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2006-05-05T19:04:00.000+01:00

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The Rakes w/WRM & Duels & Switches 27.01.2006

2006-01-28T16:02:00.000Z

The Rakes
Support: White Rose Movement, Duels, Switches
Date: Friday 27th January 2006
Doors: 7pm
Venue: Exeter University Lemon Grove

So first up was Switches, they werent to bad, Best song was definately 'Lay Down The Law'. Setlist here...

Message From Yuz Drama Queen Testify Lay Down The Law Joysticks Rite/Wrong Every Second Counts Solid Gold 13 Years Inside

Photobucket and Blogspot are currently pissing me off, Review to come another time..

Upcoming Gigs

2006-01-11T17:23:00.000Z

Shannon and myself have both just managed to get 4 tickets to see James Blunt and Jason Mraz! That should be pretty dudey, thats on February 17th!

Also debating whether to go see Infadels again or not on the 24th? hmmm...

Arrghhh we have just been told at the last minute that we could attend Kubb.. 3 hours notice?? No way of getting to Plymouth.. Arrghhhh, how crap. We could of gone Kubb, i give up.

WE HAVE MORRISSEY TICKETS.

Hard-Fi w/Infadels 01.12.05

2005-12-04T12:53:00.000Z

Date: Thursday 1st December 2005
Venue: Exeter University, Lemongrove
Time: 7:30pm
Support: Infadels

We went and picked up my lil concert buddy, and drove to Exeter, we got there pretty late, but we didnt miss anything. None of us particulary felt like getting squashed so we just stood at the back against the wall, the lemongroves tiny anyway, so we were still pretty close. We waited for Dad. He eventually got to us, he had been having a coffee in the cafe and Rich Archer (hard-fi singer) was right next to him! Oh and he then met Infadels at the bar later on.

Infadels came on about 7:50pm i think, they had so much energy, really funky. They played the following (from what i can remember).

Love Me Like Semtex
Top Boy
Jagger 67
Give Yourself To Me
Reality TV
Can't Get Enough

Im sure im missing one or two, but oh well. They were very good live, made me go listen to their record again anyway! Amazing band. Good dancers. Some Pictures..

In between bands, they played loads of remix's including nearly the whole first half of the Hard-Fi album remixed, and other stuff like Gorillaz etc Then this dude came round, and we signed up to Infadels mailing list, even though im already on it, i just wanted free stuff! So we got some badges and leaflets.
Hard-Fi came on pretty early, and they were absolutely brilliant. Rich was quite talkative. Highlights for me were definately 'Cash Machine', 'You & Me', and 'Feltham is Singing Out' i think. Setlist went something like this....

Middle Eastern Holiday
Gotta Reason
Better Do Better
Unnecessary Trouble
You & Me (New song)
Better Do Better
Feltham Is Singing Out
Hard to Beat
Seven Nation Army (White Stripes Cover)
Cash Machine <3
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Move On Now
Stars Of CCTV
Living For The Weekend

'Cash Machine' was recorded live, so i think we'll download that later. Was a great night! Crowd were quite crazy at times too. Would love to see them again!

http://www.hard-fi.com/flash.html

http://www.infadels.co.uk/

Franz Ferdinand w/Editors & The Rakes 14.11.05

2005-11-15T11:47:00.000Z

Venue: Cardiff International Arena, Cardiff
Time: Doors - 6:30pm Show - 7:30pm
Support: Editors and The Rakes <3
Date: Monday 14th November 2005

**UPDATING THIS WEEK.. Watch this space....**

So we travelled upto Cardiff, and went shopping until the doors opened. As we got in, we just sat down roughly the middle of the middle, and got some drinks. The Rakes were first to come on, and oh my absolutely amazing, in my opinion they absolutely stole the show, and should have been on after Editors, because well they werent as good. Alan was dancing extremely well. He is class. Absolutely amazing to watch, the songs were perfect. Setlist as follows..

Terror!
Retreat
We Are All Animals
Open Book
Binary Love
Work, Work, Work, Pub, Club, Sleep
The Guilt
The World Was A Mess.....
Strasbourg
22 Grand Job

Editors Setlist
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Lights

Bullets

Blood

Fall

All Sparks

Munich

Fingers In The Factories

Open Your Arms

Franz Ferdinand Setlist
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This Boy
Come On Home
Do You Want To
Auf Achse
What You Meant
The Dark of The Matinée
I'm Your Villain
Walk Away
Eleanor Put Your Boots On
Take Me Out
Michael
The Fallen
40ft
Darts Of Pleasure
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Jacqueline
Evil and A Heathen
Outsiders
This Fire

Athlete w/Gemma Hayes 07.11.05

2005-11-06T14:26:00.000Z

Date: Monday 7th November 2005
Venue: Plymouth Pavillions, Plymouth
Time: 6:30pm, Doors: 7:30pm
Support: Murphys Kid and Gemma Hayes

My lil concert buddy picked me up at 5, Thank you again for the lift :) Got to Plymouth about 6. Then we went and met up with the other street teamers who were really nice. We put up some posters, must have given out at least 70 flyers, 30 cds, etc We went around doing the mailing lists aswell, which is fun until you get rejected! Doors opened around 7-7:30pm, we just waited outside for a while though. The Pavillions were set up really different from when we went to see Kings Of Leon. There was loads and loads of seating too. Our tickets were actually in the seating area, so we sat for Athlete and stood for the support. Anyway we stocked up on some Gemma Hayes posters, cds etc.
First band on were Murphys Kid, who werent actually that bad. Quite nice, they played about 4/5 songs. Then we had to wait 30 minutes for Gemma Hayes. She was amazing, 'Hanging Around' was very good, she's pretty good, she played about 6/7 songs then ATHLETE! Wooo! 30 minutes later!
They were pretty amazing, very good live. Joel is actually even cuter than i thought, he spoke out quite a lot, made a few jokes too, Great guy.... Yummm Anyway the bassist i thought was being lazy because he was sat down, turns out he had a dislocated shoulder, They were brilliant, the lighting was beautiful, very nice colours, the big screen at the back was pretty cool, then this random guy was on stage filming the crowd and it was up on the big screen, that was cool. 'You Got The Style' and 'Wires' were by far my favourites of the night, bloody amazing.

Setlist, from what i can remember.

Tourist
Half Light
Beautiful
El Salvador
Street Map
Stand In The Sun

Wires
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Twenty Four Hours

Ok not in that order, and theres more too.

Anyway absolutely amazing show!

The Subways w/The Kooks 30.10.05

2005-11-01T08:13:00.000Z

Got my Kooks Vinyl signed, story and more piccys later!!

Date: Sunday 30th October 2005
Venue: Exeter University, Lemongrove
Time: 7pm
Support: The Kooks & The Suffragets

We went and picked Emma up and got to Exeter pretty early. When we got there we accidentally walked in the backstage way, but we didnt have a clue, and all the members of The Kooks walked past and said 'Hey!' and i started jumping around because i was so excited that they were supporting because stupid NME said they werent! So that made my day! We continued walking backstage because basically no one had told us off or said anything... Then Billy from Subways walks past, and Becks and Emma start wetting themselves, Anyway he's a really really nice guy, so we got some photos with him, 2nd ones blurry but meh! So we had a nice conversation with him.

Then we walked into the actual hall, and its just a tad bigger than the Phoenix, we went in and The Suffragets were in there, and then i realised that Gemma (ex Babyshambles drummer) was there, and well thats her new band! So said 'Hey!' to all those guys too, didnt have the camera at the time though unfortunately. Then The Kooks walked back in to soundcheck, and Billy followed. They played there new song 'Time Awaits' and it was oh so gorgeous, they kept looking over and smiling! Then us 3 realised that we were in a room with Billy, Kooks and Suffragets! Just us lot, and we all just were really excited! Billy and I danced along to The Kooks song whilst Becks and Emma went and got a t-shirt, poster, badges, stickers etc. Then we went back outside, and just hung around, we ended up being door holders, and the amount of times they all walked past, so we had a little mini conversation every time they did. I couldnt believe i was finally seeing The Kooks! <3>

Bus Song
Do You Want To See The World
Naive
Eddie's Gun
Time Awaits
You Dont Love Me
Sofa Song
Pull Me In

Yes, they played my favourite song last, which was actually a surprise because i didnt think they were going to play it at all. Highlights were 'Pull Me In', 'You Dont Love Me', 'Do You Want To See The World' and Arr screw it ALL of them were amazing! They were really great and realy nice to us too, we managed to get Hugh's guitar pick, its soo nice, They were really energetic on stage too, Very good indeed. I sang along and in Time Awaits, Luke looked over at me and grinned! Then another long wait and The Subways came on! and Jesus wasnt prepared, not prepared at all. The crowd were practically dead still during first 2 bands and christ all of a sudden the whole place turned into one huge mosh pit! It was hilarious, we stayed in for a while, but then Becks almost dropped our precious camera with Billy pictures on so we quickly got out! We stood about 10 rows back in the end, still had a great view though. Billy and Charlotte talked out quite a bit, both really nice, hardly even saw Josh. They impressed me though, i didnt like them too much before but now yeah there great! They played the following (again from what i can remember) :-

With You
Young For Eternity
City Pavement
I Want To Hear What You Got To Say
At 1am
Lines Of Light
Oh Yeah
Mary
A Plain Above
Holiday
She Sun
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No Goodbyes
Rock N Roll Queen

Highlights were definately 'I Want To Hear What You Got To Say', 'Oh Yeah' , 'Holiday' and 'A Plain Above'
The crowd were so crazy the whole set, Billy did some crowdsurfing, Then at the end he decided to jump off the speakers into the crowd, ive got a video of that here...

http://rapidshare.de/files/7032352/PICT0055.AVI.html

(Note: Best viewed in WMP, and also make sure you turn down the sound, because its just crackling and screaming!)
Ive got some more video's here...
Another Subways one.....

http://rapidshare.de/files/7032154/PICT0053.AVI.html

and one of the oh so amazing Kooks (my favourite video!)

http://rapidshare.de/files/7031887/PICT0010.AVI.html

The gig was just really amazing. Good social evening too, had conversations with loads of other people, all ages, was really nice. Here's some piccys from the show...

*MORE PICTURES HERE LATER*

More pictures here...

http://photobucket.com/albums/a223/gig_related_pics/Subways%20and%20Kooks/?sc=5
Password if needed is: thekillers

So after the show we see the guys again who were street teaming, and we spoke to them for another 10 minutes and they gave us some kooks flyers and posters, Then we headed round the back again and spoke to Hugh for a while, then PAUL! Paul again! So Paul signed my poster, then we asked for a photo, hehe he's so funny! He wanted us to wait so he could finish his Strepsil! Then he asked me if he had tomato sauce all round his mouth because he had just eaten, but he hadnt, then we continued a conversation, and he was a really nice guy, really really nice! Photo here, blurry again Arrghh! Cant people take photos these days?!

Heres websites if you want to check the bands out...

http://www.thesuffrajets.com/index.htm

http://thekooks.co.uk/

http://thesubways.test.wmg.com:88/proof/flash.php

Bloc Party w/ Patrick Wolf 26.10.05

2005-10-24T10:30:00.000+01:00

Date: 26th October 2005
Venue: Exeter University Great Hall
Time: 7:30pm
Support: Patrick Wolf <3

Wow. Wow. We get there about 6:30pm, joined the back of the queue, there was already about 20 people there. We were right next to the tourbus, which is a very nice colour blue. Anyway we peaked through a window in the Uni and we could see what we thought was Matt, and he turned around and it was! Then shortly after we saw Gordy, then Russell, then Kelé. They were too far away though. Then we heard Patrick soundchecking, and he played 'Teignmouth' it sounded wonderful. Doors finally opened at 7:31pm, we quickly shoved our bags in the cloakroom and ran upto the hall, got in there and whoever told me it could hold 600 well your wrong.. more like 2000 and more... Arghh, Anyway got front row against the barrier. Becks and Emma tucked in behind moi. Then more waiting, the music over the PA was pretty good, got some DFA1979, everyone started dancing and singing, was good. The hall quickly filled up behind us. Then Patrick came on.... Wow just wow, he was amazing, He spoke out quite a bit. He was just really cute. He played the following:-

Wind In The Wires
Teignmouth
The Gypsy King
The Shadowsea
This Weather
Tristan
Jacobs Ladder
The Railway House
The Libertine

The sound was really clear, it was brilliant, and if you think his voice is good on record then dam you need to hear it live, its amazing. Not many people were singing along, infact i believe it was only my sister and myself. During 'This Weather', Patrick looked over and saw us singing and he gave us a nice little smile! He was wearing some gorgeous clothes too. Anyway i took a little video, it doesnt have any sound, but its quite cute, its quite clear too.

http://rapidshare.de/files/6817203/P1010044.MOV.html

Heres a few of the better pictures i managed to take, the lighting was also very beautiful.

Whilst we waited patiently for Bloc Party they again put some very good music on, including Kubichek! yeah! Anyway Bloc came on about 9:10-15ish and Well the place went crazy, which probably explains why my ribs are now purple and bruised. They all looked fabulous. They spoke out to the crowd a lot, and Kelé did not stop smiling all night. I didnt focus on Russell too much, i was kind of busy looking at Gordy! The mosh pit formed right behind me... and my sister survived it as did her friend, loads of crowdsurfing, one guy fainted too, was quite scary. The crowd got even worse during 'Banquet' and Gordy scanned the front row and saw how squashed we were all getting and he stopped and said:-

" Guys, Please can everyone in the middle step back a bit, because people are seriously getting squashed here, Serious "

Aww Bless him! Everyone did move back but they soon moved forward again when 'Helicopter' came on. 'Like Eating Glass' also made the crowd go crazy. Kelé asked everyone if they felt like dancing and well he did, so we all joined in with him whilst they played 'She's Hearing Voices' which one of the highlights for me. Every song was perfect, but the ones that really really stood out for me were.. 'She's Hearing Voices', 'The Marshals Are Dead', 'Helicopter', 'Banquet' & 'Price Of Gas'. They were unbelievable. Only one bottle was thrown throughout the whole set, so that was better. I got badly bruised during 'Like Eating Glass' and 'Helicopter'. It was definately worth it though, everyone sang along, but a lot didnt know 'Tulips' and 'The Marshals Are Dead', I screamed when they started playing 'The Marshals Are Dead' and everyone around me kind of gave me a weird look but i sung along anyway! We had some teenys arrghhh couple rows behind me screaming 'Russell we love you' even though they were stood infront of and staring at Gordy... Strrange. Anyway heres what they played:-

So Here We Are
Positive Tension
Banquet
Blue Light
She's Hearing Voices
The Marshals Are Dead
This Modern Love
Luno
Like Eating Glass
Little Thoughts
Helicopter
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Two More Years
Price Of Gas
Tulips
Pioneers

Kelé danced a lot, and in the intro to 'Like Eating Glass', he held his guitar as it was a gun and pointed it at Matt, that was pretty cool. The lighting was also amazing, we had loads of different patterns and colours. I also took a short video during Bloc, again no sound, but its cute.

http://rapidshare.de/files/6817481/P1010073.MOV.html

Also heres some half decent pictures i got....

More pictures here.
http://photobucket.com/albums/a223/gig_related_pics/Bloc%20Party%20and%20Patrick%20Wolf/
Password (if needed): thekillers

Was a very good night, and Bloc said theyd love to come back to Exeter next year so Wooo! :)
Oh and i bought a t-shirt, its very nice, they had Patrick Wolf ones on sale too, but i didnt have enough money :(

http://www.blocparty.com/go.php?object=home

http://patrickwolf.com/anchor.html

Everyone Should Listen To These....

2005-10-23T13:34:00.000+01:00

One.Of.The.Best.Bands.Ever

Met Bobby Gillespie from Primal Scream

2005-08-29T18:24:00.000+01:00

So was in the middle of nowhere and met Bobby Gillespie from Primal Scream.
He signed my NME and we talked for a while.. Pictures below.

http://www.primalscream.net/primalscream/index.php

More on Primal Scream..

Arctic Monkeys w/Nixon & The Burn 17.08.05

2005-08-19T09:12:00.000+01:00

Venue: Exeter Phoenix, Exeter
Time : 8pm
Support: Nixon + The Burn
Date: 17th August 2005

So im still very excited about the gig, been the best gig so far, we managed to get right to the front, and stayed there until everyone left! We arrived at 7:20pm, we sat on the steps outside for a while and 3/4's of the band walked right up the street in front of us! Then we went in and looked at all the merch, Dam we should have taken money, they had the nicest t-shirts, However Shannon got some rather nice badges at the end when Alex (lead singer) brushed behind us! We missed out on the free posters, because some idiots knicked 20 and there was none left for us because we were busy knicking Alex's waterbottle. So yeah doors opened at 8, got right to the front. Local band Nixon + The Burn were the support, they werent actually too bad. You can find there site here... http://www.nixonandtheburn.com/ . Arctic Monkeys came on around 9:30 and they were amazing! The sound was perfect. They played the following (this is what i can remember)

Fake Tales
Dancing Shoes
I Bet You Look Good On The Danceflooor
Still Take You Home
You Probably Could'nt See....
Mardy Bum
Sun Goes Down
From The Ritz To The Rubble
Vampire's Is A Bit Strong But....
A Certain Romance

Thats the ones i can remember, they werent in that order apart from the first two, whilst we were waiting for the Monkeys to come on they played there remix of Bigger Boys + Stolen Sweethearts and it was brilliant, if anyone has it, let me know! and quick!!
The show was great, Alex is great, he was suffering with a sore throat but did a great job, he was great he spoke out too the crowd a lot, made a few jokes. Andy was constantly smiling, twas great, Cookey was stood right infront of us and was brilliant and Matt was just well, really good!
The crowd were crazy, loads and loads of crowdsurfing going on, quite a few guys got kicked out for it. Even the girls were crowdsurfing tonight too!
So afterwards we shouted to the hot techinican guy and asked for Alexs water bottle! We were quite close to getting the setlist, dammit! We headed towards the merch stand and Alex went right behind us! So we followed him and thats where we met the rest, they looked pretty surprised that we wanted photos with them, but it was great! We spoke for a while, and they were carrying loads of stuff, they put it down just so they could put there arms around us! There really sweet, down to earth lads! Wish i could meet them again. Then we went out about 10:30pm, met my mum and Andy ran back past! We were like 'Cya Mate, Love ya!!' and Mum was like 'Who the hells that?!' , twas funny at the time! Best Gig yet! Lets hope the Monkeys return some time...
Heres a few pictures, the rest can be found here...
http://photobucket.com/albums/a223/gig_related_pics/Arctic%20Monkeys%20Gig/
Password is: thekillers

www.arcticmonkeys.com

Nine Black Alps 10.08.05 Special Gig

2005-08-10T22:46:00.000+01:00

Venue - Trinity Arts Centre, Bristol
Time - 1pm
Support - N/A
Date - 10th August 2005
Special Gig

So we picked my lil concert buddy (Yeah thats you Shannon!) up at 9:30am. My parents drove us all the dam way to Bristol, yeah it took 2 hours, well a bit longer actually. We got there and found this mega huge kick ass multi story car park, so we parked up and then went on a hunt for a McDonalds! Finally found one and had some lunch, then ran down to the Trinity Arts Centre (weve been too 2 art centres now for gigs..strange!), the place looks more like a church to be honest. We gave our tickets to the security guards and waved goodbye to Mum and Dad, about 2 minutes later Dad, Mum and my sister walked in behind us, they had been chatting to the security guard and managed to wag themselves free tickets, cheeky things! So they came in too. We could see Martin (Bassist + Guitarist, yeah they swap over during the show, how weird!) stood by the door!, then we grabbed loads of free stuff, like posters, badges, stickers, leaflets etc!
Then they came out so Shannon and I rushed down to the front, we were unbelievably close to Sam, we had his sweat practically all over us! They played the following (from what i can remember, and this is not in order either)

Headlights
Cosmopolitan
Just Friends
-New Song-
Southern Cross
Shot Down
Ironside
Unsatisfied
Over The Ocean
Not Everyone

Bloody good set, Sam's soo shy, but he spoke to the crowd quite a bit, i was surprised! David was using drumsticks on his guitar, it was amazing, for the last two songs David and Martin switched over (Bass and Guitar) it was really good. The smoke machine had completely had it, and it was right in Sams face so he couldnt get to the microphone to sing, he had to stand out of it, luckily that only happened during one song! They seemed really sweet guys, Sam kept saying 'Cheers, Thanks' which was quite amusing at the time! Anyway it was the loudest gig by far so far, our ears were ringing like hell afterwards, you could feel every beat of the drum under your feet too! But apart from that it ruled! Would love to go see them again!

http://www.nineblackalps.net/

Posters from the gig

getAmped 3.08.05

2005-08-10T22:45:00.000+01:00

Venue - Three Fat Fish, Exeter
Time - 8pm
Support Bands - The Wounds + Aurora
Date - 3rd August 2005

So Shannon's family kindly picked me up and we travelled to Exeter for 8pm, when we turned into the road of the pub, getAmpeds van was parked in the road and Rick (Looking mighty fine!) was laid in the back of it. So we sat on the kerb for a while. Then we followed getAmped down the road and stickered the whole of Exeter with there stickers! We made our way back down to the pub and saw 'The Wounds', who were ok, then 'Aurora' who were alright too! Whilst 'Aurora' were on we sat outside on the wall and getAmped were all in the back of the van, but the windows were blacked out so we couldnt see in, we were well sketched out because we thought they were looking at us! Later on we found out this was true! Then they started dancing outside there van and warming up ready. They were all in there gorgeous Rip Curl clothes. We knicked a poster off the board aswell which you can see further down the page. Dougal was trying to set off the alarm on his car which was pretty funny. Tim and Rick had some nice hats on too! getAmped played really well, 'Shut Me Out' was great! There full of energy those guys! Shannon was brave enough to say 'Hey' to Rick in the end, however he seemed quite nervous too because his reply was 'Hey, dubeddooo' hehe! Anyway since spoken to them via e-mail and next time were going to make an effort to speak to them! Because there really nice guys!

Click Here

And Again..

Posters From the Gig

http://www.getamped.co.uk/

Kings Of Leon w/The Features 4.7.05

2005-07-28T11:04:00.000+01:00

Venue - Plymouth Pavillions, Plymouth
Time - 7:30pm
Support - The Features
Date - 4th July 2005

So we got to Plymouth for about 6:45-7ish, there wasnt too many people in the queue, so we sat outside having coffee for a while. Doors opened at 7. The Features came on at 8, they were absolutely brilliant. They got the crowd moving quite a bit, they played quite a long set along with some of my favourites "Me and The Skirts", "Exhibit A", "Theres A Million Ways To Sing The Blues" , "Exorcising Demons" and many more. They had so much energy, the drummer (Rollum Haas) was fantastic, bassist (Roger Dabbs) was moving around with so much style. Keyboardist (Parrish Yaw) was pretty good and frontman (Matt Pelham) was amazing, his voice was brilliant, guitar fantastic, great guy!
Kings came on at about 9, Absolutely Brilliant! They played;

Taper Jean Girl
Pistol Of Fire
King Of The Rodeo
Milk
The Bucket
Soft
Razz
Four Kicks
Velvet Snow
Where Nobody Knows
Happy Alone
Wasted Time
Joe's Head
California Waiting
Spiral Staircase
Molly's Chambers
Trani
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Holy Roller Novocaine
Head To Toe
Slow Night,So Long

(Not the exact order, but they played those)
Quite a few bottles were thrown at Caleb which he wasnt too happy about, but the show was amazing. Jared was brilliant. I think the best songs that evening were "Holy Roller Novocaine", "Four Kicks", "Soft", "Razz", "Slow Night So Long", "Velvet Snow" , "Happy Alone" & "Spiral Staircase". Nathan must have thrown out about 20 drumsticks at the end, but he threw them the complete opposite way to where i was! Overall it was a brilliant show, Had a great time and I Love The KINGS!!!
Piccys that we took...

The Features

Kings Of Leon

Jared

http://www.kingsofleon.com/

http://www.thefeatures.com/