It's 2am and you're lying in the dark thinking about past memories, that assignment that's due in or in my case my favourite band. I know what you're all thinking - "here we go Laura's going to go and write a big essay on how much she loves Peace" - well no, I'm not and probably won't do that in my time writing for this blog. Lets all time travel...
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| Peace |
It's February 2013 and fellow FIBLAR writer Molly is telling me about the NME Awards and has told me to listen to Peace. I, of course, say yes, listen to Follow Baby and make my way through the music Peace had out at this time: EP Delicious, Wraith, Bloodshake and the original version of Follow Baby. I'd fallen in love and it was too late to get a ticket to the NME Awards to see them. Most of you know the story about getting guest list to the In Love tour and maybe a few of you know of the day I spent with them during their December tour. And yes here we go, this band makes me quite (very) happy. Now as some of you know there's a group of us up here in the Newcastle, Sunderland, Teeside, North Yorkshire and Durham areas who all go to gigs together and we've all became quite close friends and without getting into Peace I wouldn't have met any of them.
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| Coldplay |
If you go back a few years to 2011-2012 you'll land at the Coldplay phase - a band I'm still happy enough to listen to. My dad managed to get me and a close friend tickets to see them at the Stadium of Light literally three days before the show. The band, to me and Jess, were one of the best things in life. We'd spent weeks planning to get tickets but never had enough money for them. On the morning of the show we left my house at around half 7 to queue at a Stadium I live around 20 minutes away from. The day was spent getting soaked in the torrential rain and talking about how excited we were.
Coldplay were the band that made me much happier at school. My friends weren't very mature and didn't seem to like me and my musical ways very much but yes Coldplay were a way to cheer myself up when these friends were being pissy and annoying, just slipping my headphones in slyly when they were around was the best feeling. Of course through this band I met a lot of new friends, fellow FIBLAR writer Molly and her best friend Louisa.
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| Take That |
And heading back to 2010-2011 a Robbie Williams phase was going on. The man himself still makes me very happy, last year I travelled to Manchester to see him play the Etihad Stadium.This phase had started when I was 12 so after two, maybe three years of loving him it was going to be the best thing to see him perform live. Take That had just reformed to their original line up which included Robbie. After being asked numerous times by my parents whether I wanted to go and see them I of course said yes and my
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dad battled through the ticket site crashed to get two tickets to see them in Sunderland for me and my mother. Sadly around this time I was listening to a lot of gothic metal and it didn't really make me happy at all but Take That sort of made me realise I shouldn't listen to the depressing shit I had been. After taking to Twitter about how much I loved Take That a lot of their teenage fans started follow
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| Me and Mark Owen |
ing me and I made five very close friends from this, one of them being Jess who I mentioned in the Coldplay section earlier... Finally last year I met Mark Owen, my favourite member of the band, his solo music is probably some of the best I've heard and I got more starstruck meeting his guitarist than I did him. For those of you interested you can read about my life as a teenage Robbie Williams fan here:
What I'm trying to get at is although there are bands who make you happy now, the ones that cheer you up when you're feeling a bit down and the ones that you'll travel to see and do anything you can to meet you can look back, put your headphones in and listen to those that used to make you happy (and probably still do), the one that used to put the biggest smile on your face and the ones who maybe helps pick you up when you were down or got you through the hard times. This morning I found myself listening to Coldplay's Live 2012 album and remembering the time. I saw them live and how happy I was when I was there so I advise you all no matter how embarrassed you are to have liked or still like them, listen to your old favourite bands and remenicse.
Peace out - Laura (@FloatForev3r)
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