Bands I NEED To See Live (Part One)

FALL OUT BOY

Back when I decided I was going to write this post the world was still in the clutches of the most torturous hiatus. It seemed like Fall Out Boy would never return and I would never get to see them live. Sometimes the very thought could make me cry. However, now when I'm actually writing this it is one week and three days since since Fall Out Boy announced their return as well as an album, a tour and presenting us with a new song with a video. Finally. FINALLY the possibility of seeing them live was real and then later that night Reading Festival goers were told they were playing. And i'm a Reading Festival goer. Ecstatic does not even describe it. 

ANAVAE

Yep, i'm gonna write about them again. Recently announcing their signing to LAB Records means that touring near me is a more likely possibility in the future and I am so so ready to see these guys play. Becca is a power house in terms of her vocals and from the couple of video's i've seen floating around the net this is still the case live. As for the guys the way they wield their instruments with such perfection is going to ensure that Anavae are catapulted right into the future of intensely good alternative rock. 

THE ACADEMY IS...

Heartbroken doesn't quite cover how I feel about them breaking up and what makes it worse is that I never got to see them live. Here's hoping the reunion of Fall Out Boy will inspire them to come back too. Their music was fun, light-hearted and had a particular knack for opening up a pit of nostalgia right where it hurts the most and with the closeness of the band I really want to see them live.