The Gig Diaries

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time to breathe some life into this blog. all about music, concerts and the sad life of a fangirl. welcome back! 

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the opening riff to mr brightside could literally raise me from the dead

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coming outta my grave and ive been doing just fine

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the sadness of a concert being cancelled is beyond words. 

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finnish answer to two door cinema club. here's satellite stories. cute as a button on a hipster's plaid shirt. 

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the 1975 @ positivus 2014

smug smuggidy smug. even so smug that it was rude at times. it's common that musicians drink on the stage, but the way matty dunked that bottle of red wine, while holding a cigarette in his other hand was kind of offensive. do you need to drink to look cool, you? definitely not, half the girls in the crowd wanted to be with you! do you need to drink to be able to perform? hope not. 

i actually like their album quite a lot, but when i heard it live, all the songs became one. they were all the same song. it was nothing special. plus i think i was too far to succumb to his lock-throwing, wine-drinking, tight shirted british young lad charm. from over where i was, it looked desperate. 

and that desperateness ruined the gig for me. sure it was fun and sure i knew the songs and sang along, but the way they were kind of wanting to be someone else was sad.

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ellie goulding @ positivus festival 2014

I hate that at festivals everything melts into a big blur. I like Ellie, I like her babin' popsongs and I know that if it were a gig to her own, I would have danced and sung ever more, but at the festival, it was kind of meh. 

But she's gorgeous and fit and such a babe. 

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the 1975 @ positivus festival 2014

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the babin' ellie goulding @ positivus festival 2014 (posting all the leftover pictures from this year. one by one. before the year ends)

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what twenty one pilots fans really look like

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i swear, one day i'll move somewhere bigger (country wise, not apartment) just so i can be close to all the gigs. 

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one question tho... why are all drowners' songs so short. i can't even properly start to sing along, when those sweet two minutes are over. 

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here's another one.

you me at six, positivus festival 2014

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figured that now is just as good a time as any to post this pic of you me at six from this year's positivus festival. 

i knew about 1 of their songs, but the live was amazing. one of the best ones of the festival actually. it was the first day and everyone wasn't hungover yet and was more than eager to get on each other's shoulder/jump like they're crazy/take their clothes off and twirl them in the air/do everything the band asked them to. 

this picture is also taken while sitting on my friend's shoulders. it was cool and people should do it more at gigs (but not in front of me).

you me at six - 8/10

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James Arthur, 5.08.14, Tallinn, @ Factory

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James Arthur in Tallinn. 5.08.14 @ Factory

„It's the hottest gig I've ever been to!“

I got there about 15 minutes before the show was about to start. I don't mean the warming act, but actual James Arthur. Reason: 1) I drove to the wrong venue at first 2) actually not that big of a fan and was there for work. Who could say no to a free gig, right?

The room was quite a small hall and the girls in front of the stage we're probably dreaming of already touching him, they were so effing close! The room grew hotter and hotter every minute and when James came on at exactly 9pm, he was followed by an echo of screaming girls. No surprise there.

Another no-surprise moment: after a few songs he did what every sane-minded British pop star does in Estonia. He told how pretty the girls were. „It's the hottest gig I've been to. And I'm not only talking about the girls“! Shocking! It was hot, like really sweat-until-you-drop hot.

I'll admit, before the gig I knew about three of his songs, so when he did a cover of Rudimental's „Waiting All Night“ I was both delighted and surprised. Delighted because I bloody love that song, surprised, because it was a great cover and probably one of the best songs of the gig.

I'd also thought that he's a soft puppy-like pop-boy, but instead he started rapping at one point. The crowd seemed to know, so I was almost the only one standing with a stunned grin during „Supposed“. That rapping I did not see coming.

Of course he left the big hits for the end. Just so he could look all the front row girls deep in the eyes one last time and make them shiver and scream all over.

One cool thing: the fans started singing „Impossible“ before he did. I bet that I also saw some crying, tear-wiping faces. The real diehard fans probably got an amazing experience, but I, from where I was standing (the balcony) thought it was a mediocre gig. At least I got in for free.  

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James Arthur @ Tallinn, 5.08.14

(review tomorrow)

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post-festival sadness kicking in. (yes, it's a thing. like post-gig sadness)