Love Like A Sunset

Phoenix

Come roll the dice for me
Roll the dice for me

Hold on better, I'm not
Really on your own thinking this is fun
Feathers falling from gray
Fold them into pieces tied openly

After doing my little recording today for one of my assignments I am feeling lovely and spaced out. 4 days of being ridiculously ill and hormonal has led to a final come down - i hope! Uni =stress! Never said that on the open day did they, saw the a little book worm like me and told me LIES!

The first band I thought to put on was one of my old favourites --- Phoenix. Upbeat and slightly electric, their album always puts me in an even better mood. I don't feel like they are a band many of my friends would know of - not to sound all alternative and annoying! - but they are quite different and still a hidden find in my eyes. I try and cherish that feeling for as long as I can until the moment they are thrown on the radio and liked by everyone! Anyway I think they are bloody brilliant, to sound even more Northern. Oh and by the way I apologize to those that have have to endure lengthy periods of my voice, listening to it back once recorded this morning -- OH MY DAYS! I am so chuffing Northern, my aspirations to be a radio presenter or T4 presenter felt slightly crushed for a second as the boys laughed through the window at me sitting there quite happily in my soundproof room! Oh dear.

The song I put on first was Fences; high pitched voices at parts, a steady beat and high bits in the song that scream you've got to get in a good mood! All you girls and guys with a love for the radio will probably know the band for Lisztomania or 1901? Equally lovely tracks to listen and more recognisable to those that aren't saddos like me and have to listen to albums like some people read the bible. No religion jokes here please!! Yes my name is Grace Easter. It does sounnnddd religous but I'm really not, the most I've done is steal another orange on Christmas Eve to get extra dolly mix and sing all things bright and beautiful in "Assembly" at school - oh and convince 2 lads at school that my brothers name was Jesus.

Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix in full - are a wicked band, French too! They have a very individual and cool look; a look you would see kicking about in London and dare I say it even at my uni the french do it well. I say this with reference to the beautiful french guy I had a crush on this year in my seminar, he says my name and the word "universitee" better than anyone! ha!

Songs? OK so I've mentioned Lisztomania, 1901 and Fences. But if you're one of those that like to say to your friend "Give i 3 minutes 14 seconds and it really gets good" then you'll like "Love like a sunset" Parts 1 and 2! The video that I will post below is simple and really cool too.......if you can't be bothered to watch it - it's a shot of one view out of a window showing everything that has gone past that day. Completely reminds me of those days I have stared aimlessly out of my window in a daydream when you realise Shit it's 6 oclock I best close the shop, we closed at 5!

More information on Phoenix? I'm sure there is soo much to be said, but the album is too exciting to listen to for me to go on about where they met, which one I fancy and where they are gigging next. But what I can tell you is to "hear?" out for them on the backing to a few films and fingers crossed they'll be at all your summer festivals and gigging in Britiain this year! Do your own research, own listening and get back to me :)

FiftysAtHeart xx