"Tender"
I changed my festival routine this year and upgraded from Leeds to Glasto. Boy, was it worth it! I had such an awesome time and there was no burning of tents on the last night and just generally millions of more things to do after dark! MJ sadly died this weekend so it was all a bit surreal when people started doing tributes and dedications too. This is who i saw:
EBONY BONES...(didn't know any of her stuff, apart from Katie singing it to me, but i got a pleasant surprise cos she's pretty cool!)
METRONOMY...("well that goes, heartbreaker")
THE WHIP...(unexpectedly good live)
REGINA SPEKTOR...(she was so smiley and played the piano while singing and drumming on a wooden chair)
N.E.R.D....(special guests that me and Katie were obviously the last to know about, but they were bloody brilliant despite coming on half an hour late due to technical problems. Pharrell didn't want to leave and just kept going over their time slot until they got cut off mid song! *sob* Oh, and they got a load of boys up out the crowd to dance with them on stage! Awesome.)
LILY ALLEN...(she wore a beautiful jumpsuit with a pink wig and a white MJ glove and looked gorgeous. She also covered Britney's 'Womanizer' which was pretty cool)
LADY GAGA...(4 costume changes getting more and more naked until she ended up with fire coming out of her boobs! She's amazing. And she wore her bubble outfit and did an acoustic 'Pokerface' on her bubble piano!)
BLOC PARTY...(Me and Lowri met a geordie vulcan and danced our hearts out to 'Flux')
ROLF HARRIS...(The busiest crowd yet. Oh, and he rapped.)
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS...(she did a cover of Gwen Stefani's 'What you waiting for' and it was awesome! and then me and Katie saw her walking through the crowd afterwards. This counts as star spotting fo' sho')
PEGGY SUE...(i didn't know any of their stuff, but me and Katie stayed in the Queen's Head tent after Marina and they were really lovely.)
DIZZEE RASCAL...(my 5th time seeing him. Properly mint. He came on in a suit to 'that's not my name' and then ripped it off to reveal typical Dizzee style. And he also did a 5 min intros dedication to Michael Jackson which was pretty special)
PASSION PIT...(really really dancy and F.U.N.)
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN...(I didn't know if i'd love this cos i don't know loads of his stuff, but he totally blew me away. Absolute Legend. And he was literally smoking hot at one point.)
BRAND NEW...(I'm glad i got to see these guys properly cos i saw them at leeds one year and missed most of it, but they were brilliant. Jesse Lacey did a cover of Neutral Milk Hotel's 'Oh Comely' at the end too which was beautiful.)
YEAH YEAH YEAHS...(Karen O looked amazing. She came on in a multicoloured headress and cape! They started with 'Runaway' which i didn't really want them to play cos i think it's a bit boring, but they did it to prove me wrong cos it was beautiful live. Everything else was aweseome apart from them missing out 'Rich'.)
BAT FOR LASHES...(I love Natasha so much. And she played 'Priscilla' which she missed out when i saw them at Leeds so that was gooood. Also she looked beautiful in a lovely sparkly outfit as always.)
ROOTS MANUVA...(I'm too cold too cold too cold too cold. Brill.)
BLUR...(Oh. My. God. BRILLIANT. Seriously didn't know what to expect cos i was so mentally unprepared for seeing them but Damon Albarn was on top form and it was so amazingly atmospheric. Loved it.)
Fave performances = BLUR, BAT FOR LASHES, YEAH YEAH YEAHS, BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN, LADY GAGA, BLOC PARTY, N.E.R.D.
Totally can't choose one favourite! Haha everything was just so good.
Apologies for the picture quality, i'm still relying on my disposable camera around London...sometimes it's gorgeous, but as with the first photo it's not so cool! But yeah still biggin' up film.
My lovely housemate Milly Freeman has some illustration work in The W Project exhibition in Dalston, we attended the private view on Tuesday and it's showing 'til tomorrow. GET YOURSELF THERE if you're about in London! It's a well good show with a massive range of work by female artists.
Sent these delicious packs out to a few studio's I'd give my left arm to work with! Fingers crossed.
So many things on my to-do list. So little time. So skint. I love living in London...let's just wear gold shoes and feed the pigeons.
Sally and Lowri kindly posed for me as Mods and Rockers in my freshly printed tees for these photos. I'm very proud of how they've turned out. YESSSS.
Well this is finally finished! Sent it to the printers yesterday so I'm eagerly awaiting picking it up on Monday! I feel very proud of this project. WOO! Now to finish everything else...1 week left!
Just some sneaky shots from my storybook "The Forest of Happiness". Coming along nicely.
Yeah so I eventually got ONE of my projects totally finished for this year. It feels ACE! This is my poster design for 'Inspire Me', which I was having massive issues with until very recently. It's all about these creatures "Happy Accidents" who will come along and ruin your artwork in a bid to try and change the direction of your idea for the better. It's all a bit silly, but that's what I do, innit. I feel pretty proud of it to be honest...just happy it's all done and dusted!
I don't know whether I like this or not yet...it scares me to death every time I look at it! Haha it's for our degree show magazine, where we all get to do a self-portrait...and well, yeah, this is mine! Don't ask. I just got a bit bored and mental and this was the outcome!
These are my bag designs for my Mods and Rockers themed Topshop project celebrating it's 50 years since 1964. The Mod bag reflecting the clean and fancy side of Mods, and the Rocker bag reflecting the rough and ready style of Rockers.
