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T-Shirt Giveaway @ East Village 29th April

Rebecca — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 08:52:27 +0000

We’re playing with the unspeakably beautiful Yasmin, fresh off the tour with Example, at East Village in Shoreditch on 29th April (see the poster in the blog below).

The SMASHING news is: we’re giving away a FREE Head Over Heels t-shirt to the first ten Bim fans at the gig – but if you miss out on that, there’s a free copy of Scatterheart for you. Just remember to say ‘Bim’ at the door. : )

Make sure you get in by 11pm to catch us and headliner Yasmin, and get a free WAH Nails manicure, watch the DJ battles and enter the LTD Watch giveaway. This one’s going to be big!

Until then boys and babes, check out our headliner in action and start planning your hawt outfits.

Big love
xxx

Silver/Floral

Rebecca — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 11:31:59 +0000

Seems chronically girlish to fetish over rings that look like flowers but DAMN LOOK AT THEM.

By Alidra Alíc.

PS – if you’re coming to the Bull & Gate gig (Kentish Town) on Tuesday 11th, tell us on our Facebook event page

See you Tuesday!

Obsessions.

Rebecca — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 16:57:19 +0000

ASOS and Brick Lane are the sole dealers for my (bordering dangerous) jumpsuit obsession. How ASOS make such wonderful onesies for such oh-yes-that’s-just-about-affordable prices I will never know. And quite how Brick Lane’s vintage shops can charge quite so much for things they stole from the back of my Mum’s wardrobe circa 1979, I also will never guess.

And if you have our CD, you’ll see there are a couple of rather delicious examples of jumpsuity goodness. And I might warn you now, I’m about to have a tangent – but I found these BEAUTIFUL WEDGES for Loeffler Randall’s SS2011 (I KNOW, A WHOLE YEAR AWAY) that just happen to compliment a certain jumpsuit rather well. Shhlurrrppp.

Anyway, we were thrilled to see lovely Karmel and Sam from ASOS at the Cargo gig and if you haven’t seen their delicious blog have a butchers and see if you can find the little music post about us.

Some of you who follow us on Twitter might have seen that it was my birthday on Wednesday (yes, yes – it is the same as Prince Harry’s birthday) – thank you for your lovely happy birthday tweets you smashers.

Massive love x

Ps: let’s see that meat dress one more time.

Yes. Yes, it’s definitely meat.

Snaps from Cargo

Rebecca — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 19:30:52 +0000

Thank you everyone so much for coming down on Saturday night – it was all kinds of awesomeness. Big love to Jackanory and the Ball.

Here’s some snaps from behind the scenes…

Gigs and Lust Things.

Rebecca — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 17:31:16 +0000

BBQ, beer and a huge potential for some serious shimmying – it’s our gig this Saturday in Shoreditch. Click the flyer above to get your tickets early (and a little bit cheaper than on the door). It’s going to be a BBQ’d sausage fest. You’re going to love it.

And in other Bim News, here’s the latest from the OHMYGODWHATISTHATWHERECANIGETIT part of my brain.

OH MY GOD I KNOW. If you want it, you can get it here. (I’d advise against the hideous black shoes in the pic though. Not a good look people.)

Alas. We’ll see your sweet faces (beglittered, I hope?) on Saturday and I CAN’T WAIT.

Love love

xxx

Music, muses and must-haves

Rebecca — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 19:38:20 +0000

Scatterheart is out! If you’ve bought the CD or downloaded the tracks, you’re a total diamond : ) And if you haven’t yet, it’s all there, ready for your ears at the Bim Shop. (It’s also on iTunes, but the Bim Shop is much nicer than iTunes, so we like best it if you download direct from us : )

If you were at the hot little Workshop gig on Tuesday, THANK YOU for coming, it was max fun and I think you’re all awesome. If you couldn’t make it last week, or you loved it so much that you want to come and shimmy around/drink beer with us again, we’re playing at Cargo with Jackanory and The Ball on 28th August. You can get your grubby mits on some early-bird tickets right here.

♥ xx

Bim play Water Rats with Free Energy

Rebecca — Mon, 10 May 2010 11:59:45 +0000

Bimlets, you have only until Monday 17th to wait until our next gig. YAY.

We’re playing the Monto Water Rats supporting up-and-coming US indie boys, Free Energy, a project by LCD Soundsystem dude James Murphy. Fun!

We’re on at 8.15pm – and if you throw us an email with your name in, we’ll pop you on our special £6 guestlist. (£8 after 8pm/without guestlist)

Can’t wait to see you all : )

xxxxxx

Epic Post.

Rebecca — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 11:53:59 +0000

I’m afraid I’m about to deposit an absolute heap of information on you. This morning, it started off as a two-point post. Then I found something else that simply MUST go in this blog. Then another. And then another. : )

Here goes.

1. FESTIVAL HUNT.
Bim are on the look out for festivals to slide around in and play our music at this year. If you know of a particularly awesome festival that we should play, throw it in the comments box and we’ll get on it.

2. & 3. ANIMALS
Remeber that post I did with the guinea-pig hairslide? Reid Peppard, the 23-year-old fine art graduate with an appetite for taxidermy had a proper, good, English, down to earth chat to Vice about making accessories out of stuff her cat brings in.

In other animal news, Topshop have gone all Red Riding Hood for their new collection. Aw, man. I wish I had a fox to put on my head.

4. CHARITY SINGLE. Only, kind of, not annoying and full of chumps.
I’m talking Imogen Heap’s improvised charity single for Great Ormond Street that she credits the audience for creating with her.

I get that tingly feeling about improvised stuff. It’s exciting. Especially so if it’s Imogen Heap who’s pumping extraordinary ethereal sounds. There’s something very special about collaboration, art and chance. Explored very bravely and successfully here. Immi, I salute you. : )
It’s only £1 and it’s beautiful. Buy it!

5. PHOTO !
A snap, courtesy of Trent Mc Minn, at our band’s first gig on 11th Feb with our electro line-up.

That’s all folks.

xxxx

Glands & Bands

Rebecca — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 21:56:43 +0000

Bimlets! How I’ve missed you.

I’ve been beating off the remains of an unyielding cold with an echinacea/eucalyptus-covered broom. First gig with the Shiny New Bim line-up tomorrow night and I will not be made croaky by some lame germs*. In your face, germs.

Some things have stood in the background and gone “yeah, take that” at the germs while I’ve been beating them with said broom. They may not have been contributing to the germ-beating directly, but MAN have they helped along the way.

They are:

1. Watching people fight on Trisha Goddard. Why? Nobody knows, but Trisha and her angry minions have the keys to relieve people of their snot.

2. The new Massive Attack album, Heligoland, naughtily streamed on YouTube but stimulating, beautiful little films are also available in exchange for a tweet at the (inventively named) Tweatre. It’s quite divine, and the sound is mostly depthy, spacious and stirring – just as you’d desire. Yummy.

3. Watching a full-on, balls to the wall, flat-peaked-cap rude boy help to walk an old lady across the road. It really happens. Amazing.

If you’re coming to the gig tomorrow, come and say hello : ) xxx

*Dear Germs, please hold off making me croaky for a few days. Many thanks, Rebs. x