ARE YOU READY FOR LEEDS YET?!

(I got onto a computer! Crazy, isn't it. Mine's still broken though, which makes posting regularly very annoyingly difficult)

On Friday, this very Friday, begins the 2013 Leeds Festival. I am going to this festival. I am so excited that I have been having trouble sleeping, which is somewhat troublesome because I should probably get the rest now seeing as I'll be up and about pretty much all day every day when I get there.
This year has an amazing line-up, the best line-up you could hope for after 2011 featured My Chemical Romance. We've got Bring Me The Horizon, Green Day, Deaf Havana, and - most importantly for a fair amount of people, I think, because until this year all the newer fans like myself thought we'd never get to see them perform live - Fall Out Boy. Stoked does not cut it.
So, to try and help work through my own excitement enough that I can sleep tonight, and also help any of you who are somewhat unsure who to go and see at Leeds this year, here are the songs by my favourite bands and artists that will be there that I am most excited to see. (apologies for the breakdown in my ability to express myself as the post goes on, I was getting more and more excited)

Morbid Songs For Morbid Writers

Aside from listening to music, I also like to write. I like to write morbid things about death and violence. To aid this cause, I made myself a playlist, and I think it may have broken with me. So, because maybe you're after a really depressing but cool collection of music, I will share this playlist with you.

Blink 182 - I Miss You

Blink 182 - Adam's Song

Echo And The Bunnymen - The Killing Moon

Gram Rabbit - Dirty Horse

Florence + The Machine - Cosmic Love

The Cure - Disintegration

The Cure - The Same Deep Water As You

My Chemical Romance - Romance

My Chemical Romance - Desert Song

My Chemical Romance - Interlude

My Chemical Romance - Cancer

Arctic Monkeys - 505

Arctic Monkeys - Crying Lightning

White Lies - Farewell To The Fairground

White Lies - Bigger Than Us

Deaf Havana - I Will Try

Deaf Havana - Times Change, Friends Leave And Life Doesn't Stop For Anybody

Deaf Havana - Nicotine And Alcohol Saved My Life

Panic! At The Disco - Lying Is The Most Fun A Girl Can Have Without Taking Her Clothes Off

Bring Me The Horizon - Deathbeds

5 Songs: I

Deaf Havana - I'm A Bore, Mostly

The Blackout - I'm A Riot? You're A Fucking Riot!

Leathermouth - I Am Going To Kill The President Of The United States Of America

Panic! At The Disco - I Write Sins, Not Tragedies

Bob Marley And The Wailers - I Shot The Sheriff

5 Songs: A

I've decided, as a quick thing to fill time until I have enough spare time to write proper things for the blog again, I'm going to do this. Five songs for each letter of the alphabet. Today, obviously, is A.

Sleeping With Sirens - A Trophy Father's Trophy Son
It's, as is usual for SWS, one of those songs that you really want to sing along to, but can only do it justice if you can keep up with all the different parts of the chorus and Kellin's impressive vocal range.

The Killers - All These Things That I've Done
As with the rest of Hot Fuss, it's a beautiful song.

Fall Out Boy - America's Suitehearts
It's so over-the-top, but still manages to be quite clever about celebrity culture and somehow involves Patrick wearing a yellow top hat.

Deaf Havana - Anemophobia
I thought anemophobia would be something to do with blood (because in my head everything is to do with blood) because it sounds like anaemia, but I looked it up and apparently it's actually a phobia of wind. Technically, the song is actually a bit about wind.

My Chemical Romance - Ambulance
Off Conventional Weapons. It took me a while to let this one grow on me, because it sounds so different to their other stuff, and is terrifying when it randomly appears on shuffle, but I really like it now.

Let's Shuffle

I needed to think of a post, and because I'm currently not exactly drowning in free time, I thought I'd do the age-old facebook/tumblr/insert other social network here pastime of putting my iPod on shuffle and giving you the first 25 songs that come up.

Feeder - Seven Days In The Sun
Deaf Havana - Little White Lies
System Of A Down - Deer Dance
Hole - Celebrity Skin
You Me At Six - Loverboy
The Killers - My List
Green Day - Pulling Teeth
The Cure - Last Dance
Rammstein - Sonne
Muse - Resistance
My Chemical Romance - The Only Hope For Me Is You
Fall Out Boy - Golden
Mark Ronson feat. Amy Winehouse - Valerie (Zutons cover)
The Cribs - Butterflies
My Chemical Romance - I Don't Love You
Pierce The Veil - I'm Low On Gas And You Need A Jacket
Arctic Monkeys - If You Were There, Beware
Pierce The Veil - Bulls In The Bronx
Funeral For A Friend - Bullet Theory
Flight Of The Conchords - You Don't Have To Be A Prostitute
Gorillaz - On Melancholy Hill
My Chemical Romance - Dead!
My Chemical Romance - Disenchanted
The Killers - Bones
Leathermouth - My Lovenote Has Gone Flat

Happy 100th Post!

I am celebrating this because, not only is it an anniversary, it's a testament to my concentration. There's very little I can keep up with that takes as much effort as this blog does, so I'm pretty pleased with myself. So, to celebrate, we're having an internet party. To have a party, you need music. Because it's my party, we're having my music. I was going to do my top 100 songs ever, but that would just be me linking you to the My Chemical Romance back catalogue. I want to be a bit fairer than that, and also stick to something I'm actually capable of finishing. So what I'm doing here for our little party is an A to Z (zed, not zee, we're British here) of artists, and an awesome song by each. Not necessarily my favourite song, because you see enough of those, but other songs they've done that I also think are great. That way it's fair on the bands, and we get a little bit of variety in here. I'll also stick them in a youtube playlist if, for some bizarre reason, you want to hear them all at once.

A - All Time Low - Remembering Sunday
I'm still sort of going through the initial 'wow' phase of liking All Time Low, so I haven't settled on a favourite song yet, but at the moment I'm really liking this one. I'm learning it on guitar, too.

B - Bring Me The Horizon - Hospital For Souls
One of the best tracks off Sempiternal. You'd be able to feel the flames even if they weren't mentioned in the chorus.

C - The Cribs - I'm A Realist
I just really love the guitars in this, and the lyrics. Yeah . . .

D - Deaf Havana - Nicotine And Alcohol Saved My Life
This is the first song by Deaf Havana that I heard, and it's the song that convinced me to keep listening.

E - Evanescence - Bring Me To Life
Everybody knows this one. I remember seeing this one all the time on MTV when I was about seven. It also belongs on the soundtrack to my youth.

F - Fall Out Boy - Grand Theft Autumn (Where Is Your Boy)
It's such an emo song, but it's also awesome, and one of my favourites by the band.

G - Gorillaz - Feel Good Inc.
This was my favourite song from the age of about 9 until I discovered My Chemical Romance. Although apparently the bass is actually synth (broke my heart), still . . . baaasssss . . .

H- Hi Hi Puffy Ami Yumi
Because we needed a bit of J-rock in this playlist.

I - Imagine Dragons - Radioactive
I was struggling to find an artist for this letter, but I really like this song, so there you go.

J - Jay-Z & Linkin Park - Big Pimpin'/Papercut
I am just marvelling that this actually works, and why this happened in the first place.

K - The Killers - Mr Brightside
I don't even know why I'm writing an explanation for this one, because it really doesn't need any. Everybody loves this song. Everything loves this song. Play it in a laboratory and use an electron microscope, you'll see viruses dancing and singing along. It is science.

L - Lostalone - Do You Get What You Pray For?
This song is so badasssss, I remember why I was listening to them all the time last year.

M - My Chemical Romance - The Kids From Yesterday
I couldn't really decide for this one, because I love every single MCR track. But I decided this one because it was a perfect ending song to Danger Days, the prologue that is Vampire Money notwithstanding, and seeing as Danger Days was the last proper album of new material that they released, a perfect end to their career as a band.

N - New Order - Blue Monday
I don't even know.

O - Of Mice And Men - They Don't Call It The South For Nothing
I SAID I'D FIGHT BACK. I DIDN'T SAY THAT I'D FIGHT FAIR.

P - Pierce The Veil - Currents Convulsive
Most people forget about the other songs on A Flair For The Dramatic because of Chemical Kids . . . and Yeah Boy . . . but this track's possibly my favourite on the whole album, and really needs more attention from people.

Q - Queens Of The Stone Age - Lost Art Of Keeping A Secret
I don't listen to QOTSA much, but I like this one. It's the guitars at the beginning.

R - Rise Against - Make It Stop (September's Children)
The song's awesome, and the video is really emotive about bullying. It makes me want to hunt people down and fight them.

S - Sleeping With Sirens - With Ears To See And Eyes To Hear
LIAAAARR YOU'LL PAY FOR YOUR SSIIIINNNSSSS

T - Taking Back Sunday - Make Damn Sure
One of the first TBS songs I heard, while I was working in this shop, and it's what made me look them up properly.

U - The Used - The Bird And The Worm
I just love the contrast between the creepy little verses and the massive chorus.

V - The Vaccines - Post Break-Up Sex
I dunno, man, I just like this one.

W - Without A Face - Republicratic Gang
This was another difficult one, because all of WAF's songs are great. But I've put this one because it's off his amazing Oh, Great, An Election EP, which came before the even better American Scheme album. It's the first I've seen of WAF suddenly getting very cynical and political, and he does it very well. The video's also great.

X - Xiaolin Showdown Theme
Not going to lie, I struggled to find anything for X, but then I remembered this, and really . . . it's my favourite thing beginning with X.

Y - You Me At Six - Crash
I'd heard other You Me At Six songs before this, but this is the one that really got me into them. There's so much emotion in it.

Z - The Zutons - Valerie
We wouldn't have the Amy Winehouse version if it wasn't for this, and the original's not that bad anyway.

I Need To Go To Reading And Leeds . . . And Maybe Also Slamdunk

LOOK AT THE LINE-UP THIS YEAR FOR R&L. LOOK AT IT.

THATS THE NEW STUFF. LET ME LIST EVERY BAND AND ARTIST FOR YOU BECAUSE I LIKE LISTS.

Biffy Clyro, System Of A Down, Fall Out Boy, Foals, Jake Bugg, Bring Me The Horizon, Deftones, Eminem, Alt-J, Sub Focus

various others that either haven't been announced/I can't find.

BUT LOOK. FALL OUT BOY. FFKRJGLJRLKGMFDLK. AFDdfgjslgkwerg;lkg Just Fall Out Boy would be enough but there's others, there's BMTH, there's SOAD, there's Eminem (although I don't massively like his newer stuff).

THEN LOOK AT SLAMDUNK 2013

All Time Low, Four Year Strong, The Early November, The Skints, The Wonder Years, Streetlight Manifesto, Pierce The Veil, Polar Bear Club, Woe Is Me, Sense Fail, Fireworks, The Story So Far, Memphis May Fire, Sleeping With Sirens, Andrew McMahon, Mallory Knox, The Summer Set, MC Lars, Man Overboard, Deaf Havana, We Are The Ocean, King Prawn, Allister, Transit, Me Vs Hero, The Word Alive, Our Last Night, Jonny Craig, Handguns, Hands Like Houses.

THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS ME SEEING PTV TOO MUCH, AND THE ONLY OTHER SWS GIG I KNOW OF IS ALREADY BLOODY SOLD OUT.

I was originally wary of festivals, because I didn't like live music or fields. I'm still not a massive fan of fields, but there are now band that I like enough that I would go without washing properly for. I am quite willing to go and do the festival thing, especially since everyone keeps going 'oh my god you're young this is the time to do it it's the time to go running round in the mud in your vest and knickers' and all that. I may get Alix to go with me, if she can, because she likes all this musical stuff.

I have been to one festival. Fuji Rock Festival 2010. I have the t-shirt and towel to prove it. It was pretty awesome, and the first time I saw Muse and The Cribs live. The downside was that it was in the mountains of Naeba. In Japan. The Japanese are very friendly, but when you're 14 and it's raining so hard your shoes grip more to the ground than your feet (the amount of times I had to go back for my shoes 'cause they'd come off is ridiculous) and the only person you can actually hold a conversation with is your mum, who appears to have caught the Black Death from a really inflamed insect bite . . . kind of dampens your mood a bit. It's time, though, to try again with people who are much less friendly and organised, in a country with even worse weather.

But there's Pierce The Veil and Sleeping With Sirens and Fall Out Boy and Deaf Havana and All Time Low and Bring Me The Horizon

Do you get this

I NeED TO GO TO ONE OR BOTH.