Top 5 Songs of July & August

Agggghhhhhh, I just didn’t have the time to post July’s Top 5!! Nozfest came around so damn quick!! NOZFEST HAPPENED, IT WAS A THING!!! Right, here is a blog with my Top 5 Songs of July AND August for you all! 😉 ❤

Remember there is a YouTube playlist which includes all these wonderful songs from each month, and also a Spotify playlist which you can find via searching for ‘jodieharris15‘.

MY KIND OF LOVER – BILLY SQUIER
“I can’t do without you for too long you’re my situation…”

I loveeee this tune! I mean yes, I discovered through watching ‘The Dirt’, but this is such a sweet summery song, I’m really digging it. I sang it at my rats the other day, and I proper had their attention! This was such an awesome tune to jam out to when the weather was luxuriously hot. Cocktail in hand, bikini on… positivity floating through the air… aaahh yes. It is that kind of tune!

NEW SHOES – PAOLO NUTINI
“I said, hey I put some new shoes on and everybody’s smiling…”

This song was at the start of a movie that was on the TV one weekend, and I just thought it was super catchy and cute. I did some Googling, and found it was this awesome little jam! Isn’t this just the most luscious pick me up?! I literally just want to put on a pretty summer dress, some heels and just dance around my garden and flip my hair around and being a happy little human being! This song sums up the happiness I feel when I think about my festival ❤ So much brightness and smiles!

THE RENAISSANCE MEN – WILDHEARTS
“You can’t keep a good band down….like cheap Tequila…”

I’m not sure how this song made it onto a Nozfest playlist on Spotify, but I’m so glad it did! It’s such an awesome tune – absolutely perfect for summer!
Makes me want to wear clothes that are far too small, and are bright neon colours and drink a mixture of cocktails I really don’t like, but look awesome with paper umbrellas in them. Yes, a song can make me feel all of that. Like a tune that makes you wanna relocate to Los Angeles and NEVER come back 😉 I just hope the weather is as epic as this song for Nozfest – gotta love the sunshine, even if it gave me really bad heat stroke this month.

LUCK OF THE DRAW – THE TREATMENT
“So grow yourself some balls, and you can call me….”

I actually really like this track! Something a little different from The Treatment in my opinion, but I really like it. Quite bluesy, but still riffy like traditional Treatment. Then I am bias cos I am super happy that Tom is the frontman. I do love this song, this has got me through many busy days at work,

ODE TO JOHANNA – BLACK TREE VULTURES
“Have you seen her walk, have you seen my baby talk…”

The Vultures are another band that have taken their time to grow on me… but they are bloody awesome! At the risk of sounding like I have favourites (cos I do… sorry folks), these guys are one of my fave bands to work with, just because they are awesome lads. However, their music is also fantastic, and it isn’t my usual go to if I’m honest but like I said they are growing on me. A lot of people who are newbies of seeing the band live have also been super impressed, so they are clearly doing something very right. I guess they are almost like a heavier Stone Broken, which you can’t really go wrong with.

AUGUST!!!

I’m not sure if this is the right band image… but there was so many…

HOT CHERIE – HARDLINE
“Isn’t my love strong enough, I’m ready to rock you long and rough…”

This is another tune I discovered whilst at work one weekend. I’m actually really loving Hardline at the moment, such an awesome band, some classic bangers from there dudes! It is just such a classic rock song – one that is totally perfect to sit back and listen to whilst on train journey’s, or whilst working hard at your day job, and even having a bit of a piss up. Got to admit, I wish I was this “Hot Cherie” bird, she seems to be having a great time….

WHY DON’T YOU STAY – GLENN HUGHES
“Cause I get a little worried darling, cause you gotta keep on the right track…”

This is an absolutely beautiful song ❤ It feels so emotional, and thought through

LET ME YET – SAM MILLAR
“I guess the memories will never leave my head…”

Want my honest opinion? When I first heard this song, I said “no, I don’t like. No. No.”, but at the same time the tune is pretty catchy and it got stuck in my head immediately. I decided to give it the benefit of the doubt and give it another listen, and I friggin’ love this tune now. I think I’m gonna have to get my hands on a copy of ‘Holy Sass’. If you keep up to date with my blogs, you should know that Sam is indeed one of my favourite guitarists, so it is pretty cool that he has his own solo album out, especially as Bigfoot are coming to an end. This song is seriously catchy, modern and so totally different from Bigfoot, but it’s a song I can totally see getting played on the radio and perhaps tickling the mainstream generations fancies.

GO FUCK YOURSELF – ROXANNE
“Standing like a renegade, up against the barricades…”

This is such a hard hitting punchy song, and was one I needed to discover this month. I can remember listening to it, and then the punch line kicked in and I was like “F*CK YEAH!“. This is a song that is very much about authorities and people trying to put you down or back in your place… but having the guts to stand up for yourself and think “no, not gonna listen to you, I’m gonna do me!“, and that is what I needed to hear this month.
I needed a song that I could let some frustration out to, especially after all the stuff that’s been going on with friendships, I’m a lonely little bean at the moment but a tune like this sort of makes you realise that it is probably for the best. I’m not making a dig at anyone, it’s just how this song makes me feel… take a second to listen to the lyrics.

SHE’S GONE TO THE DOGS – THE WICKED JACKALS
“I’ll scare you to death with what you create…”

ABOUT TIME!! I shall totally be getting my hands on a copy of their new E.P asap! I might be completely bias because I absolutely love the Jackals, musically, as a band to work with and as people… however, this is a tune that made my ears prick up.
These guys played an absolutely blistering set at Nozfest, I only wish that I booked them in for 2 sets…. 45 mins was just not long enough! In fact, one of my best friends who came along to Nozfest said that The Wicked Jackals were actually a fave of hers (and this song in particular was one she really enjoyed) and she isn’t into Rock music… I thought these guys would be far from her kettle of fish, but she really enjoyed them, and that really warmed my heart ❤

 

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Top 5 Songs of July

Heeeeeyy, we’re back, back at again! I’m bloody loving summer!! Please can we have this glorious weather never end ❤ 
Click here to read my previous Top 5 Songs of June. 

Remember there is a YouTube playlist which includes all these wonderful songs from each month, and also a Spotify playlist which you can find via searching for ‘jodieharris15‘.

ALL MY LIFE – FOO FIGHTERS
“I love it but I hate the taste, weight keeping me down…”

We all need some Grohl in our lives.
Sometimes we need to just shout lyrics at the top of our lungs and get all that angst out. This is such a tune to do that. Have to admit, I did feel like an absolute rockstar when this song came on during a drive back from Birmingham in a convertible!
This is probably the heaviest song on this list; it’s a classic Foo Fighters but if you’re looking to get into heavier stuff, perhaps start here? I’ve no idea haha!!

COLD HEART – TYLER BRYANT & THE SHAKEDOWN
“She could tell that I was dreaming, I was scheming how to get her with me…” 

Gosh, I wish I was Tyler Bryant SO BAD!! I know there’s a lot of Tyler Bryant on this playlist now but, I’m enjoying it – I can’t help that he writes incredibly addictive music. Doesn’t help the fact he’s also talented and gorgeous ❤
This little banger is sex on legs… makes me do things with my hips that I didn’t even know that I could do. I never tire of this tune, as soon as it comes on I have to stop what I’m doing and dance – even in public! I hope it gives you the same feeling as it does me. 

SURVIVE – MASON HILL 
“Try to shut me down, but I’ll go on and on and on and on and on…” 

Mason Hill are one of my fave new bands. They’re a band that I listen to, and just think “TALENT!”. I love that vibe from bands. It’s very relatable to me at this current moment in time; it’s a song I’d like to send to a lot of people and be like “hey, you hurt me.. but I will survive”, but it’s also a song I’d play to myself because no matter how many times I do get shot down, I always get back up again – and what better tune to have that connection with, than an absolute gem written by an incredible band.

WANDERLUST – JAMES BAY
“‘I just want to be in the light, be in the light that surrounds you…” 

I used to listen to James Bay a lot after the night of 14th Feb 2017.
Anyway, before I get sentimental…. sometimes one just needs a little “Bay” in ones life. I’ve had a bit of a big ass reality fish slap in the face, and it hurts. For now at least, I have some amazing memories I can look back on when listening to James Bay. This tune is just making me very happy, chilled, calm etc at the moment and I seriously need emotions like that in my life right now. It’s a totally gorgeous song, that makes me feel so beautiful and puts a genuine smile on my face, I love it! ❤

HARD ROAD – STOP, STOP!
“All that wish is getting closer now, so you don’t think that it’s over and over…”

I went to see the boys play in Birmingham at the beginning of the month – I’ve not seen them for 8 months; which is a kind of big deal because last year I was seeing them at least twice a month!!
Anyway, when they played this song, Jacob looked at me directly when singing the line “you’ve got to trust in who you are, stand up and get it“… and it just meant a lot to me.
It was something I really needed to hear, from someone I really look up to.
It was lovely to hang out with the mofos again – so many people say “you hang out with such motley crews”, like YES.. we are, but we’re also a little family and one that is there for each other.

SSSHHHH……… I’M ADDING AN EXTRA!!!! SSSHHHH

SHOT AT REDEMPTION – H.E.A.T
“I’ve been strucked out, lying on the crowd with the bitter taste of loving in my mouth…”

This is such a chant!! This is totally my revival song. My “I’m going to rebuild myself and come back a better & stronger person!”. I really am going to pick myself up, dust myself off and get back out there… but in a new way. A new Jodie.
So, next time you see me… imagine this song playing in the background 😉

I hope you have enjoyed this blog, there’s been some proper tasty tunes this month! Please do stalk me on social media – I’m making a lot of cocktails this summer, so you might wanna watch me screw up measurements 😉 I’ve also got 2 new Rock Nights I’m almost ready to announce… eeeekkk!!!
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See you in August for another TOP 5 of sights and sounds to delight your eyes and ears ❤

Toodoole-do!

Jodie x ❤ x