I must confess, I have qualms about not writing here so often as I want, but the biggest difficulty is my computer. I reckon it still remembers all the ancient civilizations of this world! Every so often it starts so slowly that I forget what I wanted to write. But no worries, this time I remember all :)
I have started to listen British radiostations recently in order to develop my language skills. I love to listen especially one of them - X Radio. Their sense of humour and chosen music fits me completely. Just look at their facebook page, the posts are hilarious, aren't they?
Source: https://www.facebook.com/RadioX/
X Radio plays such good songs that you want to check their titles on the web player all the time. New single from The Killers is my favorite one at the moment. When you hear it at the morning it will totally dominate your day, just listen and enjoy! :)
P.S. Upcoming week will bring some good stuff: an eagerly awaited album
from The National and other new single from U2 - so... stay tuned! :)
It is so weird to start writing here after one year and a half, so strange that I even fogot the password! Fortunately my computer is almost as old as me, so it sometimes remembers things which I can't keep in my head :)
Why am I beginning again? Mainly because I work harder on my English these times and still want to be better in it. Many plans ahead, many dreams to come true, I can't tell you right now, but you can always cross fingers for me! :)
Moreover... so many concert reviews are waiting - I am writing a story about U2 concert right now. It has to be perfect, you know, that's why it takes so much time ;) and of course, magic Coldplay concert is also worth of telling the story about. So why not to try to bring the blog to life? :)
All of these will come to blog soon, but at the moment I want to share with you some songs from an upcoming album "A Fever Dream" from a band known as Everything Everything. I think the album will be amazing, I just love their new songs and simply can't wait for it! So listen and enjoy :)
p.s. and question to the female part of our readers:
Singer from Everything Everything looks so mhmmm, don't you think? ;)
In this place should stand the post about Editors concert in Warsaw. Yes, "should" but unfortunately I can't write it :( but don't worry, I can tell you one story!
It was May 2015 when I bought tickets to Editors concert in Warsaw, you know me so you can imagine how happy I was. When autumn has come I decided to buy some bus tickets to Warsaw. I choose PolskiBus and booked return tickets at 23.45 after the concert. After time we decided with friends that maybe it is not a good idea to return so early - cause nothing is worse than leaving the concert before its ending. So we cancelled the tickets for PolskiBus and booked tickets to LuxExpress at 6.30 next day. I was thinking: omg waiting all night in Warsaw.... but I can do this for Editors.
The day before the concert my friend found an offer at BlaBlaCar - some guy from Cracow is going also to concert and can take us after it to Cracow - perfect! So we cancelled LuxExpress and booked a place in this car.
So the long-waited Thursday has come. I took the bus to Warsaw with my friend Musicaxe, everything was looking so good, we even received the food in the bus :) PolskiBusGold - I can recommend you this line, good conditions inside and they give people fooood! :)
So we are going to Warsaw and suddenly... we get the message that Editors has cancelled Polish concerts!!! :( omg, I almost crying there :( They said that Tom Smith is unhealthy and too unwell to perform... Now we know also, that all their upcoming concerts in 2015 are cancelled so I think, we really have to cross fingers for Tom - get well soon!
Ok, but back to the story... So we are going to Warsaw, without any stops, thinking what to do, cause the plans changed, eating the PolskiBus sandwich and thinking... so what we did? We CANCELLED the BlaBlaCar and booked PolskiBus at 18.15 from Warsaw to Cracow. We had one hour at Warsaw, we go to eat one kebab and we came back to the bus stop, and guess what... we get into the same bus with the same crew onboard. They were looking at us with a little fear in their eyes. I don't know why - we are just two poor girls which want to eat one kebab in Warsaw - what is strange in that? :)
So we started the return trip, again eat PolskiBus sandwich, (really, I started to be hungry while writing this :) and dreaming about the Spring 2016, cause the Editors team promised to postpone the concerts then. What more I can say, now I really wanna go for both Polish concerts, I have ticket for Warsaw and I will buy ticket to Poznan cause I think that I deserved that! See you soon Editors! :)
P.S. I had an idea to publish one Editors song here - but I CANCELLED it :) Let's listen something different - for me new, for some of you for sure well known:
You know... it is good to have birthday in autumn when best concerts are coming :) thanks to my friends and family I can convert another music dream to reality! So... Foo Fighters in Cracow oh yeah! :)
Saturday at work so post must be - maybe it will be a tradition? Who knows? ;)
So saturday at work, I am sitting and listening radio and I almost forgot about my broken heart... Good that radio remind it to me!
New video from Foals has just arrived! I am happy about that so much cause I really like this song from their last album. So if you have time, look and listen:
More than two weeks have gone but my thoughts are still at U2 concerts in Berlin. How to describe it? I will try...
First of all I need to explain, cause some people were asking: why two concerts? Because it is such a good feeling, that you want to feel it again and again. I will never forget the happiness after the first one, when I was thinking: omg it was soooo amazing and I will see the same tomorrow! :) Why was it so amazing? The first thing: the guys from
U2 are perfect in playing music. Moreover they aren't playing only big
hits, they simply make a spectacle. The spectacle full of interesting
visualizations, full of amazing stories, full of awesome moments. Their
every tour give us something different. But when I think about last one
in 2009-2010, I remember many complains from fans. A lot of people were
saying that U2 is so far away from their fans, that they play always the
same songs, only the biggest and the most boring hits. I also heard
opinions, that money is the only matter important for them. This time everything changed. First of all: U2 is
playing only small concerts, not so expensive for the fans. They play
two or sometimes more gigs in one city with different setlists and they
try to remind us older songs. What's better, they are as close to the
audience as it is possible. Just look how close:
Crowdsurfing Bono in Barcelona concert. Photo by U2gigs/Stefan.
So when you are on the U2 concert, you always have good view, cause the stage is at the centre of arena, and each part of the audience has the moment when they are close to the band. What is more, during this tour Bono every time takes one person from the audience - some of this lucky people play on guitars, some sing to a microphone with Bono. And always, the fan on the stage is responsible for making a video with a U2 smartphone - then whole audience can see it on big screens, and also, this video is streamed live online. That's how the old U2 is using new technologies! :)
What about the amazing stories, what about the spectacle... Yes, for me every song had right place at this concerts. U2 is telling us a story about them, from the beginning of their music journey which started in Dublin. This story is connected with the last album, where Bono was singing a lot about his childhood and places where he grown up. So the first part of the concert is full of songs from the early years of the band. Songs from first albums are mixed with songs from the last one and believe me... this is awesome mixture, full of energy and good guitar riffs, just look and listen :
Second Berlin concert had place exactly in the day when U2 was celebrating the 39th anniversary - can you feel it??? Omg I was crying there :) I think everyone in the arena was feeling this special atmosphere, and now I can only wait for their concerts in 2016 - can you imagine the 40th anniversary at some concert, maybe in Poland? Please Bono, please come to us then!
Ok... calm down Togama, still a lot of stories to tell... So... after energetic beginning we could hear the songs from new album, Bono was talking about his mother, who died when he was a teenager. For her he wrote a song called "Iris". I love this song and for me it was a special moment at the concert, maybe because I can share Bono's feeling at this case. Next songs were telling us a stories about the Ireland and places which are important for the band. The most amazing was raw version of "Sunday bloody sunday" with Irish impressions and visualizations, omg... I watch it now and I have goosebumps again...
The first part of the concert was finished with my favorite song, "Until the end of the world". I love this record and I think, it always sounds good at the concerts, but this time... it was the best version I've ever heard! and video effects on the big screen were really astonishing, I had a feeling that it is real end of the world...
After "Until the end of the world" the band stepped down from the stage for a little break and in this while audience could hear changed version of "The Fly" - also amazing! Big screen was looking like a Berlin Wall, which was destroyed by the band in the next song. After it we could listen to many older songs, for me the best was the moment, when Bono was singing "Even Better Than The Real Thing":
Next songs gave us many important messages from the band, Bono was talking a lot about the world's problems, for example refugees and war at some countries - especially "Bullet the blue sky" when Bono was singing through big megaphone... So many amazing moments, now it's hard to tell about them all!
I think I must stop now, cause I will never end this post :)
U2 is in good form, really, I recommend their concerts to all sceptics who say that this band is over. Really, Bono and his company are making f***ing amazing shows! and I promise, if you taste it once, U2 will steal your heart. So... now let's cross fingers for some Polish concerts :) See you there!
Omg what a weekend I had! And it has started in thursday - when you have vacations everything is possible :)
I spent three days at Krakow Live Festival and it was a GOOD TIME. If you understand Polish, you can read the best review at Musicaxe blog: HERE.
So many good concerts there, The Maccabees, The Future Islands, Kamp!, Low Roar, Rudimental, TV on The Radio.... I can't even talk about everything, so many good memories:
- bass guitar at Future Islands concert :)
- magic atmosphere at Low Roar concert :)
- dancing and jumping at Rudimental concert :)
and more and more and more...
But of course the best were FOALS :)
Photo taken from: http://www.uwolnijmuzyke.pl/
From thursday evening I have new music idol... sorry Bono... ;) Yannis Philippakis from Foals, oh my God, what a man! His energy and vocal, his guitar skills, EVERYTHING! I am so glad that I could be at Foals concert :)
You know... it is so f***ing amazing to be at live concerts, and doesn't matter how old are you :) even with a pain in your shoulders, even with so many younger faces around you :))) live music forever! so I am looking forward to the next stop at my music map: U2 concerts in Berlin. One month to go!!!
New album from Chemicals has just arrived, you can listen it in Spotify, album title: "Born in the Echoes". The Chemical Brothers is important band for us, first post at Musictaboret was written after watching their concert :) So I simply must write about it!
But the problem is... I can't tell you if I like their new sounds... Everything because one song which I am listening on and on and I just can't check the others! Hope Maxfer will write more about whole album :)
The guilty song is "Radiate" - oh my God! what a song... with so much air and space inside, beautiful melody, I just can't find words to describe it...
I only can imagine that this sounds could be played somewhere in the cosmos... for example near the Pluto - did you hear about it? The planet far far away from the Earth (something about 4 772 000 000 km, so... far far far away!) which is very popular in the news recently. The reason is New Horizons mission - 9 years ago NASA sent a spacecraft to discover this planet and these days it finally reached their destination. Just imagine... You are going 9 years to see something, which is not visible from the Earth... and after 9 years of waiting you see this:
A planet with a heart on it!!! Ain't it magic?? :) Really, this kind of magic needs good music soundtrack :) So I think "Radiate" will be perfect here...
"what is this? I can't see, just radiate your love to me" ;)
Saturday at work. What to do? The best way to spend this day is watching at videos from U2 concerts! But don't worry, I know you don't like it so much, so I will write about something else :)
I have just bought the ticket to Krakow Live Festival and I am so happy - finally some festival also for me :) A lot of great bands will come to Cracow in August:
I can't understand what is going on recently, so many new songs, so many! And most of them are so good, you simply HAVE TO LISTEN TO THEM :)
Woodkid ft. Lykke Li... I don't have words to describe this... I am listening it on and on and I can't stop, amazing song!
Grimes is for those who don't like this kind of slow songs. So if you enjoy more energetic rythms, you should listen to her new song REALiTi.
Death Cab For Cutie shared another new song from their upcoming album, I can't wait for it so much :)
Mumford and Sons also gave us new song, and this song is totally different from their past music. Check if you like cause for me...at the beginning was hard to like, now I even fancy it :)
While Maxfer is starting a new job in Barcelona, I wanted to find some music connected with this city. It was hard, I didn't find nothing what amazed me so much... But this one band: I'm from Barcelona is even good for listening (maybe not good looking with the singers mustache ;). They have nice songs, perfect for sunny and happy days, perfect for dreaming about upcoming spring and summer :) So with the song about the place where is Always Spring I wish good luck to Maxfer in the beautiful Barcelona :)
Nice song again from my radio programme, I want to listen it again and again cause is very peaceful, good especially before stressful day tomorrow at work, so listen with me and enjoy!
I must confess I feel a little guilty, cause Maxfer is working hard on Musictaboret posts and I didn't write anything from a long time... But the problem is, I don't find nothing new and special in music these days. So what to do? How to live? :) Luckily there is an answer and I get it from my favorite radio presenter Bisior - the answer is: lets listen something older! ;)
Last "Happy Noise" programme has reminded me the band HEARTS. For sure you know this song, is the most famous from them, but maybe you haven't seen the video - you should look at it, cause is really nice. What about the song... my favorite moment starts from 2:15. So listen with me and enjoy :)
Yesterday, after 11 months of waiting, finally I could hear my favorite dj Bisior and his radio programme "Happy Noise" and you know what.... mondays are good again :) The playlist of programme was amazing - I could listen only for a while but even in this short moment of listening I found some new perfect music discovery, so listen with me and enjoy:
Today is a day sponsored by the letter "K".
Why? cause a lot of Polish K-words could be used today ;) If you know Polish language, for sure you will understand:
"kurwajakzimno",
"katar",
"kaszel",
"bolącaKrtań" ;)
if you don't understand... then don't worry, you don't have to know them. These are not pleasent words, connected with horrible weather outside and being sick and cold.
But I have one more word starting from K. It is Kent.
This Swedish band has published very good album this year. I didn't have possibility to listen to "Trigerdottningen" till yesterday. But after listening: Oh, what an amazing album it is! I like, very very much :) So if you have time for a small Swedish trip, I truly recommend you Kent - perfect for this K-day!
Today not talking about radio, today is a day of filling in my gaps in recent music :) so after this day I can say - I don't like new Chemical Brothers but don't worry, I have something much better to listen! New album from Ben Howard is stunning... Omg, how this man is playing his guitar! :) Unfortunately I didn't find the link to the best song from the album - All Is Now Harmed, but if you want, you can listen it on Spotify - HERE (whole album is there).
The second song for me is this one, so listen and enjoy:
Do you remember Turboweekend and their biggest hit "On my side"? Now we can finally listen to something new from them! The new song "Miles and Miles" has reminded me the times when I met them for the first time. I heard Turboweekend in my favorite radio and also I wanted to go for their concert which was organized by this music station. Unfortunately life has changed all my plans and I didn't go.
Now new music chapter starts, on Monday new radiostation will take its place in Polish houses and I cross fingers for them cause MUZO.FM will be made by the best Polish djs. I can't wait to hear again Bisior, Pegaz and others and the music chosen by them. For sure again they will give us a lot of music inspiration. Really... I am happy as a child and can't wait so much! :) Good luck MUZO.FM!
Did you see last Maxfer post? This is professional music journalism! :) But it didn't change my feelings about new song from Thom Yorke... I don't like it so much, I love this guy but really... maybe this time is not a good time for his music in my life ;)
Instead of Thom I tried to listen new Mogwai and I can truly recommend it to you - perfect song for saturday tasks, at home, at work, wherever you want :) enjoy!
Last days I was listening only two albums: U2 "Songs of Innocence" and Alt-J "This Is All Yours". The second one is awesome, but I don't find words to describe it, so if you want to read good review, look HERE.
But today: achtung achtung new Kele song! So I am leaving new U2 and Alt-J albums for a moment cause "Coasting" is super! So listen and enjoy:
