The Wombats in Amsterdam!!!

I LOVE the Wombats!!! What an amazing band! Two days ago I saw them in concert. I went early cause I wanted to be in the front. So right after school I went to the 'Melkweg', it was 4 o'clock but their were only six people in front of the door..So I thaught I might get to eat something first. I ate a pizza and at six o' clock we went back to the concerthall. We walked and suddenly I saw a guy with funny hair and red sun glasses (it was snowing..). Then I realised it was Murph!!!The singer!!! So I directly looked for the rest of the band, and yes, they were walking after him:) I was shocked, sooo long have I waited for this concert and sooo long I had been lokking forward to it. This moment.... I whispered to my friend: They are the band! That is TORD!!! And she directly went like: Is that TORD?! On a very loud tone... So, I know it's bad, but we went stalking them...My friend wasn't that much experienced as I am, so she walked like three meters behind them, taking pictures with het mobile, and I was 20 meters behind them on the other side of the road...They went to a place were they got a photoshoot with a chessboard, in the snow;) After that they went back to the concerthall, were they got in and we had to wait before it in the snow:( After waiting one and a half hour, we finally got in...but still had to wait for an hour inside, although there the temperature had been more likely....The first band started, a Dutch band called the Hype. The Hype had been okay. The singer was a great performer (for Dutch terms). They have really catchy nice songs that perfectly fit the audience. The guy that played the keyboard was really really weird, he looked and acted like he was totally wasted. Sometimes that just makes an artist funny, but this time it was just horrible to see, cause you see that it is just a beginning band. Beginning bands first need to prove themselves, before going nuts! Exept for the keyboarder and the bassist, was the band fine. They played a cover of the Beatles, which the audience dearly appriciated. The played for half an hour and at half past nine the Wombats came finally!!! Although I had seen them just a few hours ago, it felt like I haven't seen them in decades!!! I screemed my hart out! They started with 'Lost in the post', a very good cheerful song! A great starter:) During the show they played all of their best songs, like 'School uniforms', ' Moving to New York,' Backfire at the disco', ' My first wedding','Little miss pipedream', 'Here comes the anxiety,'Patricia the stripper', 'Kill the director', 'Party in a forest' and of course 'Lets dance to joy division'!!!! Tord also performed his Postman Pat in Norwegian, wich was very cute!!The Wombats are just sooo original! You might think that this is the next of a thousand crappy Britpop bands, but that is totally not true! The funny thing about the Wombats is that the lyrics are actually a little depressing , but due to the melody and the o o o's from Tord it sounds sooo cheerful!!! That is also what they are trying to tell with the song 'Lets dance to joy division', they are trying to say, that although joy division is a depressing band, you should make a joke out of it and dance on it! Which I think is a wonderful thought, look at the bright side of life, whatever happens, keep smiling;) Not all their songs are as brilliant as 'Lets dance to joy division', but the important thing is, that they grew a lot compared to a few years ago! The Wombats make a joke out of everything, but I believe that especially the singer has also a darker side, wich brings a great performance and great lyrics;) And that is probably why this concert had been sold out really early!!! I don't know if they were totally wasted, stoned or just themselves, one thing is for certain, they totally rocked the stage. Everthing was perfect! At the end Tord and Dan jumped into the stage. I caught Tord and he almost fell, but I managed to get him up;) After that Murph kicked the keyboard into the audience, people were really fighting for it! I did not, cause I already had a lot trouble keeping Tords waterbottle for myself;) The big rockout ended with some crazy jelling from Murph and Dan. And then I knew.... This had been one of my best concerts ever! (After Deep Insight and the Lostprophets). Althought it is not the heaviest rock ever, the Wombats rock harder then enyone else;)!! After the show my friend wanted to leave right away...But I had other plans... If you bought a single or a cd you woud get a afterparty bracelet, which alowes you to have a meet and greet!!! And even though my friend didn't want to go, I got two bracelets for the price of one;) I begged her to come with me and finally she agreed to go for ten minutes...The problem was, the band came after an half an hour:O She was not happy with me at all.... I know..I should think a little more about my friends at a concert and a little less about the band...But NO I am not willing to change myself:P I got a photo and authographes, but not from Tord, cause he wasn't there:( And I got a really special authograph, cause Murph wrote under it 'But to the lizard of my own hell!!!' What the hell does that mean???!!! Please if you know, tell me what it means!!! And I was the only one with that:) In the army a Wombat means a waste of money brains and time, but that is definitely not what they are!! They had been worth all my money, brains and time!!! They are my favourite marsupials ever, and if that means I have to be the lizard of his own hell....Well I'll go for it;)

Marsupial love







XO

Alicia Keys in concert

It is already three days ago since I have seen this beautiful soul princess in concert. After travelling 1,5 hours, we arrived just on time at Ahoy. At first we had to watch a terribly long movie, about how she had been told in church that she was going to be famous. It did not interest me....but well maybe that is because I am not a very big Alicia Keys fan. Finally she arrove, together with her piano, which she plays very good.... It was a huge stage, with dansers and all, but still Alicia managed to get all of the attention. She is a diva, a superstar, a fenomanen...And that kind of annoyed me, especially when the screen behind her started showing magazine covers and pictures of the ooo so famous diva:P But I won't get all negative now, because there is a reason why this huge hall Ahoy had been sold out and why she is able to be such a diva.... Her voice is sooooo beautiful!!! She sings with all of her hart and with lots of passion. She isn't such a dancer as Beyonce or a stage animal as Ian Watkins...but still she manages to get all the attention! It was a big shame that the acoustic of Ahoy had been really really bad. But well....that wasn't her fault, but it made her performance less good. It wasn't one of the best concerts I have ever been to, but she gave everything of herself during two whole hours she rocked the stage and one thing is for certain

Alicia Keys keeps the soul alive!!!!

Slashhhh.....

The best guitarist of the world if you'd ask me.... The sound, the technic, the guitar..He is brilliant!!Next week I will see him in concert together with Velvet Revolver. I think that this is one of his best guitarsolos, the one in the end. You should check it out yourself....

Here it is: NOVEMBER RAIN from Guns and Roses

A guide to love loss and desperation...

A guide to love loss and desperation is the name of the latest album of the Wombats. You might not have this awesome cd, so then let me give you a guide to love loss and desperation....

Love....

There is so much of this nice thing in the world, still it's the hardest thing to find...Everybody is looking for it, cause no one seems to get enouph of it.... You have three kinds of love: family love, friendly love and LOVE love;) The first is also the most important and the one that feels most normal. The second is also the second most important, the contradiction between this one and option three is that you can have a lot of it, but it is less intense than the LOVE love. LOVE love is the most betrayal, most fun, most intense and most difficult to find. This one can make you, but can also break you....

Loss....

When you finally found your LOVE love...You might lose it again.That is the danger of the LOVE love....It might hurt you a lot. But remember, after a while you'll find a new one!

Desperation....

Everybody loses a LOVE love at least once in their life. And you have to realise that that is completely normal and that you will find another one. Just don't become desperate!! If he/she doesn't mail you back, you can wait one day, after that the chances that he/she will wirte back are 50%, after day two it is 30%, after day three it is 10% and after a week it is less then one percent.... Unless he/she lives in a village with no computers:P This example gives no need to get desperate, just stop writing! Don't go offend the guy/girl! And just try to forget about it:) YOU can do it!

Bad Charlotte...

It's one of the most popular punk rock bands of the new generation.... Good Charlotte. Songs like 'The anthem', 'riot girl' and ' lifestyles of the rich and famous' are absolutely awesome!!! If they continued making songs like that...well, they would probably been my favourite band ever!!! With their powerful performances, catchy gitarrifs and rough attitude, they have had everything a young teenage girl would have ever wished for! Their cd ' the young and the hopeless' is honestly one of the best of my collection. But....what a shame, what a shame...After that it all went worse:( 'The cronicles of live and death' had been okay, not bad... I actually love the song ' I just wanna live'. The video of 'predictable' is really beautiful and I love their contradictions between good and bad. It is just to bad that they don't realise that they get worse and worse. Their last album had been a disaster. 'Good morning revival' is not the worst cd of my collection, but it is such a difference between that album and 'the young and the hopeless'! Shouldn't it be the 'old and the hopeless'??Are they too old now to make perfect punk rock music? Sometimes I feel like they should listen to their own song 'lifestyles of the rich and the famous' again...Are they singing a this song for themselves? It is not only their music that have made a terrible change, it's actually their whole attitude....Especially their attitude is annoying me! I hope that I am not offending any Good Charlotte fans here... But you have to be honest, Good Charlotte is not the same anymore...They have become the red carpet superstars with big limousines and famous girlfriends with P.Diddy friends with the attitude that comes with that... Bad bad Charlotte, what have become of you???

Good times, good times....

Holiday music!

Wooow, I am really sorry that it took such a long time that I wrote something:( It's really a shame...So apologize to all of you! It's just that I've had a lot of crazy weeks lately and a lot of things happend...But I'm not here to talk to you about that, I'm here to tell you about rockmusic:) Last week I went snowboarding in France:) A place called La plagne, you should really go there! It is the most awesome place on the planet (yes even better than Finland;))! I've just had the best week of my life over there!!! If you go, you should go to club med...This is the best hotel in the world, believe me!!! Anyway, at night you could go to the night club at club med...And that was really really awesome! Exept for one thing...The music...The dj played the worst music in the world, things like "video killed the radio star", you get the point?! Actually, I have to be honest, I did like the music, but that was because it was so terrible, that it became funny! The question is...What would you think is the best music to play on a holiday? And I do not only meen, what the dj should play? but also what would you listen on your ipod? There is a totally different ambiance when your in a different country, and I tend to listen to a different kind of music over there...It is really a shame, but I even listened to Madonna and Alicia Keys over there...But I am curious! Tell me, what kind of music do you prefer on your holiday?