It's A Live Experience

The GREAT Alan Wilder rejoins Depeche Mode for one very special song.

I love music and the greatest thing for me is picking up my instrument and getting lost in it. The second is discovering new artists that set my heart racing - yeah I really do get that excited, no judging ok! The third (I'm going to stop on three promise!) is listening to live music. The excitement of waiting for the big day, the anticipation of them playing my fav songs right there in front of me. It's soooooo cool! That ''I was there' feeling is amazing and lasts a lifetime!

So to the point, I batted my eyelashes, smiled my smile and twinkled my eyes (well not literally but I have been told many times my eyes are so expressive I can practically have a conversation without uttering a word - now my eyebrows, wow they are truely independent little things but we'll go there another day!), anyway back on track. I worked my magic and my wonderful hubby got me James Taylor tickets YAY (that word really doesn't convey my excitement quite enough!). Now if you don't know who he is and you claim to love music go find out now - go on, right now he's a legend and one of the best guitarists of all time (top 50). I'm so excited so in honour of that I thought I'd put my top five concerts down here and try to inspire you to go see someone you love.

5. Trace Bundy 2016, Sydney. A tiny tiny venue, a not especially huge artist but this guy put on an intimate, funny and musically awesome show. Pure guitar talent in a friendly atmosphere. And he can talk backwards - what's not to love!

4. Depeche Mode 2010, Royal Albert Hall. No-one unites fans like these guys, their shows are amazing and Dave Gahan is a performer of another caliber, live they have Christian Eigner on drums who is amazingly good - go check him out he really rocks those drums. Alan Wilder even joined them for the first time in over 16 years to perform a song with them. The crowd went nuts - it was like concord taking off! I went nuts, what a memory!

3. Depeche Mode 1993, Crystal Palace. What a show, we waited 12 hours queuing to get to the front and it was so worth it. They came, they rocked and I loved it. The show designed by Anton Corbain was breathtaking, the atmosphere was crazy, the music was amazing.

2. Red Hot Chili Peppers 2004, Hyde Park - yes that Hyde Park, yes that album. We were right near the front and James Brown was their "support" - come on! What an amazing sound and to see Flea AND John Frusiante live, WOW. This should probably be number 1 but Metallica were just too awesome.

1. Metallica 1992, Whitley Bay Ice Rink (yes it's as tiny as it sounds). They rocked it, they were at their top, I was in the mosh pit (that was back when we used to actually mosh - don't judge!) and it WAS awesome!! My ears rang for two days straight but it was just mindblowing fun.

Ive seen many many great bands (I've actually seen Depeche Mode 10 times!!) and it's a thrilling experience every time. My one disappointment was Paul Weller who looked like he was desperate to get it over with which was a shame. So go, book yourself a very cool date now!