The end of Spotify in Ireland *insert sad face*

So today the dreaded email came:

"We're writing to you in regards to your Spotify account which up until now you've been using free of charge.  While we are really happy that you are enthusiastically using Spotify, we are unfortunately going to have to restrict access to your free account."

It seems as though everyone outside Sweden, Norway, Finland, Spain, France and the UK has received an email to confirm that their accounts will be effectively suspended.

There are two reasons this annoys me: 1) I am in the south of Ireland, but only about 20 minutes away from the UK border, and 2) I do live in the UK, I'm just staying for a while.

There shouldn't have been an option to change location if this wasn't allowed in the first place, so while I understand why they have to do it, this situation should never have been allowed to occur.

Anyway, I'm going back to England in a few weeks, and my account better come back!

Making the most of having music in my life for as long as it lasts, so current track is Lily Allen - 22.

Minor Irritations (possibly part 2!)

I am a very irritable person. In fact sometimes, I am sure my boyfriend finds me almost impossible to live wth, so thanks to him for putting up with it! I get wound up with so many things, and here's just a taster:

• Orange taking 83p out of my account. Why 83p?!
• Brita water filters not being full up when in the fridge
• Curtains remaining closed after waking up
• People who don't stand in one spot at gigs (want to go to toilet/get a drink)
• Oil splashing out of a pan
• Huffing
• People on Facebook who complain all the time (!)
• Towels on the bathroom floow
• When the pot runs out of sugar
• BT
• Post taking too long
• Karaoke versions of songs on Spotify
• New blip.fm video function
• Ungrateful people
  
• Badly parked cars
• Martin of UTV fame (if that's even his name)

Many more...could go on...but running out of thoughts for now. For those of you who wonder why Orange took 83p...join the club!

Glastonbury 09

For those of you who are cool, and have Spotify, I have made a playlist of the best artists from Glastonbury 09 and some of their best songs.

Some of you may find it too "mainstream" and obvious, that's fine, but I know these artists, and know and like the songs :)

HERE IT IS. PLEASE CLICK!

This year's Glastonbury festival has been hailed as the best ever by some media outlets, and I think I know what made it...Bruce Springsteen. Watching that last night was like nothing else I've seen. So fantastically energetic, meaningful and from a top man too.

Mini blog.

While I have been doing my dissertation draft (which I hope I have done now!), I was pointlessly browsing the Internet.

Mostly I have been addicted to Twitter and via that service I came across Spotify which is basically iTunes but it uses the Internet to get almost any song you can think of. It's great!

Also I am currently listening to Richard Bacon, and I think he's great. I have always been a fan of the show, but tonight he is talking about Twitter and just being a bit random! If you want to follow him on Twitter he is here.