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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life.com
April 12th, 2009 No Comments
Under the that wonderfully evocative URL, Life magazine has put its photo archive online. There are photos of everything both great and ordinary, from the early years of the twentieth century onwards.
It’s a great resource for anyone interested in local history, twentieth century fashion, architecture, design, and just how life was lived. There are also [...]
Tags: 1920s · 1930s · art · culture · design · east anglia · history · life · life magazine · photography · photos · pictures · social history
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
Vintage glamour in Norfolk
October 30th, 2008 No Comments
On 16th November the Norfolk Costume and Textile Association has organised a Vintage Fair and Tea Dance, which sounds like a lovely way to show off some of their collection of 1930s and 1940s clothing. There will be models circulating in the tea dance in costume, and the attendees will also be expected to be [...]
A summer evening dancing
October 8th, 2008 No Comments
Totally outside the scope of this blog, in that it’s not homegrown in East Anglia and it’s not available by the weekend, but there’s one more night of the Richard Alston Dance Company at the Cambridge Arts theatre tonight. It is contemporary dance, which may make your mind glaze over and your eyes cross involuntarily, [...]
Tags: arts theatre · cambridge · contemporary · Dance · richard alston