Entertainment!

Hey again everyone! 

Sorry this post is a little late, I've had a really busy week (with it being Easter etc.) 

I spent  Easter with my family which was really lovely, and then I have been up and down the country seeing friends! One of them has just had a new baby and she is absolutely gorgeous! 

I spend about 3 hours yesterday with a sleeping baby on my knee, and then I headed off to see one of my best friends band play, Holy Casper.. So chilled and awesome! (check them out here... https://soundcloud.com/holy-casper) 

And here is a picture of their lovely faces (sorta...) from last night! (LOOK UP CRAG!)

So... This week!

I have taken some time to think about ways to entertain myself on my 15 hour journey to America... Alone... Apart from the obvious (at my stopping airports) SHOPPING!

Firstly, I am REALLY hoping to have some really awesome person sitting by me on the plane who wants to have a chat. But knowing me, i'll probably get someone who just wants to sleep the whole way. Which will suck! :( 

So then I came up with a list of things I HAVE to have and to take with me. 

Firstly, most importantly. My IPod. Loaded with a massively awesome playlist of some of my favorite songs of the bands playing Warped Tour. What a way to start off my adventure that will be! (I just have to remember i'm on a plane and not everyone will appreciate my amazingly gorgeous voice!)

I'm also getting an IPad too, so i'm going to load that with some films and some games too (and some music incase my IPod dies of battery!) 

And probably one of my most favorite things to do when i'm bored... My Colouring book. Yes I know that makes me sound about 5 years old, but wow... Those things keep me entertained for HOURS! I even got an "experienced" colouring book, which has geometric pictures and mosaic pictures in! 

So, that's what a lot of my "thinking time" has been spent doing this week! I hope you all liked this little insight into my week and into my mind! 

I wana finish this post this week by highlighting something very special I only stumbled across this week, and you might have heard about this young guy. Stephen's Story. He's the same age as me, and he is dying of cancer. He's been blogging and tweeting all the way through his illness and trying to raise awareness, and I want to just take a moment to say what an absolute inspiration this young man is. He's 19, and to be going through something like that is something none of us (unless you unfortunately have something similar), could ever even possibly imagine what it is like. So Thank You Steven, you've really inspired me this last week! Check out his story and his facebook page here... https://www.facebook.com/StephensStory

Love <3 

Preparations

Hey everyone! Thanks for checking back here and reading this one too! 

This is going to be a shortish blog this week, just to keep you up to date with my plans for Warped Tour, and what I've been up to this week!

WELL! All things are set to GO GO GO now! I have all my flights booked, i have my accommodation booked either side of the festival dates i'm doing, and sorted out what i need to do, when i need to do it. 

Here is a quick run down of my plans so far... 

- Fly to Chicago

- Catch connection flight to Tampa

- Stay in hotel

- Meet up with the Warped Tour gang!! 

- St Petersburg date 

- West Palm Beach date 

- Orlando date 

- Stay in hotel 

- Fly to Charlotte NC

-Catch connection flight to Manchester

So I will be blogging at every stage of that probably! When i get internet anyways, and that will be the fun stuff to read :D 

This week has been kinda quiet on Warped Tour front, so I've been mentally making a list of things I need to take with me. Most important thing is definitely going to be my sun cream, I'm very fair skinned and I don't want to look like a tomato really... Won't be a good look... 

However, top of my list is Harrods. No, i'm not talking about the shop. But I think it's time to introduce you all to my beloved Harrods. So here's a pic! 

Yes, Harrods is my teddy bear. He's almost as old as I am, he's about 19 years old now. I got him when i was a tiny tiny baby, and he has been absolutely EVERY where with me, so he will definitely be coming along for my Warped Tour adventure! You'll probably see a lot more pics of him in various places, or with various people. He's even had his picture taken with the Eiffel Tower ;) 

So I know there's not much info on this one, but I hope you have enjoyed meeting Harrods! And once again, thank you so much for reading, seeing all the views these get each week is what is keeping me doing it, so thank you! It means the world to me! <3 

Love <3 

Dreams...

Hey Everyone! It's Jen again! 

Firstly I want to thank everyone who read my first ever blog update last week, it reached more people than i ever hoped! 

Secondly, just STOP. For one moment.

Look and read the picture at the top. ^ up there.

Read it? Good.

I was a little bit stuck as to what to write about this week (as there has been no new Warped Tour announcements), but I received an anonymous message only earlier on tonight, which told me that my first blog post inspired someone to never give up their dream of making it in the music business, and to put more effort into their music. I never started to write this blog to "inspire" anyone, I wouldn't think little old me could ever do that to be honest, but the message made me tear up and it made me completely speechless. 

So it gave me an idea of what to write about...

MY dream. Of way back probably about 10 years ago now.

As a kid, I wanted to be everything on the planet. I wanted to be a hairdresser, I wanted to be a dentist, then I wanted to become a lawyer, and somewhere along the way, I stumbled across something called "Rock'n'Roll", and my dream became to do exactly what I am now. Living and working in the music industry. 

Then I tripped over "Warped Tour" many moons ago now, and I always thought to myself "THAT is exactly what I want to be doing/working by the age of 30. I want to be working or helping run/organise Warped Tour". 

I'm 19... 

And that's exactly what I will be doing in just a little over 3 months time now.

I am incredibly lucky to be given this chance, and I have worked so hard the past 3 years since I left school at the age of 16 to go and chase my music dreams. So for me, someone who still sees herself as a huggggge kid at times, to actually inspire someone out there, then that is incredible. 

My dreams are coming true, every single day. I am reaching goals that I only thought would be reachable in a lifetime of trying and working hard. I'm doing this before I am even 20 years old. If I can do it, SO SO SO many of you can too! Just BELIEVE in yourself, and surround yourself with people who believe in YOU. Work DAMN hard at whatever your dream is, if it's music then AWESOME, if it's not, then AMAZING! 

No matter what it is, if it's your dream, it's worth something to you, and that is what matters. 

You can do it! I PROMISE. Cause I am.

I'll leave you with this pic this week... Think over it, and I hope that this helps some more of you, or even that one person who has sent me that message even more. 

Mine terrify me... But that's what makes it so much more exciting and makes me work so hard.

 Keep dreaming, and dream big! <3 

 

The Beginning!

Hey everyone! That's me ^ 

Basic info you need to know I guess, I'm Jenny (call me Jen if you want), i'm 19 years old, i'm from and live in Liverpool, UK, and I have the best job in the world (well i think so), i'm a music promoter, band and tour manager, roadie, merch girl, festival organiser and manager, basically anything in music, i'm your girl!

This is the first time i've ever done anything like this, so it might be slightly awkward until I really get into it and get used to blogging, but it's time I start to, because I have one of the most amazing opportunities that have came my way, and I want to share my excitement, my experience, my laughs, my emotional ups and downs, basically everything to do with it with everyone!

TIME TO BEGIN!

Last October time now I was doing my usual (sending loads of emails to anyone I think I could work with or for), and by chance I thought to email Kevin Lyman. This guy > 

For any of you musically people out there, you might know him, for anyone  who isn't that clued up on "music industry people" you will know him better as the founder and manager of the amazing touring festival that is Warped Tour. 

So, I emailed this dude. Not thinking I would ever in a million years get a reply, or even expect him to read my message to be honest. But then I got a little (1) on my inbox, and the name "Kevin" popped up. I really couldn't believe my eyes. After a couple of emails, he offered me the chance of a life time, and a real golden ticket. He offered me the chance to go to America for a little while, and work some of the shows "under his wing" as the saying goes, and "learn the ropes" of what makes Warped Tour happen. 

In just a little over 100 days now, i'm jetting off to Florida USA, to go and work this beautiful festival. 

With bands such as:

Enter Shikari

Falling In Reverse

Motionless In White

And Bowling For Soup
AND SO MANY MORE! 

I am BEYOND excited about this chance, it's the chance of a life time for me, and I can't wait to just GET THERE now!
I'm going to be blogging up until I jetset off half way around the world, ALL throughout the festivals, with pictures of your favorite bands, what a day in the life of Warped Tour is about, how HOT it is gona be, and anything else I can think of when i'm over there. So if this kinda stuff interest you, and you wana see the "working side" of Warped Tour, then please keep checking back and reading what I put!
I won't post massively long things like this all the time, this is just to explain what it is, why i'm doing it and what I will be doing!

Thanks so much for reading, and I hope you keep on reading and enjoy the stuff I post!