Keywest/The UK and Scotland

So the summer of 2012 I went on an adventure to Ireland, Scotland, and England with a few people from my community. It was purely a luxury trip, with no big intentions. We did the usual touristy things such as: visit the Blarney castle & kiss the Blarney stone (which locals have been known to pee on), walk the streets of Edinburgh, take pictures of Big Ben, and ride the London Eye (a huge-ass ferris wheel). 

^ That is the Blarney Stone which I kissed. It was so freaking scary because I was so high up and the only thing between my head and the ground below was three iron bars. Anyhow, on to how this post has to do with music. While we were walking and visiting shops down the main streets of Dublin, we noticed many street performers. There was one performer on stilts and breathing fire, many dressed up like characters such as Scooby-Doo and a Leprechaun, but there was one that stood out the  most to me. It was the band Keywest. They played two songs for a huge crowd gathered around, and even though I've bought all of their songs on iTunes, I still cannot identify the ones they played that day.

After they were done with their set they encouraged the crowd to come up and talk to them and buy their album, or buy it on iTunes. I did the latter. I was in a yucky purple jacket. I was not looking well enough to talk to four handsome men! Anyhow, throughout the whole rest of the trip I would listen to their album on repeat. It would help me get to sleep while I was on the tour bus, the lyrics they write are so relateable and specific. A big part of my trip was listening to their album on repeat while looking out the window at the gorgeous British scenery which often looked like this:

I encourage you to look up Keywest, follow them on Instagram and Twitter because they are pretty handsome lads, and be sure to listen to their songs while paying attention to the lyrics.