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Reading

I think I am now finally clean again after an unexpected weekend at Reading Festival... my friend had a spare pass so we ended up camping all weekend. Whilst I do feel quite old at reading, and somewhat jaded... it was still brilliant fun, especially with so many teenage favourites on the bill!

My highlights were the Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Warpaint, Offspring and Friendly Fires.

The rain in spain stays mainly in ... Germany!

So last weekend for my birthday Sam surprised me with a trip to SouthSide festival in Germany.. the biggest surprise though turned out to be what we were travelling and staying in!.. not a tent oh no!!.. but this!....

despite my initial astonishment it turned out to be the best thing about the weekend as it literally didn't stop raining!.. hence why i have no photo's from outside as I didn't want to ruin my camera!...

we'd stopped off at a french supermarket and stocked up on wine, bread and cheese and the weekend turned into a romantic cosy campervaning trip with candles and champagne rather than the usual music festival!...

Although we did venture into the mud for a few!... Foo Fighters and Incubus were great, as were friendly fires and the sounds :)

but, on the way home our van saviour broke down!.. right on a huge motorway!.... after all sorts of hire company and recovery company details and a change of tyre we had to flag someone down on the motorway for a jump start! - i'm not sure i've ever been as happy as when someone pulled over!!

Southside

Tonight Sam and I are off to Germany for Southside festival!.... whilst I am extremely nervous about how muddy it will be I also can't wait. There are some great bands playing and an adventure with Sam is always fun :) x see you guys next week xx

Working Weekend

this weekend we are shooting a music video.. in a white room.. that we trash.. (unfortunately the cute dog is not in the film!) x

Kylie

have to love old kylie songs! x

X just because! x

the sound of tomorrow

She & Him - Don't Look Back from Merge Records on Vimeo.

King Candy

i'm off to see King Candy and the Sugar Push at the jitterbugs christmas ball :) have a fun evening everyone x

Wintery Weekend....

Even though we had no snow this weekend the tube strike has still managed to bring my Monday morning to a halt... the overground, which i didn't think would be effected was non existent this morning so i am cosy at home, working on my laptop.

I may even put up christmas decorations later while I have the chance as this weekend i finally started to feel seasonal!...

It was the Hampstead christmas market yesterday and a ridiculously good celeb spotting opportunity!... Ricky Gervais was there, wearing the exact same outfit at Sam, Helena Bonham Carter and Tim Burton, and of course Jonathan Ross who turned on the lights... I was more excited by the mulled wine and reindeer though...

In the evening we travelled out of london to see Chris Barber.

Playing with a full 11 piece band it was Amazing!... everyone was ridiculously talented and to see them all live was really magical!.. Chris was wonderful as well!.. in the intermission he was out selling his own merch and signing autographs... he has such amazing stories and sense of humour. If you get the chance they are a must-see!

Warpaint

Steamboat Bordello

I am off to Cardiff for the weekend for a Hen do... but I am making sure that I am back in time for this on sunday!... described on their website as....

'1840 - 1930 - the heyday of the Mississippi paddle steamer. These floating palaces of sin plied their trade up and down the mighty Mississippi from New Orleans to St Louis.

Specialising in unlicensed gambling, prohibited liquor and transactions of a carnal nature, the pleasure boats were the last bastion of Southern lawlessness. Now, step aboard the majestic Dixie Queen as The Last Days of Decadence brings a little of this lost age to the River Thames. A floating fantasmagoria of rogues, riverboat gamblers, good time girls, snake oil salesmen, fallen southern belles, confederate rifles, yankee doodle dandies, bootleggers, carnies, gypsies, tramps and thieves.

The Steamboat Bordello sets sail with 600 passengers from Tower Pier at 5pm sharp on Sunday 31st October, passing through Tower Bridge (opened especially for the occasion) and sailing onwards towards the Thames Barrier before returning to disembark St Katharine Docks at 10pm.'

Hot club of Cowtown, The correspondents, El Nino,Gaz Mayall , John Drain and Ruby Blues are all playing.. now to pick a costume!

The Sounds

Last night I saw one of my favourite bands at the Garage - it was Awesome! x

Daily...

Interactive music Videos...

Wow!.. check out Sony Music's Phil Clandillon and Steve Milbourne's interactive music videos!..

The pair have been the brains behind a number of amazingly innovative new videos...

For the editors they hijacked googlemaps so that users could preview tracks from the albumn in the areas of London that inspired them!

here is a youtube video showing how it works..

they also created an interactive weather music video for lissie!..

you can change the background to represent the weather anywhere in the world..
watch it here

other projects include ACDC's excel video

and Kasabians Football Hero, A cross between Guitar Hero and a football game where instead of pressing buttons on a plastic replica guitar, footballers had to hit coloured buttons on a wall several yards away in time to a fret board display projected above...

heres a techy quote! "The coloured buttons on the typical guitar controller were replaced by five huge pressure sensitive pads which were carefully positioned on the wall in order to line up with the game's descending notes," he continues. "Each of the pads contained a piezoelectric vibration sensor, and these were wired back to an Arduino, which in turn was connected to the MacBook Pro we used to run the software. The footballers had to try to hit the pads in time with the music in order to play the Kasabian track Underdog."
There's also a short behind the scenes film: