If music could talk

I started liking English when I started listening to English music when I was thirteen years old.

This concert was amazing.
Angel Olsen at the Union Chapel in London. 

Before that I couldn't be bothered with the language, to be honest. Consequently, when I got the chance to live in England I used the opportunity to go to lots of concerts. At first, I went to the concerts of the bands I knew, but then I decided to go to as many gigs as I could provided I knew the band that was playing was an important band, meaning that they were considered to be influential in some way. As a result, at one point I ended up going to about one concert per week. Mind you, that's at least 52 concerts a year, since that's the number of weeks a year has.

This is a picture of Lancaster, where I lived.
Beautiful, but boring as death.

Going to as many concerts as I could was the best decision I could make while living in the UK. Being a PhD student can be very dull, stressful and repetitive (not to say freaking depressing), so having the chance to go to concerts allowed me to take breaks from the work in my office on a regular basis. Since I was living in a small northern town that barely had anything to do, going to concerts meant I had to travel a lot. Therefore, every time I went to a concert I could basically feel like a tourist as well, go sightseeing, go to the museums or theatres, or get to know other towns in England I wouldn't have been to otherwise, like St Austell in Cornwall. 

I always went to concerts on my own, which only made the experience more enriching to me, as well as empowering, since that's not something I would have done before I lived in the UK. 

One of my favourite musicians: PJ Harvey.
I saw here 5 times in England and would have kept
going to her concerts even when they
were pretty much always the same. Mesmerising.

 As you can imagine, going to as many concerts only means I cannot choose one. I had so many great concert experiences. I discovered so many bands and even started to like others whose albums I had heard and not really liked before I saw them live. The thing is, seeing and hearing a band play live is a whole experience. They can surprise you sometimes and watching the fans enjoying themselves also adds to the experience, making it unforgettable and sometimes even indescribable. 

I have too many great concert memories to choose just one, so I'm not going to. I keep a record of the concerts I've been to so I don't forget them, and also because I just enjoy seeing the number of gigs I've been to increase. I know that's silly, but I'm a concert nerd. The list of the concerts I've been to so far can be found here, in case you're wondering what kind of music I like. 

Unlike me, you will have to choose a concert to talk about today. Or maybe two, if you like. You can also talk about another topic, in case you really hate going to concerts because, let's face it, backache is a fact of life, and concerts may not really be your thing. So this week you'll have to choose whether you want to tell us about the best concert you've been to or the best holidays you've had so far. Just make sure you write about one of these topics and not the two of them! 

In your post you should mention: 

(if you choose to write about your best) Holiday (so far):

- when it was

- where they went

- how long it was

- people they went with

- things/activities they did

- why it has been the best so far

- any other relevant info

OR

(if you choose to write about a) Concert (you've really enjoyed):

- when / where it was

- the artist they saw

- a bit of info about the artist

- describe the atmosphere during the    event

- describe how they felt and why they  enjoyed it

- any other memories about it

This time the word count must be 170 words at least.

Also, make sure you leave comments on 3 of your classmates posts and 1 comment on mine (yes, that's down here).

Saw Lee Ranaldo (ex Sonic Youth) and got him to sign his
 record for me. I was alone and leaving without a photo until
someone's dad said I couldn't leave without one and 
offered to take it for me. I had to go back and Lee 
remembered my name. It's silly but I felt special xD