Shakira
Thursday, May 5, 2011
Trip Around the World- Geography
For my trip around the world for geography I decided to base mine on music. To start off I decided to start off in London where my favourite band/artist was born. Her name is Natasha Khan but her band/ stage name is Bat for Lashes. Her music genre that she plays is very indie/pop/techno. She has a Pakistani father and an English mother.
The band that she plays with isn't really an official kind of band, there more used for her concerts and live shows. So far she has only released 2 albums: Fur and Gold (2006) and Two Suns (2009). My favourite song from her first album has to be " Whats a girl to do?" and my favourite songs from her second album are: "Daniel", "Siren Song" and "Pearls Dream".
My second destination is Australia, Sydney. I went from London to Australia because Bat for Lashes are playing a concert in the Sydney Opera House and I looked up a popular show or act that might be playing there. So I found Top of the Pops. But this Top of the Pops isn't the famous music show that we know of. This is a group of really talented classical music players who are putting on a show on the 29th of May this year. The reason why their performance is called Top of the Pops is because they are playing popular melodies from such composers like Beethoven and Schubert.
So then fro my third destination I went back to London to discover where the original Top of the Pops music TV show was made. It began to show on TV on a weekly bases from the year of 1964-2006. The only songs they played on this music show was no.1 hits in the music charts. A few exceptions were made to let songs play that weren't top in the charts at the time. They were one of the longest running television shows ever. In their last episode one of the final songs to of been played was Shakiras "Hips Don't Lie".
This then brings me to Columbia, where Shakira was born. She started making it into the Latin American and Colombian music scene around the early 1990's. She plays a big range of musical instruments, some which I'd never heard of before. Shakira's had many hits, some of her most popular songs are "Hips don't Lie" and " She Wolf". One of the last places Shakira is going to play is in New York City. So that's where I decide to go next in my trip.
Lastly I decided to do my final place in New York and I did it on the well-known band called Vampire Weekend. Their kind of style of music is indie rock. Theirs four members in the band: Rostam Batmanglij, Ezra Koenig, Chris Tomson and Chris Baio. They've released 2 albums so far, their first one was named after themselves and the second one was called Contra.
And that's the end of my Geography trip :)
The band that she plays with isn't really an official kind of band, there more used for her concerts and live shows. So far she has only released 2 albums: Fur and Gold (2006) and Two Suns (2009). My favourite song from her first album has to be " Whats a girl to do?" and my favourite songs from her second album are: "Daniel", "Siren Song" and "Pearls Dream".
My second destination is Australia, Sydney. I went from London to Australia because Bat for Lashes are playing a concert in the Sydney Opera House and I looked up a popular show or act that might be playing there. So I found Top of the Pops. But this Top of the Pops isn't the famous music show that we know of. This is a group of really talented classical music players who are putting on a show on the 29th of May this year. The reason why their performance is called Top of the Pops is because they are playing popular melodies from such composers like Beethoven and Schubert.
So then fro my third destination I went back to London to discover where the original Top of the Pops music TV show was made. It began to show on TV on a weekly bases from the year of 1964-2006. The only songs they played on this music show was no.1 hits in the music charts. A few exceptions were made to let songs play that weren't top in the charts at the time. They were one of the longest running television shows ever. In their last episode one of the final songs to of been played was Shakiras "Hips Don't Lie".
This then brings me to Columbia, where Shakira was born. She started making it into the Latin American and Colombian music scene around the early 1990's. She plays a big range of musical instruments, some which I'd never heard of before. Shakira's had many hits, some of her most popular songs are "Hips don't Lie" and " She Wolf". One of the last places Shakira is going to play is in New York City. So that's where I decide to go next in my trip.
Lastly I decided to do my final place in New York and I did it on the well-known band called Vampire Weekend. Their kind of style of music is indie rock. Theirs four members in the band: Rostam Batmanglij, Ezra Koenig, Chris Tomson and Chris Baio. They've released 2 albums so far, their first one was named after themselves and the second one was called Contra.
And that's the end of my Geography trip :)
Monday, May 2, 2011
Swim a mile with a Smile :)
So on our last day before the Easter Midterm we all went to the National Aquatics Centre (NAC) to complete the swim a mile with a smile.
When we got there we all got ready as fast as we could to start swimming! Luckily you were allowed do it in groups if you wanted to, I was with Zoe at the start but then we paired up with Kellie and Siobhan because we kinda realised we wouldn't be able to do it with just us 2 :L.
But somehow some girls did it all on there own, which is 64 laps in the really deep length pool, I don't know how they did it :D
After we completed our mile we all got a free t-shirt and bottles of water thank god! haha. When everyone was done we got to go into the main pools where the slides were and we all got to go on the slides and in the pools :).
Then we got to go to Blancherdstown for food and whatever else. Everyone was pretty tired but overall it was a really good day :)
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Movies :)
In French, English and Religion we're watching three different movies. In French we're watching a kinda weird musical about 8 women who are all suspicious of killing one of the womans husband. So far we haven't found out whos done it but it could of been anyone of them now I guess. Its kinda bad but funny bad at the same time :L In English we're watching the movie about Sylvia Plath the famous poet. The movie is about how she became a poet and her life married to her poet husband Ted Hughes. At the beginning you think its going to be a nice film but then things turn kinda strange, at any moment you think Sylia is going to snap and do something but so far in the movie we haven't really seen her to anything to crazy yet. In Religion we're watching Hotel Rowanda which is one of my favourites along with Sylvia. Hotel Rowanda is about the civil war between the Hutus and Tutsis. Its mainly about how one man is struggling to keep his hotel going and to keep as many people alive. He is a Hutu but his wife is a Tutsi which makes him a target to all of the Hutus who are hunting the Tutsis. I think we're near the end of the film and I'm hoping him and his family won't die :(
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