#15.10.16

[leongoretzkanews]

October 15: FC Augsburg against FC Schalke 04

[leongoretzkanews]

October 15: FC Augsburg against FC Schalke 04

[laurietakesparis]

15.10.16

Saturday after a long week is a magical and elusive thing. There’s literally nothing I look forward to more if I’m being totally honest; particularly now that the weekend means adult conversation and company.

We headed out for lunch and wound up in a little cafe. In case I haven’t mentioned it before, Paris can be exceptionally expensive. Holy Toledo Batman. I’m talking five euros eighty for a can of diet coke. Top tip for eating out in Paris; opt for take-away whenever you can and make the most of the stunning parks around the city. The plan was then to head to The Catacombs. I was more than a little dubious about that to be totally honest because there are parts of it that are super enclosed and I’m rather claustrophobic. Truth be told, I was planning to give that a miss and explore the stores around there and meet up with the girls afterwards. When we got there, the queue was insanely long and no-one wanted to hang around that long. 

We explored a couple of bookshops; including our favourite Shakespeare and Company. Anna recommended Z by Therese Anne Fowler. It’s written about Zelda Fitzgerald, from her point of view and so far, it’s incredible. I definitely recommend it. One of my favourite things to do is to make myself a sandwich, or something easy for lunch and nip across to Buttes Chaumont and park myself on a bench to read. 

Next stop of the day was Monoprix for cheap peach wine and a bottle of Freixenet before we headed to Orlagh’s place. We honestly had one of the best nights; we planned to watch a movie but we ended up spending the entire night drinking, talking [serious talking] and then the night concluded with Anna and I introducing Orlagh to the magical food that is chocolate chip pancakes.

[lilolilyrae]

Today the earth is beautiful ~

[threegood-things]

15.10.16

1. I had a really really good day today. Overall feeling really happy, calm and grateful. 2. We dropped the boy off with my mother in law and went on a drive for stock that happened to be within 10 minutes of an ikea. So we had an ikea date woohoo! We stocked up on the scented candles we like and had lunch. 3. The boy was asleep in bed by 7 and we went to bed by 9. Yay for all the sleep!

[nerds4life]

October 15, 2016

Liam was seen at Bieber’s London concert.

Pics of Nialler doing Toy Room promo (the same place Harry was papped at after the “Another Man” event).

[jacobwhitesides-news]

Jacob Whitesides talks his new album, Why, and tour with Ben Rector

ue to his endearing self, pop singer-songwriter and fellow Tennessean, Jacob Whitesides, is just as eager about his music as he is about his experiences creating music and all that it entails. Jacob is on tour with fellow musician, Ben Rector, whom Whitesides has already been a huge fan of, and is thrilled to be experiencing the tour life with him. In our exclusive interview, we chatted with Jacob about his upbringing and music, his incredible experience of writing for and recording material on his new album Why?, and of course, his guilty music pleasure. 

AXS: As a fellow Tennessean, how did your upbringing shape your love of music? 

Jacob Whitesides: The thing that kind of got me the most inspired to write music, was music was always around me. My Dad and I did alot of performing locally. He was in a lot of bands, and I never really found a ton of interest in it until he forced me to go to a concert when I was 13. I was into sports most of my life, and he (my Dad) forced me to go to this bluegrass festival, and was in East Tennessee. 

I was dreading it, because I hated bluegrass and country music; really did not want to, and ended up going. I gained a new appreciation for music, and was really cool being in the middle of nowhere, and seeing all of these RV's lined up, just outside eating, hanging out, and playing music. 

Later that night, I saw Chris Stapleton, who was unbelievable. This was six years ago, when he was in a bluegrass band called The Steeldrivers, and they were phenomenal. I experienced my first real concert that night, and inspired me to want to play guitar that night. I was awkward and shy, so I didn't want to start singing right off the bat, and I didn't know if I could sing, (I still don't entirely know if I can, haha). 

I started playing guitar in my Dad's cover band, and played a lot of 80s music and Classic Rock. I did that for a solid year and a half, and just being around all of those bars in the middle of nowhere, where I grew up, and although I hated it back then, looking back now I'm really thankful for it. It shaped me into the artist I am today. Although I didn't have any original music, I wasn't really singing much, it definitely, really affected me as an artist to this day, so that was really cool to be able to start that way. It also gave me a new appreciation for all that I'm going through in my life right now. 

AXS: You're on tour with Ben Rector (whom I also enjoy listening to). What are you most excited about, and looking forward to on this tour?

JW: Honestly, Ben is one of my favorite artists, and has been for a couple of years now so, I'm still getting over that initial shock factor. I went to see him about six months ago in Los Angeles (CA) as a fan, and sat out in the audience. I've been a huge fan of him, and to be able to share the stage with him has been a phenomenal and massive opportunity. It's been a great time! AXS: You recently released your debut album, Why? Talk about the recording experience, and how that impacted you... 

JW: Most of the content from the record was inspired by my second European tour, and was there for a month and a half. It felt like a really, really long time.I was very, very homesick and had a girlfriend at the time, and was all the way in Los Angeles; it was an 8-hour time difference from Europe, and things were like from one end of the spectrum to the other. I was extremely happy on the days I was playing music and sold-out shows, meet and greets, seeing new places, then at night kind of crashing and being super sad. So, stepping back, and I did a lot of journaling (which I had never done before), and not in my iPhone (laughs), and did a ton of writing about all of the different experiences I had. As soon as the tour ended, I flew to Connecticut where my manager lives, and flew up my producer, Dave Spencer, who I've worked with on every project since the beginning. We spent two weeks talking about the tour, and recovering from the jet lag, and deciding the direction we wanted to take the album in. Our overall goal was to take the first two EP's we were extremely happy with, and mesh them with new elements, and new stuff we hadn't done before. We immediately flew back to Nashville, and the guys from Magic, and flew them to Nashville, after they had shown us part of this amazing music, which became the single "Lovesick." They came down, and we worked on that for a couple of days. It was really cool being able to have that song right off the bat, and it helped guide the rest of the record. We spent another month and a half overall on the entire record. It was a very rushed month and a half, and looking back, I'm thankful for that. It pushed all of us to our limits, although we were exhausted. We had a great time for the entirety, and we worked from 9am to 3am, falling asleep in the studio, and it was a really cool experience. It was like summer camp for my album (laughs). It was a good time, and there wasn't any time we were without inspiration. We brought in a lot of the writers I had worked with before, and am really close with outside of music. We're all really good friends, so that makes it easy when it comes to writing about weird things or touchy things, and being able to be around people that super-comfortable with. Being around them was great, and brought in a couple of new writers to change it up a bit, and we got a song a day for a solid three and a half weeks. It was amazing, and I'm thankful that we never hit a block, because it would have been very bad (laughs). It turned out phenomenal, and I'm really happy with the record, and all the guys were really happy with it, and it was a fun time. 

AXS: Do you have a guilty music or entertainment pleasure? 

JW: Oh my gosh. I love listening to a lot of weird rap stuff, which is odd. I grew up listening to alot of rap music, because I played sports. That's what all of my sports friends listened to, and I kind of always was obsessed with it. I don't always feel like people assume I don't listen to it, so it catches them off-guard. Drake is probably one of my secret influencers and I just love how rhythmic all of his stuff is. It's really something special and cool. 

AXS: Who was your first concert, and which one has been your overall favorite? 

JW: Besides Chris Stapleton, he's one of my favorites, I saw Needtobreathe in Knoxville. I think my overall favorite concert of all-time, and gives me this ridiculously high standard of concerts in general is Coldplay. They blew my mind into a million pieces, and that concert was so insane; the production value, I feel like they could sell out arenas even if they didn't add all of the amazing, fancy stuff that they do have, but they still to it to this day, and continue to add more, and more. They continue to invest in their live show, and I think that's really special, and it was just an overall I felt like I was watching the plot twist in my own favorite movie throughout the entire concert. I couldn't keep my eyes off of the stage, so that was probably my all-time favorite concert.

http://www.axs.com/jacob-whitesides-talks-his-new-album-why-and-tour-with-ben-rector-107446