Right now I have a beautiful email sitting in my inbox about a temporary job that would give me amazing experience and invaluable training but I have noooo way to get to and from this place if I did indeed get it. It's pretty much out of the way of public transport and I'm pretty much car-less. If I could only find £2000 somewhere so that I could sort that out, including insurance, tax and you know...petrol.
Anyway, I'm ignoring the email for now. Procrastinating by making mix CD's. Do people still make mix CD's?!
But I digress, this is a blog about music.... Lets go through some Laura Marling. The concert was balls-to-the-walls fantastic. I'm pretty sure everyone in that room that night could feel how significant and important it was, for Laura especially. This was Miss Marling's first night at the Royal Albert Hall and it was spectacular. She made mention of the fact that her parents were in the audience and that was the signifier for me for how much this night meant. It was also her last concert for a while, I know she's doing Latitude this weekend (I'm not sure if maybe she's doing any other festivals) but I think this was her last official concert until the new album... Which I feel is very much under way and most likely already written.
One of the new songs she played I absolutely loved... I thought for sure it was a cover, it was like I'd heard it before, but no, it was just so beautiful, so I found a video of her performing it. Enjoy. Laura Marling - Once
(EDIT: The live video disappeared so I've replaced it with this one.) This was the best video I could find. She performed for the BBC at the Southbank Centre but I think this is a better performance. But seriously, no Youtube video will do this song justice. It was so beautiful live, in that massive building, it brought tears to my eyes.
It's clear she probably has written all of the songs for her next album because they're all over Youtube from her live performances this past year or so. I can't wait.
Next up is one of my all time favourite songs. Blackberry Stone. I managed to find a video from the night at the Royal Albert Hall that some lovely person kindly uploaded for us all to enjoy.
Too beautiful... You absolutely, truly appreciate her music so much more in that massive hall. Several thousand people completely stunned into silence.
One more from the Royal Albert Hall. Enjoy. Laura Marling - What He Wrote
So I'm now just going to share another couple of my favourites, ones that I couldn't find from the night so these are just the recordings. So good.
This one I did actually record myself on the night, but I was in the nose bleed seats or cheap seats,if you will, front row though so I had a nice, none obscured view but with my dodgy camera that takes pathetic pictures and video... well it's just not good enough to show. Seriously, my phone took better pictures -_- Laura Marling - Night After Night
I have a feeling not that many people like this next song. It's just a hunch because I couldn't find many video's on Youtube... weird, because I do really love this song. Laura Marling - Alpha Shallows
Now this next one is my ALL time favourite of hers, I think... (so far, anyway.) Laura Marling - Hope In The Air
] "Pick up your rope, Lord. Sling it to me, if we are to battle I must not be weak!" Too good.
Anyway, that's me done I think on the LM front. This weekend I will introduce you to Daytrotters!! Have a good week. I feel better now after listening to these, I was definitely on a downer. Right, I'm off to go listen to some more Marling and as I parting gift, this is the other new song she performed at RAH. I'm unsure of the name but sounds goooood. Enjoy.
~HL
PS. Sorry about you having to go listen to some of the songs on Youtube. These record labels and their laws, eh?!
TweetI'm gonna blog the crap out of the Laura Marling gig at the Royal Albert freaking Hall tomorrow.
But right now, after having just watched a really shoddy version of The Hunger Games (because I felt like it) I have to blog a couple of songs from the soundtrack that I've been obsessed with over the last couple of days. They're not even in the actual movie but I realised about a week ago that I'd never actually sat and listened to the whole album. So I did. 'Tis pretty good.
BUT before we get into it... I have to apologise, I've tried to find youtube video's that can be embedded and allow playback from other sites but... Alas, you will find that some record labels will not allow it. So when the song doesn't play, just click the 'Watch on Youtube' link and it'll bring it up for you in another window.
Back at the ranch...
So I think I've shared a song of theirs before, but I am currently obsessed with The Civil Wars. They are soooooo good. Their harmonies are amazing and so beautiful. So up first is their track from The Hunger Games OST called Kingdom Come.
Good right? :D Ugh. That line "Fly high across the sky from here to Kingdom Come, fall back down to where you're from..." Gets me every time. Right in the feelings.
Second up, well, it's Taylor Swift. Now I absolutely HATED this song when I first heard it, this was way before the movie came out but I don't have much patience for the Swift and her voice can be on the verge of irritating sometimes. Too breathy..? I think that may be it. But since listening to it over and over, I've decided I do love it. Not as much as The Civil Wars track but the fact that they feature on this song with Swifty helps a lot. Here's Safe & Sound.
The last one I'll put from the soundtrack is Come Away To The Water by Maroon 5. This track features Rozzi Crane and I think that helps quite a bit actually, she definitely brings something to it. However, Adam Levine's voice cannot be denied. It is beautiful. It's a really great song and suits the movie perfectly without it being towards either one extreme or the other, which I found with a lot of the other songs on the album. Several of them are just so opposite, they kind of contradict themselves rather than compliment each other.
OK that's it on The Hunger Games front.
However, I did watch Remember Me today as well. I don't know why I do it to myself, I just ended up in tears. Anyway, it reminded me of the track that they used in the trailer for the movie... well I'm pretty sure it was a trailer for this movie, I don't care either way... it reminded me of this AWESOME song that you should listen to.
It's Dream On by The Chemical Brothers. I believe this was on their third album, Surrender, and is personally a favourite of mine. Enjoy.
That's all folks. I'm going to go..... "Sleep on, Dream on" ;)
Joshua Radin - Underwater LOVE this song and I am patiently (not) waiting for his album to come out on the 31st of July.
Right so, quite a few songs I want to let everybody know about because...well, they're awesome. First one is a song I recently heard on a film trailer. This one is called 'Demons' by Imagine Dragons and was featured on The Words trailer. I'm going to put the trailer below because I actually quite want to see this movie.
Bradley Cooper... YUM. Anyhoo... it's the song towards the end and here it is in full for your enjoyment. I immediately downloaded this song after watching this. (I actually spent money buying this track even though I'm flat broke!) Imagine Dragons - Demons
Another song I found over the past 10 days or so is this gem by ALB called 'Golden Chains'. Now some may recognise this immediately from a funny/weird advert for a car... I forget which. I quite like this song purely cause it's quite joyful and it makes me laugh. Wait for the chorus, that's when it kicks in! ALB - Golden Chains
OK I'm a huge movie fanatic if it's not already obvious and I love all kinds of movies. Seriously, I'm open to anything. I'm impatiently waiting for The Dark Knight Rises to come out right now and then there are a bunch of films out this year which I'm really looking forward to. I'm a HUGE Jennifer Lawrence fan. 1.) Because she is amazing in Winter's Bone - the first movie I saw her in, and I recommend watching it. 2.) She was in The Hunger Games. 'Nuff said. The books are awesome, don't argue with me. 3.) She is perhaps one of the funniest people ever. Seriously just watch/read one or two of her interviews and it's all there. She completely cracks me up! So the trailer for her next movie just came out (also featuring the b-e-a-utiful Bradley Cooper) called Silver Linings Playbook. I can't wait for this movie. Here. Watch.
Like someone said on twitter, it's a Jennifer Lawrence/Bradley Cooper DANCE MOVIE. Oh my gosh, I'm excited. And...Where the hell on earth has Chris Tucker been!? Seriously?!
Anyway, that's all for now. I'm seeing Laura Marling (again) on Saturday at the ROYAL ALBERT FREAKING HALL. Super excited. So I'm thinking a little Laura Marling spam blog will be up by the end of this week. Laters.
