With Lucy Rose, Michael Kiwanuka and Villagers headlining at Communion Records’ Bushstock Festival in Shepherds Bush last night, it was incredibly tough deciding who to see. Thankfully we had several hours of brilliant music to indulge in first! In the end we plumped for Villagers’ intimate folk music in serene St Stephen’s Church and it was…
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The 405’s Playlist Advent Calendar
December crept up so quickly this year that I really think about getting an advent calendar until it was too late but I’m getting around that by having something chocolatey every day (not much different to any other time of year to be honest!) It’s nice to open something every day in the run up…
Coastal Currents 2014
Last year I spent an incredible couple of weekends working at Coastal Currents, a visual arts festival in St Leonards and Hastings and unbelievably it's back already, running from 29th August - 14th September! This is the second year Creative Coast and Home Live Art have teamed up to produce Coastal Currents, bringing together local…
Latitude Festival 2014
I'm very late with this post about Latitude, a combination of being busy and not quite knowing where to start to cram three jam-packed festival days into one blog post! In the meantime I've read other people's reviews of the weekend and, to quote The 405's William Caston Cook: 'The first night is always the worst…
Fever-Tree Ultimate Gin & Tonic Pop Up Bar
'Tis the season for pop-ups! Last Saturday evening we popped over to a Fever-Tree’s pop up gin bar in Hoxton Square for my Mum’s birthday celebrations. We’ve been enjoying Fever-Tree tonics in our G&T’s for a year or so now, and quite liked the idea of 160 different kinds of gin to accompany the tonic!…
Brighton Bites in May
Brighton and Arts go together like fish, chips and screaming seagulls, and there's no better time than May to visit and check out what's on offer. With Brighton Festival and Fringe, Charleston Festival and Artists' Open House, there's literally too much to cram into the month! Add in sun, sea and ice cream, and the perfect…
Ida Barr’s Mash Up at Brighton Festival
Ida Barr's a Cockney pensioner with attitude; the 'world's first music hall singer turned RnB rap superstar' spawning her own music genre, Artificial Hip Hop! This weekend I was assisting Home Live Art with her Ida Barr's Mash Up show at the Brighton Festival. I was nearly convinced first time I saw her in costume at Open…
Record Store Day
Last Saturday we headed over to People Records in Guildford very early in the morning for Record Store Day! In order to make sure we were able to buy some exclusive records, available only for the day, we got there at 7.30am, half an hour before they opened and were already the 78th and 79th…
Out of Print Stationery
I love stationery, especially notebooks, and I'm always on a hunt for the *perfect* notebook to scribble away in. I was really impressed by the first notebook I got from Out of Print as it was small enough to slip in my pocket or a small bag; had thick, robust pages with a beautiful book…
Secret 7″
Photo: My Goodness Photo: Smith and Milton Being able to buy music combined with original art for charity sound too good to be true, right? It's exactly what Secret 7" have achieved, taking 7 tracks from 7 well known musicians and pressing them 100 times to 7" vinyl every year. They then ask the public and professional…