The Latitude festival is landing in Suffolk in less than a fortnight. If you don’t know it, it’s the grown ups’ summer festival. Think Radio 2 and Radio 4, not Radio 1 and Kiss FM. There are bands, lots of good ones, but their common feature is probably that they are bands you can dance [...]
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Victorian sideshow extraordinaire
April 16th, 2009 No Comments
And now for something completely different – Voltini, an electricity-based Victorian-style sideshow, is in North Norfolk this week until the 19th. Together with Russels International Circus, they are Cookies Car Boot Site in Beeston Regis, offering a ten minute show centred around Madame Electra, the voluptuous lady of lightning, who defies death in the Electric [...]
Tags: children · circus · cromer · electricity · funfair · norfolk · sideshow · victorian · voltini
Full of festivals
March 5th, 2009 1 Comment
It struck me today that Cambridge, in particular, overflows with festivals. Whatever your hyperspecialised desire, there is probably a festival that will include it in this town. I just got an email from the Food and Drink festival about their fundraising quiz, where you go and drink wine and eat cheese and try and answer [...]
Tags: beer festival · cambridge · cambridgeshire · classical music · comedy · festivals · film · gay festival · ideas · music · rock music · science · secret garden party · shakespeare · summer
A nautical one night stand
February 7th, 2009 1 Comment
Valentines day entertainment for all you 1940’s pin up girls at the Talk in Norwich. It looks like a glorious evening – I’d like to draw your attention to the dress code of Fishnets and Seamen. Find out more on their myspace page.
via All Things Considered
Tags: bo nanfana · club night · dancing · Dressing up · Forties · retro · social club · swing · valetines day · vintage
The Angels Sale
December 5th, 2008 No Comments
Edit: If you missed this or got there after all the good stuff had gone, try the calmer surroundings of The London Vintage Fashion, Textiles and Accessories Fair in Hammersmith Town Hall on Sunday.
See all the details on their website.
This is where I’ll be this weekend. The Angels sale.
For those who don’t know, Angels and Bermans [...]
Tags: 1930s clothes · 1940's clothes · 1950s clothes · costume · fashion · shopping · vintage
Eight at Baldock Arts
October 24th, 2008 No Comments
Baldock in Hertfordshire is a slightly depressed town with the most glorious brick architecture from another age. It was once one of the coaching stops on the main road to London, and the doublewide high street is full of parked cars and big old inns are sadly shabby, many closed.
In a ‘Lets put on the [...]