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Capital Summertime Ball. One of the biggest parties of the year. Capital radio station presents summertime ball every year in June at Wembley Stadium. I’ve only ever been once before but this year’s ball was incredible.
The line up this year, in order, was;
Catfish & The Bottlemen, a welsh indie band formed in Llandudno in 2007. They have toured all over the world including, South America, Japan, Europe, UK, North America and Australia. The band have also featured in many festivals which include, Glastonbury, Latitude, Falls Festival, Community Festival, Reading and Leeds, T in the Park and many more. In 2016 they also won a Brit Award for British Breakthrough before later on releasing their second album which has sold 100,000 units in the UK since.
Casey Lowry. The first time I heard this name was when I went to go see Saint Raymond live in Tonbridge Wells. He opened up for him and I have to say he had me hooked as soon as he finished his first song. So when he announced his own tour and of course came to London, I couldn’t not get tickets.
Continue reading “A night to remember in London with Casey Lowry.”
19th March 2019. London, Kentish Town, o2 forum. What a night.
Picture This is an Irish rock band that originated from Athy, County Kildare. Composed of Ryan Hennessy, Jimmy Rainsford, Owen Cardiff and Cliff Deane. In 2017 they released their debut album, which entered atop the Irish Album Chart. Having recently released their second album, MDRN LV, they are now touring round Europe and American.
I have been a fan of Picture This since I saw them open up for Niall Horan in 2017. Their original songs and stage presence was one of the things that drew me to continue listening to them.
Madness are an English band from Camden Town, North London, formed in 1976. They’ve spent 214 weeks on the UK singles chart over the course of the decade, holding the record for most weeks spent by a group in the 1980s UK singles charts. Altogether Madness have had 15 singles reach the UK top ten, which included their classics, One Step Beyond, Baggy Trousers and It Must Be Love. Then in 2000 the band received the Ivor Novello Award from the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors for Outstanding Song Collection.
Thursday night and I spent it at Brixton O2 Academy watching Anne-Marie, 27, a English singer/songwriter from Essex. She’s been taking the music industry by storm since 2013 when she first started out. She’s done several collaborations  since then with; Rudimental, Marshmallow, Clean Bandit and many more. Her songs, ‘Alarm’, ‘2002’, ‘FRIENDS’, ‘Ciao Adios’ and ‘Rockabye’ all peaked at number one on the UK  singles chart. Her new album ‘Speak Your Mind’ was released this year before she took off on her own world tour of the debut album.
DANCE DISCRIMINATION LIKE NEVER BEFORE
Discrimination in dance is becoming more of a problem within the industry.
Although no one seems to notice or even care much about it. If you are someone who does not follow dance or even care for the sport you are probably wondering why it should matter, especially to you. However, even if you do follow dance you might not even know it happens yourself. As much as this may seem like something to throw aside, it is not.
Callum Burrows, 23 and professionally known as Saint Raymond, is a singer-songwriter from Nottingham. He started gaining popularity from 2013, touring with Ed Sheeran in 2014 and since then has gain a big fan base.
Saint Raymond and his band played at Tunbridge Wells’ Forum on 9th November 2018. This was my first time seeing him live, although I have been a fan for a long time now. Watching the small venue in Tunbridge Wells come alive and connect together just by a stranger singing songs everyone knew made the whole experience so uplifting.
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