Bestival Fancy Dress 2010

So I'm not sure when it was announced but while having a butchers at the (absolutely marvellous) line-up for this years Bestival, I noticed the fancy dress theme had been announced. It's a 'fantasy' theme with stuff like The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Lord of the Rings and Alice in Wonderland being suggested as inspiration. Last year it was an outer space theme which spawned some marvellous costumes, not least those of 'Tina Turnertron' and 'Robo Gent'.

Wearing this and seeing Krafterwerk will go down as one of the most memorable and brilliant moments of 2009 and I have no doubt Bestival will produce some of these moments for 2010. I'm already salivating at the thought!

So whilst enjoying Dizzee Rascall, The Flaming Lips, LCD Soundsystem and Vitalic what costume will I be encased in? Loaf used to be nicknamed 'Uni' and is thinking she may have some natural features that will lead to her making a super sexy unicorn.... the first thoughts that have come into my head are that of fauns. Although there's quite a difference between the first ones I have thought of.

Here's the first faun I thought of, from Pan's Labrynth.

Mr. Tumnus from the recent Narnia film.

And here he is in the TV series I watched waaay back when. Played by Jeffrey S. Perry (not that you needed to know that).

So there we are, the summer is only just starting to rear it's sunny head and I'm already thinking about what to wear at the summer's goodbye party! Any suggestions or thoughts are encouraged.

I wanted to ideally accompany a blog post about a music festival with some music, however I'm away from LDN at the mo, so this will have to do. Remember, you can come and see me DJ at 93 Feet East this Friday!!! Woo Woo!!

Lushious Sounds of Future Disco

Firstly I think my spelling of 'lushious' is justified. I don't think the regular 'luscious' does the tracks I'm about to post justice.

So on Friday night I was back DJing at 93 Feet East, I had planned to play a fair whack of disco that I had downloaded mostly through the medium of searching blogs through hype machine, although on the night I discovered I was playing in between a rock band (who reminded me of Evanesance) and a ska band. So I thought I'd start off with some rocky dance music and then see if I could trick them into liking the disco I was intending on playing. The Oh Shit and Mynx remake of Eye of the Tiger is what I started with and the Soulwax remix of Robot Rock was next and the crowd seemed enthused.... then I started trying to subtly work my way through towards the disco with a Shit Robot remix of Dondolo's Dragon, some people seemed to like it others didn't. In the end after trying out some more disco and even dropping in ELO's Evil Woman, I ended up resorting to the trusted bangers that will always get the Brick Lane crowd going.

Anyways I want to show you guys the disco that I was intending to play (some I did, some I didn't). It's all good and it's all worth a download, although as most of these artists aren't HUGE if you really like their stuff why not go and buy an album of theirs or see them live.

Toby Tobias - Azul Blue
Risque - Starlight
The Swiss - Manthen (Tensnake remix)
Moonbootica - Men of the Future (Kris Menace remix)
Tensnake - Colongal

Anyways! Come and watch me DJ next time I'm at 93 Feet East on Friday 16th April and I'll play some more of these lushious sounds!

This week I have mostly been reading Loaf's Running Debacle.