Joshua Raaadin

Guess who we saw at the weekend?! Not that it takes much guess work as it was mentioned in a previous post and in the title! But.... JOSHUA RAADIN!!! <3 It was SO amazing! 


The drive up to Birmingham was really easy and then we parked and made our way to the O2 Academy Birmingham, got the Priority queue as I am with O2 (score) but that took an hour and then we finally got let in and the cash machine was broken! Not good as this meant we had £13 between 3 of us!! And it was a CASH ONLY bar. Two Diet Cokes and a Red Bull - £9!! Mental, you know we made them last!


We were in a pretty good spot and the warm up act was a good lady by the name of Rosi Golan who had a beautiful voice - here is a little snippet:

After she had finished we were in a prime position, could see perfectly and then we could hear a group of guys behind us plotting to get in front of us. Literally ONE person closer and they were like 8 inches taller than us. That's just rude! Well they DID it and COMPLETELY blocked my view, so obviously I was pissed, and then proceeded to talk about how they had never heard of Joshua Radin, couldn't remember his name the other day when someone asked who they were going to see etc and so I was like 'f**k this' and proceeded to stand with my elbow DIGGING into the guys back until he left. Score. Won that round. Then Joshua fiiiiinally came on stage and they kept talking!! So I simply said 'guuuys, shut up!' and this guy looked at me like I had just kicked his dog 'whaat?!' 'be quiet!' and they proceeded to whisper and give me daggers for the whole first song (whilst I was thinking, oh sh*t, perhaps a 'please be quiet' would have gone down better) but then they did shut up for most of the rest of it, despite the occasional glare in my direction, and Joshua was AMAZING.


Seriously I have SO many videos of this on my YouTube channel but I'll only post a few, including some new songs. It was just perfection. 


The Rock and the Tide:

Brand New Day:

New Song - I'm sorry I don't remember the name!

New song - Where We Belong:

It was just perfection, so worth all the hassle, long drive, getting home at 1am, it was wonderful! And a much better venue that when we saw him at Thekla in Bristol as this was a more open room and yet a more intimate feel. Ooooh how I love him! Hope you enjoy, and as I said, more videos can be found on my YouTube channel if you can't get enough!


Back soon, 

Liv xxx

What a difference a year makes....

I know it's been ages since my last post but LOTS has been going on!

Today marked one year that I have been single, and what a year it has been! I think I've grown up more in the last year than ever before! Lots of tough times but also lots of brilliant times over the past year, reconnected with family and friends and now have stronger relationships than ever before, and I'm so thankful for that. 

Well lots has been going on, so let's recap shall we??

Been at my 'new' job (guess I can't call it that any more) for 2 months now! No longer a Receptionist, got upgraded and now I am a Legal Secretary. Ooh err. Met loads of lovely people and it's just really nice to feel like I've done something with my day! Made a really close friend at work but unfortunately she left for another firm... on the bright side though, we have a new Receptionist who is lovely and I'm getting along really well with her so glad to have someone there I can just natter away to, it makes such a difference!

Well, what's been happening? LOTS of drinking! Seriously spending an absolute fortune on alcohol recently but having a grand old time out of it so can't complain! Lots of nights out, evenings in the pub and good chats! 

The BIG news is my bestie of 13 years has MOVED TO BRISTOL! This is supremely exciting!!! Cat and Ben have moved from Leeds to Bristol and are now within walking distance from me; this is the best news! The crazy thing is we've all been so busy we haven't even seen each other THAT much! Thrilled they are living down here now though!!

On Wednesday, Siobhan came to visit from London and we went to Bath to see Jared Christmas and Tommy Tiernan, LOTS of laughter and good times with my girlies, was scrummy =D

Tomorrow, Linz, her friend Damian and I are off to Birmingham to see the one and only Joshua Radin <3 Super psyched for this, he's my favooourite. We saw him in Bristol in April 2010 but a new album since then and so it will SO be worth the trek! Then next Friday off to Reading to see Jack Whitehall with Caz and Chris! Good times!! 

The week of sunshine was SO appreciated and lots of sitting in parks and drinking cider, what else?! Winter is setting in now; the coat is OUT but this means I can start getting excited for Christmas!!

Linz and her Ben are off to Oman in 2 weeks, I am so jealous of this fact!!!! WISH so badly I could be going back to see the family and go dancing with my Mammy! I'm sure the next 2 months will fly by though and then I'll find myself back there! Can't waaait =D 

Chuffed to bits my Ma has an iPhone now so we can talk on Viber for hours on end, most fabulous!!

Basically, life is good, I'm very lucky to be where I am surrounded by good people and I hope I'm appreciating it enough!

CHEERS TO THE FREAKIN' WEEKEND!

Back soon, 

Liv xxx