Here are some snaps for your perusal:
Tuesday, 2 July 2013
Primavera Sound
In a fashion I went to Barcelona to Primavera Sound Festival to see Wu Tang Clan, James Blake, Blur, MBV, Nick Cave, Savages - I could go on! All my dreamy bands!
Here are some snaps for your perusal:
Here are some snaps for your perusal:
Thursday, 19 July 2012
IOW - the festival of luck
Last month I was fortunate enough to scoop a Backstage Guest pass for the Isle of Wight festival which is particularly one of my favourites. Partly because (reading fest i'm looking at you) it doesn't have thousands of stupid drunk pre-teens exercising their idea of 'rebellion' and setting fire to tents and lying infront of ambulances and otherwise just being a nuisance.
Now you all probably saw in the news The Mud. I can't even find the right word for that sheer abundance, it was like the grass had just hidden away in fear of thousands of punters. Fortunately one group broke down on the way to the island, so instead of being trapped in that 13 hour queue to the festival we were sipping back a bar load of spirits and beers at a friendly local pub on the island. By the time the others arrived, sodden and dampened spirited, we perked them all up with a cheeky curry and drunken merriness. Another stroke of luck meant one of the group has a rather snazzy house on the island so we slept there for the night, all 9 of us in a tetris fashion accross the kitchen and lounge floor.
The next day the luck god was smiling down for a brief moment, whereby instead of queueing in that mile long queue to grab the festival bus, after some chats with a friendly staff bus man, he cut the queue in half and led us first on a bus. This meant the back seat was ours and boy was it comfortable to rest the rucksack on. A nap away we arrived at the Mudfest. Upon hearing we were getting backstage guest passes we had a little squeal before the mission of finding the guest camping. Now I am not sure if everyone was playing around with us but upon asking directions we'd meet a chorus of "oh no there has never been guest camping" "no such thing" "hahahah what? guest camping? never heard of it" WELL festival security I have you know there WAS guest camping and it was a back breaking ordeal to get to, considering all 9 of us had rucksacks that were triple our own weight at least. The treat of guest camping meant there was actually grass and a charming view of the lake. We were on a hill but waking up at the bottom of the tent was totally worth it just for the grass It also meant that we were technically camping within the arena so we could be super sneaky with cans (not that I condone sneaking cans in - but your prices are too much).
My music highlights would have to include watching the charming lucy morris performing not only once in the champagne room but TWICE with her hipshaking the hipshaker lounge. Biffy Clyro absolutely stormed thier set as always and knocked out the big hits of Golden Rule, Bubbles etc, I think I spent their whole set wondering if Simon would marry me that evening. Crystal Castles were one of my favourites, so much so even in the piss poor weather I danced around in a crop top, which was a brilliant follow up to watching Enter Shikari in the Big Top.
I have to conclude with the BOSS, who absolutely blew my mind. I was in the process of sneaking a can into a festival cup when I could hear the opening chords to Badlands and I legged it over to secure perhaps the best view, right at the front of the VIP bar. I will take this moment to express my absolute anger at IOW VIP bar for screening the England game, yes it was 'important' to some people but surely they could have watched it in the Sky tent or just not at all, I don't see how a festival should screen every single other headliner within the VIP bar but their closing headliner? nahh the football was on instead. Anyway it kinda worked out for the best as I got to get a sweet view of Brucey Boy, I was, although, on my own for the majority of his set which was fine by me but at one point of lucidity I was fist pumping the air like an all-american boy and suddenly realised what I was doing, all on my own, and replaced the dancing hand with my beer. Bruce pointed at us at one point 'what the **** are you guys doing in their? all kettled in?' he was obviously pointing at me. Obviously. Wrecking Ball almost had me in tears then did Atlantic City, it was an absolute dream to see such a performance. He was flanked by the E Street Band and my god the sound was just intense, at this point Bruce made a slight reference to the recently passed Clarence Clemons, which made me feel really bad for the new saxophonist. It was such a treat to see Steve Van Zandt, does he have hair underneath that bandana?
Overall it was perhaps one of the most special festivals I have been to in years, we saw a couple of famous faces here and there but it was just so great to be with such a great bunch of people and such amazing music. I also got papped for the Storm Models Blog which was hilarious as I was blind drunk (it WAS 4pm) and it was super windy and I have awkward beer arm.
Now you all probably saw in the news The Mud. I can't even find the right word for that sheer abundance, it was like the grass had just hidden away in fear of thousands of punters. Fortunately one group broke down on the way to the island, so instead of being trapped in that 13 hour queue to the festival we were sipping back a bar load of spirits and beers at a friendly local pub on the island. By the time the others arrived, sodden and dampened spirited, we perked them all up with a cheeky curry and drunken merriness. Another stroke of luck meant one of the group has a rather snazzy house on the island so we slept there for the night, all 9 of us in a tetris fashion accross the kitchen and lounge floor.
The next day the luck god was smiling down for a brief moment, whereby instead of queueing in that mile long queue to grab the festival bus, after some chats with a friendly staff bus man, he cut the queue in half and led us first on a bus. This meant the back seat was ours and boy was it comfortable to rest the rucksack on. A nap away we arrived at the Mudfest. Upon hearing we were getting backstage guest passes we had a little squeal before the mission of finding the guest camping. Now I am not sure if everyone was playing around with us but upon asking directions we'd meet a chorus of "oh no there has never been guest camping" "no such thing" "hahahah what? guest camping? never heard of it" WELL festival security I have you know there WAS guest camping and it was a back breaking ordeal to get to, considering all 9 of us had rucksacks that were triple our own weight at least. The treat of guest camping meant there was actually grass and a charming view of the lake. We were on a hill but waking up at the bottom of the tent was totally worth it just for the grass It also meant that we were technically camping within the arena so we could be super sneaky with cans (not that I condone sneaking cans in - but your prices are too much).
My music highlights would have to include watching the charming lucy morris performing not only once in the champagne room but TWICE with her hipshaking the hipshaker lounge. Biffy Clyro absolutely stormed thier set as always and knocked out the big hits of Golden Rule, Bubbles etc, I think I spent their whole set wondering if Simon would marry me that evening. Crystal Castles were one of my favourites, so much so even in the piss poor weather I danced around in a crop top, which was a brilliant follow up to watching Enter Shikari in the Big Top.
I have to conclude with the BOSS, who absolutely blew my mind. I was in the process of sneaking a can into a festival cup when I could hear the opening chords to Badlands and I legged it over to secure perhaps the best view, right at the front of the VIP bar. I will take this moment to express my absolute anger at IOW VIP bar for screening the England game, yes it was 'important' to some people but surely they could have watched it in the Sky tent or just not at all, I don't see how a festival should screen every single other headliner within the VIP bar but their closing headliner? nahh the football was on instead. Anyway it kinda worked out for the best as I got to get a sweet view of Brucey Boy, I was, although, on my own for the majority of his set which was fine by me but at one point of lucidity I was fist pumping the air like an all-american boy and suddenly realised what I was doing, all on my own, and replaced the dancing hand with my beer. Bruce pointed at us at one point 'what the **** are you guys doing in their? all kettled in?' he was obviously pointing at me. Obviously. Wrecking Ball almost had me in tears then did Atlantic City, it was an absolute dream to see such a performance. He was flanked by the E Street Band and my god the sound was just intense, at this point Bruce made a slight reference to the recently passed Clarence Clemons, which made me feel really bad for the new saxophonist. It was such a treat to see Steve Van Zandt, does he have hair underneath that bandana?
Overall it was perhaps one of the most special festivals I have been to in years, we saw a couple of famous faces here and there but it was just so great to be with such a great bunch of people and such amazing music. I also got papped for the Storm Models Blog which was hilarious as I was blind drunk (it WAS 4pm) and it was super windy and I have awkward beer arm.
All photos (bar the last) courtesy of Annie Lambert - BABE
Thursday, 14 June 2012
Thursday
Today I went to Camden with the boy and my mum which was super fun. I had some Chinese from food alley and then bought 2 pairs of sunglasses and bought these amazing dungarees with lifesaver patches on them. I also bought some cut off black Levi shorts and all SO cheap! I struggled finding a beanie hat though - it's so cold!
We went to ping pong in southbank for tea (the fluffy buns are heavenly!) and I had this amazing flowering jasmine tea, so amazing I bought a box of them!! It's like an aquarium in my cup!!!
We went to ping pong in southbank for tea (the fluffy buns are heavenly!) and I had this amazing flowering jasmine tea, so amazing I bought a box of them!! It's like an aquarium in my cup!!!
Monday, 11 June 2012
Summer Skin
New news newsy new things and treats. I've been a little traveller and been hanging out in ghetto places like Plan B in brixton but I was super drunk and embarrassing and constantly flipped between skanking and bawling my eyes out, then back to skanking and then crying (thankfully not at the same time, that'd be a treat...) but Toby arrived all sodden (and no not from my crazy emotional outbursts but from the torrential rain that is June).
I also have pink and purple dip dye, which my sister says I look like 'a my little pony', it's super fun/cute - but also not as super/fun/cute as my BESTIE anj's blog http://thebrixtondiets.blogspot.co.uk/ which is developping to be the best guide for student eats south (and sometimes..if you're lucky, north) of the river in big london. What a handy chick!!!
I also have pink and purple dip dye, which my sister says I look like 'a my little pony', it's super fun/cute - but also not as super/fun/cute as my BESTIE anj's blog http://thebrixtondiets.blogspot.co.uk/ which is developping to be the best guide for student eats south (and sometimes..if you're lucky, north) of the river in big london. What a handy chick!!!
Sunday, 26 February 2012
sUnSuNsUn
Wowey what a lovely february we are having! I admit that I have spent most of it so far indoors tidying my room but it sure does look better, I also have some very pretty daffs that have just opened to say hello so Im one happy lady.
Looks like Im off to Paris, Bologna and then Rimini over easter which will be fantastic. Off to the Sorbonne to stay and hang out with all the cool students and then to italy with the boy to escape - what adventures are yet to come!
Below are some amazing photos taken by Rob Davies in Perpignan last year just when I returned to being a blondie and the photos of the 5 hour game of Risk are some of my most favourite photos ever, well done Rob!
Looks like Im off to Paris, Bologna and then Rimini over easter which will be fantastic. Off to the Sorbonne to stay and hang out with all the cool students and then to italy with the boy to escape - what adventures are yet to come!
Below are some amazing photos taken by Rob Davies in Perpignan last year just when I returned to being a blondie and the photos of the 5 hour game of Risk are some of my most favourite photos ever, well done Rob!
Wednesday, 22 February 2012
admission
I actually totally forgot about this blog, so HELLO!!
wow it has been a long time since i posted anything, let alone anything worthwhile!! Well as a brief catch up I now live in a green house that I call Ma Maison Kitsune, partly because i LOVE the label and secondly because it just sounds so bloody cool. Anyway its a nice place and a happy one, I also have new lovely faces and sadly some faces that have fallen into the mist but im sure they'll appear soon enough. There's a time and place for everything eh!!!
This lovely face is making the most appearance and boy is he a welcome one! He has an amazing band which are so fresh and new and so well a listen! They are made up of 2 ex-members of Lulla Violet and this little face is from Disconcerts and together they make b e a u tiful music.
The new EP Jersey Turnpike Demos has just been released today so catch it while its hot!
Everything else seems to have been going very well, apart from the odd self spook its all settling. Italy is booked for easter and some infrared colour film is coming our way so they are going to be some super pics, I have 3 rolls of other film to get developped. I'm going to try and coax an art student to do it for me by paying them with bacon (they are all 'parttime vegetarians' but we know what that means!!!)
This lovely face is making the most appearance and boy is he a welcome one! He has an amazing band which are so fresh and new and so well a listen! They are made up of 2 ex-members of Lulla Violet and this little face is from Disconcerts and together they make b e a u tiful music.
The new EP Jersey Turnpike Demos has just been released today so catch it while its hot!
Everything else seems to have been going very well, apart from the odd self spook its all settling. Italy is booked for easter and some infrared colour film is coming our way so they are going to be some super pics, I have 3 rolls of other film to get developped. I'm going to try and coax an art student to do it for me by paying them with bacon (they are all 'parttime vegetarians' but we know what that means!!!)
Saturday, 19 November 2011
Monday, 7 February 2011
Dis-ease
In a way of mutually depressing and relaxing myself I've spent most of this evening gazing at the various new models for this year, more specifically i must admit at the boys. And what a treat we have in store.
I was instantly drawn away from Heaney's use of figurative language by the figure of the beautiful Freddie Rayner, this scottish laddy really really is in for big things
just those EYES.
He has competition.
Most specifically from the burberry beauty Jacob Young who modelling alongside cara delevingne is arguably perfection. Looking divine in Burberry's prorsum tailorings he has graced many a tube billboard, making any journey to senate house library a dream.
Competing with the two of them we find the alienly striking yet classically handsome Simon Kotyk, wonderfully clashing yet hybridizing the two (what would seem disparate) appearances, our david bowie? its possible
tattoos? check
piercings? check
cheek bones? check
I was instantly drawn away from Heaney's use of figurative language by the figure of the beautiful Freddie Rayner, this scottish laddy really really is in for big things
just those EYES.
He has competition.
Most specifically from the burberry beauty Jacob Young who modelling alongside cara delevingne is arguably perfection. Looking divine in Burberry's prorsum tailorings he has graced many a tube billboard, making any journey to senate house library a dream.
Competing with the two of them we find the alienly striking yet classically handsome Simon Kotyk, wonderfully clashing yet hybridizing the two (what would seem disparate) appearances, our david bowie? its possible
tattoos? check
piercings? check
cheek bones? check
Wednesday, 5 January 2011
New Start Strawberry Tart
new this new that new figure new shoes new hat new brain new figure
figure
promise
Tuesday, 30 November 2010
Today it fell.
As the mist leaves no scar
On the dark green hill,
So my body leaves no scar
On you, nor ever will.
When wind and hawk encounter
What remains to keep?
So you and I encounter
Then turn, then fall to sleep.
As many nights endure
Without a moon or star,
So will we endure
When one is gone and far.
I am the happiest I have been for the longest time, the falling snow today was magic, edward scissorhands is finally at work
Saturday, 27 November 2010
Thursday, 4 November 2010
Thursday, 28 October 2010
salem
I'll begin with an apology for being the world's worst blogger. I have (finally) finished living out of suitcases and handbags and have started living in new cross. Yes new cross. It's taken me a month to eventually settle but I am proud to announce I am officially a london girl. Bus routes to brixton via peckham have become e a s y, if a little frightening at times. I'd like to think I am a savvy young lady. Think is the important word here. The N21 is my night angel, but can be an absolute pain, i.e. waiting 2 hours for it from monument after busing from hoxton.
I have been to the launch of LANZAROTE, a superb club night launched by the mastermind of sexbeat, it was set in a disused victorian warehouse in shoreditch, the beauty of it was you hand to work out where the venue was via virals. HEALTH performed with Richard Fearless, Dam Mantle and Hounds of Hate as support, a blinding line up. The persistent crowd surfing and incredibly stylish students made up for the pricy drinks and makeshift bathrooms. In fear of losing my camera I left it in my little flat but you can find some wonderful photos here: http://sexbeatlondon.com/2010/10/19/lanzarote-i-health-photos/#more-1386
PART II is on its way next month with the outstanding Salem performing. This time will be at the beautifully haunting St Leonards Church in Shoreditch, hopefully not another bad N21 night, it has TRAGICALLY sold out but tickets can be won here http://sexbeatlondon.com/2010/10/25/lanzarote-ii-salem/
GOOD LUCK
I promise to blog more now i am settled and have found my camera lead....
I have been to the launch of LANZAROTE, a superb club night launched by the mastermind of sexbeat, it was set in a disused victorian warehouse in shoreditch, the beauty of it was you hand to work out where the venue was via virals. HEALTH performed with Richard Fearless, Dam Mantle and Hounds of Hate as support, a blinding line up. The persistent crowd surfing and incredibly stylish students made up for the pricy drinks and makeshift bathrooms. In fear of losing my camera I left it in my little flat but you can find some wonderful photos here: http://sexbeatlondon.com/2010/10/19/lanzarote-i-health-photos/#more-1386
PART II is on its way next month with the outstanding Salem performing. This time will be at the beautifully haunting St Leonards Church in Shoreditch, hopefully not another bad N21 night, it has TRAGICALLY sold out but tickets can be won here http://sexbeatlondon.com/2010/10/25/lanzarote-ii-salem/
GOOD LUCK
I promise to blog more now i am settled and have found my camera lead....
Sunday, 19 September 2010
word
It's been a busy past week, I painted a tardis last night till 5.30am and hadnt slept in my own bed since tuesday, and now it seems i wont again till wednesday
Im living out of a handbag
I quite like it
Im living out of a handbag
I quite like it
Thursday, 9 September 2010
to have been that close
A small collection of my most favourite photos to date, from Perpignan and offset festival.
Wednesday, 1 September 2010
Tuesday, 17 August 2010
Thursday, 12 August 2010
Last Night
I went to the Book Club in Shoreditch for the private viewing/opening night of Faris' "Drawing A Straight Number Nine"
The drawings themselves were clearly immaculately intricate, time consumingly created, each one had been heavily focused upon, it wasn't hard for even the most inexperienced art voyeur to appreciate the sheer amount of talent that was so beautifully and complexly presented by Badwan. Accompanied by a superb DJ set by him personally, and a very atmospheric projection of his hands leafing through his moleskines, it was hard not to feel as if you were intruding.
it is on for a while at the Book Club in east, do take a visit, its free entry and a beautiful experience
I took some snaps with my little fisheye which will be developed the soonest!
The drawings themselves were clearly immaculately intricate, time consumingly created, each one had been heavily focused upon, it wasn't hard for even the most inexperienced art voyeur to appreciate the sheer amount of talent that was so beautifully and complexly presented by Badwan. Accompanied by a superb DJ set by him personally, and a very atmospheric projection of his hands leafing through his moleskines, it was hard not to feel as if you were intruding.
it is on for a while at the Book Club in east, do take a visit, its free entry and a beautiful experience
I took some snaps with my little fisheye which will be developed the soonest!
Friday, 6 August 2010
there's still blood in your hair
So it was recently my birthday.
I was bestowed a Prada Handbag.
Still speechless.
I feel like a doctor carrying it, i love it. Im so so excited about Autumn's look, im going to charity shops tomorrow to find some clothes to channel the 50's look. Hoping to find a ribbed v-neck top, cashmere cardigan, perhaps if Im lucky a circle skirt and a crocodile print handbag...perhaps im pushing it a bit, windsor charity shops are notorious for gem findings, imagine wealthy debonair elderly ladies, their castoffs....
Q. now what on earth do I wear to the opening night of Faris' art exhibition 'drawing a straight number nine' ? ANY IDEAS?
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