Meeting Christina Perri

On Saturday 22nd November, I was lucky enough to attend a meet and greet to meet Christina Perri before her gig at the Ritz in Manchester.

I was so excited to meet her. I love her music, and even walked down the aisle to her song 'A Thousand Years'!

I got to the venue for about quarter to 5. We got early entry so that we could meet her and then head to the front of the gig, which was nice. We all queued up in a big room, and as we were waiting for her to arrive we could hear her doing sound check. She sounded so good, so that got me very excited for the actual gig!

She came in to the room and we all got a couple of minutes with her. We were limited to one photo each as there was a lot of people there to meet her.

She gave me the biggest hug as I walked up to her. She was so nice. Asked me my name, how I was, what I do etc. I of course told her about walking down the aisle to her song, and she was so chuffed, which was lovely. I had a picture with her, which she looks absolutely stunning in! (she makes me look.. blah. haha) She signed my ticket and the little reel of photos we got of her. We also got a little candle which says "till our lives are burning gold" on the front, which is a quote from one of her songs.

She was absolutely brilliant, her voice is amazing live. If you ever get the chance to see her, definitely go!

I vlogged the meet and greet and bits of the gig... so if you want to see what the meet and greet was like, or get an idea for what she is like live, head over to my YouTube channel. Watch the video here: http://youtu.be/wQxe-1r2DD8?list=UUtkHPCprLW67wcze0b_7kvw
I have done a couple of other videos so please check them out too, and subscribe if you like! I really enjoy making them and it takes a decent amount of time to film, edit and upload, so I hope people enjoy watching them and that I can build up a bit of a YouTube friend base :)

I am planning to do a November favourites video and blog soon. Hoping to get that filmed and written next weekend!

Sarah x

Manchester, Cocktails and a Catch Up

One of the best things about working in the city centre is most definitely the night life. I'm not one for going clubbing all night long. I would much rather find a nice bar to have drinks and actually be able to talk to my friends in. I am aware that makes me sound old... but what's the point in a catch up if you can't hear them!?

Last night I met one of my best friends, Emma. We both work all week long and don't get to see each other that often now, so when we do meet up it's always a lovely catch up!

We met after work and headed to the Deaf Institute for food and a couple of cocktails. Deaf Institute is one of the many gig venues in Manchester. It's one of the small ones, a cute intimate one. I have seen Gabrielle Aplin play there before which was fantastic. There is a bar downstairs that does food, and it's pretty decent! I love the décor in the bar too.

After we finished our BBQ pulled pork burgers (so good!) we headed to Revolution, which is a bar. We had a few cocktails there and they had a duo performing on an acoustic guitar covering a lot of oldies but goodies which was a lovely backing to our catch up and gossip!

I had such a lovely evening. I highly recommend both of these bars if you ever find yourself in Manchester, UK. But you can't really go wrong whatever your scene, whether that is nice bars, or if you prefer to go clubbing. There are lots and lots of brilliant places to go.

I would say Revolution is one of my favourites, because the cocktails there are really good. Another one of my favourites is called Dog Bowl. It is a bar/restaurant and also has 5 ten-pin bowling lanes, which is really fun when having a few drinks with friends!

Sarah x

Scream Park UK - Event City, Manchester

Last night I went to the Scream Park at Event City in Manchester.

We went in quite a big group as it was an outing for Bob's work. I had never been to one of these scare parks before. It was very well put together and was a really fun night.

I know it isn't really supposed to be 'fun', but at the end of the day they are people and there is no way you would ever actually get hurt. Although the pitch black parts of the mazes were pretty scary just because a sudden scream made me jump a mile as I didn't expect it! Haha.

All the people working there looked really cool, the makeup was really effective. I bet it's really fun to work at those types of events. Several people in our group were having a good look at all of the costumes and makeup to get ideas for next Halloween :)

I took some pictures but the quality isn't great because it was really dark in the room, sorry!

It was such a good night. I was thinking about filming it and maybe starting a vlogging channel. But I don't think I'm quite ready to try that yet!

Sarah x