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Today is John’s birthday. We went to an Italian restaurant in South Kensington, then saw Lang Lang’s concert in Royal Albert Hall. We always wanted to see Lang Lang’s performance in Guangzhou, however, we always miss the opportunity. It was … Continue reading
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My company got two VIP tickets for Brian Wilson from The Beach Boys in Royal Festival Hall after I finished the Fashion Show. It was an amazing concert, even though only Brian Wilson from The Beach Boys, and other new … Continue reading
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Madeleine Peyroux performed in London Barbican on 8th July. I booked it 2 months ago and finally it’s happened. The openning was Sophie Hunger, Sophie’s voice was amazing and clear, so suitable for jazz vocal. I did enjoy her first … Continue reading
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Warpaint is a four-girls group from American. After listening their two main albums, which were ‘The Fool’ in 2010 and ‘Exquisite Corpse’ in 2009. I really enjoy their music. Their style is quite rock and alternative comparing with other girl … Continue reading
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Made in Camden restaurant is next to the trendy roundhouse (Music concert place in Camden Town). We always walked pass and it looked nice and smelt nice, so we decided to have lunch there. Their menu changes every month and … Continue reading
My friend Syrinx had introduced Mew‘s since March, and we love every single album they produced. John bought their tickets when I was in China, and because we booked that early, we got two fantastic seats ever.I never like standing because I am too short. Beside, I don’t like people jumping and sweating on me. (lol)
It was a cold raining night. We went there earlier by half an hour queueing for good seats. It was literately only 50 meters away from the band in the sitting seat first line. The warm-up band was ok, also touring with Mew in the UK. The concert hall was full of young people and many scandinavia fans too.
Jonas Bjerre has incredible high voice and it combines with their music perfectly. He wore a causal white shirt and jeans. Jonas didn’t say much, but said it was their last performance in the UK, and it was kind of sad. I guess UK fans were passionate and crazy about their music and properly they didn’t expect like that. The background animation was fantastic as well. It’s said that Jonas had designed all of them – they were scary, weird and unusual. (I heard those images were from Jonas’s dreams). It was certainly creative, and so their music.
They performed most popular and well-known songs, such as ‘ Special, 156, Am I wry, no and The Zookeeper’s boy etc’. I don’t think two hours of their performance was enough, and of course, we wish them to perform all their songs, which is impossible.
The atmosphere, the quality of their performance, and most important – their music were superb. And the enjoyment was far beyond words that could describe. Mew played ‘Comforting Sounds‘ to be their last song, which was sad and emotional, and it was a perfect ending.
I found the black and white picture from Mew‘s official website, which I can see myself and John in the first line of Level one! (haha)
I always love to add new music into my Ipod. An Alternative band from Australia called The Temper Trap’s ‘ Condition’ is absolutely delightful to listen. The famous song ‘ Sweet Disposition’ is so hit and become the sound of 2009 according to BBC. When I listened their first song, I thought it is definitely a British Rock band, surprisingly they are from Australia. Also, They became so famous because this amazing album in the UK, then well-known in Australia afterwards.
Every single song in the Album are my favourite.
We haven’t heard Greenday releasing new albums for such a long time. Even though I am not a huge Greenday fan, the new album called 21st Century Breakdown is fantastic. The album is not only random music, but actually tell a story. It is divided into three acts, each loosely following a young couple, Christian and Gloria, as they’re confronted with a manipulative, authoritative culture according from Culturebully. Would it be great that when you’re listening songs, you can imagine a movie?
It seems they wrote many songs for Heroes and Soldiers. I still love some of their songs, and never feel tired of them. Some of their songs always make me feel sad – I call it as the rebellious sadness.
There are many favourite pieces in the album:
Great news that Muse released the New album called ” The Resistance” in September. It is more alternative + classical music combination. Great album and I’ve been listening since Sept.
They are all on the tour. Muse and Green day’s gigs are so expensive (£50), and also performed in O2 and Wembley stadium – too big! We saw Muse in HK, and it was great, same price but you can see them so clear. However, they are too big in the UK, I don’t think they will perform in a small concert then. Pity!
I can’t wait to go to see MEW’s concert next week. One privilege living in London is to see many concerts regardless singers are superb or unnoticeable.
John bought Keane‘s tickets for my birthday gift in March, and finally this is the night. We went there at 6 pm, and there were already many people queueing, and luckily we got the great seats to see them very clear. Surprisingly, there were many middle-age fans to see Keane as well.
The show was to celebrate 50th birthday of the Island Record Company. The island members took all the fans pictures and said it will post it their website, can’t wait to see myself in there. The show was started at 7 pm, and the warming brand was Ladyhawke, she sang about 8 songs, and she performed well, however, the microphone could be louder because audiences could not hear her voice clearly.
When Keane came out, the whole stadium was crazy with a lot of applause. Keane sang about many songs from first album Hopes and Fears including ‘everybody is changing’, ‘ We might as well be stranger’ , and ‘somewhere we only know’; then ‘crystal ball and ‘nothing in my way’; then many songs from third album as well including ‘again and again’,’perfect symmetry’ and ‘spiralling’…
Tom’s voice was absolute amazing and with his professional performance. He talked to audiences, even shook hands with audiences, and asked audiences to sing with him as loud as they could, (to be honest, every audiences could easy burst out everyone song from Keane). The background lights, the band performance and the atmosphere was stunning. It felt likes that Keane music was melting with audiences voices, and everyone was so indulging into their music and lost themselves.
Their music was so perfect and ‘ I lost my heart, I buried it too deep into the under the iron sea’. It was a remarkable concert and I wish they will continuously create great music.
I recorded one song on the spot only for one of Keane’s best fans from GZ – Syrinx Ye.
约翰在我3月份生日时候送给我Keane演唱会的门票，终于等到今晚的到来。早早6点就去排队，已经一条长龙，蛮多中年岁数的歌迷呢，幸好我们早去，找到2个正中不错的位子。
这个演唱会是为了庆祝 island 唱片公司50岁的生日而搞的，工作人员给歌迷各个都照了相做纪念，我也照了张，不知道去哪里看呢？7点就正式开场，第一嘉宾是ladyhawke，约翰蛮喜欢的新西兰女歌手，她长了8首主打歌，歌曲还不错，可惜麦克风不够大声，听不是很清楚她的声音。
当Keane出场时候，掌声雷雷，歌迷超级疯狂的叫喊。Keane唱了很多第一张成名著 Hope and Fear，每一首歌迷都跟着一起唱，然后唱了2首第2张专集under iron sea，唱得最多的是第3张专集，场面十分感人，歌迷的声音做为背景，和 Keane的声音融合在一起。
主唱的Tom的声音真的很棒，歌喉和歌底很好，加上他十分卖力和专业表演，和让大家感受到他对音乐的那种激情，从他的歌词和歌曲中流露出来。看得出他对歌迷很好，在场常和歌迷交流，惊奇的是，居然还跳下场和歌迷握手。现场的表演，灯光，气氛真的太完美了。当然我也和其他歌迷一样一起和Keane 合唱，虽然不算是他们的疯狂歌迷，但十分喜欢他们的所有的专集。
当场的气氛就象忘掉自我，沉溺在Keane的音乐中，就象歌词中 ’ 我的心遗失了，把它深深的埋在铁海中，埋在音乐的铁海中’…这场演唱会是我见过Muse之后最棒的一场show。希望他们继续创造好音乐给大家。
我录下下了一段片断献给最爱 Keane 的广州歌迷 － 叶嘉雯！
I do enjoy the sunny day and hot temperature in London, and it is hot, but as humid as China. I asked friends to come to my house and made some cakes together before they fly back to HK and Japan. We bought so many ingredients and made the pumpkin pie and chocolate trifle cake.
Vicky and Miwa enjoyed making cakes and we had so much fun, even though Vicky had some flower everywhere, and Miwa dropped an egg on the floor, it’s part of the fun and experience with friends. After 2 hours hard work, we ordered Papajohn’s pizza and watched some girl’s movie – He is not in too you. Then drinking and chatting until 1 am.
I enjoy the quality time with friends here in Summer day, cool breeze, hot sun, summer clothes, cool beer, good food and good accompany, then what a happy weekend. Here are some of our latest pictures.
I have been working hard to find a part-time job, had 2 interviews yesterday, but we will see the results and I have work harder hunting on Monday. Tonight we will see Keane and Ladyhawke’s concert in Shepherd Bush, I am so looking forward to seeing them.
一个休闲的夏天
喜欢伦敦夏天的阳光，大大的太阳，感觉很热但风是凉爽的。虽然热，但不至于流汗，不过市中心因人多，汽车多，所以就超热，但没有广州那么潮湿，干爽天气。下周大家都快回各自的国家了，所以我叫泳棋和美和，来我家齐齐动手做蛋糕和派，我们买和超级多材料，做我们之前做过的南瓜派和巧克力莫丝。
泳棋和美和一起搓面粉啊，切南瓜，虽然他们都是第一次亲自烤蛋糕，泳棋把厨房搞得到处是面粉，美和把蛋掉到地上，这些都是开心的片刻，和他们一起享受生活美食的经历。经过2个小时的辛苦准备，终于完成了我们的派和巧克力蛋糕，然后我们叫了papajohn的pizza，一起看电影，甜点就是我们的派和蛋糕拉。
我十分享受夏天的凉风，热太阳，夏天的短裤，好朋友一起吃喝一起笑，轻松的夏天周末就这样过！这里是我们的最新照片。
我在努力找兼职呢，昨天有2份面试，不知道成不成功，英国兼职很难找啊，很多欧洲人来竞争，加上金融风暴，好在伦敦到处都是机会，周一再接再厉。今晚去听Keane 和 Ladyhawke的演唱会，约翰喜欢ladyhawke，等待疯狂的激情的夜晚终于来了。
Discovered Jason when he had released his first albumMr. A-Z in 2006, and since then, his music is pleasure to listen to. Friends saw Jason performed in HK last month, and said it was an amazing concert. So we finally arrived Hammersmith Apollo last night, where there were many young fans already standing outside, trying to get the good spots to see Jason. We also lined up before it might get too late.
It started at 7: 30, and surprisingly, Jason came out and introduced the warm-up bands, one was Priscilla Ahn, who also sang with Jason for the song called “Lucky” later on. I like Priscilla’s music and her voice was pretty good.
After 8: 30, the whole concert was full. When Jason came out, fans started getting so crazy to welcome him. He basically sang his latest album – We Sing, We Dance, We Steal Things. When he and Priscilla were singing “Lucky”, then “I’m Yours”, all the fans were singing together and it was a fantastic atmosphere!
Overall, Jason performed very well, and he gave fans many surprises. We did enjoy his concert and look forwards his new album soon. (Jason cover picture is from Flicker.com)
在2006年发掘Jason出第一专集Mr.A-Z 的时候就喜欢上他的音乐，他的音乐让人感到十分阳光和放松，很有California, 沙滩,享受生活的味道。朋友们都去看他在香港演出，说他的表演超级棒呢。终于等到他在伦敦演出拉，昨晚，很多歌迷6点还没到就在排队，要抢最好的位子看Jason.伦敦演唱会都是一个价钱，只是你选择要站还是要做。所以歌迷都纷纷要提前排队，抢个头位。 我们7点也就排上队，等着开场。
7点半就准时开场，惊奇的事，Jason亲自出来介绍‘热身’队 － 一个叫Priscilla Ahn的吉他女歌手，声音和歌曲都不错。到了8点半，全场的坐位都爆满，当Jason出场时，歌迷尖叫声不断。当他和Priscilla唱 “Lucky” 和 “I’m Yours” 的时候,全场歌迷都纷纷和他一起唱，气氛超好！他主要唱他的最新专集，虽然没有唱很多首我的最爱，但他的表演功和调动歌迷的气氛十分棒。疯狂的歌迷被他的声线迷倒了。我们都期待他另一张新专集。
