#MusicMonday: Be Brave!

I had planned to get this up on time... but who am I honestly kidding. Things are a bit all over the place at the moment. Even though college is now done and dusted I'm trying to just get back to life. And figure everything out from here and its not as easy as planned. But fingers crossed that everything starts working out.

By the end of last week I didn't feel so brave anymore. I did't feel in control of life anymore, as I often don't. And after seeing Idina Menzel on Wednesday I was reminded of this amazing song! And of course the second Song is by Sara Bareilles which has my favourite saying in it! "I wanna see you be brave!" Anyway they both inspire me to be that little braver in life, and believe in "me" a little bit more!

Idina Menzel [Review]

I feel like I have waited a lifetime to see Miss Menzel. I remember being eight-ish and hearing the Wicked Soundtrack for the first time. Straight away I feel in love with the soundtrack and of course the song Defying Gravity. It started an unfaltering love of Musical theatre and the lady herself.  It wasn't to long after that I watched Rent and have basically followed her career since.

So on Wednesday June 24th when Idina Menzel took stage at the Royal Concert Hall in Glasgow I felt like I was eight again. Hearing her live was something else entirely she is just mesmerising. And though many know her from Frozen fame the lady is not afraid to let out some curses throughout the show.

Belter-ing out "Defying Gravity" and covering "Creep", "Tomorrow", dedicating "No day but today" to Jonathan Larson the man that helped start her career. Honouring powerhouse Ethel Mermen with a medley of songs. Throwing in songs from her albums "I stand" and "Still I can't be still". Having the audience help her out on "Take me or leave me" Idina covered everything you expected from her and then some. And looked like she was having a great time doing so.

So not only was she a great performer who I am incredibly glad that I got the opportunity to see live. She was funny and real.  Creating a perfect evening with Miss Idina Menzel.

#MusicMonday: June Special

This weeks music Monday idea comes from a gift I gave one of my best friends on her 16th birthday. I made this wall decoration with luggage tags of all the number ones on her birthday from the year she was born, with spare tags so she could add to it.

So in honour of my 20th year on this earth. Here are the number ones on June 8th. (I can't believe I've Been twenty a week now!)

2015: Want to want me: Jason Derulo 

2014: Sing - Ed Sheeran 

2013: Blurred Lines  - Robin Thicke

2012: Feel The love  - Rudimental 

2011: Changed the way you kiss me - Example

2010: Getting Over You - David Guetta and Chris Willis feat Fergie & LMFAO

2009: Boom Boom Pow - Black Eyed Peas

2008: Singin’ in the Rain - Mint Royale

2007: The Way I are  - Timbaland

2006: I wish I were a punk rocker  - Sandi Thom 

2005: Ghetto Gospel - 2pac

2004: I don;t wanna know  - Mario Winans

2003: Bring me to life - Evanescence 

2002: light my fire  - Will Young

2001: angel - Shaggy

2000: you see the trouble with me - Black Legend 

1999: everybody’s free (to wear sunscreen) - Bas Luhrmann 

1998: 3 lions ’98 - Baddiel, Skinner and The lighting seeds

1997: i’ll be missing you - Puff Daddy 

1996:  killing me softly  - Fugees 

1995: boom boom boom  - Other Brothers

May Favourites

May favourites are here!!! It's like I nearly forgot or something... 

1) Clapper Board: The first few days of May were spent filming "The Audition Tape" a new web-series by 1995 Productions coming Summer 2015, hopefully! It was such a fun - stressful at times - experience. I can't wait to get the edit together and see the finished product. After filming so much for college or just vlogging it was great to make something creative that was just a passion project. 

2) MacBook Pro: I genuinely don't know how I would have got through the last few months without this lil' baby. Paperwork, editing, blogging, music listening, movie watching. It does it all. As the last lap of college came in I was editing my final project heavily as well as handing in every last bit of paper work at times I felt like I wasn't of this sometimes frustrating machinery. 

3) Business cards: I am now a fully fledged adult poised and ready to social network with my beautiful little business cards! ughhh I love them, I even bought a car holder so they sit nicely on my desk and another card holder than goes in my bag and keeps them all protected.... now to find networking events. 

4) Chasers of the Light (Poems from the typewriter series) -Tyler Knott Gregson: I recently ranted in a vlog that I don't have time to read a book. So this has been a great little companion as I do have time to read a poem or two in the spare moments that I do have. I got this a few months ago, I ordered it online and it finally arrived after a particularly bad morning and ever since it never fails to just make me happier.

5) The Last Five Years (Movie): I feel like I have been waiting a lifetime for this movie. TL5Y is honestly one of my most favourite musicals ever. Anna Kendrick and Jeremy Jordon are perfect within there roles and this movie defiantly didn't disappoint. Jason Robert Brown the creator even has a brilliant cameo. So if you do anything in June, find a store go on Amazon, GET THIS MOVIE! I have watched it a gazillion times since I bought it.

Music Monday: 19 and Crazy - Bomshell

Here I am last seven days of being 19 and it feels kinda crazy that soon I won't be a teenager anymore. But for the time being I'm still a little bit 19 and crazy. Enjoy x