Great Day in Camden with Karma/ Beach House Gig!!

Karma's first visit to Camden, love at first sight as I expected:

Hat in the bag:





Alex Scally is the sexiest thing on Earth (in Heaven):






Today, I took Karma into Camden on her day off, it was amazing, I bought a red wool hat, she bought a dress at Episode, the vintage store where I'm going back for jeans shorts on Friday, they have tonnes of hot hot old cut off bleached and washed Levi's jeans!

Saw Beach House for the fourth time, they were the best I've ever seen them, lively, spot on and improvising, in their true full-fledged spacey sound! Other times I've seen them they've seemed half-asleep. The venue Heaven worked well for them, a great gig and amazing set!!! The guitarist is so hot. Hot.

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Tomorrow it'll hopefully be sunny so I can take a morning trip to Brighton beach and then meet up with Karma after work and buy more £5 hats at New Look, and then we're seeing Seb's band Naked Aces play at the pub we were at on Monday. Hopefully I'll be doing back up vocals for two of their songs, I really want to!

On Thursday I'm going to London to attend a shopping event with Jelena and they're serving free booze, I'm also going to the opening of the Free Range exhibitions (where they also serve free booze) where Libby's art will be shown!

Friday, I'm going to London again, to see the Grace Kelly Exhibit at the V&A, then see a fashion show that Libby has got me into, and see the Grand Union Blues Band (Ed's band) play at Inn on the Green. and then Karma and I will party all night long.

On Saturday I will go to Bournemouth to see Filly!! A good one-nighter then back to G-ford to fly away early Monday morning

These guys are little too chilled out for my liking but I love their music!

Time is Running Out

It's time to start studying.. and shower so I can get this sunny day started. I started the day with a banana/strawberry/kiwi smoothie with orange juice. My mom mimicked me but trumped mine with a banana/avocado/ice cream smoothie - delicious, but mine's healthier.

Sunshine of Today

Beach House!

AMAZING HAPPINESS SUPER DAY

Had the best day yesterday - what one would almost call perfect: I took only two papers with me to my Economics tutorial so I could leave straight after. I understood what the hell was going on in class - amazing! I met up with Kirsten, we bought booze and a sausage roll. Four cans of Red Stripe, two bottles of cider. If we consumed it? Oh yes. On the bus! Lovely bus ride, the sun was shining the weather was fine, with the handsome countryside on our side and ginger Scottish cows.

Upon arrival and a little bit tipsy, we go into Topshop on Princes Street. I buy a bra and an I Love New York t-shirt which I now regret and want to kill and return. Next we hitch across the bridge, go to for some food at 'The Malt Shovel', a pub with some excellent 2 for £10 grub. I'm in love (and I've been here before)! Then it's concert time. Kirsten's had a vodka cranberry still standing strong, whilst I've had another beer and trying to sober up eating Kirsten's chocolate. We trek along.
For some reason I have a cigarette in my bag and I give it to a homeless man who turned down the chocolate. Apparently beggars can be choosers.

Queens Hall is just straight ahead and we manage to run in just as Beach House start playing one of my faves off their new album - A Walk in the Park! Oh yeah. It's not overly crowded and a lot of people seem to have little idea of who Beach House are. They play a short set of six songs including Zebra, Norway, Silver Soul, Take Care of You and Gila. The leading lady was mellow as usual and didn't say much.

Grizzly Bear come on. Their records do not do justice to their sound! They're extraordinarily talented musicians - I never realised how much they swap things around, with two different lead vocalists for various songs and it seemed like they each had 3 instruments to switch between. The light show is amazing! Whilst Beach House had lights in furry white pine trees, Grizzly Bear has light bulbs glass jars hanging down from wooden panels at different heights and lengths.

The highlight of the show is when Victoria Legrand gets back up on stage to support Grizzly Bear, first doing back up in "Two Weeks" then there was the epic mash up! I've been trying to look for the two songs which I now in hind sight I realise is the track "Slow Life" they did for the soundtrack of New Moon... Which means I made quite a few embarrassing comments on how amazing this mash up was and Kirsten's like "they should record it!" I'm like "totally!"

Oh, wait - they already have!

I left the concert with a new Beach House t-shirt in my possession.

Oh yes.

The sun is shining today too! What a perfect day to buy a camera and ink for my printer!

Also a perfect day to do my Psychology report which I'm doing at the moment.

Got tickets for Master Melking

Yes, I've bought tickets for Grizzly Bear and Beach House in that name. They're playing in Edinburgh at Queen's Hall on the 9th of March!

Excited!

Plus our band, Kings and Cowards are playing our first live set at Chambers the 24th of February!

Now I'm just going to kick it with my hot cocoa in the company of Kirsten and Lizzy watching Run Fatboy Run!

KissCous