Nerve - review

Hiya readers!

No better way to start again as reviewing an an amazing new movie about living life.

No I won't ramble further.

So I can tell you all about the movie and be a trailer, but why would you read my words as 

you can just watch and be in aw of the already made trailer and read my review after that ;)

trailer:Nerve

My opinion:

I loved the movie! Really what do you need more than action, a motorcycle, 

hot actors and a little romance?

There were parts in the movie I was sitting at the tip of my chair or in case of the more risky parts

 I sunk deeper into my cinema chair..

I'll spoil a little for example:


-  Some people have an interesting history,
that creates an interesting turning point
 in the story coming to the end *cough* Ian *cough* ;)

- Don't forget the hackers

- Blindfolded, motorcycle, 100km/h

- Best friend drama

- Ladder between two buildings.

- Player, watcher, prisoner?

Curious what I mean? You like adventure and being reckless with a little hint of romance?

Watch Nerve to find out.

So are you a player or a watcher?

ACCEPT or REJECT?

Let me know your thoughts of the movie by commenting bellow.

Little note: movies come out in the cinemas almost 2 months later in Belgium than in America ;)

I love you all

Rock Werchter 2016

Hiya!!

Summer, music, food, fun, friends and no rushing that is for me the description of a festival. Every year with the end of school I start my summer by going to the closet festival in my neighbourhood and that is (you can guess it from the tittle) ROCK WERCHTER.

One of the biggest festivals in Belgium and only a few kilometres from my doorstep. The line up this year was okay, the weather was bad, the festival ground was worse but I had a lot of fun being there for four days in a row.

I'm going to walk through those four days with you guys to show you how my Rock Werchter experience was this year.

DAY 1

5 Seconds Of Summer @Antwerp

Hi guys!

So 20th of May I went to 5 Seconds Of Summer at Sportpaleis Antwerp with a friend. It was the second time I went to see the show but the first time I had the sound check experience. And although I found that I paid way too much for what it was, it still was an awesome experience.

As usual it started too late (at 17:55 instead of 16:30). In the line I met this awesome girl Byanca and we chatted away like we knew each other for ages! She is such a sweet and cool girl! When it was time for a question we raised our hands. And against all thoughts in Byanca was picked to ask her question so I stood up with her. Suddenly Ashton says “Uhm there is someone who stood up together with you” not really understanding if I was standing up randomly or not, it was so funny! But we had some really good questions, I’ll put them bellow together with the answers (or what I remember from them ;) ) We also met 2 other girls here, Madelon and Imane, they are two of the most awesome girls I’ve met before at a concert! (btw most of the people I meet on concerts are awesome ;) )

1. What is your favorite slice of pizza? Michael: I eat a really good slice of Hawaii pizza recently. And then they were chatting away about food and that they actually try to be healthy on tour.

2. What is you favorite song from Green Day (this was asked by a 9 year old girl and that was so cute!) They answered Redundant and Warning I think (Others songs may be possible) and they said the little girl already rocked at her age ;)

Rock Werchter 2015

Hiya :)

Summer means no school, no school means fun and free time and that means...
festivals!

  

This summer I went to my first festival ever and I went straight for the four days at Rock Werchter. And it was amazing!
 Living close to Werchter I slept at home so I didn't have the camping experience
but boy was the festival good!

Gavin James - the barn

Although a lot of people cancelled, I think 6 head liners in total, that really sucked.
 But despite that, my friends and I had a really good time and are surely coming back next year,
 even if we wouldn't like that many artists.

Balthazar - main stage

One of the best moments was the last night after the fireworks. We went to the person my friends stayed with and ate Croque monsieurs, we had so much fun at that moment.

Towers at the Jupiler DJ place.

The festival itself, the music was great but sometimes good artist overlapped each other and that was bummer. Because you have the Main Stage, The Barn and Klub C, there was also a Jupiler DJ place. But you can't have everything, because the toilets where clean ( and from porcelain), the food was good and it didn't make me sick.
 I also had some fun tricking and amaze the security.

Towers at the Jupiler DJ place.

For people who don't know, you can bring bottles to the festival.
But only one per person and without the cap.
Just hide the cap, seal it with see through foil and an elastic.
When you're in just get the plastic of and screw on the cap again.

The Script - main stage

The Script - main stage

Most of the performances I saw were artists that I liked, 

the advantage of going with people with the same taste in music.

My favourites were: The Script, Mumford And Sons, Muse, The prodigy and Royal Blood
I also liked : Gavin James, , Rise Against, Florence + the Machine and Selah Sue

I also discovered some artists I didn't knew but liked their music and performance.

I know summer is almost over now, it is upsetting me too
but I look forward to next summer
because there are a lot more festivals I want to go to!

Thanks for reading!




Muse - main stage

Meeting Ish Ait Hamou & books

Hiya :)

So recently Ish Ait Hamou has done a book signing tour. Ish is known from the TV-show So You Think You Can Dance, where he is a jury member, he's a well known hip hop choreographer  and he has worked for Adidas in Germany. He's a polite, kind man and looks even more sympathetic than on TV. After signing the books I bought, he was also so kind to take a picture with me.

His first book was published in 2014 and is called  'Hard Hart' (hard heart) and when I started the book I found it a bit weird. But when I kept reading I came to the point I couldn't put the book away. I've read it on the train, the bus, in the car, at lunch break or when I was waiting for someone.

But Ish has a different style of writing than I'm used to and that was, I think, one of the reasons I liked reading the book.

Now the first book is finished, I look forward to read the second book: Cécile. The stories don't follow on each other but even if you read the synopsis you can see a sort of pattern in the books.

5 Seconds Of Summer concert Belgium and Hey Violet!

OH MY FREAKING GOD!

I can't even describe how good 5sos is live! They are just super duper incredible fucking amazing! 

The fact I had standing places left of the stage (no I don't want to make anyone jealous, if I do sorry then) made it just so much more incredible because, no lie this is not fangirling, the boys accept from Ashton did see me. Also because I'm quite tall...

But really Hey Violet was the opening and I can say they are really good, I didn't doubt that they were good in a certain way but they were way better than I thought they would be! So after a great start of Hey Violet, the crowd was pumped up and ready to go!

Hey Violet is the first group to be signed at the boys record label Hi Or Hey Records and exist out of Nia Lovelis (Drums),

Rena Lovelis (Bass),

Miranda Miller (rhythm guitar and keyboard)

Casey Moreta (lead guitar) 

foto by Merel

I can only say the boy fully went for it and rocked out! I didn't take my camera with me because I did want to enjoy this concert as someone who was there for the music and the boys and not for a blogpost. But for you guys I took some pictures with my camera, but if you don't find them good, just Google them and I'm sure you'll find enough photo's!
Also the boys were amazed of how the Belgium crowed sang along and reacted so good on what the boys were doing.
They sang Brussel sprouts, Belgian Chocolate and at 'She Looks So Perfect' Luke sang he wasn't going to put is pants down even when the whole crowed asked for it ;)

The Set list:

End Up Here
Out Of my Limit
Heartbreak Girl
Voodoo Doll
Permanent Vacation
Don't Stop
Disconnected
Long Way Home
Rejects
Heartache On The Big Screen
Wrapped Around Your Finger
Amnesia
Beside you
Everything I Didn't Say
American Idiot
Kiss Me Kiss Me
She Looks So Perfect
Good Girls
What I Like About You

Don't forget to watch the little clip at the end of "Belgian Chocolate" ;)

Girl Online - Zoe Sugg

Hi! So the moment I heard that Zoe Sugg (aka Zoella) would publish a novel I was like: "OMG! I can't wait to read it!"
Having and early delivery, I got my book the 21ste of November, I basically screamed!

I've read the book within 24 hours (I even think it was only 12 hours! I know I'm a crazy book loving person) and it was AMAZING, I have truthfully never read a book with 345 pages in such a short time!

I just kept reading and I couldn't stop because it's such a good story you don't want to do anything else than just read. After finishing my sister and best friend already claimed it to read it themselves.

I can't tell much without spoiling too much, but I really like the way you read the little blogposts that Penny (The main character) posts on her blog. I also like the advise like you should think before you put something online because when it's up, you can't get it back and it will be on forever and the little advise about panic attacks (I don't really know if it our real advise but it helped me with and panic attack I got earlier today).

I love how girls my age can totally picture ourself as Penny (or at just relate to her) and I want to tell so much more but I don't want to spoil it!

The book is a young adult book and just amazing, it's fun and easy to read (As my main language is Dutch I found it fairly easy), the balance between the drama, fun, romance and adventure is pretty good.
SO if you like a good chic-flick that makes you dream a little this is the perfect book for you!
Go order it or go to your near by book store and see if they already sell it so you can get your own copy.

I hope you guys will love it as much as me because I want a sequel on this book so hopefully Zoe will write another one soon!

here all the details to buy the book online:
You can order it on Amazon and on Bol.com or even for the people in Belgium Standaardboekhandel (I got my book from there, note that this is the original, so the English, version of the book. There will be a translated one somewhere the 23the of Januari)

Love you all A LOT!

If I Stay

I think I found another movie that can make me cry

If I Stay is a beautiful drama movie that can make you cry, not everyone will cry at the same point but even I had a moment when I had it difficult. The moment when the grandpa says it's okay to let go just made me feel sad again and brought me back a few years ago to something that has happened in my own life.

The Story:

If I Stay is a movie about a girl, Mia (Chloe Grace Moretz). Her family decided to go visit her grandparents after they get free from school and work due a snow day. They get involved in a big car accident and Mia ends up in a coma. In the movie they switch between the present and things that happened in the past like her meeting Adam (Jamie Blackley ), having a big fight with Adam, auditioning for Julliard

When they are in the present you can see everything how Mia sees it as her character is just there as a kind of ghost, she walks with people to places and she sees herself in the hospital bed. She experiences everything as if she is right there, only the people around her can't see or hear her.

My opinion:

I find the sad thing in the story is that Adam comes to the hospital right away when he heard what happened but that they won't let him near Mia because she's on intensive care. As you may or may not know only family members are allowed. 

I want to tell you more about the story but I'm afraid I will say too much! So if this was enough to convince yourself to see the movie I'm glad, otherwise I just highly recommend you to. Yeah also with your boyfriend as there are parts you could just snuggle up to him or cry.

Thanks for reading

Till the next

Lucy

O my god, to be honest with you, I kinda feel a little bit stupid after watching this movie...
Lucy is such a great action movie I ate all my popcorn without noticing.

The Story:

Lucy goes about a woman that accidentally gets involved in a drug deal. They put a package in her stomach but as she is at the place where they need to get it out, something goes wrong and the package starts leaking. Soon enough Lucy realizes it is not a normal drug and her brain use increases.
She finds a professor, from who she knows that a human being mostly only uses 10% of the brain, who she tells what is happening.
But what happens when Lucy brain usages gets up to the full 100%?

My Opinion:

Lucy is a great thriller movie and really gives you something to be amazed or think about after you walk out of the cinema. Having Scarlett Johansson as Lucy is just a perfect match in the movie as Lucy turns out to be a little more fierce than in the beginning.

I really can recommend this movie to anyone who likes a good action movie (as I liked it and I'm getting more and more picky on good action movies ;) ). It's really low on drama and love, barely in this movie, and it's really refreshing and different from all the other action/thriller movies I've seen.

thanks for reading

till the next

5 Seconds Of Summer

After going to the store 3 times, I finally have it! The 5 Seconds Of Summer deluxe Cd :)

After touring with One Direction, the releases from their EP's 'She Looks So Perfect' and 'Don't Stop' and the release off their lyric video of Amnesia, they FINALLY released their own album called:

 5 Seconds Of Summer.

Knowing the hit songs She Looks So Perfect and Don't Stop that are really pop/rock songs, the album is suprisingly more rock than pop. Also with some nice slow ballets, like Amnesia, the album is perfect for just letting everything out.

 I found some messages trough the song (for everyone this is different, not everyone thinks the same about what they are singing) like you don't need to let your happiness depends on others, live your life without regrets because everything happens with a reason and be the person you want to be and don't who they suppose you to be.

Some songs or the beat of them are already stuck in my mind because earlier this week I busted myself, and my sister because I totally brain washed her, on humming Social Casualty.

Rock Out With Your Socks Out

After the release of the album the great new of an upcoming tour was announced and soon enough I got my mail for the fansale/presale. Not going to discus about the password that didn't work in some countries (haha you should have seen twitter xD) I was able to get my hands on some standing places upfront for my sister, friend and I. Being surprised that the ticket sale was this early I'm happily counting down to the 21st of May when they'll perform in Belgium.

About The Boys

5 Seconds Of Summer aka 5sos is an Aussie pop/rock-punk band.

Formed in 2011 in Sydney, the band consist Luke Hemming (lead vocals&guitar), 

Michael Clifford (vocals&guitar), 

Calum Hood (vocals&bass guitar) 

and Ashton Irwin (drums&vocals) 

Little fact about Ashton is that he joined the band later than the others and that in the beginning he didn't like the others and the other way around.

Originally they posted some video's on Youtube and soon enough they were Youtube celebrities.

Their international fame rose quickly when One Direction invited them on their Take Me Home tour.

The boys their influences are Blink-182, All Time Low, Green Day, Mayday Parade, Boys Like Girls and Busted.

more info, ticket sale & album: 5sos.com

My conclusion is we can say that 5 Seconds Of Summer is far from the typical boyband we know today like One Direction (No offense they aren't a typical boyband either but you'll probably get me) , with their originality and refreshing songs I think we can label them as a rockband and so not a boyband.

So I won't regret buying this album and my concert tickets because I see a great future for these four Australian friends.

Hope you enjoyed and till the next x