The Suddenly Kate Show

It's Friday!

What? Oh, you know its Friday..well, consider this confirmation! :)

I am not sure how I will get on blogging next week because you see I have plans!

Tomorrow I will be attending the Olympic Torch Relay Concert in Birmingham. My mother won the tickets through work. Its going to be a long day full of all sorts of entertainment and culminating in a concert with the boy(man) band 'The Wanted', R&B artist 'Loick Essien' and indie dance act 'Morning Parade'! What a crazy mixture.

I had already bought tickets to see LIGHTS in Birmingham on the Monday and so I decided to stay in Birmingham until the gig and come home on the Tuesday morning. LIGHTS is a funny one, I have listened to her old stuff and I hate it but her Siberia album was OK. I am sure it used to sound better than it does now and am curious to see how she fares live.

Sunday may be a lazy day or a lets get up to mischief day!

Then I found out that my attendance has been requested at the…

Ok, so the last few posts have been music reviews and if I am honest the next few will be too. I love music. But I need to practice writing and I had hoped that by writing them, then it would keep me writing and would stop me from getting writers block. I have read a fair few posts lately and people have all said how they have had it, but they have then been funny with it – you won’t get that here, hells no! blud.

So, I wanted to write a post to go inbetween the music reviews and gig reviews. I was looking for inspiration and every stone I turned over had nothing underneath. So here I was, pondering upon the idea, umming and ahhing and reading other people posts and thinking, hmmm – is that something I feel I have something to say something about, I mean it could be something…
My sister sent me these two pictures which reminded her of me, of ME! Despicable (you have to say that life Daffy duck or, well, it just wont work any other way.)

Then, I was inspired, I received a prompt sent …

So, this is the last Manchester band for a while (at least I think so) but I really do need to review them and finish off the Manchester hat trick! Especially as they appeared on my radar at the same time as Amida and Mutineers.


So, lets say hello to 'The Slow Readers Club'

The slow readers club consists of;
1. Aaron Starkie - Vocals / Keyboard
2. Kurtis Starkie - Vocals / Guitar
3. James Ryan - Bass
4. Neil Turvin - Drums

Whilst Amida leaned toward being everything-esque, The Slow Readers Club (SRC) have the monopoly on the everything-ish describer. Puressence-ish, Doves-ish, early Killers, Interpol, Arcade Fire, Editors and Pigeon Detectives are all bands mentioned in reviews and on their website. Naturally, I needed to check out the comparisons.
The Comparisons
I listened to all those listed above and I personally thought that the similarity with Arcade Fire and Pigeon Detectives was too tenuous for me to include here, but feel free to disagree. There was also 12 seconds…

So, I started something new on Friday and stitched that night and most of Saturday. Sadly, you wouldnt know it by looking at it!.

Here is what I am aiming for...                                          and how far I have got!


Will keep going :)

I could very easily have created a post by purely adding a list of links to all the reviews that are out there about this band - but this is my take on what they have to offer. I know, I know, its all me me me!

So...let's start at the beginning!
I was alerted to their existence via twitter and I am so glad I was. This is a band that, as soon as I heard their music, I was instantly hooked on. There are four members in the band;

1. Nicholas James Mallins on Vocals
2. Iwan Gronow on Bass
3. Michael Reed on Guitar &
4. Jack Mitchell on Drums - at least for the debut album/ Charles Salt & joining them live Thomas Twemlow.

All have been in other bands before coming together to form the Mutineers (If you check out this link it gives you the bands official bio) and they have been working hard to make it in a notoriously difficult industry. Having formed in 2008, their debut album 'Lovers, Friends, Rivals' was released in 2010 - why am I only hearing of them now?- an…

I was going to throw caution to the wind and just skip an intro - but then I thought, that's SO not my style!


For the last couple of weeks I have been intending to post a review of an EP I recently received, the first I had hoped of many, but who knew it would be so difficult! Oh?! You did? Well, I (as usual) expected it to be pretty darn easy. It hasn't been. Hence for the last two weeks it has been mainly me thinking about it. Admittedly, last week I began writing it.

Step one, was to have a look at existing album/EP reviews and see if any of those styles had attributes that I wanted to include in mine. They all seemed a bit brief and I am anything but brief.Step two, involved googling the band in question and reading everything that I could find out about them. That went well, until I started to feel like some kind of stalker and decided I probably had enough information for this review. Step three, was listening to the bands that the band I was reviewing supposedly sounded …

Today I have been listening to music that has 'Love' in the title - which has been interesting to say the least. They were all randomly generated by Spotify! Here is a favourite...the video stars Kristen Wiig...so funny :)



What is your favourite song with 'Love' in the title?

The Visit
Dreaming Hoping Planning  Smiling
Waiting Listening Knowing Smiling
Moving Opening Hugging Smiling
Playing Singing Laughing Smiling
Eating Drinking Sharing Smiling
Kissing Waving Leaving Gone.

These last few days I have been looking for inspiration for a blog post and hence (if you saw) my previous post about the soundtrack to my life.

Well, while reading some stitchy blogs that I follow, I cam across Serendipitous Stitching latest post where she asks the following questions:

1. Watch the film first or read the book first?
2. Which book would you most like to see made into a film?
3. Who would play you in the story of your life?
4. What was the first live band you saw?
5. Who is the most famous person you have ever met?
6. Did you embarrass yourself by blushing/clamming up, saying something stupid?
7. Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner or Breakfast, Dinner and Tea? or some other random names for your meals?
8. Does your family have a word for something which no-one else in the world uses?
9. What is the worst job you've ever done?
10. How did you get out of doing it?
11. What is the theme song to your life?

which I am going to attempt to answer!

1. Watch the film first or rea…

Its been 24 days! Wow..to be honest it does feel like that long too. I have been blogging on my other non-stitchy blog.

My good friend Keebs (who I met through this blog!) told me that it was IHSW this weekend. So I thought I would do a quick stitch. i had bought the latest World of Cross Stitching magazine and was rather taken with the Bang on the door (c) Groovy chick. I had meant to stitch something for the Queens Jubilee but failed miserably. I do enjoy watching the Olympics, mainly the opening and closing ceremonies, athletics, swimming and gymnastics and so I checked my stash to make sure I had the supplies.

I had a piece of aida that looked big enough (i'm not a measurer), found some red, white and blue and some yellow. Not the same shades as the pattern but it didn't matter for this design. The guide said that it would take approx. 12 hours. It is all block colours so I knew it would be straight forward.

Then yesterday (Friday) it occurred to me that I hadn't seen any…

I was reading blogs as a distraction from actually doing what I am supposed to be doing and came across this post by Michelle.

As I like anything music related (I really can't say no people) I thought it would be fun. Join in if you want a laugh. As she says on her blog, all you need to do is:

Put your MP3 player (or Media Player) on Shuffle. I used my starred tracks on Spotify. Then, as the songs play write in the song and artist that corresponds with the following list. Finally, post your list in the comments for us to see. Most of all have fun with it! Oh, and no cheating. :)

Here is my list..I was giggling away to myself at work..much to people bemusement. Most of the tracks are strangely relevant, if only by title. I was shocked that my flashback track turned out to be a really old song! I hope someone will join in the fun and let me know how they got on!

Here are my results:

Opening Credits: My Life Would Suck Without You - Kelly Clarkson

Waking Up: Human - The Killers

First D…

A while I go, I was reading some blog posts (I always lurk when I don’t have time for commenting) and I kept coming across posts by bloggers about blogging awards.Now, I can only assume that May was Award season in the land of Blog. I remember reading plenty that started with…I am no longer accepting Blog Awards.Some bloggers even said that they were akin to chain letters of old. Whereby you receive a letter and then you send it to 5 people and they send it to 5 people etc. and there is some unwritten code that if you don’t continue the chain then the sky will fall in. I am not sure this is the same in terms of Blog awards but you get my drift. Anyway, at the time of reading these posts it was also common to see people who said, I have received these before and I just don’t have time (or can be bothered) to award others.
Now I get that, I really do. But I also think that it’s a big slap in the face to someone who follows you and thinks you’re the bees knees. Or maybe they don’t! Maybe …

Last week I posted a review entitled 'Friends with Kids' it was about the film of the same name.  This post got the least amount of views of any of my previous posts EVER!

I could try an analyse this based on the content, but we aren't talking about those who read it and decided not to comment but why people didn't even read it or click on the page to get some idea about what it was about. I'm not complaining, just curious as to why. I think it was the post title.

You see, when I first read about a new film coming out starring current can-do-no-wrong actress Kristen Wiig I was curious, when I saw that it was called 'Friends with Kids', I let out a long groan. I most definitely did not want to see a film about friends with kids. Mainly, because as a single thirty-something without kids, I already have friends with kids. I wasn't sure exactly which angle they were going to take, whether it would be childless couples envying their friends or whether it wou…