Viva La Vida Loca!

Hey dears,

Sorry.. I didn't upload here anything for a long, long time. The reason is, that I got a job next to my studies and I had wonderful vacations, that I used to visit my family for a longer time. Anyway. I decided to open a new, fresh blog, where I only upload my poems.

In this new blog I won't write about any music topic. So if you are interested in reading my texts (for whatever reason xD), to complain about my badass English or to keep in contact with me, you can go on this page:

http://annjushka.blogspot.de/

And if you're interested in different news from my close friend Jacky, I remind you to visit her lovely blog. There she writes about everything and nothing. At least that's her own description :D

Go here:
http://jacksyndrome.blogspot.de/2013/09/pause.html

Thank you guys, that you read my stuff!

Have a wonderful day! <3

Actually I wanted to separate the topics music and other stuff... hmm I totally failed. Too much blogs doesn't make sense to me anymore. For that reason I'll go on here with bothering you :D

Read more about new music below the line...
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Hello and welcome to another issue about young musicians.

1. Felix Görtz
He is a young singer/songwriter from Germany. His first soloalbum (2010) is called "Im Schwarzen Wald" and consists of dark, melodic, romantic and melancholic as well as happy acoustic music.

Look here for his little Gig at a radio station:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORZNMZ-OPjc

And here for his cover of "Lovesong" by The Cure
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bYfT6nzJ_4&NR=1&feature=endscreen

2. Martta Hakala
Martta is a musician from Finland. She took part at the Finnish version of "Idols". I guess, she didn't win it but she got a contract at Sony Music Finland

Look here for her cover of "My Happy Ending" by Avril Lavine. I think she did a good job.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mg6z0KMaI4s

3. Shoshin
Shoshin is a young band from Manchester consisting of Pete Haley (songwriting, vocals, guitar), Joe Stuart (bass) and the female drummer Abbi Philips. I think she's also doing the back vocals. The band is influenced by Reggae, Rap und Rock n Roll.

Look here for Shoshin's song "Big Bang"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2acYwWCahfw

That's all!

Have a nice sunday eve!

<3

Dear lovebirds,

look at this wonderful facebook page from my lovely friend; filled with great texts and stories.

https://www.facebook.com/Schicksalsspielzeug

It deserves a Like!

All die vielen Zeilen, die sie dir schrieb und niemals gab.
Jetzt liegst du ganz still, so starr, in deinem Sarg.
Natürlich fragt sie nach dem Sinn.
Wo geht es nach dem Tod nur hin?
Sie glaubt nicht an Gott; sie weiß auch nichts vom Paradies.
Doch sie hofft, es geht dir gut und dass du lächelst,
Immer dann, wenn du sie siehst.

Es ist so lange her, beinah achtzehn Jahr‘ -
Achtzehn Jahre, als sie dich das letzte Mal sah.

Ein Mensch der andere Leben schützt und selber seines lässt.
Das Schicksal macht mit uns so manch makabres Geschäft.

Ist es nicht seltsam?

Sie meinen, dass sie dich vergisst;
Dass sie kaum noch weiß, wer du bist;
Dass sie dich kaum noch kennt.
Das ist nicht wahr.
Der Schmerz in ihr ist noch präsent.
Nicht immer, aber er ist da.
Immer zur gleichen Zeit.
Jahr für Jahr.

Ein Wort des Abschieds gab es nie.
Du warst schon weg, als sie kam.
Du warst schon weg.
Du hattest nichts gesagt.

Bist du enttäuscht gewesen?
Sie hatte dir doch vorgelesen.
Dabei war sie erst vier, als sie neben dir saß.
Sie wusste selbst noch nicht, was sie da las.
Dein Lächeln, so schwach, aber es war zu sehen.
Sollte das heißen, du wolltest gehen?
Du hattest nichts gesagt.

Als Kind dachte sie, sie könnte dich sehen.
Irgendwo da oben, zwischen den Wolken und dem Blau.
Sie hoffte, es würde dir dort besser gehen.
Sie dachte, sie konnte dich lächeln sehen,
So wie sie es von dir kannte als gutmütige Frau.

Aber ist es denn wirklich so?
Geht es dir besser in diesem Irgendwo?
Du hast nie etwas gesagt.

Wo auch immer du jetzt bist;
Hörst du das? Sie gibt dich frei.
Sie wird dich nicht vergessen.
Doch die Zeit der Trauer ist vorbei.

Nikki Sixx swings through my room,
When HIM plays songs of „Venus Doom“.
Two friends of mine just chat with me;
Their names are Brody and Kat van D.

Even Sebastian and Axl came
To make this dream much more insane.
I pinch my arm, I'm awake.
Shit, that's real, it's no fake!

Ashley Purdey makes a joke;
He laughs with Andy 'bout the Pope.
They kill some drinks, enjoy their time.
Yeah, all my friends just feelin' fine.

Greg Graffin says hello to me.
We start a chat 'bout anarchy.

„What the fuck?“ asks my brain,
„Mr. Graffin knows my name?“

Anyway, our thoughts get deep.
Am I really not asleep?
Or maybe I am just disturbed?
Fuck, we discuss his latest work!

Coby cries: „She loves me not!
But Kelly is so fuckin' hot“
MacGowan says: „When it goes so far;
You need more Whiskey in the jar!“

Damn, even Vicious came along
To sing a glorious punkrock song
We all join in and then I say
„Please, play your cover of „My Way“!“
Vicious smiles: „Here you are!“
My friends pogo on the bar.

This evening goes on and on.
We party till the break of dawn.
We dance, we laugh, we sing, we jive.
Welcome, friends, to my awesome life!

Last tuesday something really strange happened to me. I have never thought, that I would ever have the pleasure to meet Mr. Glen Matlock.



For people, who don't know him: He's the original bassist of the legendary band SEX PISTOLS. Maybe you have heard of Sid Vicious. Vicious came to the band, after Matlock left. Why exactly he splitted up with the Sex Pistols is not clear, there are too many legends explaining different reasons.

We talked about an hour. I was pretty pretty excited before that talk ... well...I mean I listened to his latest album of his band "The Philistines", called "Born Running" (and I love it!) and of course I know several Sex Pistols-songs. I should mention, that Matlock wrote all those popular songs like "Pretty Vacant", "Anarchy in the U.K." and so on.

So of course we talked about his past concerning the Sex Pistols, the Rich Kids and The Faces (a kinda supergroup with Ron Wood, Ian McLagan.. and so on, their original singer was Rod Stewart).

I guess, Matlock joined in, when The Faces were thinking about a reunion in 2010. And Matlock told me, that playing with The Faces means so much to him because he was a great fan of them, when he was a teenager. They opened him a door to lots of different kinds of music like The Temptation.

At the moment he's thinking about a new album, that he will call S.O.S what means "Same Old Shit" :D
I tell you: Glen Matlock was very polite and nice and answered all my questions, so that we spent nearly an hour. I absolutely didn't expect that! But yeah he said "good questions!" and finally he played the song "Different World" on his acoustic guitar. He also invited me to come to his concert in the evening.

Of course me and my friend, Jacky, had to go there and I just can advice you to visit a concert of Glen Matlock.

For me this whole day was so not real. And even now I'm smiling :D I'll never forget this day :)

Here some music of Glen Matlock:

Glen Matlock & The Philistines_Born Running


soooo good!

Glen Matlock_Pretty Vacant (acoustic)


Rich Kids_Ghost Of Princes In Towers


The Rich Kids were influenced by punk and pop sounds and to my mind this song shows that pretty good. It's one of my favourites.

...what the fuck is up with FALL OUT BOY??

I'm not really sure what to think about the new album "Save Rock 'n' Roll".

I mean they got great musicians working with them on this album. Courtney Love, Elton John and so on.

Maybe most of the fans think, it is a great album. Sure it is, otherwise it wouldn't be that successful but I have to admit, that I'm a bit disappointed.

Fall Out Boy was a pretty good pop punk band to my mind. Nice melodies that stuck into your ears, charming lyrics that you can sing along and of course good looking guys.

Talking of outward appearances...did you notice, that Patrick Stump lost weight? Before I knew, that Fall Out Boy will release "Save Rock 'n' Roll" I thought about them and wanted to listen again to some stuff. So I searched on youtube and found out, that Patrick Stump looks like some years younger now because he got sooo thin.

Okay back to their new album:
"My Songs know what you did in the dark (light em up)" is the first single release from that album. I play it very often at the radio station. On the one hand I like it very very much. It raises me up with it's drum beats and sing-alongs. Moreover Patrick Stomp has this strong, catching voice. You can't ignore him, when he's singing
http://www.universal-music.de/fall-out-boy/videos/detail/video:290451/my-songs-know-what-you-did-in-the-dark-light-em-up
(listen to this guitar sound in the background!)

I love when he sings "in the dark, dark!"

ON THE OTHER HAND it is a pretty easily written pop song. The song only consists of chorus, singalongs and bridges. Actually I'm not a fan of unsubtantial songs. The whole album to me sounds sooo different than that, what I know from Fall Out Boy. I even couldn't listen to the songs completely because I didn't like, what I heard.

Maybe I should give it one more try.

Look here for their new single "My songs know what you did in the dark (light em up)
http://www.universal-music.de/fall-out-boy/videos/detail/video:290451/my-songs-know-what-you-did-in-the-dark-light-em-up