Laneway Festival at Home

Top to bottom: ALT-J, Bat for Lashes and Of Monsters and Men.

So today in Auckland is the Laneway festival, a perfect way to spend Auckland Anniversary holiday (if you live in Auckland) as it is a day off for the region. But if you are like me and could not afford to attend this great festival at Silo Park why not throw your own Laneway Festival at home.

All you need is some of the acts who are performing at Laneway on your iPod, either a dock system or headphones and some room to dance and move around. Now is that so hard?

Just because you aren't there doesn't mean you have to miss out on hearing some amazing tunes. Okay so the environment might not be the same as actually being there, but just make the most of what you have got and loose yourself to the music for a while.

Blasting In My Earphones

So I have recently purchased a lot of music to keep me entertained through these uni holidays. So I am currently listening to Maroon 5 (Overexposed album), The Lumineers (The Lumineers album), Two Door Cinema Club (Beacon album), Sigur Ros (Valtari album), Of Monsters and Men (My Head Is an Animal album), Ingrid Michaelson (Blood Brothers song), Jack and White (Night after Night song), Lee Brice (Hard to Love song), Josh Turner (Time is Love song), Grouplove (Tongue Tied song), Charli XCX (You're The One EP, Stay Awake EP), Stars (The North album), The XX (Coexist album), Linkin Park (Living Things album), Matchbox Twenty (North album), Imagine Dragons (Night Visions album), Morgan Evans (While We're Young song), Muse (Madness song)  and Ellie Goulding (Anything Could Happen song).

As you can see I listen to every type of music, this list contains pop, rock, country, indie, folk, songwriter, electronic and whatever other genre you class some of this music as. I love music, and without it I wouldn't be here today. Yes that may seem cliched and I have told myself that, but when I look back on my life I realise how important music is to me. I can't wait to see what the future has for music.

What tunes are you all listening to out there?