Showing posts with label live. Show all posts
Showing posts with label live. Show all posts

Friday, 20 September 2013

CHOCOLATE AND SEX WITH THE 1975

Now before you go jumping to conclusions, thinking I've ditched college to become a roadie in order to enjoy some rather frisky past times, involving Cadburys Dairy Milk and Manchester's finest new addition to the indie/rock scene, lemme explain.

On Wednesday I was lucky enough to go watch these guys 
The 1975, at Nottingham's Rock City and can I just tell you now it was AMAZING.

With an ever expanding back catalogue of incredible tunes, such as the mighty 'Chocolate' and the saucy little
number 'Sex', to keep the crowd rallied and as high as a certain Mt. Everest, the atmosphere,
 as you can probably imagine, was electric. And when the beginning chords of those numbers in particular began wafting around the room, everyone, including myself, seemed to
 get an insatiable injection of life, courtesy of Matt and co. and just went absolutely crazy in the best possible way.

As always seems to happen, I found myself on the very cusp of a brewing mosh pit and for once I
just let myself go completely and got stuck right in there, being thrown to and fro like a I was stuck in a human pinball machine.
It was the best feeling ever.

You close your eyes. You listen to the music, let it fill your veins, let it take you higher. 
You sing the words and you come alive, and before you know it you're bouncing up and down like a pogo stick, crashing your body into the unfortunate soul next to you and feeling like life could not get any better than it is right there and then in that beautiful moment. 
You aren't alone. You're surrounded by a huge crowd of people who feel what you're feeling too and you're all in it together, in this instance, singing about sex, petticoats and what do you know, chocolate.
And it's the most incredible thing.

They played a variety of songs from their excellent LP and self titled debut and put on a truly phenomenal show, complete with flickering lights, a buzzing atmosphere and a turtle neck clad Matty who looked
effortlessly cool with his half shaved head and youthful, energetic and beautiful voice.

So in their role as musicians and makers of tantalizing tunes and magical moments, it's
safe to say The 1975 have well and truly outdone themselves.
Even if you don't know that many songs, like me, I would get yourself down to one of their remaining
gigs (that's if it hasn't sold out yet) and experience all this for yourself.

This is a band that has been working their arses off for the last eleven years and who
appreciate and deserve every piece of success rightfully coming their way. They make fantastic music,
they're impossibly cool, intriguing, unique and to top it all off, they're genuinely nice people too!

Lead singer Matt Healy has the crowd in his hand, commanding them effortlessly
to do as he pleases "don't start a mosh pit or I'll f***ing kill you", and after the gig 
my friends and I were lucky enough to meet him.
( Bad angle of course, but nevertheless, one cannot complain when one is meeting the lead singer of an incredible band)

Living up to his other alter ego aside 'Mr Cool' - 'Mr Nice Guy'- he made the effort
to greet every last one of us who stood adoringly in his presence and enforced a sense of world peace and ensuing harmony as if he were Nelson Mandela himself, telling us "not to get crazy and start pushing and shoving one another or I'll get scared and I'll get on that bus and go home. I'm not going, I'm staying right here and I'll make sure I meet every single one of you."
This caused one of my best friends to express her overwhelming love for Matty in the only way she knew how, by screaming happily, and who can blame her?

As a fan, to hear that was just the nicest thing and it goes an awful long way.
If I didn't already love this band, I now just want to go around with their name tattooed on my forehead,
free advertisement and all that, because they took the time to meet us and thank us and show that our support is appreciated. 

So as I said, GO, GO RUN LIKE THE WIND AND BAG YOURSELF A TICKET FOR THE 1975 RIGHT NOW and me? I'm off to the tattoo parlor....


SEX

CHOCOLATE

THE CITY

GIRLS









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Sunday, 12 May 2013

WHO'S TOURING SEPTEMBER/ OCTOBER/ NOVEMBER 2013

Hello everybody. Thought it was time for another 'Who's Touring' and although it may only be May (bit of a mouthful there), Autumn soon will come dashing round the corner like the poor mite who's just realised their bus is coming down the road and they're nowhere near the bus stop.
Cruel or what?
But yes, here you go, please enjoy and do buy responsibly my little music lovers. 


SEPTEMBER 2013

OCTOBER 2013

NOVEMBER 2013

So this is all for now however I am positive that over the summer more artists will be releasing new dates as Summer/ Autumn tends to be a popular season for new releases and thus tours.
Over the next coming months we should be expecting releases from the likes of Miles Kane, Gabrielle Aplin,  Primal Scream, Vampire Weekend, 30 Seconds To Mars, Sleeping With Sirens and Queens of The Stone Age as well as many more so keep your eyes peeled!


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Wednesday, 6 March 2013

WHO'S TOURING JUNE, JULY, AUGUST 2013/ FESTIVAL GUIDE SUMMER 2013

A much needed update of who is touring and when. Get the dates down and tickets booked and create the best summer of your life, courtesy of The Tee Pot...


JUNE 2013

JULY  2013

Now from late July onwards, most of the artists doing live dates can be found at one of the many festivals throughout the summer, going on into late September. Therefore it's best to either wait till tour dates later in the year or grab one of the tickets to some of the festivals noted below whilst there's still some left.
Good luck guys!

FESTIVALS JULY - SEPTEMBER 2013

ALTON TOWERS LIVE
6TH JULY 2013

WIRELESS
12TH- 13TH JULY 2013

T IN THE PARK
12TH- 14TH JULY 2013

LATITUDE
18TH- 21ST JULY 2013

CHAGSTOCK
19TH- 21ST JULY 2013

Y NOT FESTIVAL
2ND- 4TH AUGUST 2013

BOARDMASTERS
7TH- 11TH AUGUST 2013

BLOODSTOCK
8TH- 11TH AUGUST 2013

GREEN MAN
15TH- 18TH AUGUST 2013

V FEST
17TH- 18TH AUGUST 2013

CREAMFIELDS
23RD- 25TH AUGUST 2013

READING AND LEEDS
23RD- 25TH AUGUST 2013
READING
LEEDS

SUNDOWN
30TH AUGUST- 1ST SEPTEMBER 2013

CAMP BESTIVAL
5TH- 8TH SEPTEMBER 2013


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Wednesday, 28 November 2012

WHO'S TOURING? APRIL/ MAY/ JUNE 2013

It's about time we had a new update on who's going to be where and when, so feast your eyes below because it's looking like one of the best ones yet...

APRIL 2013

MAY 2013
-Please note that these are artists who currently have their tour dates up now. It is very likely that with new releases over the new year, more artists will announce tours for Spring/Summer 2013 in the new year so stay tuned.
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CLASH OF THE GENRES AND GUITAR GRENADES

After flicking through a recent copy of NME magazine, I noticed how the musical geniuses there made predictions that a new wave of rock and guitar based front runners, for instance Jake Bugg, Lucy Rose etc. would amass the music top spot in the next couple of years.

We all know that music seems to work in a cyclical pattern, where one particular genre reigns supreme for a said number of years before another knocks it out the water with an almighty bang.
It's like a wrestle in the ring for musical supremacy that seems to pop up every four to six years, like the Olympics, and everyone tunes in to see if the current music champion can hold on to it's crown or if it loses it to the next best thing to happen in music ever. 

There's no telling who will win the crown but we can predict who is in favour of this prestigious title a few years into the current genre's reign. Take for example the 90's run-in to the noughties: the decade began on a high with the likes of Nirvana, Pearl Jam and Smashing Pumpkins most definitely holding onto the steering wheel after the all amazing classic American Rock dominance of the late 80's.
A new breed of rock, punk, indie, metal smash-ups were leading the way and they soon gave into the Brit Pop era of the mid 90's where bands like Oasis, Blur and Radiohead popped up to say hi, bleeding that new found rock styling into the pop stratosphere.

Meanwhile America were honing the formula for the perfect boy band which saw the classic five piece with mostly average voices come together in a tsunami of hunkiness to churn out hit after hit full of that cheesy pop music that we all secretly love. Forget Nirvana, Green Day, Goo Goo Dolls; America was saying goodbye to the guitar bands and hello to the pop world, Backstreet Boys, N-Sync, NKOTB, a transition which soon filtered into the UK. It wasn't long before our own Brit pop/ rock smash up gave in to the almighty power of Gary Barlow's dancing and soon Take That, Boyzone, Westflife and the Spice Girls (girl power, boom) were the people that everyone wanted to hear.

The rock beginnings of the 90's lost it's reign pretty quickly to the all too dominant pop stratosphere, so by the time the noughties rolled in, S-Club 7, Steps, Aqua and Bob The Builder (how did that even happen?) had the perfect platform to broadcast their pop offerings to the world. 
But whilst it seems that all the other genre's have vanished off the face of the Earth, alas the truth is very much far from it...

You see, whilst the biggest genre of the day flaunts it's stuff like the new Kate Moss or Naomi Campbell or the hottest club in London town (where all the Royal's like totally go and get wasted), there is always an 'underground' scene of which the majority of people seem to forget.
In the 90's, the underground movement was R & B, hip-hop, soul and the beginnings of dub-step, dance-hall and electronica, all the genre's that we've heard nothing but of the last eight years. If you were remotely pop or rock related during the 90's, you were swept up in the tidal wave, no underground beginnings for you.
 But if you were anything outside of that bracket... well lets just say you were given a first class shove in the direction of the underground door.

It seems to be that whatever is currently not in the charts, the airwaves, the magazines, but is big in the world that exists outside of the ' pop culture', that is what will soon be supreme in a few years time. 
I mean, look what happened to dub-step, grime, R&B etc., after the underground years of the 90's, rappers and soul singers like Kanye West, Dizzee Rascal, Wiley, Jay-Z, Mary-J, Alicia Keys all found their way to the top of the pack. Cheesy Pop was definitely on the out and suddenly this movement of music had it's well deserved and long awaited moment.

Of course two or more genre's can easily co-exist in the top spot, for instance now it seems to be a mix of electronic/ dub-step and pop, however it does seem that pop is always going to be the 'blueprint', the underlying construction or basis, and the next biggest genre provides the brick work, the decoration, the fleshing out of the over-used structure.
So will the day ever come when one genre finally kicks pop off the top spot, to which it has clinged to like Madonna clings to her long gone glory days and youthful looks?

Well in recent years, it has looked likely; hip hop and R&B definitely had it's moment in the last decade when it co-existed alongside the very powerful new rock/indie scene of 2001-2007 which was full of the likes of Arctic Monkeys (woo!), The Kooks, Coldplay, The Strokes, Snow Patrol, The Killers, Razorlight, to name but a few.
But of course like that ever so frustrating fly, that has idiotically flown into your house in the hope of claiming that last bit of chicken salad you ate last night, and which you just can't squish, pop always finds a way of fighting it's way back and it probably always will.

But the way in which we embrace new sounds, artists, genres is changing, allowing artists outside of the pop bracket to get the recognition they deserve. Artists like Ed Sheeran, Tinie Tempah, Labrinth and Adele have really come in to their own and shown us what true artists should be like, look like and sound like.
Meanwhile the mega maestro's of dance, electronic and dub-step, such as the almighty Skrillex, Chase & Status, Swedish House Mafia, Avicii are hogging all the airplay and they have clearly been rubbing off on the pop offspring of today. Faster tempo's, powerful bass beats, electronic riffs and auto-tune are a rife and when done well, the product is something literally out of this world.

So I guess the question now is which is direction will music turn to next?
If you ask me, I believe that there are still a few more years left in this current genre mash-up; the Skrillex sound still has enough electric spark to keep the fire blazing, and of course today's culture has fully embraced both this electronic sound and the notion of rap and R&B. If anything, it encourages it; this once foreign concept of speaking words as fast Felix Baumgartner sky falling to Earth instead of singing them, is what we all know and love.
You could say it's part of our culture.

Now being a rock and indie slave, I'm not going to lie that despite my own new found love and appreciation for the likes of Avicii, Drake, Jay-Z, Skrillex and so on, I really want the guitar age to be as powerful as it once was. For me, 2006 was the only year in my sixteen year life where all the bands I adore were triumphantly on top. My Chemical Romance, Arctic Monkeys, Snow Patrol, all on the airwaves, magazines, internet and despite being only ten years old,  I loved it.
I long for a repetition of that time so badly that it's almost an ache in my chest. Of course the guitar and indie movement never lost it's touch, it's always been there, always will be, but unlike pop, it does get pushed to the sidelines and sometimes, all I want is to turn on the radio and have the Foo Fighters, The Killers, My Chemical Romance and a whole host of other fabulous musical instrument and songwriting enthusiasts dominating the country, the world, just like they once did.

So to conclude this awfully long post, I predict that this current age will last for the next three to four years and will begin to bleed into other genre's, such as the new 'Rock'n'Rave' output, just like back in the 90's.
But from 2016 onwards, I believe that rock, indie and the good old guitar will have it's time once again.
Anyone with me?



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