Wow ......Wow......WOW!!!!!

I drove the 200 mile round trip last night to Wolverhampton to go and see childhood heroes of mine Skunk Anansie and I still haven't come back down to earth. They were totally above and beyond anything I was expecting. So much better live than recorded and Skin is just an absolute legend. Amazing vocals AND whilst jumping up and down the speakers onto the balcony and crowd surfing the length of the hall and back. Not a duff note or anything insight.....just the epitome of cool.

There are three female vocalists that I have adored for a long time - Tori Amos, Beyonce and Skin....so that's one ticked off my list that I have actually seen in the flesh - two more to go. My eyes teared up as Skin belted out Brazen....and I didn't feel like a fool at all. 

After going to Prague for a few days with my lovely guy (and bestest buddy) and seeing people in Churches quiver and shake as they pray to statues of Saints - I was left wondering how they could hold so much passion for a stone sculpture?...I know that it sounds ultra cheesey - but I know that music is like my religion - its no secret that I'm not religious at all, born a Christian but somehow I just don't understand how it can help me - each to their own and I wish upon everything that maybe one day I will have a 5th of the comfort in my life that someone who has embraced God seems to have....but for now - I'll stick to watching real life human beings doing amazing things with instruments and vocals and reaching out to me in a way that, right now, a stone cold statue can not.

Watch this space....I might just have been blessed by the Infant Jesus in Prague and he may alter everything for me in the middle of the night....you just never know!

Laters! x

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Ren xx