2015 Brit Awards!

Every year I look forward to the Brit Awards because they are one of my favourite nights of the year and 2015's were no different. The evening was live from the o2 Arena in London and we saw a whole array of superb celebrities inside the building on our television screens. The wonderful Ant & Dec hosted the night for the first time in a staggering 14 years and they were absolutely amazing! Read on for my summary and review of the crazy ceremony...

The performances this year were amazing and quite unforgettable. Taylor Swift flawlessly opened the show singing the brilliant Blank Space. Kanye made quite the impression and Ed Sheeran gave a beautiful performance of Bloodstream. Of course, the person everyone is talking about... Madonna. The Queen of pop herself returned to the Brits stage for the first time in 20 years and made quite the return. Despite the tragic tumble she persevered and very professionally carried on with the fantastic performance. She truly is a remarkable woman! Other impeccable and absolutely wonderful acts were the stunning Sam Smith, Paloma Faith, Royal Blood, George Ezra and Take That. 

All the winners were incredibly deserving and Sam Smith went away with the most adding more to his award collection! Below is the full list of winners:

British Group- Royal Blood

British Female Solo Artist- Paloma Faith

British Male Solo Artist- Ed Sheeran

International Female Solo Artist- Taylor Swift 

International Male Solo Artist- Pharrell Williams

British Breakthrough Act- Sam Smith

British Video- One Direction: 'You And I'

British Single- Mark Ronson Ft Bruno Mars: 'Uptown Funk'

International Group- Foo Fighters

Global Success Award- Sam Smith

Mastercard British Album- Ed Sheeran: 'X'

You can check out who I predicted would be bagging an award right here. It is defiantly worth a look! 

I think it is safe to say that British music is absolutely amazing right now and there are some very talented artists who we can look forward to hearing more from in 2015!

British Tag

So I was tagged by my fave to do the British tag which I am very excited to do! Also make sure you check out Nat's blog because it is brilliant and worth a read. 

1. How many cups of tea do you have a day and how many sugars? 

I will usually have at least 1 a day with 2 sugars but if I am feeling lazy then I will end up going without. oops. 

2. Favourite part of your roast? 

Defiantly a good yorkshire pudding. They are the best creation ever but my mum only cooks them when we are having beef because that is traditional which really sucks! 

3. Favourite dunking biscuit? 

I do love a rich tea but we don't get them often so probably a Bourbon or chocolate digestive biscuit. Although sometimes I find it hard to get the timings right and often I end up with a soggy biscuit at the bottom of my mug.

4. Favourite quintessentially British past time? 

I'm not really sure what this question means but I am going to just say tea and scones because they are the best!

5. Favourite word? 

Oh I do love to say the word aquatics it is so pleasing. Nat and I love it! Also I really like the word boulevard.

6. Cockney rhyming slang?
Can you Adam and Eve it?

7. Favourite sweet? 
THESE.

8. What would your pub be called? 
This is soooo difficult. um... Probably something with 'Royal' in because it would make it sound posh haha.

9. No.1 British person? 
The Queen is pretty cool.

10. Favourite shop/restaurant? 
My favourite shop would probably be Topshop or Forever 21 and my favourite restaurant is definatly Prezzo! I highly recommend Prezzo and you can use Tesco vouchers. WIN.

11.  What British song pops into your head? 
GOD SAVE OUR GRACIOUS QUEEN.

12. Marmite? 
YES! I love it, I am the Marmite queen.

I tag Elana & Molly do to this next!

MCBUSTED 24/04/14

So yesterday I went to one of my favourite concerts that I have ever been to and it was a-m-a-z-i-n-g.

Fortunately my best friend and I managed to get tickets for McBusted which was so exciting for us. Busted and Mcfly are 2 of our all time favourite bands and so when we first heard that they would be forming together we defiantly did not want to miss out on the opportunity to see them in concert!

We saw them at the amazing o2 Arena in London and had amazing seats. We were sat in block 103 and were row C which was so close to the floor seats and a few blocks along from the stage. The view was excellent and the B stage was directly in front of us so when they performed a few songs on there it was incredible and so close!

The night started off with the support act called EofE and they were a surprisingly good band. They performed some good songs to get the crowd going and their music was quite pleasant. After was Vix who recently performed on The Voice UK and is Mcfly's Danny Jone's sister. She was amazingly talented and her voice is great. I can see that she has a lot of potential for the future. Last but not least were a young band also with a lot of potential called The 3 Dudes who are from America. They are quite rocky and all played their own instruments which was good and the main singer was like looking at a mini James Bourne! haha.

After the support acts had been on it was only a short amount of time before the main event started and immediately the whole crowd were on their feet. I don't think I saw anyone sit down properly though the whole of the night and everyone was generally having a great time! There were smiles on every ones faces and the audience were a whole mixture of people ranging from young to old.
The set list was outstanding and consisted of the songs: Air Hostess, You Said No, Britney, Who's David, Five Colours, Obviously, Sleeping With The Light On, Star Girl, Nerdy, Room On The Third Floor, Thunderbirds Are Go, I Want You Back (Jackson 5 Cover), Shine A Light, What I Go To School For, Crash The Wedding, All About You and Year 3000. The stage set was amazing and throughout the show many special effects were used including fire which was using to light up the band name above the stage which was so cool (picture below). Also the B stage happened to be a UFO which came down from the ceiling. It was all very entertaining and all the boys are such wonderful performers and extremely talented.

Here are a few pictures from the night. (ignore the appalling quality, these are taken from my iPod.)

This was while the boys were on the main stage, the camera has made our seats look really far away but they honestly weren't haha!

The UFO descending from above...

The boys performing Star Girl, Nerdy and Room On The Third Floor before returning to the main stage.

McBusted being lit up with flames.

'TRIPLE BREASTED WOMEN SWIM AROUND TOWN TOTALLY NAKED'. (Year 3000)

This night really was sensational and I thoroughly enjoyed every moment of it! I hope to see McBusted again soon.

The Brit Awards 2014

Yesterday evenings Brit Awards were absolutely brilliant with spectacular performances from many talented artists and different awards being given to the best stars. James Corden done a great job presenting the show at his fifth and final Brit Awards of hosting and provided a huge amount of entertainment from kissing Radio 1 DJ Nick Grimshaw to joking around with One Direction...

Arctic Monkeys opened the show with an amazing performance of R U Mine and went on to winning 2 awards. They made the show very memorable with their slightly drunk speeches with Alex Turner joking: 'there's that 15 quid we put on One Direction down the drain' when winning the award for Best Group.

The night also saw perfect performances from Beyonce, Ellie Goulding, Katy Perry, Bruno Mars, Lorde & Disclosure and Bastille & Rudimental. However the performance of the night had to be the closing performance from Pharrell Williams featuring legendary Nile Rodgers creating a great medley of Get Lucky, Good Times and the chart hit, Happy!

Kate Moss was amongst the celebrity guests and made an appearance on stage when accepting the award on behalf of the David Bowie for Best British Male. Bowie became the oldest artist ever to receive a Brit at the age of 67 and other award winners included Bastille and Bruno Mars.

The 2014 Brit Award show was brilliant and intrigued a whole range of viewers across the globe as it was officially broadcasted live to the whole world. Also for the first time ever, the night included the first ever social vote for the award of British Video via twitter which of course One Direction went on to win with their huge international fan base. Below is the full list of the deserving winners:

Best Producer - Flood & Alan Moulder

British Breakthrough Act - Bastille

British Female Solo Artist - Ellie Goulding

British Group - Arctic Monkeys

British Male Solo Artist - David Bowie

British Single - Rudimental ft Ella Eyre, Waiting All Night

British Video - One Direction, Best Song Ever

Critics' Choice Award - Sam Smith

International Female Solo Artist - Lorde

International Group - Daft Punk

International Male Solo Artist - Bruno Mars

MasterCard British Album of the Year - Arctic Monkeys

Global Success Award - One Direction

Jingle Bell Ball!

I happened to have tickets for Capital's Jingle Bell Ball on Sunday the 8th of December at the amazing O2 Arena. I was in block 107, row V, seat 108 and thought these seats were actually really good for the back of the lower tier with the stage being straight in front.

The first performer to enter the stage was the wonderful Jessie J (here is a link to my blog post I did about her Alive arena tour which I went to in October! http://charlottecarina.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/jessie-j.html). Jessie was incredible like usual and got the crowd warmed up immediately. She looked stunning and put on a great performance singing: Price Tag, Do It Like A Dude, It's My Party, Domino, Thunder and Wild along with Dizzee Rascal.

Next was John Newman and this was his first appearance at the event. He only sung Love Me Again and Cheating but they were both really good and he also joined Rudimental later on to sing with them.

After was Little Mix who were brilliant and had such a good routine! They sung Move, DNA, Wings and their new single Little Me. They are great live and they are really entertaining because they know how to work the stage and dance.

Lawson then performed and were also amazing, I have seen them quite a few times now and they have never once been bad. After the show finished Adam and Ryan walked straight past me and my best friend which I couldn't believe! They sung Brokenhearted, Standing In The Dark and Juliet.

After Lawson was Jason Derulo. He actually surprised me because I wasn't really looking forward to him but I thought he was really good. His dancing is absolutely amazing and his performance was great. However he didn't really talk to the crowd much which I thought was slightly rude. He sung 4 songs which were: The Other Side, Trumpets, Whatcha Say and Talk Dirty.

It was then the highly talented and bloody brilliant The Vamps. This is the biggest venue they have played at and they completely owned the stage and got a massive crowd reaction. They sung Can We Dance, Wild Heart and Jingle Bells which all sounded amazing and I am excited to see them at their own concerts in the future. (Sorry the picture isn't brilliant, it was hard to take a decent picture with my best friend going wild next to me.) ;-)

It was then the special guest who is called Elyar Fox. I really didn't enjoy him and he bored me because I guess I don't really know him but his voice was still pretty good. He only sung one song and that was Do It All Over Again.

Next was Dizzee Rascal and I didn't really enjoy him either because i'm not a particularly big fan of his type of music and we missed part of his performance because we decided to get a breather. His set seemed to go on forever and he sung Bonkers, The Power, Something Really Bad, Holiday and Love This Town. 

Rudimental were awesome and I really enjoyed them! I saw them at the Summer Time Ball this year as well and they are really worth seeing because you cant help but dance. They performed Feel The Love with John Newman and Waiting All Night with Ella Eyre. 

Obviously the best was saved to last and it was the person that everyone was looking forward to... the incredible Lady Gaga who is honestly such a born entertainer. She had a brilliant set which was amazing. I love how she changed things up and really performs to the crowd. She knows exactly what to do to get the reaction she wants and it is wonderful to watch. She sung Just Dance, Do What U Want, Applause, Born This Way, Bad Romance, Aura and Jingle Bells which were all spectacular.

That is it for this blog post, I will try write another soon when something interesting happens in the celebrity world and if you were wondering I used my Fujifilm camera for all of the pictures I used!

Jessie J

As this is my first blog post, I just want to take this moment to say hello and my name is Charlotte. I am going to be writing about concerts, music events, premieres and basically anything to do with celebrities. My main purpose of this blog is so I can get experience of writing because I am aiming to become a journalist when I am older and I think this is something I can put my time into which will hopefully help me develop my skills. So I hope you enjoy reading what I post and I am making my first blog post of my experience at the latest concert I attended! 

I recently went to one of the amazingly talented Jessie J's concert at her first arena tour Alive. We had tickets for the 30th October at one of my favorite venues, the o2 Arena in London.

I really enjoyed the show and to kick it off she had an artist from America called Olivia Somerlyn. I didn't really enjoy her because she was singing her own songs but besides that she was quite a decent singer. However most people were more excited to see the other support act which is the well known band and great performers, Lawson. They were really good live and really got the crowd going before Jessie came out. 

It was then time for Jessie to start her performance and she started by singing Big White Room which she sounded incredible at! She was honestly so wonderful and her voice sounds great live with it sounding exactly like how it does on the album. Throughout the show she made a few speeches which I found quite inspirational and she really entertained the crowd throughout the whole concert. She really is so talented and I think she is brilliant for all ages as I saw a whole range of people showing their support there! I really recommend going to see her because she is exceptional!

Despite this, I really did not enjoy the seats I had. We got them quite late on so that's why we ended up with seats at the top and personally I think they were horrible. I am fine with heights but I find the top so steep that it is quite scary to move. This really disappointed me because it meant that I could not get up and dance which I think makes a concert 100% more enjoyable. You can still see quite well but obviously it is tiny and pictures are quite hard to take. I would not recommend the top for anyone who is scared of heights and for anyone who enjoys really going wild at concerts because it is just so hard to do that up the top. I will probably not buy tickets for level 4 anymore as I have sat up there once before as well and this time has completely put me off.

 

My next concert I am going to is on the 8th December so I will aim to write about that once I have been but anyway, thanks for reading!