Eh?

to paraphrase the FAH-bulous gals at Go Fug Yourself, she must be high on potato vodka.
s'laters xxxx and god help her

Underage Festival!!

Hiya - but there is no time for introductions - there is just time to review what was probably the best festival this year - UNDERAGE FESTIVAL!!! it was seriously soooo mega. I had a blast, with my friend Charlie.

OK. so, firstly, you queue up a bit, and when you get through the gates, you see this amazing kaleidoscopic field full of tents and stalls and stages and pretty colourful people. The first thing that hits you (apart from the delicious smells coming from all the food stalls) it the giant, colourful double-decker MySpace Bus, with REAL LIVE ARTISTS playing inside it. You could talk to them and get their autographs and everything. I met Polly Scattergood, and she sand so beautifully, and had a really nice spiky signature. She was a bit twee though.

Then, we went to the annoyingly miniature Music Space tent, and we saw the surprisingly good Purple Socks, a two-piece band we had never heard of whose complete moodiness painfully bare staging and apparent shyness was outshined by their mix of "Emotronic / Grime / Indie" which sounded really professional (if sliiiiightly repetitive). The highlight of their short, sparse-crowd set was Acid Amazement, a beat-centric intense little tune with angry girl-rap punctuating the minor keys. We also saw the start of Temporarily Blank's set, but they took sooooooo long to set up, and even then, they weren't so great. not terrible, but not so great. Probably not destined for greatness ... but I'm prepared to eat my words (with an amused-eyebrows what-has-the-world-come-to? expression on my face). Actually, the drummer was quite fit. I guess it could happen ...
Shortly after, we saw Cheeky Cheeky and the Nosebleeds! A few days ago i would not have been excited about this at all. With a dumb name like that, I didn't even bother to check them out. And they played great. They obviously weren't THAT musically talented, but they played cute crowd pleasers. Although we left quickly to queue up to get the Foals' autographs .. talk about queues! As you will read later, the Foals went overboard on the suspense. And then, in the end, the queue was so long, that by the time we got to the front, they were gone!

Luckily, the queue was right next to the Converse stage, so we got to see the irritatingly squeaky, and overly "yay"-saying Care Bears on Fire (they ARE three tiny American teen girls who started their band in 4th grade, but the hook on 'Everybody Else' - Na, nananaaa, nananaaa, nananaaa! Don't wanna be like everybody else! - was pretty catchy and cute), the surprisingly amazing Bombay Bicycle Club (seriously, bands have to understand that random names don't make them cool, even if all the good ones are taken ... just call yourselves Coffee or something) and THOSE DANCING DAYS!!! I am so pissed that I was not a lot closer, but they sounded awesome, and they danced awesome, actually at some point, doing the swim! That girl has such a beautiful voice recorded AND live.

Fortunately, It wasn't all for nothing, as we were first (basically) in line to meet'n'greet the Rascals!! Such nice boys. And Miles Kane fully grabbed my Underage Festival tshirt and signed it with a giant kiss. He is so hot and a complete sweetie-pie. Sadly, we missed their set! I am such a numpty, I know! I think it was because I was dragged off to see Dizzee Rascal, who was actually pretty special. |I never realized how many hits he had, and of course, everyone went stir crazy when he did 'Dance With Me'. I know I did!

ANYWAY! Next up were the Maccabees (!), and we good pretty good seats to see the super-hotties Felix and Orlando !!! How cute they were, performing a lot of the coolness from their album, 'Colour It In' (Illustrated by Orlando Weeks - amazing-looking and talented). Of course, I thought he was looking straight at me. Probably not, but ...

Nekst up, we saw the Foals! They definetly kept us waiting for a long tiii-yee-iii-yee-iii-yee-ii-hi-hime! (sorry, it completely CALLED for a Foo Fighters quote!). THEN, their intros were super-super extended! And it was amazingly sweaty!! All those hot boys (temperature wise ... lol!). However, they played SO GOOD! I never fully registered how musically creative they are!


Then, I went to my favourite set - Furthest Drive Home!!!! These boys are mega nice, and of course pretty nice-faced (and bodied, and haired, and music!). Charlie and I couldn't find the Red Bull stage for ages! It vas veeeery poorly advertised. but we got there in the end (they didn't play the amazingness that is Forget His Facade, so I'm guessing ve missed it). They play really well live - they sounded just like the Real Thing™ . And the best bit - on the way to the stage, I picked up a giant leaf. I wrote FDH! on it in big sharpie letters, and halfway through the set, the lead singer, Joe, pointed straight at me (I'm sure - it vas a pretty cosy stage) and said: 'That's lovely!'! WHAT A SWEETIE!!!


Then, the Festival was closed by the Gallows ... to quote these two guys I overheard chatting, 'Why are the Gallows here? This is the most un-Gallows thing ever!' Because, as you probably know, Gallows are pretty heavy stuff! Let's just say, Frank, the lead singer, spat in his T-shirt and threw it into the crowd, and said, ' I wanna see every fucking person running in the mosh circle!' ... they were pretty good. i guess Sam Kilcoyne wanted to end the festival with a bang. they played, as far as I can tell (I'm not a huge Gallows fan but I still like them a lot) lots of their hits, like Belly of a shark (so fucking cold, and so fucking dark! doo doo doo DOO DOO!). Set highlights: Franks little brother joining the band onstage and treating us to one of his original songs (the heaviness definetly runs in the family); their super loud finale that got everyone jumping around and head banging, and when the lead guitarist threw his pick into the crowd, and I CAUGHT IT!!!!!!! Yes, I am a genius.

sets I wish I had seen:

• Dykeenies
• Glasvegas
• Rascals
• Florence and the Machine
• Glamour For Better
• Good Shoes DJ-ing
• Late of the Pier. OK, so they weren't ACTUALLY playing, but whatever. they're fucking good
  
• and the Mystery Jets, who dropped out at the last minute

so, all in all, wasn't it pretty fucking on?
I think so
s'later xxxxx

oh yes, and of course we got lost on the tubes to go home!!

1930's

Hey y’all!
What’s shaking?

So, all that gaiting for the Twenties, and you get the Thirties a few hours later, you lucky minx!

Now, I do not know as much about the 1930’s, fashion wise, as I do the other decades. It just doesn’t seem that interesting in comparison to the others. What interested me were the sultry stars of screen; in particular, Jean Harlow, the famously nick-named Platinum Blonde (Harold Hughes, her then manager was so baffled by this colour that he offered a prize of 10,000 dollars to the beautician who could match the shade!).

As we all know, she was an iconic dresser, often pairing slinky silver and white evening gowns with rich furs and beautiful coats, along with her famed, ashy blonde wavy bob
1. Nuj Novakhett tan coatdress with ruffled collar $343
2. A.B.S. black satin bow back fishtail dress on sale!! $234.99 (from $261, so, you save 46%)
3. Black PVC and gold sequin Mary-Jane £55

Song of the decade? Hospital Beds – Cold War Kids. A beautiful song with a hint of that honky tonk old movie sound, and lyrics to match the hospital cloaked tragedy of Jean Harlow’s death by renal failure. She was constantly surrounded by doctors.

s’laters, lovelies

1920's ... finally

Howdy neighbours.

sorry I've been so far away.
it's one of short long stories.
Buuuut ... my favourite decade! Roaring Twenties! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah.

What a cute decade (apart from the illegal boozers, the depression from the Great war, and the economical crisis)! Everyone, again, wanted to let loose and forget about the Great war, so, many cool things happened. Jazz began to become the music du jour; hemlines were raised to accommodate the new type of dance (Black Bottom; Charleston, etc), women began to wear make-up and cut their hair to get away from he stuffy uppitiness of their mothers, and they invented a lot of wacky-fun things to do, eg costume parties!!

How, predictable, you are thinking, but for the outfit, I chose to do a typical flapper. there were, of course, like many decades, a few solid fashion movements. There were the embers of Orientalism, your dancey little flappers, and the plain, stark, and functional look forwarded by Miss Coco (Gabrielle) Chanel herself. In fact, Poiret, the Orientalist King, and Chanel, were rumoured to have a conversation that went a little something like this:

POIRET: (on Chanel's black outfit) For whom, Mme, do you mourn?
CHANEL: For YOU, Monsieur!
LOL: Lol!

1. Unique Vintage flapper dresss $198
2. Michelle Roy velvet and crystal headband $70
3. Irregular Choice silvery-gold jazz shoes £33

OK!

song of the decade? sorry for the homemade video as there's no official video, but it is There's a Good Reason These Tables Are Numbered, Honey, You Just Haven't Figured It Our Yet, by Panic! at the Disco. Very cool choice? I think so! Enjoy, kids.

s'later xxx

The 19 ... 19's??

what do you call the years between 1919 and 19tventy? I don't know. Comments?

Anyway, the beginning of this decade was the First world war, so everyone was a bit depressed. Young men were being mown down like grass, so when it ended, the women and the men that were left just wanted to let loose and have fun. A little before flappers came the Orientalist look, fronted by amazingly influential (and my favourite designer) Paul Poiret. He disliked the corset, and favoured an empire line, and he was inspired by the fashions of India, China, and other Eastern country's, and many of his designs featured harem pants, heavy Turkish-style embroidery, turbans, and turban feathers. Obv. turbans are like, sooooooooo laaaaast season, like! so this is sort of what I came up with.

Clockwise:

1. 
   
   Unique Vintage ivory silk cord decorative hat $48.00


2. 
   
   Subversive Jewellery gold and black lava stone necklace $1200


3. 
   
   Irregular Choice gold piped black suede flats £59.50


4. 
   
   Maxxxim Black, gold embroidered black empire waist AMAZING at only £15.00!!!

song of the Decade? None! Poof!. No, I literally cannot think of an Oriental inspire song. sorry! If you can think of one, a) I envy you, and b) comment!!

s'laters! mwah!

Have some composure! Where is your posture?

Oh, I'm so sorry! "blows nose"

That, my dear friends, was one of many genius songs from pre-'Pretty Odd' Panic! at the Disco. Their debut Album, 'A Fever You Can't Sweat Out', was, and still is, my favourite album of all time. This was when they were creative and original, mixing elements of house with carnaval, and amazingly emo-tastic lyrics and tunes. They were hot, even with guy-liner and Brendan-Ryan quasi gayness! They had THE BEST live shows, and THE BEST music videos, always dark and funny and fun.

And now, they are a sappy peace'n'love crap-tet (yes, I know that was awful! Anger is clouding my judgement!).

So now, I remember my favourite 'Fever ...' tunes.

1. Nails For Breakfast, tacks For Snacks. Guess I forgot to mention their mega song titles. This song is SUCH a tune. Synth-tastic? I think so




2. Time to dance - let me take some time to type my favourite lines (apart from 'have some composure / Where is your posture?) ... 'Well she's not bleeding on the ballroom floor / just for the attention / 'cause that's just ridiculous'. Also, 'When I say shotgun, you say wedding' and, 'Come on, this is screaming photo op / boys will be boys, baby'




3. Of course, 'I Write Sins Not Tragedies'!!! Wasn't this quite an e'I Constantly Thank God For Esteban' in a Mexican inspired whirlwind which really shows their drummers talent (as does 'I Write Sins ...'). And it's really fun and cute.

Now these last two, I cannot choose which one is my favourite. So...

1. 'There's a Good Reason these Tables are Numbered Honey, You Just Haven't Thought of it Yet' Mouthful much? lol. But rally, I love this tune, it's all Roaring Twenties, and it shows their AMAZING (have I said AMAZING al lot?... I think I have) songwriting skills. All their songs had a story, and this one is just one of the best, about a girl going to a party and everyone talking about her and how she rises up from the embarassment.
   
2. 'Build God, Then We'll Talk'. Isn't that the best title, perhaps, ever!? The songs starts off cool, kinda like 'The Importance of Being Lazy' by Oasis (one of only two I like - inc. 'Don't Look Back in Anger') but then the bridge comes and the strings come and it turns into this whole amazing affair, really eneding the album with a bang shaped like 'My Favourite Things' From the Sound of Music. Here are those last lyrics.

Inside, what a wonderful caricature of intimacy

There are no raindrops on roses and girls in white dresses.

There's sleeping with roaches and taking best guesses.

Shit on the sheets and before all the stains

add a few more of your least favourite things.

So, you see, Panic! (I defiantly punctuate) If you are reading ... ha ... I understand that you are no longer insired by tthat sound, I just want to choke you for it.

s'later xxx

SORRY!!!

errr... hiya guys!!!

so, mega-sorry BUT ...
I'm on holiday! IN AMERICA!
so, i probably won't have time to post much - too busy kicking it in my cousins' basement, watching not recent, not vintage-cool movies on their plasma screen.

soz
s'later
xxxxx

Days Gone By...

Aaaah - yes, HOW original - a whole century of fashion divided into amazing decades!
oh, well, you're stuck with it now, starting with the 1910's

The first 10 years of the 20th century were on the cusp of a change. Flappers were around the corner, and hemlines were rising, although girls still wore their hair long, like their mothers.

1. Warehouse crochet collar dress £35
2. Urban Outfitters golden locket £14
3. Emilio Cavallini black opaque tights £7.95
4. Katwalk Shoes black cutout flats £4.99
   
5. Urban Outiftters silk corsage £8
6. Six Red Roses glass pearl choker $32

Song of the decade.

The Ghost of You - My Chemical Romance (yes, I KNOW the video is WW2, but it's HARD to get a 1910's inspired song. I dont think there is one, even. Oy vey!

s'later xx

Sea Slugs

... are some of the prettiest underwater creatures you will ever see. They are seriously amazing and come in a giant array of varieties. And they are all oh so inspiring, fashion-wise ...

sea slug one



Aaaah, I know it's mega matchy-matchy, but whatever. It' s still cute. Also, loving the H&M Marimekko print, but I'm really sorry - It's not available online so I don't have a link!

1. American Apparel 3/4 sleeved black top £15
   
2. Marimekko and H&M smock top
3. American Apparel sheer black tights £18
4. Mod Cloth blue PVC leaf belt $29.99
5. Mod Cloth yellow leather shoes $39.99
   

sea slug two




How amazing is that - a bit of ravey-ness under the sea!

1. Topshop purple and orange vest £22
   
2. Irregular Choice black suede shoes £69.95
3. American Apparel boa black lame leggings £29
4. Mod Cloth plastic sunglasses $1to.99
   

sea slug three - Chromodoris coi





This is my favourite one. It is sooo pretty. Plus I love the silver skirt - very season one Cassie from skins (super special brit tv show)

1. Topshop ruffled shirt £25
2. Topshop taupe mary janes £60
3. Mod Cloth silver knife pleated skirt $35.99
4. Glitz4Girlz Black velvet hairband £to.५९

Images 3 Copyright Richard Seaman

s'later

I'm shit hot, so say what you think about me

space and the woods - Late of the Pier

who watches Gossip Girl!? I know I do. who can forget Chuck Bass, played by the smoking Ed westwick? Not I! And who knew he was British ... or he had a BAND!!!

well, naturally I investigated this 'The Filthy Youth', to be ... a bit dissapointed. Ed. Ed, Ed, Ed. I would have thought that you had a bit more taste than slightly crappy, Donny Tourette-esque indie.

The first song on their Myspace - Boy Don't smoke - is a silly little mess, burning up in cooler-than-thou vocals. I then listened to Come Flash All Your Ladies (?), apparently recommended listening. All I can say is that it is amazingly similar. All the other songs sound just like the first, and sorry if this isn't dedication, but I didn't even bother further research.

At least he's still hot.
s'later