Sorry, please do excuse the pun in my title! But yesterday Edinburgh DID go wild, because no other than Jessie J was there!
I was lucky enough to get tickets to see her live last night at Edinburgh Castle, and it's fair to say that it was one of the best nights of my life so far!
Now me being a complete music junkie/music nerd I am always on the look out for new and up and coming artists, so the singer A*M*E has been on my radar for a while now. I first heard of her sometime late last year and have been watching her grow ever since, she is a very genuine girl and I am a HUGE fan! So when I heard she was going to be supporting Jessie I was so incredibly excited!
The night as a whole was amazing, A*M*E put on an brilliant show and saw me and Alice going nuts for her (I have to say that a lot of people around us were very unenthusiastic) so waved and shouted "I SEE YOU GUYS". At the end of her set Alice and I decided that we would run down to see if we could catch a glimpse of her. I was in high heels (stupid thing to wear to a concert I know) so running down the multiple stairs was a great feat in it's self! But as we reached the bottom of the stairs we saw A*M*E rounding the corner, at this moment I was thinking "I'm never going to see her again so what the hell, go crazy!" So I shout at the top of my lungs "A*M*E?" and she turns round goes "YES?" and me being completely in shock manages to force out a squeaky "We love you!" and to my surprise, instead of her bolting from this panting, red faced, over excited girl as fast as she could she goes "I love you too!" Honestly, the concert could have ended there and I would have been happy! It was the first time that I had almost lost my voice before the main act had even stepped on stage!
During the break between A*M*E's set and Jessie J me and Alice were queuing to try and get to the surprisingly clean toilets when I saw a door open and who should walk past (on the other side of a barrier) but Jessie J, let's just say I screamed, a lot!
The rest of the night was amazing, Jessie is just such a brilliant performer and really knows how to get a crowd on her side! At one point she even had us chanting people's names from in the crowd "STEVE, STEVE, STEVE, STEVE, STEVE. NATASHA, NATASHA, NATASHA!"
The atmosphere was amazing, I cried ("Who You Are" really is such an emotional song), laughed, danced, screamed and sang very out of tune! The backdrop of the castle was just so breath taking and as the sun began to go down it felt unreal!
There was a darling of a girl sitting in front of us, she must have been about seven years old and she talked to us through out the whole show. I have never met someone so sweet!
The whole concert went by in a blur! Alice and I ran up and down the stairs so many times as we couldn't bare to miss a good story opportunity! By the end of the night we had managed to talk to A*M*E, the backing singers and Jessie's best friend Hollie. We also saw Jessie come out of her changing room twice, stalkers much! And made some good friends, and possibly a lot of enemies, if looks could kill me and Alice would have been shot down multiple times, people did't like our enthusiasm!
But I can't complain as I had the most wonderful night, and one I will never forget!
I will just quickly apologise for the mass amount of pictures and the awful footage, filming really isn't my strong point!
I woke up this morning and as usual switched my radio on to catch some of Gemma Cairney on Radio1 before I had to get out of bed, but I was not expecting to hear what I did. "Cory Monteith has been found dead in his hotel room." My first thought was "Molly are you sure this is July? It could be April, maybe it's April fools." that is honestly what I thought first, so I check the date, but sadly, it wasn't April fools. My second thought was "Maybe I heard it wrong." but it was repeated, I hadn't heard it wrong. I was so shocked. Such a young man had died. I know that people die every day and we don't make a big deal about it and I'm sure a lot of people will be like "Just because he was famous doesn't mean it makes it more sad." and of course it doesn't, but because he was in the public eye lots of people were attached to him, felt they knew him. Many fans will have been so excited about his leaving rehab, so it really is very sad. My heart goes out to his family and close friends.
Come on, we all love a bit of Mary Poppins, eh? A spoon full of sugar and all that!
Maybe I should have titled this post "SuperCALORIFICexpialidocious" because I have a feeling that this recipe is probably calorie packed, to be honest I've never bothered to work out just how bad it is for me!
But here it is, MOLLY'S MAGNIFICENT ICED WHITE MOCHA. That's a bit of a mouthful, it really is just an iced coffee!
You will need:
An Espresso Shot
Double Cream
Vanilla Ice Cream
White Chocolate
Granulated Sugar
Milk
Ice Cubes
As you can see from the ingredients this drink is hella unhealthy, but it tastes so good. Yes I know that supposedly "Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels" but personally I think that's a lie.
Step 1: Put on Half Moon Run's new album "Dark Eyes" and crank it up full volume. (Okay this step is optional but I can't do anything without a good soundtrack and this album is so soothing!)
This is "Call me in the afternoon"
Step 2: Make your espresso, I used a coffee machine, but just make it however you usually would. Your coffee needs to be cold for this recipe so it helps if you make the espresso in advance and leave it in the fridge.
Sorry, I forgot to rotate it...
Step 3: Measure out 60ml (1/4 of a cup) cream and 250ml (1 cup) milk
Step 4: Pour your coffee, cream and milk into a blender (to be honest I don't know if what I'm using is actually a blender, I've always referred to it as "the banana milkshake maker") and add one scoop of ice cream, two teaspoons of sugar and four squares of chocolate. (If you don't want any lumps you can melt the chocolate before hand)
Step 5: Blend for about 30 seconds.
I forgot to rotate this one as well...
Step 6: Pour into a glass and add at least five ice cubes.
I have been lucky enough to get tickets to go and see the one and only Jessie J live at Edinburgh Castle! I am so excited! The tickets are stuck up on my fridge with a yellow duck magnet, always the safest place to keep things I think.
I can't even put into words how excited I am, I literally have butterflies writing about it!
But I have a dilemma, what should I wear?!
I have two outfits in mind, but I don't know which is best, I need HELP, FAST, because I'm going on Wednesday!
Bearing in mind that my hair will have gone back from pink, to brown. I was toying whether to get my hair done on the day (The hairdressers only spot before the concert was at one o'clock on the actual day!) or go and hang around to see if I could meet Jessie, but my auntie made a good point, she said "Molly, always think 'what would Jessie do?' and in this situation would she wait around to possibly meet a celeb or get her hair done? SHE WOULD GET HER HAIR DONE!"
And she's right, my hair deserves to go back natural, it's looked liked Rudolph's nose for too long!
Okay so music is one thing I can't live without, I am obsessed, it's like a drug. I live by the saying "If the music is too loud, you're too old." because it's true.
I thought it would be interesting to do a "playlist" of my life, but I've done a lot in my fourteen years, and listened to a lot of music. So this is going to be one long playlist! So here it is, if my life were an album, this would be it.
"Unfinished letters, unsent messages"
The album of my life so far.
So I guess the best place to start is my birth, now my song selection for this is a little weird, you can thank my brilliant auntie for that! Obviously I don't remember being born, but the song "Laserlight" by Jessie J reminds my auntie of the day I was born. Once I was born my mum was recovering so my auntie was in a room with me on my own, and I opened my big brown eyes and stared up into hers. So the lyrics
"In the blink of an eye,
I was falling from the sky,
in the blur,
you took my breath away,
and my heart starts beating,
and my lungs start breathing,
and the voice in my head starts screaming,
I'm alive!"
Remind her of the first few minutes of my life.
2. My second track is for London. As a very young girl I lived in East London, it was only for a very short time, but I still claim to be a Londoner, hold on to your roots I say (;
I love London, it's such a diverse city and I plan to live there again some time in my life.
So my second track is Londoner by Chip.
I enjoy dancing around the house singing the chorus at the top of my lungs, annoying everyone around me!
3. So after being born in Canterbury, then moving to London, my parents ditched the rough city lifestyle and moved to North Berwick in Scotland. I have quite a few memories of living here, walking down by the beach, starting at two nurseries "The Honey Pot" and "Busy Bees", (What is it with people giving nurseries and child care facilities bee related names?) spending time with my friend Louise, or as I called her "Weez" and countless trips to the "Birdy Centre" I honestly don't know that places real name, it was always the birdy centre to me!
So because I clearly have to go for a beach themed song for my third track, I'm not going to, because I don't like being obvious! I have chosen Only Love by Ben Howard because this is such a relaxing song!
4 & 5. After living in North Berwick we moved to a small town, it was here that I enjoyed my last year of nursery and my first two years of Primary School. I made some brilliant friends and remember playing imaginary games like "The magical far away tree" with my best friend Amy and "The spaghetti monster" with Amy and our friend Aaron. Me and Amy were inseparable, we did everything together, from saving the world as super heroes to swimming lessons, from swapping toys to hiding from the witch next door! We prided ourselves in our ability of find things, looking back on it it was all junk, but when we were little it was so exciting to find a mini teddy or a jelly car air fresh or even just sweets. Once whilst waiting for our swimming lesson we found two pounds in the crack of a rock. I loved Amy and it feels so weird to be writing this and not knowing what's going on in her life, we went to different schools after primary two, we promised to keep in touch but it didn't happen. It's sad really, we were going to be each others maids of honour at our weddings, but friendships sometimes don't last. I enjoyed my time with Amy, and songs four and five are based on my time with her.
Song four is the YMCA, I remember singing super loud to this with her, not caring what anyone thought! And song five is *major cringe* The Cheeky Song by The Cheeky Girls, we were young and didn't understand that the song was pretty inappropriate to be singing at the top of our lungs where ever we went!
6. After primary two I moved to another small town and joined a new primary school, I started in the Christmas term and soon made friends, so my sixth song will have to be we wish you a merry Christmas!
7. My seventh song is Cotton Eyed Joe, in primary one of the highlights of my year was always sports day! I have never been a sporty girl, but primary sports day was always fun, with the sack race, the egg and spoon and so many more funny races! The only race I have ever won is the three legged race, me and my friend Alice from Velvet Nature were pros at that race! We won two years in a row!
But the best part of sports day was the games afterwards! One of my most fond memories is definitely dancing like a mad thing to cotton eyed joe dripping wet after a water fight!
8, 9 & 10. Now I'm not going to lie, the rest of primary flew by so quickly and I don't remember much, up until primary seven. I had a great time in primary seven and my best memories are of our "Rock Band" topic, where we split up into groups and formed pretend rock bands, we had to do everything from designing albums to planning world tours! It was brilliant! My band was called FlashBack, and that was when my slight emo/scene obsession developed. So my songs for primary seven are The Captain by Biffy Clyro, Orange Crush by R.E.M and That's What You Get by Paramore.
11. My eleventh track is about my first year in secondary. I hated it. Absolutely hated it. Enough said. So my eleventh track it Another Brick In The Wall by Pink Floyd.
12. My twelfth song stands for my second year in secondary school. I hated this year as well. I got bullied because I cut my hair super short, people said I was a lesbian. I got called so many names "Dyke" "Faggot" "Lesbo" "Boy" "Justin Beiber" "Homo" "Dylan" and probably more, I've tried to block it all out! I couldn't walk into class without being ridiculed, I got water, spit, Lucozade and god knows what else tipped on my head on the bus ride home. I hated it so much.
But it made me stronger, so my twelfth song is almost taking the mickey out of myself, I've chosen Dude Looks Like A Lady by Aerosmith. Of course I wasn't a boy who looked like a girl, but I was a girl who supposedly looked like a boy.
13. My thirteenth track is represents how I felt a little while ago, I don't really want to go into detail, but I have chosen Nobody's Home by Avril Lavigne.
14 & 15 My fourteen and fifteenth and final tracks are for my cousin Hugo, he is not only my cousin but my best friend, we have had so much fun as children! We had a club "The Love And Hate Club", learnt how to speak "Eggy", built countless dens and rafts and machines, went on camping trips to the "secret beach", lit the biggest craziest fires, make fire torches, had fun, got in trouble and generally had great fun!
Track fourteen is Too close by Alex Clare, because this was our clubs "war chant", cute. And track fifteen is Smoke On The Water by Deep Purple because we loved that song from a very young age and used to beg our dads to play it "As loud as the car radio can and open all the windows so everyone can hear!" We were brilliant fun :P
So here it is, the album of my life so far: 1. Laserlight by Jessie J
You know those moments where you are standing next to an utterly stunning human being and you begin to feel really self conscious? They don't have a hair our of place, all their features are the right size, their makeup is perfect, they are super fashionable and they even smell good. And then there's you with your whacky hair, thick eyeliner and topman T-shirt thinking "Why oh why can't I be them?" We have all experienced this at least once, am I right?
Well, lucky me, my four closest friends are all those sort of people, stunning without really trying to be stunning. Yep, Eilidh, Bluebell, Alice and Mara are four of "those girls" the smart, pretty people who just by standing next to you can make you look like utter dog poo. And I spent most of my time with them!!
I know when they read this they'll be like "Molly don't be silly that's not true!!" but it is! It's not a bad thing, it's almost humorous.
When us five walk together it looks like this
And that is why, although I love them all to bits and wouldn't change them for the world, I don't enjoy having pretty friends!
