“You’re all as shy as I am tonight,” she tells the audience. It’s like watching one of my friends up there. But enchantingly, she dances around the stage like she’s genuinely having the best night out of her life. Yes, there’s sass and energy and a fierceness that I’d expected to see. Lost in the Taylor Swift girl squad, in the Victoria Secret Show and even in the stories of her up and down romance with McBusted’s Dougie.īut I’m wrong. She’s just featured on the cover of Red, and I’m told by countless members of my team that she was polite and lovely and funny, but I feel like the girl who appeared on that John Lewis advert delicately singing Your Song, has been lost. Dedicated to giving grassroots artists the exposure they need, while introducing concert-goers to brand new music they’ll fall in love with, 2015’s winner was a local band called Rituals.Īnd it’s this new relationship with music that has led me to my seat some hundred odd feet above Ellie Goulding. While below the concord, is the sponsored Firestone unsigned stage that has played host to the winners of their emerging music competition: Battle of the Bands.
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Teaming up with the likes of Download Festival and Hurricane Festival in Germany, they’re spending the summer touring some of Europe’s biggest music events, hosting everything from chill out areas to selfie walls, while the winter months see them teaming up with the Barclaycard Arena in Birmingham, where they’re able to offer incredible prizes to their customers every time they purchase a pair of tires (including a grand prize of incredible hospitality tickets and a spot in their very own money-can’t-buy branded Firestone seats). Yes, I know what you’re thinking, a tire company? But a shift in mindset for the brand has seen a strong relationship developing with music and 2016 sees the launch of their second Firestone Music Tour. I was sold.įast-forward four years and I’m sat in the packed out Barclaycard Arena in Birmingham with Firestone. She liked that we had the same name (me and Hannah that is) and asked me about my own best friends. She laughed and joked with her best friend Hannah, who she’d been hanging out with at the time of our phone call. She was sweet and humble and down to earth.
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