Mozart Would Not Enjoy This

I'm postponing this blog for a while, as I'm gonna be working at the Olympics for the duration, and probs won't have enough time to continue it whilst I'm working there. See yas soon :) Good view

You will be pleased to know (or not, I mean you might not even care in the slightest) that I found my most recent blog interest NOT ON RADIO 1! Yay! Huzzah for Twitter, the band posted this on their SoundCloud account and linked it to their Twitter account earlier today and I was lucky enough to happen upon it. I'm really buzzing on this song, it's an awesome summer tune (yeah I just said summer tune). I just wanna keep playing it! There are some elements of it that I like, and there are some parts of it that I just wanna hear over and over again. I've got to pace myself though, I always overplay songs that I really like just because I'm excited about it. Slooow it down.

alt-J have only really just appeared on the radar in the last few months or so really. Their album, An Awesome Wave, is a big favourite of Radio 1, who have been promoting it quite heavily recently. It's out currently and is DEFINITELY worth a listen. Top tracks for me at the moment are Breezeblocks (the biggy), this track, Tessellate, and Dissolve Me. Another band I like called Seasfire are a bit similar to alt-J, in terms of being a breath of fresh and individual air to most of the stuff in the charts at the moment. Don't get me wrong, I'm not gonna lie and say I don't like chart music because I really do, and yeah I'm sold on the whole dubstep and drum and bass thing at the moment, but it is nice to hear music that isn't buying into that whole shebang for once. Anyway, listen to the song Falling by the band Seasfire, I was literally obsessed with this song for a while. I reckon they're similar because they're both so chilled, and if you listen t...

For someone who had never been to any type of music festival before, or indeed camping of any kind whatsoever, I had no idea what to expect from Beach Break Live. It sounded like the perfect combination though - brilliant music, with a healthy mixture of indie type along with dubstep and drum and bass, along with the setting of the beach and my best friends. Obviously though, I knew not to be hopeful for brilliant weather or sunshine, and to expect a whole lot of rain and rank showers.

I'll kick things off with an absolutely beautiful song. I know it's not exactly new anymore, but I am just in love with him. Although I do have a Spotify account, I couldn't help buying the album in CD form because... I just wanted it really. Ben Howard has been compared with Ed Sheeran, and whilst I agree that the acoustic guitar style is quite similar, with the complex patterns and the repetition of riffs, I think they are quite different really. Ed Sheeran has sort of become a representative for the youth of today and brings very different musical tastes together, such as grime and indie. His lyrics are very much about everyday battles that people have to face, such as Small Bump , in which he describes the excitement of an unborn baby, only to have the devastation of a miscarriage, echoed in the melancholy undertones throughout the song.

So this is hopefully gonna be a bit like the Radio 1 presenters' Big Thing of the week I guess. Except I'm not a Radio 1 presenter (yet), and I might not stick to the strict "once a week" thing. Basically what I'm aiming to do is start a blog which captures my favourite songs of the moment. I'll analyse them a bit, say why I like them and compare them to other songs. Please bear with me; I've never done a blog before (and I'm quite sure that writing twice in a diary at the age of eight doesn't count). Please also note that a lot of the music on my most listened to Spotify playlist, the "Starred", is probably directly descended from Radio 1's music, with a branch of the family tree coming from my own family's influences. Enjoy!