Thursday Tunes.(On a Friday)

                             

                                                               

Greetings earthlings, 

Apologises for not having a post last week I was away and had no internet, also had been so busy with college I hadnt been listening to much new music.(apologises also that this is a day late...may or may not have been socializing Wednesday night....)
Have had more time this past week so without further a due here are ten tunes I've been enjoying this past week, hope you find something that tickles your fancy!

Have a great week :)



1. Allman Brown & Liz Lawrence- Sons and Daughters -here
2. Galantis- Runaway (U& I) Listen here
3. Jesse Glynn- Real Love Listen here
4.Cat Power- From The Juno Soundtrack- Sea Of Love here
5.Majestic Bears- This Town Listen here
6.Regina Spektor- You've Got Time Listen here
7. Ellie Goulding & Erik Hassle- Be Mine. Listen here
8. We The Wild- Body Electric (Blue) Listen here
9.Miles Elkington- Hey Ya- Outcast cover. Listen here
10. Kaeligh Rose- Die Young, here

Stay classy,

L xx

*Foreign language song of the week*
Les trois copains- Constance Verluca. Listen here



WHO WHAT WHERE WHY 

       Allman Brown & Liz Lawrence     - Love the sound of these two together. Liz Lawrence is my latest obsession. I'm currently searching for a link to the full version of one of her songs to share with you, stay tuned!

                Galatica     - My friend Kitty introduced me to this tune that I.can't.stop.playing.

Clean Bandit & Jesse Glynn- Everything she touches turns to gold. She makes me want to be ginger.

              Juno   - By far one of my favourite movie soundtracks. It reminds me of being 15,orange tic tacs and blue slushies.

             Majestic Bears- A Galway based band that I am lucky enough to be friends with and to have helped out in the design of their debut EP. If you haven't listened to them yet, you need to. You can check out their facebook page here

          Regina Spektor- OITNB.

         Ellie Goulding & Erik Hassle- I like the simplicity of this one,
Ellie Goulding, is of course, Ellie Goulding. Erik Hassle is the Swedish success story my friend Ash introduced me too. Haven't heard much from him since 2010.

          We The Wild- I discovered this London based duo today and am seriously impressed. Really excited to see where the go. You can check out their facebook page here

               Miles Elkington- Ok so this may be an Australia's Got Talent audition as opposed to a released single but it is by far my favourite cover of this song. This guy has a big future.

                      Kaeligh  Rose- At only 16 this girl is definitely one to watch.



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Thursday Tunes

Greetings earthlings,

Due to various factors including work, laziness and illness I have not blogged since May.(shocking I'm sure..)
For those of you that are still here, thank you! I thought I'd ease myself back into blogging with a new edition of Thursday Tunes, so without further edue, here are 10 songs I've been loving this week. :)

Stay classy, 
Lxx

1. Wet- I Don't Wanna Be Your Girl (Branchez Remix) Listen here
    2. Marina And The Diamonds- Obsessions (The Aspirin For My       Children Remix)   Listen here
   3. Josh Record- Wide Awake. Listen here
   4. Sinéad O'Connor- Take Me To Church. Listen here
   5. Marina And The Diamonds Boyfriend Cover. Listen here
   6. Paramore Ain't It Fun Listen here
   7. Thin Lizzy- Sarah Listen here
   8..The Riptide Movement- All works out. Listen here
   9.Thomas Cohen- Honeymoon. Listen here
   10. Hozier-Eden.  Listen here.

*Foreign Language song of the week*(Does that sound racist? Should I refer to it as 'Non-English song of the week? The struggle is real.)
Indila- Derniére Danse. Listen here


Who What Where Why When

Wet-   This Brookylyn based trio know what they're at.

Marina And The Diamonds- The Grecian Goddess that can do no wrong(in my eyes anyway.)

Josh Record- An upcoming superstar this guy is one to watch. I was lucky enough to see him perform live at Longitude festival last Summer and he was just as good, if not better, live.

Sinéad O'Connor- My spirit animal. The outspoken Irish music Queen herself is back with her new album 'I'm Not Bossy, I'm The Boss.'

Paramore- The song is good, the music video even better. A Guinness World Record in itself.

Thin Lizzy- I discovered Thin Lizzy a few years ago and haven't looked back since. This song is one of the sweetest out there, Phil Lynott's ode to his baby daughter Sarah. Phil Lynott is another spirit animal of mine. Thin Lizzy are easily the best Irish rock band to date(in my opinion) enjoy!

The Riptide Movement- This song has become very  well known in Ireland but I thought it would be a good one to include for those of you outside Ireland, one of Ireland's next biggest bands!

Thomas Cohen- You may need the Kleenex for this one. Thomas Cohen is the husband of the late Peaches Geldof. He wrote this song Honeymoon about/for her last year. I, like many of you I'm sure, was one of Peaches' many followers on instagram. Here I discovered Tom and his music. He was formerly in the band S.C.U.M before going solo. This song is mesmerizing, his voice could sooth the angriest soul.

Hozier- The Irish artist from Bray Co.Wicklow that is smashing it at the moment. Doing the Irish proud! His songs Take Me To Church(listen here) and Cherry Wine (listen here.) are also well worth a listen.

Thursday Tunes

Greetings Earthlings,

Welcome to the first installment of Thursday Tunes. Here are some of the songs I've been listening to this week. You'll probably already be familiar with most of them, but either way I hope you enjoy them :)

   Billy Idol- Dancing with myself- Click here to listen

             George Ezra- Budapest Click  here to listen

        Daithí-  Have to go ft Jesse Boykins III Click here to listen 

                                          Foxes -Let go for tonight Click  here to listen

       Janelle & Miguel Primetime Remix Click  here to listen

                                                    Lana Del Rey- West Coast Click here to listen

                     Aaron Smith-Dancin Krono Remix Click here to listen

                                              Lena Sateillete Click here to listen

            Destiny's Child Say my Name Cyril Hahn Remix(Majestic) Click here to listen

                                 Coldplay Magic Click here to listen 




                     Who What Where Why                     
Billy Idol-An 80's classic that I recently discovered.
George Ezra- An English 21 year old that's one to watch. 
Daithí- A talented fiddle playing dude who was a few years ahead of me in college, he's a sound lad and is also one to watch(one of his songs is now on a Bulmers ad) 
Foxes- I'm late to the game on this one but loving it. 
Janelle & Miguel- A decent remix, love their voices together. 
Lana Del Rey- Refer to my post on this Goddess here. 
Aaron Smith - Another decent remix. 
Lena-My ultimate guilty pleasure, a eurovision winner. I regret nothing. 
Destiny's Child Majestic Remix- Love this one for night's out, the perfect blend of the old and the new. Majestic remix's are the way to go.
Coldplay- Consciously loving it. 


That's all for today folks. 

Stay classy, 

Lxx

This is what makes us girls?

Greetings earthlings, 

It's time to talk about girls. Not the humans, the tv show. The hugely popular Emmy winning tv show.  The hugely popular Bafta winning tv show. The hugely popular tv show that I had to turn off twenty minutes into the first episode.

Maybe I didn't give it a fair shot but nonetheless I'm going to proceed to excessively judge the show and it's cast based on those twenty minutes.

I won't delve too far into this one, but I have to put it out there. I don't like Lena Dunhman. I don't know her, but from what I've seen she seems pretty arrogant. That's all I'll say on the matter or I'll be here all night.

With regards the show itself I just felt it was trying too hard. The scenes between Lena's character and her boyfriend frankly just made me feel uncomfortable. I understand that the show is trying to go against the stereotypical series that involves beautiful casts and unrealistic story lines, but that's what I like. Shallow and all as it may sound, I like watching a world that's different to mine. Watching something different to your own life gives you a break from yours. Sure it's completely unrealistic and they usually consist of botoxed models in their twenties portraying teenagers, but that's what makes it, for me anyway. I get that Girls perhaps sends out a better image to young girls with regards body image etc and that's important but I'd still rather watch  the shallow nonsense that makes me feel like I've escaped my own reality, not something that reminds me of the struggles of being a hopeless youth strapped for cash.

Despite my views, the show is a mega success and I can't deny that. Maybe I'm seeing sense and the rest of the world has gone crazy. Of maybe in the run up to the end of my teenage years I've turned into a cranky syndic. Either way, I still turned off the tv after twenty minutes, and I guess I thought you should know.

Stay classy,

L xx

The One When I Come Back

Greetings earthlings,

Once again, I have failed you. Are you sick of hearing that from me? I know I am. I have no real excuse, I was just lazy. However, I am back, and this time for real!! I can actually say that and mean it now because I have a lot of posts written and ready to upload. I've tried to make them good ones tomake up for lost time. As you may have noticed, Planet Lo has gotten a glamourous makeover! I'm really excited about it and hope it makes it a bit easier for you to navigate your way around the blog :)

For those of you that are interested, here is  my new schedule for this here blog named Planet Lo:

My Mondays- On Monday's I'll be writing about anything that I feel like. From lifestyle to beauty, it'll be a (hopefully interesting and entertainig) stream of conciousness of mine for you all to read.

Thursday Tunes- Every Thursday I'll  be uploading a list of songs that I'm liking at the moment and a bit of info about them. It's a small feature but hopefully it'll help introduce you to music you may not be familiar with already.

Freaky Friday- This is a feature I'm very excited about. It involves collaborating with a fellow blogger. It won't be up and running for a few weeks yet. I'll let you know more closer to the time, watch this space!

Sundays- My week in pictures. Sunday's will be a quick recap of my week in pictures so you can see what I've been up to :) (This one will start this Sunday week-May 4th)

Here's hoping I manage to stick to this schedule!

If you have any ideas/ comments just send them my way.

Stay classy
Lxx

She loved a number.

In January 2014 alone, there were 23 people killed on Irish roads. That's 23 lives cut short. That’s also 23 families destroyed, 23 people left without a best friend and some children left without a parent. 

It's easy to look at the number 23 and see nothing but a number. But when you know one of those ‘numbers’ you’d do anything to bring them back.  I always felt for those who knew victims of road accidents but it wasn't until this year that I truly felt the devastating effect it has on people. 

​When I felt my friend's shoulders shaking in my arms as she wept I realised exactly how real every single one of those numbers are. She loved a number, her friend had died on our roads,a young man's life cut short.  She was in shock, we were all in shock. His family has been shook forever. They'll learn to live with it in time but they'll never get over it, nobody ever does.  

She cried, I cried, a lot of people cried. A lot of people will continue to cry. At first in public, at wakes and funerals. Then in private, every day. With time they'll become less frequent, but tears will always fall for him, at Christmas later this year and at family weddings 20 years from now. As long as people who loved him live, tears will always fall for him. He may be down in the death records as just another number, but it’s not just his life that’s over.

We all know how important road safety is but I don't think we truly realise it until we are effected by it. When it happens, when someone you know or  loved, is needlessly killed on the road you want everything to change. Your first extinct is that all cars should be taken off the road, forever. With time, you realise this is unrealistic so you move on to the roads. You want every single road in the country to be rebuilt, twice as wide, as straight and as safe. Then you want the speed to be gone. You want every car to be replaced with new, slower ones that cannot go any faster than 50kmh. Unfortunately, very few of these things can or will happen realistically. You know that after this tragedy that you will always drive carefully, never testing limits, be it those of speed or alcohol levels in blood. But you know that the tragedy that has effected you will not affect everyone. The day after your loved one dies, people will still get into their cars and drive too quickly and people will still drive their cars after drinking. There will be days when you'll want everyone to experience the tragedy of someone they know or love dying on the roads. You know that if everyone loses someone they love then chances are that we'll all drive carefully.

When someone dies on the road, there is no time to prepare. Yes, you can comfort yourself that they didn't have to suffer a sickness but you can also tear yourself apart with the fact that if they hadn't gotten in that car, they'd still be here. It is an extremely hard situation to find comfort in. You can only hope that your loved one is one of the lucky ones who is killed instantly instead of suffering for hours. Someone has to identify the body. Someone has to see their loved one in an sometimes unrecognisable state, something that you wouldn't wish on our worst enemy.