The BIG Reunion!

This marks off another points on 'My Bucket List' (see here) as I finally attended a "sort of" festival..

So last weekend I attended the well-known indoor music festival, The Big Reunion and it was awesomeee!
The Big Reunion is for those that went on holiday in the summer with Club 18-30, there are other similar events such at 2wentys, Naughty Reunion. It is the "worlds biggest indoor music festival" and was my first experience of a festival atmosphere. This year the headlining acts were DJ Fresh and Katy B; and make no mistake, I attended both their sets.

The only way to show you the weekend is in pictures and videos, so here they are:

Day One

On the train journey to Skegness - 6 hour train journey!

Ready for the first night partying it up at Katy B

During the gig - right at the front.. yes boyssss!

  Only Chris got  a video of Katy B but as you can imagine.. She was awesome!!

Day Two

WARNING: Explicit Content - This is Dirty Sanchez!

Last night we were red.. Now we're blue :)

NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA... BATMANNNNN!

NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA... BATGIRLLLL!

 

THE LOVEABLE ROGUES - LOVE THEM!

On to the headliner DJ Fresh... 

 

All in all, it was a fantastic weekend and I will definitely be going on holiday next year to possibly go to this event again :)

Hope you all had a lovely weekend too

Oh and if you don't hear from me for a while on Twitter, Facebook or Blogger its because I'm off on my preliminary placement for 2 weeks and I'm in.... WALES! :(

J

Song of the Day

Bit more remincising about Kos 2012; only remembered about this song when my holiday friend, Steph, tagged me in a post with the video. I like the American style music and the frat party played loads of good American music but all that you don't know what its all called.

J

Song of the Day

Sorry I've not been too up-to-date with these 'Song of the Day' for the past three days but I have managed to blog about what I have been doing. If you've read recently or follow me on twitter (here), you'll know I've been to London, Harry Potter Studio Tour and doing my pre-course tasks. I've obviously had other less important tasks to do like going to the bank and town for more uni essentials but here is an update linked to the past couple of days. These are all inspired by the Harry Potter Studio Tour, London; all of these are themes from the movies, the most famous being Hedwig's Theme by John Williams.

 

 

 

J

Song of the Day

Today's Song: Jerusalem

 

This is in support of tonight's showing of the Last Night of the Proms on BBC. Its a gorgeous piece of music and one that everyone is familiar. I love that this has the power to join people from all over the world with one play at the annual Proms festivities. I'd fully recommend to catch up with the Last Night of the Proms on BBC iPlayer if possible and it is something not to be missed and it is something that one day, I hope to see (see my bucket list here).

 

Until tomorrow :)

J



Song of the Day: Yesterday's and Today's

Yesterday's Song: Wiley ft. Ms D - Heatwave

 

 

I was busy yesterday with having people over for a get together before we're off to university but this was yesterday's song due to the party reason. This is a right tune to get up and show off your moves to! I love the alternation between Wiley and Ms D, its got great timing and you can't help but sing along.

 

Today's Song: Good Charlotte - The Anthem

 



Like the first song I posted in this daily special, Sum 41 - In Too Deep, it reminds me so much of the Frat Party in Kos but also, I've been trying to download this song because I've had it majorly stuck in my head. As most of you will know, this is the soundtrack to the first American Pie movie (an amazing movie I must add), although I can only sing along with the chorus although its on my iPod now so I'll have it on as often as possible.

 

Until tomorrow :)

J



Song of the Day

 

Today's Song: No Doubt - Spiderwebs

 

This song reminds me of Guitar Hero for the Nintendo DS which me and my sister shared, I used to love playing this song and always managed the expert edition. I got reminded of this song at a party this weekend when it was mentioned when speaking about No Doubt as they've brought out a new song. Its a cool, mellow song which is on my current play list "Recently Added" (as you might guess, I recently added it). Enjoy the song!

Until tomorrow...

J

Song of the Day

I've decided to do a daily segment on this blog called 'Song of the Day' when I will post up a music video of my choice and short paragraph on why I like that song :) hopefully I'll have enough (I currently have 221 songs on my iTunes and growing).

Today's Song: Sum 41 - In Too Deep

 

 

I've known this song for a while but didn't become reacquainted with it properly until holiday-ing it up in Kos, when this song came on at the American Frat Party. We had a lot of truly American music there, some of it I didn't recognise but we were making it as much like Stifler's party in American Pie. The music was fitting. For some reason, I've had this song on repeat all day today, along with other American tunes like American Idiot, Dirty Little Secret and Teenagers. Maybe I'm just reliving the summer holiday.

 

Until tomorrow...

 

J



Mix-tape

Lately with all that needs doing before I go on holiday, I've been feeling really uninspired and struggling on what to write on here because I'm not really doing anything other than shopping for the holiday essentials. So, I decided to google blog post ideas to see if anything popped out at me and one site in particular did; due to having my iPod in at the time, I chose to attempt the mix-tape blog entry as mentioned here (however, I'm going to limit myself to five songs).

Here goes.. iPod on shuffle:

1. Bryan Adams - Summer of 69

This 100% reminds me of my mother. She is a massive rock fan and has passed it down to me slightly, I can listen to virtually any genre of music (minus screamo). Summer of 69 always manages to get the party started so lifts my mood automatically to being happy and energetic. I can sing and dance to this song in any situation, and it is especially exciting when it comes on every week without a doubt in Hogans round town! Awesome!

2. Brother Bear (Phil Collins) - On My Way

It might sound weird but this song, although its a Disney classic, can bring a tear to my eye even though I've never actually seen the film, Brother Bear. This is a sweet, enticing song that my year six group at Kingfisher Primary sung as part of our "graduation" from primary school. Primary school was and is an important part of my life and always will be due to the friends I made there who have remained my friends to this day. At the time this song symbolised the bond we all shared in primary as there didn't seem to be separate groups in our primary and we all stuck together. Primary school forever! I think this could be part of the reason I want to be a primary teacher myself, to inspire the next generation.

3. Fatman Scoop - Be Faithful

Now, this is a complete contrast to both songs previously mentioned (like I said, I have a varied music taste). This automatically reminds me of my friend, Alice, and the time we went round town and this song must have come on at least twice and she just screamed that she loved it! Its a brilliant song to dance to when around time and really gets everyone riled up so creates an awesome atmosphere. My favourite part is the "engine engine number 9..." section which everyone knows the words no matter what!

4. Chicago - All That Jazz

I really do love my musicals! I have seen so many and love singing along to them. My mum and sister do often shout at me for singing all the time and I know I'm not the greatest singer but having some musical background I can tune to some pitches. Chicago is a great musical with an even better musical score! Its one of them musicals which makes you feel good about yourself and can't help acting like your part of the cast (or maybe that's just me). Being a bass player myself, the bass line isn't all that as it normally isn't in musical but its a brill storyline and I can't criticise it!

5. One Direction - What Makes You Beautiful

I know a lot of you reading this will be like wtf?! One Direction from someone who knows music, well I'm not ashamed to say that One Direction are my guilty pleasure. I do enjoy singing along and dancing to them in my room and can sing along to this particular song pretty well due to my sisters 'obsession' with them. It puts an instant smile on my face and is a song that can get everyone up on the dance floor singing at the top of their voices whether their male or female.

This was a great task and I thoroughly enjoyed it and will definitely do it again! I think I may make this a monthly blog post and it was such a good idea so I thank the website that presented it to me. I recommend you try this too and see what pops into your head.

J



Bye Bye Music...

Today was the day I had to return the Double Bass I had on loan at home from the Doncaster Music Service. Music has been a big part of my life for the past eight years and it feels like I'm going to miss it a lot because its been such a significant part. Over the eight years, I have been a member of numerous orchestras and bands at the William Appleby Music Centre where I have successfully managed to progress to become section leaders; this was a great achievement for me as I've always undermined my abilities in music.

Throughout my time being a musician, I have a wonderfully inspirational peripatetic music teacher, Mrs Hooper, who has taught me for all the eight years. She has managed to pull me together to focus on the dedication and commitment needed to progress within music. I really do think I will miss seeing her on a weekly basis as we were able to combine laughter with teaching.

Well I thought I'd put a selection of my music day photo's together to reminice about the times I had with music. Enjoy!

Me and Grace on our first DSSO trip to Cumbria - 2009

Phillip, Grace, Me and Bryony in Cumbria (2009)

Phillip and Me - Waiting to start

The concentration!

(2012) Hairspray production and my 18th birthday

(2012) Last Spring Serenade at Danum - The Last Solo

(2012) The Last Solo

(2012) The Last Beechfield Concert - Me and Felicity

The Beechfield Bass Section

Grace, Mrs Hooper and Me - Gonna miss her!

J