Frankie & the Heartstrings at Fibbers.

Frankie and the Heartstrings new video! 'Ungrateful'

Oh my GOD, it's beautiful! I can't handle how much I love them! I cannot wait to see them in York and Leeds. Here it is!

Music at the moment.

Some bands/artists I'm really digging right now? Violent Femmes (thanks to Henry DeTamble and Emily), I Blame Coco (saw her at Evolution, she was wonderful), The Futureheads, Paolo Nutini, Frankie & The Heartstrings (of course) and Hurts.

For all of those Bret Easton Ellis fans out there.

This version of this song I'm not too keen on but I LOVE the video. Apparently Bret Easton Ellis loves it too.
Miles Fisher- This Must Be The Place

As promised... Frankie & The Heartstrings music video!

Being involved in this brilliant music video was probably the best day of my life so far. The video was directed by the wonderful Carol Lynn. These guys (as I've said before) are a wonderful band from Sunderland. I recommend you get your hands on their music at popsexltd... Go on. You know you want to.

"I will paint you in silver, I will wrap you in cold."

So today for the first time in a long time I listened to AFI's Sing the Sorrow. When I was a teenager I listened to this album obsessively and today I can still see why I loved it so much. I personally feel it is one of AFI's most beautifully written albums (actually, problaby the most beautifully written album I own). Currently I'm listening to the song Silver and Cold . My favourite lyrics in this song have to be:


"Light, like the flutter of wings,
feel your hollow voice rushing
into me as you're longing to sing.
So I,I will paint you in silver.
I will wrap you in cold.
I will lift up your voice as I sink."


I saw AFI perform at Newcastle when they were doing their December Underground tour. Unfortunately I did not get to see them this time round for Crash Love.


FYI: Sorry my posts have been so poor lately, I've been very busy with uni work. I promise to make time!

Give me envy. Give me malice. Give me your attention.

So I have to say Easter was completely awesome thanks to Emily and a wonderful band called Frankie and The Heartstrings. Me and Emily got to be extras in the video for their new single Tender. Here are some photos. I will update this blog when I make the time!
Updated:

Okay so about a week back I got a text from Emily claiming (hysterically) that F&THS were filming a video for their new single Tender in the North-East and that they were looking for extras. So we applied. After a few days we hadn't heard anything back and we were losing faith UNTIL I decided on the night before the shoot to check my emails one last time and voilà! we got the invite! I called Emily instantly (a very drunk Emily,may I add) and told her that we must go. She booked her train tickets (with difficulty) and we both stressed about what the fuck would we wear?
The venue of the filming was at a place in Byker called The Stars and Shadow Cinema (a very quaint independent cinema)and after getting lost several times and almost murdering a taxi driver we arrived and in good time. We picked up six Easter eggs before hand; one for me and Emily to share; and one each for the band members. For the shoot the extras (around 10-15 of us) had to do a lot of dancing while the band 'played' on a small stage. It was excellent.
I will post the video when it's complete!
Over-all we had an excellent day. The band were very sweet to us and the shoot was an experience I'll never forget.