New Page 'School'

Hey guys,
So I've added a new page to my blog titled 'School'. This is where I'll post obviously about school and some of the things I do. But I also plan to post some of my school work, for three reasons.

1. It will act as a sort of internet USB for me. So if I don't have some of my work on me that needs to be handed in, it will be posted on here.

2. When exams come up I can use this page to revise (and so can you).

3. To possibly give you guys a helping hand with different things, or at least try to teach you things.


I am currently in year 11 this year and studying: English (Unit 1 & 2), Literature (Unit 1 & 2), General Mathematics - Further (Unit 1 & 2), Legal Studies (Unit 1 & 2), Art (Unit 1 & 2) and I'm also enrolled in a VET course Technicial Production.


Yours Truely,
whothefuckiseh?
xoxo

Top Arts Excursion

Yesterday I visited Top Arts in the city of Melbourne. as an excursion for my art class.
Top Arts is an art gallery displaying the top 47 artworks from VCE students the previous year. (So I saw last years VCE finals).

We spent an hour in the gallery looking at their work. Some artworks were absolutely extraordinary. gave me some great ideas and looked like a lot of time and effort had gone into them. Some on the other hand, I don't quite get why they're considered art, as they don't look like a lot of time and effort have gone into them.

After looking through the gallery we went upstairs to a room with two long tables and the folios of the students artworks that we'd just looked at. We had to wear gloves while looking at them, because having so many people daily, turning the pages would eventually ruin the folio. It was so surprising to me to see just how much work had gone into these folios. I'd been told doing a folio subject in VCE required a lot of work, but I didn't quite understand that until I looked through these books. Some kids had filled up to three folios with work. That's not the part that surprised me too much though, it was the annotations. Students wrote pages and pages of annotations which sort of stressed me out, as my annotations in my folio are absolutely nothing compared to theirs. I'm trying not to compare my work to theirs as they are at a year 12 standard, whereas I'm only in year 11. And these students are the best of the best in my state.

We then went to a lecture at the gallery where a lady spoke to us about some of the artworks and how they came together. It proved my thought of the time and effort put into the artworks. It was crazy.

If you're currently studying art, studio arts or visual communication I highly recommend going to Top Arts and having a look around as I've found it has motivated me to work harder in art. Art isn't as easy as I first thought it would be.
Something I plan to work more on is my annotations in art. Here are a few websites that could help you if you're looking to improve your art annotations too.
http://www.studentartguide.com/articles/a-level-art-sketchbook

http://www.artcoursework.com/Annotation.pdf

https://getrevising.co.uk/forums/topics/how_can_i_make_good_annotations

http://www.gosford-hill.oxon.sch.uk/page-content/documents/1434012949-ArtHowToImproveGCSE.pdf


Yours Truely,
whothefuckiseh?
xoxo

Which Rimmel Powder is best?

Rimmel Lasting Finish 25 hour powder foundation, or Rimmel London Stay Matte Pressed Powder?

That is the question. They're both very good products from Rimmel London.

Firstly, Rimmel Lasting Finish 25 hour powder foundation. I bought this product about a month ago, after having used Rimmel London Stay Matte Pressed Powder for a few years, I felt maybe I should branch out and try a new pressed powder.. yes I know I didn't branch out far with the brand, but it's still something slightly different. I got this powder in the shade 001 Light Porcelain, which I find to have a slight pink tinge to it which I dislike, but I can deal with it. The first thing that disappointed me was it has got less in it, with only 7.0g, and is also more expensive (I purchased it for $14.99 at Chemist Warehouse). I like that this product comes with it's own mirror, and sponge. However I don't use sponges for powder, I prefer a brush so I guess it's a bit of a waste for me personally. I am quite disappointed with the coverage of this powder, and I find that I have to apply a far amount to my brush in order for it to do anything. In a pervious post where I review the liquid foundation of this powder, I said that I use powder to lighten up the foundation I use, this product doesn't exactly do that for me because of the pink tinge and it's difficulty with application. 

Now Rimmel London Stay Matte Pressed Powder, I get this powder in the shade 001 Transparent and I am 100% satisfied with this shade. As I said above I have been using this product for a few years now, in actually fact, I've been using it ever since I first started wearing make up. I chose this product due to it's reasonable price of $9.99 (at chemist warehouse). Unlike the product above, this contains more powder, doubling the other product with 14g. So you get more for a better price which is already a thumbs up. I am incredibly impressed with this powder, with it's great coverage of acne spots and elimination of lines on my face. I honestly can not rave more about this product, it is really an 11/10 kind of powder, especially for a product you can pick up from your local chemist / pharmacy. I highly recommend this product to everyone, and would hands down chose it over the Rimmel Lasting Finish 25 hour powder foundation.

Yours Truely,

whothefuckiseh?

xoxo

Beartooth's New Singles

So for the past couple of weeks one of my favourite bands Beartooth, have been releasing new singles including “Aggressive”, “Loser” and “Always Dead”. This is just a little bit about what I think about the new songs. 

Beartooth are one of those bands that you either love or hate, there isn’t really an in-between (no pun intended). The same goes for their songs, individually, you either love or hate it. On their album ‘Disgusting’, I can definitely think of a handful of songs I really love (e.g Beaten In Lips, One More, The Lines, Body Bag), but there are also some songs, I will without a doubt, skip every time I hear the first riff play in my earphones, for example Sick & Disgusting, Ignorance Is Bliss, and I Have a Problem. That’s just me personally, and by all means i’m not saying you shouldn’t listen to them. I guess music is all about personal preference at the end of the day.

So another example of the love and hate of Beartooth songs are their three new singles ‘Aggressive’, ‘Always Dead’ and ‘Loser’.  

“Aggressive” starts off with the singer sounding quite exposed, very similar to their song Sick & Disgusting. Over all this song just reminds me a lot of Sick & Disgusting- (keep in mind I said I don’t like that song above), -although the chorus doesn’t so much. The choruses are  catchy and sound very classic beartooth which I love. So I love the choruses in this song, but the start and versus not so much. I’m undecided on whether I classify this song to be in the love or hate pile as of yet. I have to listen to it a few more times, I think i’ll be leaning more to love though.

“Always Dead”, jumps straight into the song with no mucking around, it’s almost a little overwhelming, don’t get me wrong I love heavy music but this song is a little too crazy. I find it to be a little bit all over the place, I can’t depict a definite structure while listening to it, and all in all it’s very aggressive, with the repetitive lyrics ‘Dead! Dead! You’ll always be dead to me!’. In saying that, there is an aspect of the song I don’t mind too much. Starting from 1:55, there’s a more instrumental part to the song, with the inclusion of shouting the word ‘dead’ every so often. This is probably the only part of the song I actually really like. And considering the song goes for 2 minutes and 18 seconds, that’s 23 seconds of the song I actually like, so It’s best to just say overall, I don’t like the song and I wouldn’t include it in a playlist of mine. It’s one of those Beartooth songs I can’t love. 

Now to get the negativity out of the way, their new song "Loser", is a really catchy, classic Beartooth song, and kind of reminds me of their hit song Beaten In Lips. Similar to Beaten In Lips it also has a very personal message in the lyrics that can also reach out to its audience in a very emotional way. Unlike Always Dead, it’s not as jumbled up and all over the place, the riffs in this song are really great, and quote my best friend “make us want to head bang, ‘It’s a real headbanger’”. This song is a really good one by Beartooth and I’m certainly impressed with their newest single.

Make sure you check out Beartooth and let me know in the comments what you think of them, and what songs you love or hate.

Yours Truely,

whothefuckiseh?

xoxo

School Stress

Today I wanted to discuss school. Which I know I do mention in my blog posts from time to time, but I want to talk about the emotional impact school has on teenagers.

So I am currently in VCE (for those of you who don't know what that is, it's my final years of schooling that isn't university). Leading up to my final years of high school, I have not been prepared. School was a breeze until now. I actually kind of enjoyed it, the work load was manageable and I loved going to see my friends and what not. Now though, school is far from an enjoyable place for me. My friends are stressed out, I'm stressed out, I have homework coming at me like it's going out of fashion and the kids are just horrible these days. I guess kids have always been horrible, but I just don't know how to deal with it on top of all the stress from the workload.

It's by far the most stressed school has ever made me, and next year is apparently worse and I'm seriously dreading it. All this stress goes towards the rest of my life, my future job. And everyone keeps reminding me of that like it's going to make me feel better. The way I see it, if I don't do these next two years really well, that is going to effect my future which creates even more stress. But doing well these next two years is extremely hard to manage for someone like me who's just sort of your average student. I'm also struggling with the amount of time I have to devote to school. It's not your usual six hour day anymore, no. I'm quite often, still doing homework until after dinner time and sometimes I do it right up until I go to bed. I'm just running out of time to spend on doing things other than homework. And some days I decide to just have a break and enjoy myself, but that always gets me behind in my homework which is even more stressful. 

Teachers and parents just don't really understand how damaging school can be to someones mental health, and I guess physical health to some extent as well. I know it's just a short term pain for long term gain situation, but I'm struggling a lot with school, and I don't even know where I'm going with my future, so I have no motivation at all.

If any of you have any advice is dealing with the stress of VCE, I would love to hear it. Because I'm at the point where I kind of just want to stay in bed and never go to school again. 

Anyway, sorry for the rant. I'm sure I'm not the only one out there feeling like this though. 

Yours Truely,

whothefuckiseh?

xoxo

My Anti-Meat Experience

So a couple of weeks ago I had a kind of strange experience. I was invited to one of my best friend's house for a party. From what I understood it was just one of those random parties people decide to have, just cause. When I got there however I discovered this wasn't the case.

So my friend lives in a place where she has a bit of property, like enough to have some animals, but it isn't a farm. These animals have names and they're their pets and we play with them and have watched them grow up. So anyway, this girl has really strange parents who decided to have their pig Babe and one of their goats Joey, shot in their paddock. This would be totally understandable if they lived on a farm, or I guess if they, I don't know, maybe sold the goat or pig to someone else to kill, but no. This party was the celebration of the death of their two pets, and by celebrating, they ate Babe and Joey. Obviously I was mortified to arrive at her place and smell these adorable animals I had played with, being cooked on a spit. 

So I watched everyone at the party eat them, while I decided not to. Before this I was a big meat eater, I'm extremely fussy when it comes to food, but I'm usually fine with meat until now. I think the party was about 4 weeks ago and since then I've eaten meat on two occasions, one was a sunday roast and the other was lasagne and I felt as though I was going to throw up afterwards and mind you I didn't eat very much of it, I just didn't enjoy the taste. Part of me wishes I'd get over this and go back to eating me like I used to, but for the time being I'm struggling to even deal with the smell or the thought. 

So anyway, there's my story about why I haven't been eating meat lately. For all you vegans and vegetarians out there I'd love to hear your story about what experience caused you to suddenly stop eating meat. Make sure to leave it in the comments below.

Yours Truely,

whothefuckiseh?

xoxo

Colour meanings

In my art class, I have decided to develop my knowledge behind colours. I wanted to use them in my final artwork, just randomly, but my teacher suggested developing my knowledge behind colour theory so that the colours in my artwork have some meaning.



Different colours can have different meanings to each individual person, by the way they affect that persons emotions and moods. The meaning behind colours can also have something to do with the viewers past, and what experiences they associate colours with. This comes into play when a colour can have two possible meanings, but are somewhat opposite of each other. For example, some people may associate the colour red to love, while others may associate it with anger. Some of the things colours can represent are listed below:

Red - Power, passion, desire, love, aggression, danger, violence

Orange - Balance, enthusiasm, energy

Yellow - Joy, optimism, happiness, hope, imagination

Green - Nature, environment, youth, jealousy, envy, generosity

Blue - Peace, harmony, unity, trust, confidence, loyalty

Purple - Nobility, mystery, wisdom, royalty

Grey - Safety, intelligence, dignity, maturity

Brown - Earth, comfort, endurance, stability

Black - Power, sophistication, elegance, wealth, fear

White - Reverence, virginity, cleanliness, peace, innocence, precision, humility


From studying the theory behind colours, I've decided for my artwork that I want each of these colours to represent a different aspect of me and my life, and how each of these thins have shaped me as a person and given me hope. (The topic for my artwork in hope).


I'd be very interested which things you associate with each colour and if there's a reason behind it, feel free to leave a comment below.

Yours Truely,
whothefuckiseh?
xoxo

Rimmel London Lasting Finish Foundation

Rimmel London Lasting Finish Foundation

I decided to trial this foundation about a month ago, as I was feeling like I needed a change from the one I was using. I got this foundation in the shade 100 Ivory, which I find to be slightly too dark for my skin but with the mix between this and a lighter pressed powder I find it does the job. I am prone to having sensitive skin, especially on my face, and this foundation doesn't irritate that at all, so I would recommend for those of you who have sensitive skin. I also find that this foundation has an over all great coverage and hides majority of my acne spots, in saying that I do have to spend a bit of time to achieve the great coverage. As well as this, the foundation doesn't settle into pores or fine lines which is great as I do tend to get lines from smiling above my lips, but that is very minimal with this foundation, which I am very impressed with. It states that this foundation lasts up to 25 hours, which personally I haven't tested out as I usually take my make up off before going to sleep, however, when I apply this foundation at 7 in the morning, it is still going strong by 11 at night. So what 16 hours? I have complete confidence this would last another few hours and possibly live up to its expected '25 hours'.

My only criticism I could think of about this foundation is it can tend to look a little heavy up close (I guess that would probably depend on the way you apply it), and it has a limited colour range of only six different shades, which is annoying for me as the shade I have is slightly too dark and the shade before is far too light.

Overall great foundation, especially for a product you can pick up from a chemist / pharmacy for under $20.

Yours truely,
whothefuckiseh?
xoxo

Day in Melbourne

Today I had an excursion with my Legal Studies class to the Melbourne Magistrates Court. 

I hung out with five of my best friends while we checked out some different court rooms with different cases going on. It was really interesting, but at the same time the lawyers drove me nuts with their repeated questions and going around in circles with the same story for hours on end.
It's free to walk into court cases so if you're interested in all that serious legal stuff I highly recommend doing this as it's quite a rewarding experience.

After the excursion we were dismissed to hang out in the city of Melbourne for the rest of the afternoon. Firstly we chose to go to the Queen Victorian Market. We walked up and down the isles looking at really intriguing things and encountered a multicultural experience. None of my friends actually bought anything at the market but it was still fun to walk around and look at everything.

After the market we caught a train to Richmond and went to a shop called 24hundred. This shop is sort of the equivalent to the shop Hot Topic. It's just much smaller and there's only one of them in the world. You have to walk down alleyways to get there and it's literally surrounded by no buildings that are shops, I think they're offices of some sort. It doesn't seem like they'd get much business but all the hardcore teens in Melbourne know of it and its away from all the mainstream stuff.
Anyway, so the shops entrance is a small car park that sometimes holds live, acoustic performances from bands, and it's totally covered in Joel Birch's art (he went there and painted the shop front). Inside the shop is filled with t-shirts, jumpers, shorts and cds from a small selection of bands, some including In Hearts Wake, Northlane, Violent Soho, The Amity Affliction, A Day To Remember, Thy Art Is Murder, Architects and I Killed The Prom Queen (They have a much bigger variety online). My friend and I lapped the shop a few times before deciding on what to purchase. I got a t-shirt which is In Hearts Wake, and my friend got a hoodie from The Amity Affliction. After this, some of our friends had to leave to go home so there was just three of us.

We caught a train back to Southern Cross Station and then went over to the Spencer Street Outlet where we did some clothes shopping. By this time we were beginning to get extremely sore feet.

This is where we departed with one of our friends and then it was just the two of us. We caught a train to Essendon to go to the Cafe Johnny Pump. When we arrived we had to ask for directions to the cafe, so we asked these people who owned an amazing costume shop. I seriously want to go back there in the future and do what they do in the movies with trying all the costumes on with friends. Anyway, so it was a 2 minute walk to Johnny Pump. We entered the small cafe and took a seat at a table that was surrounded by succulents. The service at this place was extremely good, the waiters were lovely and we got out food fast. I ordered a milkshake of Butterscotch, Chocolate Chip & Lamington, my friend ordered a Caramel Popcorn & Oreo milkshake and we got a bowl of fries to share. I'd rate my milkshake 11/10 and I highly recommend visiting this cafe and trying that milkshake in particular. There is a great variety of shakes that I absolutely have to try so I plan to come back here in the future. They also have a breakfast, lunch and dinner menu that looks to die for!

All in all a great day with great people and amazing places. Make sure you check out Johnny Pump if you haven't already and comment below what you thought of it!!

Yours Truely,
whothefuckiseh?
xoxo

#relatable

Good morning / afternoon / evening to you all.

So today I'd like to discuss that person who is perhaps in your friend group or just an outsider who no one particularly likes. Now I'm not talking about that person who is necessarily excluded or just picked on for no reason. I mean the person who does it to themselves by the way they treat other people.

I have one of these people in my friend circle who everyone low key hates, and it's because this person has been so horrible to others. Personally, this person has put me in a heap of uncomfortable situations. And another example of what this person has done is tell a close friend of mine that their girlfriend is a "cancer ridden c*nt". These are obviously not acceptable things to do to someone they consider a 'friend'. It just makes me wonder how someone could be like that. Because now this person has lost everyone that was close to them. And no one in our circle of friends actually likes them. Which is sad because I'd hate to be in their position, but at the same I probably wouldn't put myself in that place.

Another instance I saw of this was on the school bus today. There was this guy who is known to be be really rude to people. He was asking everyone for a sip of water from someone's drink bottle but everyone said they didn't have any water.  Even though they probably did. It just made me question how someone could expect something from someone when they're horrible to them.

Moral of this blog post, be more kind and you won't lose friends and you'll get things when you need them.

Anyway, sorry about the negative post today, felt like having a rant.

Yours truely,
whothefuckiseh?
xoxo

That's The Spirit - Bring Me The Horizon

That's The Spirit is quite a new sound from Bring Me The Horizon, if you listened to this album straight after listening to Suicide Season, you'd probably question if you're even listening to the same band. However, with that said, I think that it's perfectly fine that Bring Me The Horizon have experimented with their sound. People have said that they're doing it to sound more 'mainstream' in order to get more fans.. then more money. What I think though, is so i'll give you a little comparison. When you were 5 years old what was your favourite tv show? Is that still your favourite or have you matured and found something new? You may still really love that tv show from when you were 5, but it's unlikely to be your favourite. As we grow we develop more and more, we start to enjoy different thinks and develop our interests. So with that being said, Bring Me The Horizon started off with 'This is what the edge of your seat was made for' and have slowly been developing more and more to get to where they are right now, each one of their albums is very different so that's evidence that they didn't just randomly change their sound. It's been a process. While it very well could be for the money, who cares right? Being in the band is literally their job, and we're not the only people who have to benefit from it.

So anyway, enough of that rant. Lets talk music. This 11 track album is jammed packed with a bunch of songs about depression and how it is often romanticised, and are absolute gold.

1. Doomed
This song, being the first on the album we hear, really sets their new sound up. It's a lot more electronic than their previous music, and the lyrics at the start remind me a little bit of their song 'Can You Feel My Heart. When I click on this album, even though this song is at the top, it's not the first one I choose to listen to. It's not my favourite Bring Me The Horizon song, however in saying that, it isn't a bad song.

2. Happy Song
Every album has a song that basically defines it, quite often that song shares the same title as the album, this isn't named after the album but it sure sounds like it could be with the constant chant of 'That's The Spirit". This song's lyrics and melody are extremely catchy and I find after listening to it, I am usually left humming the tune

3. Throne
This song proves what I was saying about the album being filled with 'gold', it's really just amazing.

4. True Friends
I really like the message behind this song, Oli stated that the lyrics of the song are about "certain people about a situation that really caught [him] up. But to be honest, it applies to a lot of people I've known throughout my life. I don't hold anger or hate towards anyone, maybe I used to but it's just too draining of an emotion. And this song is about making peace with those situations. It's about letting those people know that [he] can forget but [he] will never forgive. From here on out, [he'll] always keen tham at arms length.

5. Follow You
This is probably one of my favourite songs on the album. It's quite different from the old Bring Me The Horizon, as it's a love song.. and so goddamn sweet.

6. What You Need
What You Need is another really catchy song, and also kind of relaxed. Lyrically this song is about close minded people who only accept what they've learnt in school or been bought up by their parents. They refuse to open their ears to an alternative. People like this frustrate me so much, so I understand completely where Oli is coming from in this song.

7. Avalanche
The drums at the beginning of this song always make me either tap my foot, pretend to drum with my hands or sort of shake my body side to side along with the beat. I think that the song uses a perfect balance of sort of relaxed instruments during the verses and in the chorus' and it picks up and makes me want to dance and sing along.

8. Run
When I'm in the mood to get outside and exercise, or even when I'm indoors on the treadmill this song is always on my playlist. Not just because of the name of the song, but also because the beat and rhythm of the song is perfect for the pace I like to keep.

9. Drown
The first single of the album, with a slightly strange video clip. Drown obviously sounds like a hit song, it's catchy, and personally makes me want to dance.

10. Blasphemy
This is my absolute favourite song on the album. The message in the lyrics about religion it shares I completely agree with. And the song it's self is just brilliant in my opinion.

11. Oh No
When this song first starts, it sounds quite different and almost reminds me of Twenty One Pilots. This song is quite relaxed and also catchy like the rest of the album. I personally feel like it ends the album on a really good note.

So all in all, a truely magnificent album by Bring Me The Horizon. Make sure you have a listen if you haven't already. 



Yours Truely,
whothefuckiseh?
xoxo

Technical Production

So I’m currently enrolled in a VET course, called technical production (The guys there call it 'tech pro'). This is basically just the first step to becoming a sound engineer. We learn about how sound is created and how it works, and we record sounds. That’s basically just in a nutshell what we do, there is a fair amount of work squished into our weekly sessions. 

I do this program at an all boys school, and yes being the only girl there is extremely terrifying.. well it was, I’m not so scared anymore as I’ve learnt they’re more scared of me than I am of them. When I walk  into the school each week I do receive a few cat calls, on one occasion I was asked to marry someone and every single week they seem to think it's necessary to remind me that i'm a female.. as if I wasn't aware, but anyway, I feel much more relaxed once I get into the class room as I’ve made friends with a great deal of the students in my class. They’re the ones who told me that the boys are more scared of me than I am of them.

Last week in class we were given an assignment on the copyright legislation in the music industry. Well I was given it last week, because I was away the week before. My friends have had the assignment for 2 weeks and it was due today. I worked hard on the weekend to finish off the assignment to hand it in today, even though I was given an extra week to account for the week I missed. I did this because I know I won’t be able to attend class next week, and I like to get homework out of the way as soon as possible. 

Last night, my best friend at VET sent me a message on Facebook asking me to send him a photo of the assignment sheet as he’d lost it. Which indicated to me he probably hadn’t started. Then about half an hour later, he asked me to send him a picture of the first few answers, as he knew I’d already finished. I did it because we’re friends and I didn’t mind. But then, an hour later he asks me to send him the answers to the rest of the assignment so that he could hand it in on time, as he knew I still had a week so I didn’t need to stress. 

I am not one who generally gives my answers out to people because it annoys me. It’s like if I have to time to put effort into the assignment, I’m sure you can manage it too. I didn’t know how to say no to him. So I sort of just didn’t reply to his message, and I was slightly nervous about attending class today to see him. 

I guess the whole point of this blog post was to see if any of you are like me and get frustrated when people are too lazy to do work and just copy yours instead.

Yours truely,

whothefuckiseh?

xoxo

Soundwave

Saturday 21st of February 2015, a.k.a the best fkn day of my life, I attended soundwave (Australian music festival) for the first, and sadly last time.
The day started off with little sleep, due to excitement. I stayed at my best friends house with two of my best friends. We quickly got ready, tied our hair back and wore shorts and band shirts. My friends parents drove us to the Melbourne Showgrounds, as we figured public transport would most likely be quite busy.
The weather was absolutely beautiful, meaning it had already made me so happy when I woke up (good weather is always a good start to the day). When we finally arrived at the venue, after a slightly long drive, we came face to face with the biggest line I've ever seen in my life. I can't remember how long we actually spent in the line waiting to get into the venue, but once the gates opened it did move quite quickly and soon enough we had passed the gates into an unforgettable day.

The three of us had studied the line up and when every band was playing the night before, and had all agreed on which band we'd see when. First on our list was Dayshell at Stage 3. This band was an absolute must for me to see, as they'd helped me through a bunch of shit the year following up to this day. And it really was a great way to kick off Soundwave by seeing them. My two best friends had never been to a concert or festival so the first band they saw live was these guys. As it was only the start of the day, the crowd was awfully shy and just stood there and watched the guys play. That or they were watching and had no fkn idea who these amazing people were. (I seriously 110% recommend listening to dayshell if you haven't already, cause they're so good!)
It came to the second last song of their set, and I was slightly horrified that I hadn't screamed along with their songs, purely because no one else was and I didn't want to be the only one in the crowd singing.. I didn't want to look like "that fan girl". But my next decision did not help me with that. In between the songs, the lead singer had stopped to get a drink of water, and I took this as my opportunity to scream "I love you Shayley!" However, now I was not aware girls voices could do this, but my voice broke like a 12 year old boy's, which caused, no joke, every one in front of me to turn around and stare at me. Probably one of my most embarrassing moments in my life, but my friends found it hilarious. So after that we didn't stay for the last song, but that wasn't the reason why. The night before we had agreed not to stay for their whole set as This Wild Life  was playing at the same time and we wanted to see them as well.
This Wild Life were playing on stage 5, that was the only one indoors, and even though it was still the morning.. well basically lunch time, it was already getting very hot in there. We got to see them play a couple of songs, including their cover of Bring Me The Horizon's 'sleepwalking' (which was amazing). If you're looking for a band that's really, really chill.. like the sort of music you could listen to before you go to bed, or to calm you down before an exam, listen to these guys. I really don't understand why their genre is listed at pop-punk as it's all so relaxing and calm.

After we saw This Wild Life, there weren't really any bands playing that we were extremely keen to see live so we took this opportunity to get some lunch. Mind you, the food at Soundwave was ridiculously priced. near the food area we saw a giant shed and wandered down to it. This shed was where the meet and greets would be held, I can't remember exactly but I think you had to pay $2 to meet your favourite band (well not all the bands were doing this). Unfortunately there was limited places and they had mostly been taken up already. So if I can give you any advice for if Soundwave ever comes back, go here first to assure your place! Anyway so we ate our lunch while sitting on some plants, Yes on plants, there weren't any free seats around where we were. Then we wandered over to the free water area, filled up our bottles then went to have a look around the tents filled with an amazing amount of merchandise. After we had bought some shirts and what not, we went over to Stage 2 where we waited for Tonight Alive. To me tonight alive were one of those bands I loved but not very openly. Like I didn't have any of their merch or posters and *cringes* Only knew who Jenna was in the band. So when I saw the crowd they pulled I was so shocked. I never realised just how big they were. The performance they put on was seriously so good. They're really an 11 out of 10 kinda band, especially when it comes to playing live. If you ever get the chance to see them, 100% do it! So because their crowd was so huge, AND it was that time of day when it was the hottest I learnt the hard way not to wear so much make up in a mosh pit. All of my foundation was dripping off my face and into my eyes along with my mascara and eyeliner. So I had very, very irritated eyes. I did not purposely cry the first time seeing Tonight Alive. I just could barely see them cause my eyes hurt so much.. and it didn't help that I was rubbing them. Everyone's sweat was making this mosh pit feel more and more like a swimming pool as we jumped and slipped around off each other. It's totally gross thinking back at it now, but it was just kinda normal at the time.. and we could't exactly help it.

Straight after Tonight Alive played, All Time Low were playing on Stage 1. We could still see Tonight Alive from stage 1 so we went over there to get a good spot for All Time Low. (We did take a quick detour to the water stands so that I could wash my face and fix my eyes). All Time Low had been number 1 on my "have to see live" list for a really long time. They were my gateway band into this music scene. So you could only imagine just how happy I was seeing them. I was beginning to feel quite exhausted from having the hot sun on me and doing intense cardio all day, but that didn't stop me from enjoying them. Jack and Alex shared their usual banter on stage, Alex ripped a hole in his jeans and the crowd acted like they were at a death metal concert when really they're just pop-punk.  My friends and I were in a spot in the crowd where all the crowd surfing was being done, so I did get an extremely sore neck.

In the photo above, my friends and I are standing to the left of the guy who's down on his hands and knees, it's impossible to tell which ones we are though cause there's so many people. After All Time Low played, I felt sad that they'd finished but totally complete that I'd been able to see them. They put on a really good performance as well.  We then wandered around for awhile, seeing parts of several bands sets including: Papa Roach, Crossfaith, Millencolin, and Coldrain. We caught up with some friends that we'd bumped into in a crowd of 35,000 people. Then sat down in the grand stands to watch the start of Marilyn Manson's set. He pulled the biggest crowd i'd seen so far, but later it looked like it was beat by Slipknot. We weren't overly keen on watching his whole set although he was amazing we were hungry, so we went and grabbed some dinner. Just more overly priced, unhealthy food. But it tasted so good. After we ate we headed back to the stage we started at, which was Stage 3. We saw the end of Escape The Fate's set, got dragged into many circle pits and walls of death and happened to loose one of our best friends because of them. We found her at the end though. Then we waited for Of  Mice & Men to come on stage. I'd seen this band previously when they'd come on tour to Australia with Bring Me The Horizon so I sort of knew what to expect in the sense of the rough crowd and extremely angry looking Austin Carlile. Even though I sort of knew what to expect, it was so much worse than what I thought. The crowd pushed each other so hard that I couldn't breathe. Also being short and surrounded by people taller than me it was only hot, sweaty air around me to breathe so I struggled with that too. I had people crowd surfing over me, and while I was busy trying not to break my neck I lost my best friends and found myself surrounded only by tall, rather fat, sweaty, middle-aged men. To say the least, I was a little scared that I may die. Even though that sounds like I'm over reacting, don't judge until you've been in an Of Mice & Men crowd. The guys around me went absolutely nuts, I got quite beat up by their limbs that were swinging in the direction of where I was. I had my hair pulled at, my shins kicked at, my shoes stood on so much that they ripped and I also walked away with bruised ribs. Other than the terrifying crowd the band was really good live, and like I mentioned earlier, for those of you who are fans of Of Mice & Men, you'd know their lead man Austin Carlile is the sweetest guy ever, but then when he's on stage screaming into the microphone, he is one of the scariest looking dudes ever. 

After getting beat up at Of Mice & Men, I needed to sit down and just catch my breath and also look at my injuries. Before I sat down I bumped into another friend, this one I went to Primary School with so it was really cool to see how his taste of music was now fkn amazing all this time later. Straight after Of Mice & Men, Slipknot was playing on Stage 1, so we headed over in that direction.. just like sheep as seriously that's where everyone was going. We got seats in the grandstand and I relaxed for a little bit. We watched two of their songs before one of my friends asked to leave because she was scared of clowns. The part of their set I did see however, contained two of my favourite songs by them, a giant crowd, and lots of fire included into their act. At the same time of Slipknot playing, Fall Out Boy and The Smashing Pumpkins were on, so we firstly went and head a quick look at The Smashing Pumpkins (mainly for bragging rights) and then spent the rest of our night at Fall Out Boy. I was far too sore to get into the crowd, I even struggled walking from Stage 1, to Stage 4, to then Stage 3 where Fall Out Boy was playing. Even though the whole day was so amazing, I feel as though Fall Out Boy was the highlight of my day. I stood back from the crowd and really took in the atmosphere. Surrounded by people like me, listening to music we love, made by people who aren't so different from us. 

I walked away from Soundwave with my two best friends, the tiredest I've ever been, the sorest I'd ever been and the happiest i'd ever been. I'm so devastated that the festival has been cancelled, but at least my first and last Soundwave experience was a really, really extraordinary one. It's a day I'll hold with me for the rest of my life, as it's the best day I've ever, EVER had.