’ve made some awesome friends through our mutual liking of them. I’ve bought albums and songs because they’ve been recommended by the band members.
At the end of June, I’m going to Hyde Park to see them play to 40,000 people. Their biggest solo show to date. Along with some of girls I’ve met through social networks and forums and my best mate, we’re going to have the time of our lives. That may sound extreme, but as someone who is obsessed with music, obsessed with the feeling she gets from music and the way it plays apart in her life, I don’t think it is.
I’ve never seen them live. I almost went to see them at Manchester, then London, then Leeds, but it never happened.
Because I’m slightly shallow, I’ve started looking at clothes to wear, (I thought it was best to get some fashion in this and it not turn into a total groupie-esque story) but I do live in England after all. Wellies, sandals, shorts, jeans, jumpers, vests. You name it. A Kings t-shirt is standard.
I found a quote a couple of days ago: ‘Mix tapes are like pictures, but without sound. I think music makes you love a person.’
I couldn’t have put it better myself.
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