Everyday I'm Shuffling

I will admit I am a Chris Moyles listener on Radio 1, and a while back they played the 'generic mp3 player shuffle game', it revealed some obvious choices - Aled's were usually pretty obvious.

So I thought I would play along and play ten songs on shuffle and see what comes up.

Here we go...
1. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Hysteric
2. Kylie Minogue - Step Back in Time
3. Kayne West ft. Jay Z - Diamonds from Sierra Leone
4. Lady Gaga - Bad Romance
5.  We Are Scientists - Central AC
6. The Courteeners - Bide your Time
7. Daft Punk - End of Line (Tron Legacy soundtrack)
8. Kasabian - Switchblade Smiles
9. The Black Keys - Next Girl
10. Madonna - Like A Prayer

Well I was surprised, I thought it was going to bring up a whole load of Kylie, Glee and Gaga but I think my shuffle ten shows the diversity of my iPod, which is why I love my iPod, there is a song for every occasion.

So take part and let me know your shuffle.

Also on another note Kasabian is amazing to run to.

Mars cupcakes...well cornflake cakes

I finished work early today and wanted to do some baking, so I thought I would do some easy ones.

So I picked the Mars Bar Cupcakes from the Primrose Bakery Cupcake book, the ingredients butter, cornflakes, golden syrup and of course Mars Bars. Basically you melt syrup and butter, add chopped up Mars bars then add the cornflakes.

Put them in the cases, let them cool add the butter icing and all done.

However, one word of warning they are very sickly, I think I should have added more cornflakes to the mixture to make it less sickly.

I suppose really they aren't really cupcakes no baking involved but I didn't burn anything so all good. I would recommend.

Happy Mother's Day - Choco loco banana cupcakes

Happy Mother's Day!

As a special treat for my mum (and my boyfriend's mum) we decided to bake some cupcakes. Also it has been a long time since I baked some cakes.

We decided to bake some chocolate and banana ones from the Primrose Bakery book.

The mixture didn't have milk in it or cocoa powder so I was a little concerned about it being chocolatey, also it didn't seem wet enough. Then I added the banana and chocolate and bang it all seemed to come together.

I will admit that they are the best ones I have made, you can taste the banana but not see it and the chips in the cake didn't sink to the bottom so it was just perfect.

Also there was to much cake mixture so we made a small, thin cake as well. Delicious!

McFly, Portsmouth Guildhall, Wednesday March 7

Last week I saw the amazing band McFly at Portsmouth Guildhall.

This was the fourth time I had seen the band, Portsmouth Guildhall, Bournemouth International Centre and Southampton Guildhall, each time the gig was just fantastic.

 

 

I will admit I'm not a massive fan of the band but I do like them. I'm not signed up to their Super City fan site but if they are playing locally I will go with my sister, who has liked them since they burst onto the scene in 2004, and have a really, really good time.

 

 

A lot of the fans were probably about 12/13 when they came out but are now in their early twenties reverting back to that simple time when they could scream throughout the gig and not get throat ache. I was surprised by how many young fans there were, many of which probably weren't born or were just babies when the boys released their first album.

 

 

The band played a load of their hits Five Colours in her Hair, Obviously, Lies and Shine a Light. They also added some new songs to the 'Keep Calm and Play Louder' set list, a Bruce Springsteen sounding number called Touch the Rain and a very rocky, very cool, Red, which was just amazing. The taster of the new songs makes me excited about the new material coming up for the band.

 

 

Danny also treated the crowd to a little mega mix mid song including Living on a Pray, You don't know you're beautiful - One Direction, Dance with Somebody, and  Somebody I used to know, just amazing how he can turn his voice to anything so expertly.

Danny, Dougie, Tom and Harry all have a comfortable ease when on stage and make sure they have a joke and interact with each other and the crowd.

This included Danny playing conductor on All About You, stopping and starting the crowd singing the long 'youuuu' at the end of the song, many times over much to the amusement of Tom.

This band are my guilty pleasure and I love them live. Great mix of guitars, four good looking guys, catchy lyrics and a fantastic crowd atmosphere.

I think McFly are one band who will continue to get better and will also continue to make songs together.  This showed after three members in the last year or so have dabbled in Reality shows (Danny - Pop star to Opera Star, Harry - Strictly Come Dancing and Dougie - I'm a celebrity get me out of here) however, they  come back together to do what they know best and obviously still love doing.

If you can see them do, even if you aren't a fan you will have a good time.

I don't think this will be the last time I see this band live.

Sorry seems to be the hardest word..again

Sorry for the lack of posts, I haven't really made any cupcakes and I have moved papers so new start means a bit lax with the posts.

Don't fear I will be back with the cupcake posts before you know it!