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.

5 Bands I Want Back

If Fall Out Boy aren't on your list of bands you want back then we can't be friends. Formed in 2001 the pop -punk (or pop-rock depending on who you ask)  legends went on hiatus in 2009 and consequently broke the hearts of thousands. I don't know anyone that doesn't wish for them to reform at least once a day. 

When The Academy Is... announced they were splitting up last October I wasn't surprised, but it didn't stop me from crying about it anyway.  When they formed back in 2003 and signed to Fueled By Ramen I was a mere 9 years old and had only been venturing into the world of music that wasn't Steps or S Club 7 for about a year. These guys were one of my first favourite bands alongside the likes of Fall Out Boy, Blink 182 and Sum 41. 

Hey Monday's hiatus is yet another unsurprising one. I didn't break down in tears when I found out and i'm sure life will continue to go on without them but I can't help but miss them sometimes. They weren't technically amazing and they weren't about to start some music revolution anytime soon. What they had that I miss is fun. They were fun and that's what I want back. I want to see how they would have progressed had they stuck around. 

Oh Self Against City what ever happened to you? This pop-rock group have an album, EP and handful of demo's to their name. And. They. Are. So. Good. Then in 2008 they announced they were taking a break from touring but were still playing together and I don't think we've heard anything since. Even if they don't come back could we at least hear the "new material" they had supposedly recorded? 

I was late getting into The Years Gone By as they formed in 2002 and I didn't hear about them until late 2008/early 2009 but all it took was one song and I was in love. It took me all of 5 minutes to download their entire discography and after a couple of hours I knew them all by heart. Then in 2010 they announced they were going on hiatus. Gutted doesn't even describe it.