Music and Festivals

I want to talk to you guys about music!

Now I really like music but I don't know a lot about it. For example, I have no idea who is in the charts at the moment, genres of music confuse me and generally I haven't really heard of that many bands, I tend to just keep listening to the same people over and over again.

I like all kinds of music but my favourite genre by far is folk but more modern folk (I don't know what you call it). If you like harmonies, loveliness, great voices, awesome melodies, clever lyrics and such check out these people, they are really incredible!

First Aid Kit
Mountain Man
The Avett Brothers
Stornoway
Emmy the Great
Kate Miller-Heidke

Seriously, they are all wonderful and I wish I could write songs like them.

A thing I like to do is sing and I think I'm pretty good at it but just singing all the time often annoys people so about 2/3 years ago I decided to learn how to play the guitar just for the sole purpose of being able to play the songs I like to sing (less annoying that way, no?). However, I'm really bad at the guitar. I only know a few chords and I can only do one strumming pattern so every song I play sounds the same. I can only play 3 songs by plucking which I'm really proud of but it's still pretty difficult for me. But anyways, I love just playing covers on my guitar when I have nothing better to do and searching on Ultimate Guitar for tabs to all my favourite songs.

I went to Green Man Festival last weekend which is quite a small folky festival in Wales. And it was absolutely wonderful. I got to see The Avett Brothers, Laura Marling, Fleet Foxes, Gruff Rhys and lots of other bands. Oh and Tim Minchin, twice : ) The festival itself was really friendly and sunny, seriously one of the best weekends of my life. If you have never been to a music festival with the fields and tents and mud then I strongly recommend you do, they are glorious and you should never miss out on glorious things.

Based on the kind of music I like, if you have any recommendations of bands for me to listen to, that would be amazing! Even if they're not folky, I'm pretty open minded (as long as it's not heavy metal or RnB).

Hannah

State of non-emotion

So I made this blog this morning and it's not until now that I've even managed to write an actual sentence into a post. I have no idea where this is going...

I'm slightly confused as to what I want to turn this into. I'd like it to be a space for me to ramble and write down my thoughts and just general goings on but then I'm not sure how personal I want to make this. I want to get the same feeling out of this as I did when I was 13-15 and I kept a diary but I most certainly do not want to be writing the same sort of things down. (When I was 16 I found my old diaries, read bits of them and was so mortified by my young naive self that I threw them all away- I've never kept a diary since).

I want to tell you guys about how I just got back from an amazing holiday in Croatia with my family and family friends from Austin. I want to tell you about the books I read on holiday and how I reread Harry Potter and the Dealthy Hallows which was a weird experience when I finished because usually I read the book again after the film comes out but because that's the last one and all the films are out now I have no idea when the next time I will read those books is... Perhaps reading them to my children...? Odd thought.

I also want to tell you about how I'm going to Green Man Festival tomorrow and really I should be packing right now but I just can't bring myself to start. I love music festivals and I'm really excited for this one but today I'm just in a state of non-emotion, if that can exist. I guess a state of non-emotion can't exist because the truth is I'm feeling a big meh, bleurgh, akjdhfksdf. Those are emotions, right? I know I'll have an amazing time but right now I'm finding it hard to get excited for it (hence the not packing).

Sometimes I do just feel a bit down and I can never pin point what has happened to make me feel meh. Maybe it's because in general I'm such a happy person, a bit too happy sometimes and my brain can't take it and so has to have these extreme moments of not happy just to balance it out. It won't last long though so don't worry about me guys. I know myself well enough to know that if I keep busy I'll be happy. However, checking YouTube and Twitter every five minutes does not count as keeping busy. I'm the type of person that has to be constantly doing things, always on the go, always full of energy and ideas for things. Unfortunately, not today. Maybe I'm having holiday withdrawal symtoms...

Well I guess this has turned into something fairly personal. If anyone has read this then I guess you now know me a little bit better.

Hannah